Winter Week Fun
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January 9, 2026
By Sydney ’29 Though Harvard-Westlake doesn’t have official midterms on the middle school campus, units often culminate around the...
New Middle School Schedule
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January 6, 2026
By Bella ’29 This year, the Harvard-Westlake middle school campus (grades 7-9) introduced a new eight-day rotational cycle designed...
Learning and Growing with Support from the Teachers at HW!
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January 6, 2026
By Whitney ’31 Harvard-Westlake has been an amazing school to me. Something that has made my experience at HW very special is how...
Finding My Place at HW: My First Weeks as a Seventh Grader!
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December 6, 2025
By Whitney ’31 Starting seventh grade at Harvard-Westlake has been such an exciting and amazing experience. In just a few...
Ways to Spend Your Lunch Period!
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December 4, 2025
By Honore ’28 Commonly recognized as the best part of the day, lunch is a chance for you to catch your breath and have some you time....
Finding Balance at HW
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November 20, 2025
By Ayla ’29 The first word you will hear at Harvard-Westlake is balance. But how do you balance hard classes and a new social...
HW Support and Resources
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November 14, 2025
By Sydney ’29 Here at Harvard-Westlake, we have an abundance of resources available to students at all times. For starters, the...
Starting from Scratch at HW: Being the Only Person from your School
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November 11, 2025
By Alice ‘30 For most people, not coming from a more common sending school does not affect their desire to apply to Harvard-Westlake. The...
What’s Where at the Harvard Westlake Middle School Campus
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November 7, 2025
by Anya ‘31 The Harvard-Westlake Middle School Campus is huge! Acres and acres of different buildings, with different names, and...
Being in a Long Distance Relationship with HW (Notes on a Long Commute)
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November 5, 2025
By Joshua ’28 Whenever I tell people in my town that I go to Harvard-Westlake, their first reaction is almost always, “Wow,...
