MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS
2/9/24
Students will be called to the auditorium during powerblock the week of February 12th to discuss course selections. Please make note of the following dates:
Current Juniors - PB meeting will be held on Monday, 2/12/24
Current Freshmen & Sophomores - PB meeting will be held on Tuesday, 2/13/24
Current Grade 8 PB meeting will be held on Thursday, 2/15/24
Juniors and sophomores, are you looking for a fun and energetic class? Sign up for Group Fitness! Have you ever thought about taking martial arts? Come learn the basics while getting a workout in at the same time! Do you love Just Dance, or ever thought about signing up for Les Mills or Bodi? Group Fitness has all of this and more! Make sure to sign up when choosing your classes for next year!!!
The junior class will be holding a dodgeball tournament during powerblock on Friday February 29th through March 5th Sign ups will be held next week February 12-16 during powerblock and lunches in the cafe. Sign up your team in groups of 6 to join this tournament. Cost is $5 a person $30 a team. Traditional dodgeball rules will be used. Contact Lauren Holland, Abby Matta, Samara David and Rachael Schaffert with any questions.
This past Wednesday the WB Debate team participated in rounds 7 and 8 of the debate season at Foxboro High School. West Bridgewater’s Negative A team of Thomas Polidori and Bella Hyde swept both rounds to remain undefeated in their debates. In round 7 Bella and Thomas won the topic of Inherency against a strong Feehan Team. Bell is given extra acknowledgement for her first speaker ranking with 25 points. Bella and Thomas continued their winning ways in round 8 taking the issue of Solvency against a strong Hingham team.
The WB Debate team look to end the season strong on Feb 28th in the final round at B-R.
The Next Photo club meeting will be held next monday after school in room 202
An email was sent out to any senior who has not filled out the link for ordering your graduation gown. If you do not complete this small task TODAY, you will lose privileges starting next week. Please check your email and see if you are one of the individuals who received this reminder or see Mrs. MacMillan in guidance to find out.
A message from the Leos Club: If you are new to WB schools this year, please check your emails. A survey was sent to this year’s new arrivals last Wednesday. The Leos are looking for your input on how they can assist new students in making a smooth transition to the middle senior high school. If you have any questions, please email Ms. O’Loughlin or stop by Room 211.
You know it’s Friday when the cafe makes Funnel cakes for break. Other choices include a variety of pastries, soft pretzels, uncrustables, assorted breakfast sandwiches, peach smoothies, yogurt brownie parfaits and the “pick 2” snack rack. For cereal lovers, check out the new cereal varieties at the speedy cereal display in front of the milk chest.
No Patriots this year but the Cafe is celebrating the Superbowl at lunch by offering a few fan favorites. In addition to freshly made Original pizza, we have nachos, steak, beef or chicken burritos and a Superbowl app platter that includes bone-in buffalo wings, curly fries and a soft pretzel with cheese.
Freshly made grab and go’s include chicken caesar salads and wraps, Chicken bacon ranch wraps, vegetarian mediterranean wraps, bagels w/ yogurt, ham subs and uncrustables. This week’s featured salad is Fiesta Chicken with cheddar, corn and black beans, served with tortilla scoops and a Southwest Ranch dressing.
Please think about reducing food waste! Only take what you think you’ll eat and put unopened juice, fruit, and other sealed items in the share bins for others to enjoy.
Super Bowl Diatribe by Cray
Alright I’ve been waiting a long time for this very day so I could have the opportunity to get some things off my chest. I’ll try to make it as quick as I can because I know some teachers out there are excited for the Friday test they’re about to give. As most of you know the Niners and Chiefs are going head to head in the big game this Sunday and obviously as your in-house rep of Niner Nation, to say I’m excited is an understatement. Now listen, I know what winning looks like but some of you that follow your favorite team might be having trouble putting some closure on your own worthless football seasons so I’m here to help out in that regard. Let’s start with WB’s biggest Cowboys fan Jason George. Your team lost. In the playoffs. Again. Jason, you wanna see some great moments on AT&T field, go back to the year 2000 when it was called Texas Stadium and watch the Niners very own Terrell Owens spike the ball right there on the star. On to the Packers. Nate the great Frechette. Your team beat those Cowboys which was awesome. But then you had to face the Niners. Which made you sad. I mean honestly, the only way the Packers were winning that game is if you hopped into a time machine and went back to any year that ends with 96. Or 97. Or 98. You’d also need Brett Favre to be your QB and Antonio Freeman to be catching balls from said QB. That was then. That is not the now. The Vikings have at least two fans here at school. Teves and Schneeweis were dreaming big purple dreams until Kurt Cousins went down Halloween weekend. It may have felt like a trick to the two of you but for the rest of us it was a treat since it was one more team we didn’t have to watch one painful game after another. You want to read about some great Vikings that understood how to defend their ground and go on an offensive attack when it’s time? Read about Ragnar Lothbrook or Bjorn Ironside of the 7th century. Now those are vikings. And then there were the Eagles. Hide hide hide. That is exactly what both coordinators must have said to the team after they got crushed by the Niners back in unlucky week 13. For the students in Mr. Hyde’s class right now. You want to throw an impossible math problem at him? Ask him how all those losses add up? Now, I’m gonna go easy on Mr. Hyde, he’s had a tough football year. His Eagles went from best to bottom at the flip of a switch and his Oklahoma Sooners lost in the Alamo Bowl. For students who don’t know what Oklahoma is…you know when you play that game where you have to name all 50 US states? Yeah, Oklahoma is the last one you can never get. Sorry Mr. Hyde and Mr. Ash. Maybe next year. And last but not least, to all of Patriot Nation out there. Welcome to real football. This is the way it’s supposed to be. You're not supposed to be born and have your team win the super bowl every year with a quarterback who deflated the footballs. You have to go through some pain and suffering with a losing team, and without Brady and Bill it looks like you’ll be going through that for a really. Long. Time. Get over it. Stay loyal. Wait your turn. Now, I’m really looking forward to putting an end to the Chiefs this Sunday for so many reasons. I’m done with Mahomes. I’ve had enough of Kadarius Toney. I’m all set with Andy Reid. And can we please put the whole Kelce/Swift relationship aside for one day? You know the 49ers are gonna cause their breakup right? Except this time it’ll be Kelce dishing out the bad news. Hey, I’ve got an idea…maybe he can write a song about it! He can call it All Too Not Well. I’ve even got some lyrics started for ya TK. “Our team was so good and winning was our goal. But then we lost in the Super Bowl. As I sit here a-thinking while driving my car. I now realize it’s the curse of the pop star. So instead of us planning our big summer wedding. You’re getting a goodbye from number 87.