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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

During the past week, WCHS AP English classes have taught Middle English: the language of Chaucer's time. It has largely replaced the Modern English of later writers.

A farewell to Shakespeare

By Ray Guan, Wee, Sleeket, Cowran and Tim’rous April 11, 2025

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, the droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, and bathed every veyne in swich licour of which vertu engendred is the flour, techeres goon homward and ychosen...

MILF's report, released on March 32, ranked WCHS as the Maryland school with the worst quality food in all of MCPS. Mr. Taylor is now working with Dr. Taylor and Mr. Taylor to improve the quality of WCHS lunches.

DILF Taylor gives meat, veg

By Ava Van Vuren, Martin Van Buren’s sister April 11, 2025

On the 32nd of March, the Maryland Institute of Lunches & Food (MILF) came out with a survey that ranked MCPS as having the worst cafeteria food out of all the public school counties in Maryland. Furthermore,...

The Department of Government Efficiency releases official posters to promote the new initiative of Educational Supervisors in schools, in order to gain favor with school districts.

DOGE education supervisors coming to WCHS

By Isabella Ngwana, Victim of Senior Year April 7, 2025

Federal workers are being fired across the board. New executive orders are shocking Americans every day. Who knows what will happen with the USA? Education has become a territory that everyone wants a...

How to climb the WCHS roof: a step-by-step tutorial

How to climb the WCHS roof: a step-by-step tutorial

By Isar Uslu, Phone Password: 361448 (seriously) April 4, 2025

When Walter Johnson High School senior Swedlana Delanco, a Subway Surfers enthusiast with over 13 million max points, went to WCHS, he wanted to put his skills to good use. He decided that he was going...

WCHS students protest against chicken rights while others protest for their rights.

Cluck cluck; chicken-flu infected students out of luck

By Olga Engler, #1 Chicken Rights Enthusiast April 4, 2025

The chicken—an animal with red ridges protruding from its head, a strong beak and a long mane of feathers—is the new carrier of the bird virus that has ravaged WCHS and which has a devastating side...

The Churchill Observer's correspondent is chased out of the senior basement by former students after disrespecting one of their hellish rituals.

Graduated and grounded: Alumni found in basement

By Isar Uslu, Phone Password: 361448 (seriously) April 4, 2025

For most WCHS students, graduation is the end goal, it is the moment they are able to step out into the real world and really be themselves. But, a WCHS student’s recent discovery has raised questions...

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...

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