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The Broadview
The student news site of Convent of the Sacred Heart High School

The Broadview
The student news site of Convent of the Sacred Heart High School

The Broadview
LEAN IN Head of School Rachel Simpson converses with seniors Laura Mogannam, Kate Etter and Day El-Watter outside her office in The Gallery after school. Simpson is being recognized nationally for encouraging students to express themselves across all academic areas including written word, student government, art shows and student-initiated events.

Head of school to receive national award

Gabriella Vulakh, Web Editor • November 1, 2018

Head of School Rachel Simpson will accept the Journalism Education Association Administrator of the Year Award on Saturday at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Chicago in recognition...

TRIP'S END Theology teacher Kate McMichael walk up the Fillmore Street hill as part of her daily trip to school from her home in Fairfax. McMichael spends up to three hours commuting each day.

Going the distance

Mason Cooney, Copy Editor • November 1, 2018

Rising as early as 4:10 in the morning, theology teacher Kate McMichael begins her school day with a quick exercise session before catching a 6:30 bus into San Francisco for her hour and fifteen-minute...

Descendants of people enslaved by the Society of the Sacred Heart after coming to North America walk with friends and family from St. Charles Borromeo Church in Grand Coteau, Louisiana to a nearby cemetery where a new monument honoring those enslaved stands. Brother Frank Authello Andrus, Jr. led the procession with drumming

Honoring the oppressed

Laura Mogannam, Managing Editor • November 1, 2018
“I realized in the middle of saying those names that these were the first times their names have been spoken in 170 years.”
The soccer team huddles before a game last year. The season has been moved from spring to winter.

Winter sports commence

Madeline Thiara, Reporter • October 30, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE While fall sports volleyball and cross-country continue into championships, athletes began winter sports season yesterday with tryouts and preseason for soccer, basketball and wrestling. “Soccer...

Students and faculty sing songs and share names of loved ones in honor of Día de los Muertos. The holiday is celebrated from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2.

Día de los Muertos chapel honors loved ones

Amy Phipps, Reporter • October 29, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE Students gathered in the Chapel today to celebrate the Mexican holiday — Día de los Muertos —  and to honor dead family members and loved ones. “It is a rich tradition, not only...

ORDER UP Freshmen Paige Retajczyk and Nina Guttierez wait in line to order at Starbucks. The Fillmore Street Starbucks is a popular lunch spot among Convent students.

Freshmen are given off-campus lunch privilege

Grace Krumplitsch, Reporter • October 25, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE After completing the first quarter of the school year, freshmen are now allowed off-campus lunch. “It is a really exciting next chapter for them,” Freshmen Grade Chair Allyson Maebert...

Theology teacher Kathryn McMichael gives instructions for an icebreaker activity. Students were asked to introduce themselves with their name and a food that starts with the first letter of their name.

Students meet PAWS family for the first time

Sophia Aeby, Video Editor • October 22, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE Students had their first family PAWS meeting today comprised of students from each grade after assembly. “The purpose is really just to interact with a lot of people you might not usually...

Seniors write notes of encouragement to a friend in need during a BC2M assembly. The club had students either keep the notes or give them to the friend.

BC2M club emphasizes self-care

Mason Cooney, Copy Editor • October 19, 2018

The Bring Change to Mind Club presented in Syfufy Theatre during assembly today to talk about self-care and inform students about how to stay attentive to mental wellness. “Part of the mission of...

Junior Estie Seligman takes potato slices out of the glucose solution to remeasure their masses for a lab demonstrating osmosis. Seligman’s lab group had a glucose concentration of 0.2 in their solution.

Biology class learns about mitosis in potato lab

Gray Timberlake, Senior Reporter • October 18, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE Juniors in C period International Baccalaureate Standard Level Biology class participated in a lab yesterday demonstrating the difference in the ways cells react in hypotonic, isotonic and...

Walk for Uganda benefits Sacred Heart sister school

Olivia Mohun, Features Editor • October 16, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE Approximately 70 elementary students and parents from Convent Elementary School and Stuart Hall for Boys participated in the annual Walk for Uganda at Crissy Field this Saturday. “Walk...

Sophomore Dagny Wallace runs up the hill at the Artichoke Invitational on Oct. 6. The cross-country team has competed in five invitationals and two league meets so far this season.

Cross-country team will race in Southern California

Madeline Thiara, Reporter • October 16, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE The Convent & Stuart Hall cross-country team will travel to Southern California from Thursday to Saturday to attend the Mt. SAC Invitational race in Walnut, California. The team will...

Junior Arlena Jackson reads the latest edition of The Broadview during National Newspaper Week. This week celebrates the service newspapers provide to the nation.

Publications celebrate National Newspaper Week

Sophia Aeby, Senior Reporter • October 10, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE The 78th annual National Newspaper Week celebrates newspapers across the nation Oct. 7 -13. This year’s theme slogan is “Journalism matters. NOW more than ever,” according to the...

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