Friends Having Fun is a club at Oliver Wendell Holmes High School that creates a line of communication for special needs students. ALE teacher Amanda Pratt-Tondre is one of the club’s advisers and she helps host the weekly event every Thursday during all lunches in rooms D211, D217, D202, and A103. Friends having fun creates a good…Continue Reading Friends Having Fun provides outlet for interaction
This HBCN Feature originally appeared on December 15, 2015 via the HBCN youtube channel and social media….Continue Reading HBCN Feature: College & Career Center helps students plan
It’s Kind of a Funny Story is a young-adult fiction novel by Ned Vizzini. Craig Gilner had everything planned out: to get into a great school, to get into the right job, which would lead into having a family. He had a simple plan, it just didn’t go like he wanted it to. After being accepted…Continue Reading Book Review: It’s Kind of a Funny Story
This episode of HBCN Weekly originally appeared on 12/4/2015 via the HBCN youtube channel and social media. …Continue Reading HBCN Weekly 12/4/15: Thanksgiving
A few weeks back, for her 1989 World Tour, Taylor Swift spent her Halloween doing a concert at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. A tradition of hers that involves inviting up all her talented, famous friends to perform with her so she can rub it in all normal people’s faces was still intact…Continue Reading Music Review: Alessia Cara’s “Four Pink Walls” a windows-rolled-down, sing-a-long experience
This episode of HBCN Weekly originally appeared on November 23, 2015 via the HBCN youtube channel and social media….Continue Reading HBCN Weekly 11/23/15: An in-depth look at the effects of bullying
For student-athletes, one of the most important, meaningful days of the school year is the tryout day for their sport. Soccer, baseball and softball season are preparing to start their season, and the student-athletes are getting ready for this important event. With the season already underway, basketball tryouts are already in the rear-view mirror, as students had their…Continue Reading Tryouts for spring sports await, student-athletes prepare
Juniors are faced with the problem of not having enough student participation to raise the funds for prom. Since this year started, the junior class officers have been having a hard time getting all of the students together, and getting them to participate in the meetings to brainstorm and plan for fundraiser. “Our problem is that…Continue Reading Lack of participation sheds doubt on class of 2017 prom
The 5th Wave is a young adult science fiction novel by Rick Yancy. In this book aliens invade the earth by integrating themselves into human society. The citizens never realize that they are living among aliens until the attack waves started. In total there were five waves in order to get rid of the human population and take…Continue Reading Book Review: The 5th Wave
The boys basketball team starts their season tomorrow, Nov. 17. HBCN is ready to root them on with the season hype video….Continue Reading Boys basketball hype video release, season to start Tuesday