Wheat Ridge High School Newspaper: The Haystack

07/04/2023

It's the time of year for you to see the great things happening at Wheat Ridge High School!
Our Senior Capstone Night is April 26, 4:30-8:00, and we need kind souls to serve as volunteer judges for the kids' year-long research presentations. Dinner by Abrusci's is provided!
If you can help us out, please fill out this form asap:

Thank you for your support! Once we receive your submission, a confirmation email will be sent during the week of April 4th. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Jennifer Marquez at [email protected].

04/04/2023

Keep up with Farmer Sports with The Haystack's new podcast, Real Sports with Atticus Barron!

In today’s exciting new episode, we talk with Olivia Miller, one of the few Wheat Ridge’s Poms dancers! The photo was given to us by Olivia Miller.

04/04/2023

Have you been listening to the Haystack podcast Hometown Homicide? The final episode has dropped!

Alice and Sophie interview the daughter of Vincent Groves ex-wife, where they find out some inside information about what it was really like.

04/04/2023

https://wrhaystack.com/8090/news/walking-out-on-4-4-do-it-the-right-way/

Exercising our rights. As adolescents, as students, as observers of the world around us, we have learned that protesting is an integral part of being an American. There’s no surprise that we’re an uprising generation of change makers. We’ve all watched the world change before our lives. In our...

21/01/2023

Can’t make it to tonight’s basketball game? Watch it here! Girls game is called by The Haystack’s Atticus Barron!

02/12/2022

Check out The Haystack's latest articles--and our new podcast "Hometown Homicide" (a true crime podcast with a Farmer twist!)

The student news site of Wheat Ridge High School

01/11/2022

On 11/15, Wheat Ridge High School will be showing off all of its programs—sports, academics, clubs, and more! Put it on your calendar and encourage families you know to come!

21/10/2022

Everybody’s favorite—Mr. Gold!

“I don’t teach fake anything,” says Bill Gold, social studies teacher at Everitt Middle School. While at Everitt, he’s taught all eighth-graders U. S. history almost every year. This year, Gold is teaching three eighth-grade classes with 30 students each and, due to declining enrollment in t...

13/10/2022

13/10/2022

The Wheat Ridge Haystack Publications new staff is full of excellent writers, and last year’s writers are learning all about editing!

The student news site of Wheat Ridge High School

18/09/2022

30/03/2022

Wheat Ridge High School is in need of kind judges for the seniors' Capstone Presentation Night on 4/21. The Senior Capstone Project is an intensive, research-based project that demonstrates the culmination of our students’ academic achievement. Capstone presentations will take place on April 21, 2022, from 5:00-8:00 PM. We depend on volunteers from the Wheat Ridge and surrounding communities to listen to and evaluate our seniors as they present their projects If you would like to volunteer, please fill out the following form:

Thank you in again for your support for students as well as Wheat Ridge High School. Please know that even if you are not able to devote the entire evening to judging you are welcome to volunteer in other capacities during the evening. Once we receive your information, a confirmation email will be s...

01/03/2022

Check out our first podcast! Consume With Us is a review of local restaurants that deliver to the school.

Lilly and Zoe dish on vegetarian sushi from Arvada’s Mika Sushi Bar.

27/02/2022

Columnist Raquel Miller has a ubiquitous giggle, but her knowledge of current events is vast. Check out her first issue of her new column Beyond the Giggle.
https://wrhaystack.com/7529/uncategorized/beyond-the-giggle/

“I will start with the fact that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia.”-Vladimir Putin Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is truly terrifying, no matter if you sympathize with Ukraine or have family there. Sadly, however,some people jus...

20/02/2022

Make-A-Wish Week on the Farm!

https://wrhaystack.com/7508/uncategorized/make-a-wish-succeeds/

This week, Feb. 14 through 18, at Wheat Ridge High School, the students and staff have been participating in Wish Week. This is a week-long event where the school supports a child with a critical illness. We do this with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation. Make-A-Wish works...

09/12/2021

WHEAT RIDGE — A strong third quarter gave Wheat Ridge’s boys basketball team a double-digit lead heading into the fourth quarter against Lincoln on Tuesday night.

16/11/2021

06/11/2021

Our comp season starts this weekend!!!!
We need your support and can’t wait to see you on our road to State & Nationals!! 🤩

21/10/2021

We are sad to see Officer Malloy leave the Farm! We will miss his guidance and his smile!

At first glance, a cop with a gun in a school can be scary, but for the last 13 years Officer Barry Malloy has protected all of Wheat Ridge High School’s students and staff. After 13 years at Wheat Ridge, Malloy will be leaving. When I talked to some of the staff at Wheat Ridge,...

21/10/2021

Come see Radium Girls this weekend! Friday and Saturday at 7:00 pm

Radium Girls is the Wheat Ridge High School fall play that will be opening Friday, Oct. 22, at 7:00 p.m. The play is directed by English and drama teacher Autumn Ehrhardt and was written by D.W. Gregory. Radium Girls is based on three different watch factory female employees in 1917 affected by the....

09/10/2021

Go Farmers volleyball!

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