Category: School News

General news from the Buzz News Desk

A Blast from the Past: Valentines Day

Ever wonder what our school was like 30 years ago? Or even 50 years ago?  Now you don’t have to; our staff has uncovered a “vault” of Branford Newspapers that date all the way back to the 1950’s! Here’s a

Valentines Fever!

It’s February 14th and Valentines Day has spread through the hallways of Branford High through song, flowers, and spirit!  It seems like everyone took part in celebrating this holiday of love; whether you were singing with the Music Makers to red-faced students,

A Class Without a Teacher

  by Nina Mariotti With the way news travels so quickly, almost everyone has heard about the incident revolving around Ms. Lippolis, a social studies teacher here at Branford High School. During one of her freshman classes, Lippolis held some

Thinking Outside the “Unit Circle”

Mrs. Craig has made new use of the after Christmas clearance sales, but what use is tinsel to a Precalc class?  The class had created a HUMAN UNIT CIRCLE; a unit circle is basically a circle split by different degrees to create

Branford Goes Green

by Vinny Roca You may have noticed that there have been some changes to the lights in the commons and on senior balcony. Since the construction of the commons incandescent bulbs have been wasting energy, inefficiently lighting the common, but

Take Classes without Leaving Your Couch

by Nina Mariotti Since 2006, high schools have been offering online classes. This yea is Branford High School’s first year participating in the Virtual High School program. 40 students from Branford were piloted to take classes in VHS. So far,

Faulty Fire alarms?

by Vinny Roca You may have noticed the firefighters going around the schools for the past few weeks and wondered what they are doing at our school. The reason was that our fire alarm system was down and useless during

Open Grade Book, The Inside Scoop!

by Vinny Roca News Editor The 2011 school year is a new beginning in terms of communication between home and school. For the first time parents and students will have access to the grade books of teachers, allowing for constant

Growing Up

by Marisa Kaplita When you’re a child all you want to do is grow up and be a big kid, a teenager, a driver, a college student, an adult, and so on.  Where ever you are in life, all you

Greetings From Japan

by Marisa Kaplita As much as any Branford student says they hate being here and wished they could go to a different school, they can’t deny that going to Branford High does have its advantages.  One of the coolest advantages