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The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

The School Newspaper of Winston Churchill High School.

The Observer

WCHS freshman Patty Cake balances a goat on her back whille learning a new move in the newest class at WCHS, Honors Goat Yoga

WCHS has a baaa-last with new program

By Ella Carnathan, Speck of Dust April 3, 2025

Do not be alarmed by the goats wandering the halls! WCHS has implemented a new class into the curriculum: Goat Yoga. The growing recognition of the importance of mental health drove the decision to incorporate...

Biofreeze, a menthol based pain reliever and potential hallucinogen, has been used to treat athletic injuries, among other things.

Athlete of the month: Biofreeze

By Maximus Wang, RIghtful SMOB April 3, 2025

Some terribly misinformed people out there will say that athletes are what makes any sport interesting. Those people are wrong. In actuality, mere human mortals are no match for the lifeless, artificial...

WCHS senior Riya Menon puts into practice her hating skills shortly after her announcement that she will be the first WCHS bulldog to commit to a Division 1 school for hating.

First student in WCHS History to go D1 for super-hating

By Leah Kreisler, For the last time, it’s LEAH not leah April 3, 2025

The WCHS athletics program is chock-full of athletes who are constantly setting records and achieving new and exciting goals. That is no different for WCHS senior Riya Menon who on March 31, announced...

WCHS will now extend grade levels past twelfth grade.

Observer Opinion: Yes to SuperSeniorPlus

By Isabel Vorabhanda, Biggest Yapper April 3, 2025

High school students spend four years of their teenage life attending high school. Now, make that five. Recently, there has been a new mandate starting for the Class of 2026 (now Class of 2027) to attend...

WCHS Spanish teacher Carmen Moreno-Sanz squares up to fight English teacher Il Kim in the final round of the 2025 WCHS FC tournament.

March Madness: WCHS teachers

By Ryan Shenker, Little League Umpire April 3, 2025

Kim (-400) vs. Nahigian (+315) Round one started with a heavy favorite as Il Kim, the English department’s nominee, stepped into the octagon against consistent substitute David Nahigian, who took...

Adorned with jewels and cutesy colors, flip phones are not only functional but make for a perfect fashionable accessory that can make any outfit pop.

Flip-ing it old school as flip phones come back into style

By Catherine Chan, Time Travel Inventor April 3, 2025

Beep boop beep…bzzt. Whether students recall these sounds from their parents dialing others when they were little or when they “played pretend” with a toy phone, they know that these mechanical noises...

“The Real Students of WCHS” cameraman chases WCHS junior Maximus Wang down the halls in order to film content for the reality show.

Lights, camera and action for “The Real Students of WCHS”

By Katy Edwards, Pagent Girl April 3, 2025

People across the country know and love the reality show “The Real Housewives of Potomac” and soon, reality TV fans will have one more to binge: “The Real Students of WCHS,” WCHS’s very own reality...

A giggling Sephora Baby crawls on the check out counter while covered in specks of liquid blush that a fellow baby splashed on her.

Baby takeover of Sephora ends in a blushy mess

By Lily Chadwick, Skibidi Rizzler April 3, 2025

Blaring cries, deafening screams and glass containers crashing on the floor. These are the sounds that have overtaken the generic pop music that fills local Sephora makeup stores. The epidemic of obsession...

MCPS has allotted a significant portion of their budget to the purchase of microchips, implantation devices and training (a 4-minute video that was half of the budget) for teachers to inject microchips into students.

Students’ privacy chipped away at by the new microchip policy

By Dehab Deglel, Anti-Vaxxer April 2, 2025

MCPS has always pushed the envelope—advocating for better education, more diversity and higher standards for students—and now they are expanding their budget to spend $123,456,789 on microchips. At...

The library is overflowing with animals eager to meet students and help them with their studies.

Moos, meows and barks overtake the “quietest place” in school

By Anne Ma, Rabbit Enabler April 2, 2025

As AP season draws nearer and third quarter study stress ramps up, WCHS’s library has introduced fun and furry stress relievers. Just this week, the library introduced their free-roaming petting zoo....

I am the perfect person.

Egotistical student claims election was stolen

By Maximus Wang, Rightful SMOB April 2, 2025

Many years from now, when all of us are long gone, historians of Montgomery County will look back on the first few months of 2025 and unequivocally declare it the setting of the greatest travesty in maybe...

Words like "skibidi" may seem foreign to some, but in reality, it is becoming part of everyday vocabulary and students must be educated on them.

Erm, what the sigma? No cap, this brainrot course FR bussin!

By Claire Moylan, Nataly’s Best Friend April 2, 2025

Skibidi. Mama, a girl behind you. Hyperpigmentation. Brain rot is the future and is finally being recognized in an intellectual setting. Brain rot is a collection of internet memes that stem from the popular...

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