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, […]
NBA Playoffs
By Will Collett The NBA playoffs started recently. They started on April 15th. The top eight teams from each conference made the playoffs. The teams that made the playoffs in the eastern conference are the Milwaukee Bucks (1 seed), Boston Celtics (2 seed), Philadelphia 76ers (3 seed), Cleveland Cavaliers (4 seed), New York Knicks (5 […]
Spring Track
By Jacob Choi, Owen Capello and Ethan Rojas Spring track and field for the Wayland Middle School has just started up! The events for track and field participants are long distance (1 mile), high jump, 100m, 200m, 400m, and shot put. Many WMS students sign up for track and field in the spring because it […]
WMS 7-8 Volleyball opening day
By: Jonah Toochin-Treglia and Will Collett The WMS Volleyball season has begun. Tryouts were open to seventh and eighth graders, but there are only eighth graders on the team. The name of those eighth graders are Mason Andler, Lily Thirman, Olivia Green, Nina Gandhi, Audrey Nugent, Addie Choi, Willa Suratt, Anya Bayazitov, Jayden Moore, Alexa […]
How ChatGPT, a Software Developed By OpenAI, May Affect The Way We Learn
By Ainsley Jay On November 30th, 2022 ChatGPT was launched by the company OpenAI. This open AI generated software has generated millions of users in a short period of time of it being launched. ChatGPT was programmed to answer questions in a conversational way. It can be used to help students on essays or any […]
Super Bowl
By Will Collett The Super Bowl is approaching and the Kansas City Chiefs. The Philadelphia Eagles are playing in it. The Chiefs’ regular season record was 14-3, and they were first place in the AFC. The Eagles’ record was also 14-3, and they were also first place in the NFC. The Chiefs’s all time record […]
Spirit Week
By Katie Collett The week before February break (Feb 13-17th) is Spirit week for WMS. The votes were in and accounted for and the themes for spirit week have been finalized. Monday for the week is Sports day. You can wear your favorite team’s jersey or hat, or even your own. Tuesday is math with […]
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 […]