![The Wayland Police Department have issued a warning on the rise of scammers during the holiday season. “Hang up [the phone]. if you get a text and you do not know who it's from, just delete it. Don't click on any links, nothing,” Wayland police chief Edward Burman said. “Every single one of them is a scam.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/img_0954_720-e1734676255647.jpg)
![WHS’s Connect Program ran its annual holiday gift drive to fulfill the wishlist of children enrolled in the Dorchester based non-profit daycare organization, the Yawkey Center. This drive brought the town together and impacted both the students in Connect, as well as the greater Wayland community. “You could see how helpful the town was and how our community came together and wanted to help out a community that wasn't our own [and] kids who were less fortunate than we were,” senior and Connect Program member Jordynn Lee said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/screenshot_2024-12-20_at_12.21.24___pm_720-e1734734228474.png)
![The Boy Scouts will be selling trees on Fridays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays noon to 6 p.m. until they sell out.
“This event is one of the things that [the Boy Scouts] get to have a direct impact on the community,” freshman Alex Macleod said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-11-at-8.38.38 AM.png)
News Brief: Schedule changes this week
Credit: Theo Ghosh
News Editor Selena Liu informs readers of schedule changes for this upcoming week.
March 27, 2023
On Tuesday, March 28 and Wednesday, March 29, sophomores will take the English Language Arts (ELA) Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam during the first three blocks of each day.
MCAS testing will be held in the English wing, meaning all classes usually located in the English wing will be relocated during the testing period. There will be signs posted on English classroom doors so that students who are not taking MCAS know where to go for class.
“Out of respect for our test-takers, you must be silent and may not linger in the English pod,” Wayland High School Principal Allyson Mizoguchi wrote in an email to students.
On Tuesday, advisory will not be held and there will be a special bell schedule. The period rotation will also run in a different order: five, six, two, eight, four and one. This means that blocks one and five will swap, and blocks two and six will swap.
“If you have any questions about the week ahead, please ask any adult,” Mizoguchi wrote.
