WBHS Drama Department holds fall play auditions
September 19, 2017
Filed under News, Showcase, Student Life
Left stage! Action! Curtain call! The West Bloomfield High School will be holding auditions for the play Our Town on Tuesday, September 19, in the auditorium after school. Students will have to prepare a one minute monologue and complete the registration packet. Once a student is selected, practices ...
WBHS introduces Fine Arts Scholar Breakfast
September 13, 2017
Filed under Check It Out, News, Showcase, Student Life
This year will be the beginning of many progressions in the fine arts department. Recently, the newly formed Fine Arts Student Action Committee has decided that at the close of the 2017-2018 school year will be West Bloomfield High School’s first ever Fine Arts Scholar Breakfast. Besides adding a Fin...
WBHS updates tardy policy
Deepa Jha and Tim Webster
September 12, 2017
West Bloomfield High School has changed the consequences regarding the tardy policy for the 2017-2018 school year. The new policy states that the third unexcused tardy will result in an afterschool detention on either a Tuesday or Thursday. Previously, the consequence of a third unexcused tardy woul...
WB Bands hosts annual MCBA Field Day
September 12, 2017
West Bloomfield Bands hosted the Michigan Competing Band Association (MCBA) Field Day this Saturday, September 9 at the newly renovated football stadium to perform this year’s show, titled “Spotlight.” Fellow MCBA Flight I Bands from South Lyon, Linden, Clio, Livonia Franklin, Lakeland, and...
Laker Nation: Back in Formation
Ari Felhander and Vaibhav Velagapudi
September 11, 2017
WEST BLOOMFIELD- Laker football, once ranked within the top 3 of the state, fell objectively short of their pre-season expectations. However, after two weeks of lackluster play and two subsequent heart wrenching losses, the squad finally put together a successful, plausible challenge against the rivaled L...
WBHS Students Missing Summer
September 7, 2017
Filed under Showcase, Student Life
On a grueling third day of school, students of West Bloomfield High School are already feeling withdrawals from their summer activities. For these students, summertime has ended, but the memories will last forever! Reporters Sarah Durack and Madelyn Chau took the time to ask a couple students to sha...
A Successful Summer for Film
Eitan Shere and Vaibhav Velagapudi
September 7, 2017
Filed under Showcase, Student Life
This past summer was a gold mine for successful films. Moviegoers were presented with an incredible variety of stories, from a deadly war for survival between an army of humans and a group of intelligent apes (War for the Planet of the Apes), to a pair of pranksters who hypnotize their principal into ...
A New Day, A New Executive Front for NHS
June 12, 2017
Filed under News, Showcase, Student Life
Thursday, June 1 marked the start of a new era for the National Honor Society (NHS) at West Bloomfield High School (WBHS). WBHS’ most dedicated and academically prioritized student gathered to elect their executive board for the 2017-2018 school year. The overwhelming enthusiasm was clearly evid...
EARTH Club Fundraiser!
June 8, 2017
The EARTH Club is having a fundraiser at the Lodge for the last time this year! The purpose of this fundraiser is to help power the school 100% through solar energy, and to reduce the school’s carbon emissions by 25 tons per year. EARTH Club member Zoe Odueso says that, “People should go to T...
2017 WBHS Homecoming Prep On Deck
June 8, 2017
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Today and tomorrow only WBHS Leadership students will present their ideas for next year's Homecoming in Laker Commons. This year there are 17 potential Homecoming themes that WBHS students can vote on in the link sent to their student emails. "It really is student led! In student leadership we try...
WBHS Will See New Changes Along with A New Year
Deepa Jha and Jo Fogarasi
June 8, 2017
Filed under News, Showcase, Stories, Student Life
This spring a bond passed that gave West Bloomfield High School enough money to have some renovations done. But what will be done by the time students arrive in the fall? Spectrum staff reached out to Patrick Watson, the principal of WBHS, and asked him about next year's biggest changes. One of the...
Iceland: A Trip Like No Other
Emma Lundgren and Avani Samandur
June 7, 2017
Filed under Check It Out, Showcase, Student Life
Are you interested in going on a vacation like no other next spring break? If so, you should consider going on the Iceland trip. This trip will take place during spring break 2018 and around 30 students will be traveling to the magical country of Iceland. They will be abroad for six full days and pa...
