Skip to content
Friday, September 26, 2025
  • About
  • Staff
  • Contact
  • Comments Policy
  • Advertise & Subscribe
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
The Bradford
  • News
  • Features
    • Travel
    • In-Depth
  • Opinions
    • The Bradford Reflects
      • Race & Racism in Wellesley: Revisited
      • Racism in Wellesley
      • Charlie Hebdo
    • Editorial
    • Cartoon
    • Satire
  • Arts
    • Pop Culture
  • Sports
  • Current Events
  • Print Issues
  • Raider Radio
  • About
    • Staff
    • Mission Statement
    • Advertise & Subscribe
  • Bradford Junior
    • About

Mission Statement

As the official publication of Wellesley High School, The Bradford exists to inform and entertain. We aspire to be the hub of information for the school. We pledge to be honest and unbiased in the way we collect and report news. As a forum for discussion, The Bradford strives to represent all voices. We encourage respect for student, faculty, and community opinions.

Share your opinion

As an open forum for discussion within the high school, we welcome your ideas for the articles we publish. We invite you to submit your own story ideas that you think are newsworthy. To contribute, please fill out this Google Form. All submissions are subject to review before publication. If you are a student, please include your first and last name as well as your year of graduation.

Advertise in the Bradford

Subscribe to The Bradford, The Award-Winning high school newspaper! For $20 dollars, receive every print issue of this year’s Bradford, including special editions, mailed to you.

Order Online on SchoolPay

The Tortured Poets Department: Analysis
  • Arts

The Tortured Poets Department: Analysis

  • Evie Simon '27, Arts Editor
  • 0

Through the creation of Midnights and her recent Eras Tour, Taylor Swift garnered an even larger fanbase and broke billionaire status. With this came anticipation […]

  • Features

Adventure and Opportunity: School Trips at the High School

  • Josie Song '26, Features Editor
  • 0

Croatia and Panama are just a few of the places students have traveled to in the past couple of years. Organized in collaboration with EF […]

The Wellesley Ultimate Frisbee Team
  • Sports

The Wellesley Ultimate Frisbee Team

  • Solomon Jin '27, Sports Editor
  • 0

Running, diving, talking, shouting. Breathing, gasping, throwing, catching. With tension in the air, the Wellesley Phoenixes make a final push to victory. The frisbee flies […]

Renaming finals week: a pointless change
  • Opinion

Renaming finals week: a pointless change

  • Sophia Pavano '26, Editor-in-Chief
  • 0

Students sit in precise rows. Feet anxiously bounce. Eyes hastily scan. Students hear the dreaded line: “Five more minutes.” Kids give their friends uneasy glances […]

Highlights from Wellesley High School’s spring musical concerts
  • Arts

Highlights from Wellesley High School’s spring musical concerts

  • Kaya Charoensiddhi '27, News Editor
  • 0

In May, Wellesley High School’s musical ensembles showcased their talents with two unforgettable performances: the Spring Band concert on the 14th and the Spring Orchestra […]

Massachusetts to potentially remove the MCAS as a graduation requirement
  • News

Massachusetts to potentially remove the MCAS as a graduation requirement

  • Kaya Charoensiddhi '27, News Editor
  • 0

The Joint Committee on Education of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is currently deliberating over the potential removal of the Massachusetts Comprehensive […]

Evolutions brings student-driven creativity to its ninth Capstone Expo
  • News

Evolutions brings student-driven creativity to its ninth Capstone Expo

  • Joanne Zhang '25, Editor-in-Chief
  • 0

The ninth generation of Evolutions, the high school’s project-based learning program for juniors and seniors, held its Capstone Expo in the cafeteria on May 23, […]

Saying goodbye to Ms. Brophy after 17 years at the high school
  • Features

Saying goodbye to Ms. Brophy after 17 years at the high school

  • Josie Song '26, Features Editor
  • 0

Ms. Kathleen Brophy has made many integral changes to the fitness curriculum. At the end of the school year, Brophy will depart from the high […]

Student Supervisor Chuck Bognanni retires after 22 memorable years at the high school
  • Features

Student Supervisor Chuck Bognanni retires after 22 memorable years at the high school

  • Sophia Pavano '26, Editor-in-Chief
  • 0

When asked to describe the high school’s student supervisor, Charles (Chuck) Bognanni, his colleagues used words such as “gentle giant”, “big heart”, and “teddy bear”. […]

Building Brilliance: Wellesley High School’s Team Ultraviolet displays STEM excellence
  • Features

Building Brilliance: Wellesley High School’s Team Ultraviolet displays STEM excellence

  • Griffin Jordan '24, Opinions Editor
  • 0

FRC stands for First Robotics Competition— an international high school robotics competition where students and mentors design and construct a robot to complete specific tasks, […]

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 6 7 8 … 81 Next

The Latest

  • Lights, camera, action?
    By Evie Simon '27, Arts Editor
    “Stranger Things”, “Outer Banks”, and “Bridgerton” are just three shows that evoke feelings of both familiarity and agitation at the prolonged release of new seasons. All three, which have […]
  • Taboo isn’t a game: why political discussion belongs in the classroom
    By Katherine Xu '27, Editor-in-Chief
    In 2023, the high school vetoed a student-planned “USA Day” from spirit week. In an email sent to members of the community, Dr. Jamie Chisum, principal of the high school, explained that […]
  • The Bradford investigates: is DEI ‘DOA’?
    By Ayesha Kapoor '26, Editor-in-Chief
    On January 20, 2025, the day of the presidential inauguration, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14151. The first of many executive orders regarding minority groups, it reads, […]
  • The high school’s spring artists of the month
    By Kaya Charoensiddhi '27, News Editor
    Each month, the Art department highlights outstanding student work by selecting two artists in 2-D and 3-D art. Sophie Kwan ’25 (2-D, Drawing and Painting), Katie Gallico ’25 (2-D, Drawing […]
  • New phone-free standard set for WPS
    By Katherine Xu '27, Editor-in-Chief
    On May 16, a message from Wellesley Public Schools (WPS) Superintendent Dr. David Lussier arrived in the inboxes of students, parents, and faculty, announcing a new cell phone procedure for […]
Copyright © 2025 The Bradford Theme: Press News By Adore Themes.