By Elena Sacchetti, Arianna Desai and Becky Berhe Basketball is a popular winter sport at Wayland Middle School. There are two basketball teams at WMS, a girls basketball team and a boys basketball team. You can get on these teams by trying out for them. Tryouts will be held on December 4th and 5th for […]
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Wayside Gift Drive
By Brady Winkler The Wayland Middle School PTO has recently launched a gift drive for tweens and teens living in residency at Wayside Youth & Family Services Network. This organization works to give guidance and shelter to youth 12 – 18 years old who can’t live at home because they are struggling with mental health […]
Strings Concert
By Shree Kotadia and Laura Narvaez The strings concert on October 25 was a spectacular, sensational, spooky concert, filled with people, unicorns, aliens and just about everyone in between. With Ms. Tandon on the podium for one song and Ms. Memoli on for another, everyone knew that this would be the best concert ever. Ms. […]
Keeping our Fields Clean
by Brady Winkler In late September, the field had quite a bit of trash from students eating lunch outside. Mr. Steffey included a slide in the school announcements stating that food and disposable bottles were no longer allowed to be brought to the back of the building and field. Shortly after, there was a second […]
Taylor Swift Eras Tour Goes to Foxborough at Gillette Stadium
By Ainsley Jay Taylor Swift released her 10th album “Midnights” on October 21st, 2022. On November 1st, 2022, she announced her 6th concert tour, the Era Tour. It was a journey through her 10 different albums: “Taylor Swift” (2006), “Fearless” (2008), “Speak Now” (2010), “Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019), “folklore” (2020), “evermore”(2020), […]
The Potential Ban on TikTok
By Ainsley Jay At the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 the Chinese owned company TikTok became popular not just in China, but in America. Today 1 in 3 Americans use the app. TikTok became popular through making easy short videos with addictive audios. In 2015 Musically, another social media platform similar to TikTok, […]
World Cup Review
By Will Collett Every four years, the World Cup takes place, and 2022 is one of those four years. This year, it is taking place in Qatar. Qatar is a country in the middle east and it is surrounded on three sides by the Persian Gulf. It juts out of Saudi Arabia and is about […]
7th Grade Survey
by Katie Collett Over the past week, we sent out a survey to all of the 7th grade homerooms. We asked that the 7th graders fill it out to tell us about their experience in 7th grade as compared to 6th grade The first question was, “How has the amount of homework changed from 6th […]
Venezuelan Migrants Sent to Martha’s Vineyard From Texas
By Ainsley Jay More than 6 million refugees and migrants have fled Venezuela to escape political turmoil, crime and a collapsed economy. Hoping to find a better life for themselves and their families, some desperate migrants have taken dangerous journeys by foot without documents to cross borders to escape to the United States. How have […]
The Life of Queen Elizabeth
By Anya Bayazitov It is safe to say that by now everyone knows that Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8th, 2022, and most of the details around her death. But she also had a very long life, being the oldest person to remain queen, and there is still a lot of information that people […]