WHS Latin Club has won second place at the 2023 MassJCL convention, beaten only by Boston Latin School. We participated in many events, including certamen, olympika, chariot races, English oratory, dramatic interpretation, sight reading, and the costume contest, and took home several prizes from individual academic testing as well. Overall we feel as though we did our best this year, …
Despite the setbacks with this year’s MassJCL convention, we are sending a group of 12 students to the convention at Duxbury High School on April 29th for the day. For some of us, this is our last convention before we go off to college, while for others this is our first. We were informed that we are currently in a …
Saturday was Winchester’s first time hosting the annual MassJCL kickoff. The event went mostly smoothly, with Latin students coming from across the state to join us. Praetoria and street certamen sessions were in the morning, and gladiator battles and the catapult contest were in the afternoon. The catapult contests ended up being split into large and small catapult categories, with …
In the coming months, we have not one, not one and a half, but two upcoming local MassJCL events! On Saturday, October 29th, Winchester High School will be hosting the fall kick-off event. That’s right, you don’t even need to go anywhere. Just let Mrs. DeCamp know that you will be attending, pay the entry fee, and show up any …
Salve! Another school year begins, and with it, more Latin Club stuff! Our first meeting was on September 7th, and we’ll be having another on September 12th in room B106. This year, Winchester High School will be hosting the fall convention on October 29th, with events such as street certamen and a catapult contest. More information will be available in …
This year, for the first time in our 16 year history, we won the MassJCL state convention! We competed against Latin Clubs from all over Massachusetts in categories including Certamen (quiz bowl), art, newsletter, website, costumes, and Olympika (athletics). The Janet Rojette trophy will be on display in the main office until next year’s convention. Thank you to all of …
We’ve been busy over the past couple weeks preparing for the annual state convention, and we’re almost ready. The convention begins remotely tomorrow and will be in person on Saturday. Here’s what’s going on: – Arya Ramachandran is running for MassJCL – Kelly McDowell’s t-shirt design won first place – Zo Clarke has been working hard on our spring newsletter …
With the annual state convention coming up in less than a month, we are getting ready. Students who are not signed up yet should sign up using this form. All attendees should review the information document and schedule. (These links will only work if you are signed in with your Winchester Public Schools email account.)With the annual state convention coming …