![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: Structural changes to advisory
More frequent meetings, new grade-based groups
Credit: Meredith Prince
Two major changes will be made to advisory starting next year. Advisory will meet more often and be completely grade-based.
May 29, 2019
Several changes are coming to Advisory next year. During the May 29 advisory, the administration announced the initial two significant structural changes planned.
The first change is that the daily school schedule will be changed so that advisories will meet almost every day for seven minutes in between second and third block. The meetings will be shorter than the current allotted advisory time.
Also, everyone will be assigned to a new advisory next year, likely with a new teacher. Advisories will be grade-level based, so students will be grouped with other members of their graduating class.
More details about the new advisory will be released within the next few weeks or months as administration fine-tunes the program. Currently, advisory meets on Wednesdays after second block for around 25 minutes.
