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The Observer

The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

Mrs. Jennifer Miller's family's Christmas tree was set up with festive lights and gifts surrounding the tree for 2023 Christmas.

Beyond the classroom: teachers open up about their holiday rituals

By Sydney Stern, Subscriptions, Promotions, and Communications Manager December 13, 2024

As the clock ticks closer and closer to winter break, WCHS students look forward to having a hiatus from school and celebrating their favorite holidays. However, not just students look forward to this...

The Boys' Varsity Soccer Team poses for a media day picture. Coach Stephen Hauschild can be seen on the very left.

Boys varsity soccer welcomes Coach Hauschild

By Sydney Stern, Subscriptions, Promotions, & Communication Manager November 27, 2024

For 21 straight years, Arnold Tarzy had been the WCHS Boys Varsity Soccer head coach. It caught many by surprise when, following the boys’ varsity 2023 season, Coach Tarzy announced his retirement from...

On Nov. 3rd, clocks were set back an hour, and an extra hour of sleep was gained. This happened as a result of daylight savings coming to an end, which ran from March to November.

Why do we love spring and summer, but hate the time change?

By Sydney Stern, Promotions and Subscriptions Manager November 15, 2024

Twice a year clocks get adjusted as a result of the sun’s decreasing or increasing daylight hours. This past Nov. 3rd, clocks nationwide gained an hour in exchange for an hour of daylight in the evenings....

WCHS junior Sydney Langer logs onto Studentview by Synergy to check her grades.

New WCHS policies tighten StudentVUE rules

By Sydney Stern, Subscriptions, Promotions, and Communications Manager October 29, 2024

The one thing WCHS students can all agree on is having a love for last year’s school-wide deadlines. The two-week deadline system gave students a sense of relief concerning their workload when managing...

Screenshot of the 'Grammarly.com' homepage, which students utilize to check their essays and various classwork grammar: this use of AI is complimenting their work.

Reading, writing and cheating? AI raises alarm

By Sydney Stern, Promotions and Subscriptions Manager June 3, 2024

A common phrase heard around the school is “rules are meant to be followed”. But what happens when such rules are outdated and not in line with new technologies? Is it still possible to follow the...

Dylan Tortorelli's submitted a digital artwork to the WCHS art show illustrating a cityscape. This is only one out of the many different styles of art that have been submitted.

A palette of possibilities: The WCHS art show that is redefining creativity

By Sydney Stern, Subscriptions, Promotions, and Communications Manager April 25, 2024

When course selection time rolls around in January, for students in most schools, they might notice that they are missing an art credit. In order to obtain their missing credit, they decide to select the...

In the front left of the photo, WCHS teacher, coach and alumnus, Ikechukwu Amadi-Davis, stands in the front left corner and played varsity football on the ‘Friday Night Lights’ field 10 years ago. Around him, the crowd is dressed up in blackout outfits to fit the game theme.

Slam dunking into the evolution of high school sports

By Sydney Stern, Staff Writer March 1, 2024

Flashback to 15 years ago when high school sports were much more quaint: smaller bleachers, less media buzz and less spectatorship. Today, the sports have remained the same while the conditions are the...

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