Friday, May 18, 2012
The Wakefield High School Class of 2013 will have its Junior Prom on Friday, May 18 at the Montevale Plaza in Stoneham. Parents and juniors: Upload your photos from pre-prom and the prom itself to this gallery!
The Wakefield High School Class of 2013 will have its Junior Prom on Friday, May 18 at the Montvale Plaza in Stoneham. Parents, we know you'll be snapping away with photos before the kids head off to the prom. Come back to this article and upload your photos to this gallery! It's easy—just click the "Upload Photos and Videos" button and select the photo on your computer to add. Juniors, we know you'll be snapping pics too, with your cameras and cellphones. Come back over the weekend to add your own photos from the prom here and show them off to everyone.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
A student from Wakefield's Nazareth Academy served as the state's "Governor for a Day" in April.
Look out, Deval. A Wakefield student took on the top legislative job in the state last month when she served as the state's "Governor for a Day" through the 65th annual Student Government Day program in Massachusetts. During Student Government Day, students play the role of elected or appointed officials to better understand what that individual’s role is in state government. Students also participate in mock debates, simulated committee hearings and House and Senate formal sessions. Sofia Pagliuca, 18, of Saugus, who attends Wakefield's Nazareth Academy was selected to be part of the April 13th program which brings in students from all over the state to learn about the role of state government. Not only that, but she was selected amongst …
A student from Wakefield's Nazareth Academy served as the state's "Governor for a Day" in April. The following is her speech she made to the students and legislators on 21st Century learning.
A student from Wakefield's Nazareth Academy served as the state's "Governor for a Day" in April. The following is the speech she made to the students and legislators on 21st Century learning. ---- Lieutenant Governor and fellow Constitutional Officers, Madame President, Madame Speaker and Members of the Senate and of the House, Members of the Judiciary, and other distinguished guests; Being the proverbial “number one” can sometimes be quite a difficult position to maintain. Once considered “the first” or “the best,” the hopes of who you are and who you will become are elevated significantly. Be it in school, on a sports team, or even in your own family, the moment that you exceed people’s expectations, those people can rightfully …
Friday, April 20, 2012
Wakefield's Superintendent, Joan Landers, was selected by the North Middlesex Regional School District as their new superintendent.
Superintendent Joan Landers has been named the new superintendent of the North Middlesex Regional School District, according to the School Committee's Executive Secretary Nancy Landry. Landers released a statement on Thursday afternoon that she has been selected to serve as the North Middlesex Regional School District Superintendent, pending negotiations. "I will keep you informed as to when a final decision has been reached in this process," she said. "I am very honored to have served as Wakefield Public Schools' Superintendent since January 2008, working closely with the School Committee, staff, town officials and the community," she wrote in her statement. "Despite having served during challenging financial times, I have thoroughly …
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Wakefield Public School's current business administrator Michael Connelly will begin a new position in Lincoln-Sudbury on July 1.
Michael Connelly, who has served as Wakefield Public Schoool's business administrator for the last four years, has accepted a new job as finance director in Lincoln-Sudbury. Connelly said the excitement of a new job at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School is a bit offset by the relationships he'll leave behind in Wakefield. But the current Wakefield business administrator said the opportunity to join L-S as its new finance director was something he couldn't turn down. "I sort of decided a month or two ago to start looking for new opportunities," said Connelly, who was unanimously voted in by the L-S Regional High School Committee on Monday. "When I saw the Lincoln-Sudbury opening and did some research, it seemed as a very professional, …
Friday, March 30, 2012
Mark C. Bedrosian, who will serve as principal at Galvin Middle School, comes to Wakefield from Gloucester Public Schools.
Wakefield Public Schools will welcome a new educational leader on July 1st: Mark C. Bedrosian, who will serve as principal at Galvin Middle School. Bedrosian comes to Wakefield from Gloucester, where his most current role was dean of academic affairs at Gloucester High School. Prior to that, he served as assistant principal at the high school and assistant principal at the Ralph B. O'Maley Middle School in Gloucester. "When I was checking Mark’s references, as soon as I mentioned his name everyone said, 'You could not get a more solid educator and person,'" said Superintendent Joan Landers at Monday night's School Committee meeting. "And I called people from your past, way back, from when you started teaching and everyone had the same …
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Massachusetts School Building Authority approved a $32.6 million grant for a new middle school in Wakefield and an additional contingency grant, for a total reimbursement rate of 54.6 percent.
The state of Massachusetts has approved its share of funding on Wednesday for a new Galvin Middle School in Wakefield. The Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) announced at its March 28th meeting that it will contribute an estimated state grant of $32.6 million to Wakefield's $73.6 million plan for a new middle school. The state also approved an additional $2,057,957 million contingency grant available to the town, which would raise the total state reimbursement to 54.6 percent of elligible costs. This additional grant ensures that Wakefield taxpayers would not be responsible for added costs if the final project total exceeds $74 million. “Today’s vote is the culmination of months of intensive collaboration between Wakefield and …
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
More than 100 students from Wakefield High School's junior class shadowed working professionals on Wednesday, March 21.
Students from Wakefield High School joined up with Wakefield professionals on March 21 to get a taste of what life is really like in a career they want to pursue. If you participated in this year's Job Shadow Day, please upload your photos to the gallery.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
An agreement has been reached between the town and the schools on their web filtering policies.
Teachers and students could start seeing more and more unblocked websites as of March 18, due to an agreement reached between the schools and the town's IT deparment over its web content filtering policy. Since the town and school IT departments combined last year, teachers, faculty and students had been claiming that the sheer number of blocked websites were hampering the student's learning proccesses. "Web content filtering is crushing us at all six schools," said Elaine Hughes, a teacher and the education technology administrator in Wakefield, at a School Committee meeting back in January. At the March 13 School Committee meeting, Chairwoman Lisa Butler she and Town Administrator Stephen Maio had met at length on the subject, and …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
As part of their budget discussions, members of the Wakefield School Committee and the School Department discussed raising the fees students would have to pay to play ice hockey to help cover the enormous cost of renting ice time for practices and games.
There's an elephant in the room when it comes to paying for Wakefield High School sports. And it's wearing ice skates. The costs associated with running the Wakefield High School hockey program are astronomically higher than other sports and clubs due to the need to rent ice rink time. One season can cost up to $40,000 for just ice time rental alone, according to the School Department. Wakefield High School boasts an incredibly successful boys and girls hockey program, with both teams often making the state tournament, and in the case of the boys' team, two finals appearances in the last two seasons. Still, constraints on the school's budget have the School Department and the Wakefield School Committee possibly eyeing uneven sports fees …
Sara Jacobi
6:33 pm on Thursday, April 26, 2012
"Neg Ative" - please use your real name, or your comment may be deleted. As it states in the article, Landers was free to leave at any time, provided she gave 60 days notice. more ›