The Roar

What it really takes to get a scholarship

Emily Gelinas, Staff Writer March 8, 2015

There is so much seniors think about: prom, college applications and scholarships. With college applications come acceptances and with acceptances come scholarship hunting. School guidance counselor...

The calendar in guidance displays the alternating black and orange days for the month of March.

BHS embraces challenges from new schedule

Alex Keely and Colby Perron March 6, 2015

The 2014-2015 school year started off with a new twist for both students and staff alike. BHS changed to a new alternating day schedule to ensure students took more of the core classes that were not being...

Working hard or hardly working on school snow days?

Working hard or hardly working on school snow days?

Abbie Paquette and Lydia Gordon March 6, 2015

With each passing day comes a new fear of the thing New Englanders dread most: snow. White fluffy snowflakes can only mean two things; shoveling and snow days. Mother Nature seems to have it out for New...

Repercussions of Twitter Drama

Repercussions of Twitter Drama

Lauren Paquet, Staff Writer March 6, 2015

Various arguments between students at BHS, as well as other schools, reach the realms of Twitter, and the consequences of this online drama prove that it causes more trouble than most students think. Many...

Benefits of taking Advanced Placement classes in high school

Benefits of taking Advanced Placement classes in high school

Tyler Pierpont, Staff Writer March 3, 2015

All high school students have the possibility to save hundreds to thousands of dollars when it comes to college, just by taking Advanced Placement courses. Advanced Placement (AP) classes can be taken...

March Spirit Week

March Spirit Week

Audrey Desjardin, Junior Editor February 25, 2015

To get everyone through the last dragging few months of the school year, one student had the idea of creating a spirit week in March to make up for the unevent filled Homecoming week. Senior Cameron...

Cellular WiFi no longer permitted at BHS

Cellular WiFi no longer permitted at BHS

Audrey Desjardin, Junior editor January 28, 2015

In today’s generation it seems WiFi is necessary to work all of the gadgets on our smart phones, and with BHS taking away that WiFi for non-school related devices it causes another problem on its own. The...

Battle of the Bridge game played at Thornton Academy 2013

BHS football potential move to class B

Audrey Desjardin, Junior editor October 30, 2014

Biddeford High School to move down to class B after playing in class A for as far back as BHS football history goes. The class A cutoff for football is 875 students in a school, yet Biddeford still...

New food regulations bring change to cafeteria

New food regulations bring change to cafeteria

Cameron Petit, Editor in Chief October 1, 2014

New food regulations change cafeteria menus at many schools across the country, calling for more nutritional foods. Biddeford High School is one of those schools, now abiding by the new set of rules...

Changes to come to homecoming week 2014

Changes to come to homecoming week 2014

Audrey Desjardin, Junior editor September 30, 2014

Every year students anticipate the competition of homecoming week, but this year traditions have ended and the competition aspect of the week has ended. Whether it ends up with a positive outcome or...

Staff accepts ALS ice bucket challenge

Staff accepts ALS ice bucket challenge

Audrey Desjardin September 16, 2014

The Biddeford High School staff decided to raise awareness and donate to ALS research by participating in the viral ice bucket challenge on September 4. Along with the staff, students did their part...

The Class of 2014 throws their caps and shoots some confetti at the end of their graduation ceremony.

Caps, gowns, and changes make an appearance at graduation this year

Cameron Petit, Editor June 10, 2014

As the end of the year rolls around, it seems that graduation and other end of the year ceremonies are all that anyone can talk about, especially this year. From shortened speeches to arrangement changes...

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