Capture-A-Cop fosters positive relationship between students, police
Charlotte Armstrong '21, Staff Writer
September 25, 2019
Capture-A-Cop, a capture the flag game between local middle schoolers and police officers, kicked off an afternoon of friendly games on Sept. 15. Westport middle schoolers and Westport police officers met on Jesup Green for the annual event. The event was organized by the Westport Youth Commission,...
Westport Board of Education finalizes plan for next year’s middle schoolers
December 26, 2018
Superintendent Colleen Palmer and the Westport Board of Education decided to send all sixth graders to the elementary schools next year in order to solve the current spacing issues at Bedford Middle School and Staples High School. This plan also involves placing all Westport seventh and eighth graders at B...
Senior intern evaluates changing middle school dynamics
Emily Olrik, Staff Writer
May 31, 2016
Sitting with the other interns at lunch, we are the big kids. We’re the adults, the graduating seniors, the about-to-go-off-to-college-kids. We are surrounded by the middle schoolers, the tweens, the youngsters. When I walked down the BMS staircase on the first day of my internship I expected everything to be entire...
Bedford middle paper Ursus is a roaring hit
Jane Levy, Features Editor
December 7, 2014
Staffed by 33 eighth graders and advised by Inklings’ former adviser of ten years, Stephen Rexford, Ursus has made its debut as Bedford Middle School’s official newspaper. “I took all the stuff about how to write stories, using proper AP style and ethics from the Inklings handbook, and made...
Top five differences between middle school and high school
Caroline O'Kane, Staff Writer
September 19, 2014
Picture this: Big school, little you. It’s your first day of freshman year and you see senior girls in their blue shirts running around and blowing whistles in your ear. Older boys are standing next to you that are taller than your dad. You hear the bell, watch everyone disperse and are left walking...
With promise of fresh start, freshmen expectations for cafeteria food skyrocket
Caroline Cohen, Managing Editor
September 19, 2014
When you think of high school in a stereotypical, “Mean Girls” movie kind of way, the cafeteria often comes to mind. It’s where all the drama is expected to go down and where everyone sees their friends. And although Staples’ cafeteria isn’t exactly out of a high school movie, the chaos of...
Students swap Webkinz for Snapchat
Jane Levy, Features Editor
June 20, 2014
A moment of silence, please, for the days in which young middle school students huddled over desktop Dells, nurturing penguins and animals, delved into the world of asking anonymous questions via Formspring, and made their Facebook statuses “Like for a TBH” and posted on each and every Facebook w...
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Chloe Murray ’22 is a new member of Inklings, beginning her first year as a staff writer. The appeal of one day holding a position and becoming a bigger part of Inklings prompted Murray to join the class. Murray...