Organized by music educators Molly Clark and Brian Boyes, Harwood’s Highland Mediaworks holds an annual battle of the bands competition as a part of Spirit Week. For many years, Harwood has held a school-wide “Spirit Week”: a time for students to celebrate school spirit, as well as a friendly competition between grades based on “spirit points”.  Spirit points can be awarded to a class for participating in activities, showing school...

This past Tuesday we watched as students and staff from Harwood Union High school competed in a series of Scottish team games. This was done to gain spirit points for their grades and hopefully take the lead in Harwood’s spirit week. We will cover how, why, and when the highlander games came to be. As well as give you a rundown on how each event went down, and who came out victorious.  A few years ago, Mr Henchen, a teacher at Harwood High School...

Editor's Note: This is the first installment of an ongoing series on Harwood graduates.  Spearheaded by Jesse McDougall (HUHS '19), these stories will feature graduates and where life has taken them. Jesse McDougall  came to our class to talk about journalism and discuss his Harwood (and after) career.  We spoke about one particular graduate from Harwood, Aiden Melville (HUHS '19) whom we contacted and had a meeting discussing his time here...

The American Harwood High School and Danish Odsherreds Efterskole came together for a cultural exchange project late January. Harwood has many opportunities to get involved in civic action, promoted through National Honors Society, classroom activities, and external programs. Civics teacher Matt Henchen has long been an advocate for contributing to society through action. Any students enrolled in his class, Creating Sustainable Communities (CSC),...

The Harwood community has an exceptional style; everyone here is unique and you can see that through their clothes every season.   Junior Taj Fairchild and senior Ava Poutre are students from Harwood. Their styles are  unique, and like everyone in Harwood, they have their fashion secrets. I asked the following questions, and these  were their answers.  What inspires you to dress up?  “Feeling good with myself and [getting]  motivated...