By Grace Borchert Wednesday, September 3, marks the fourth year of Interact Club at Batavia High School. With the saying “Service above self,” the Interact Club is a local community service volunteer group that helps out in the community multiple times a week. This year, they are partnering with several organizations such as Lazarus House […]

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In honor of Homecoming week, reporter Natalie Delcorps asked Batavia students about their favorite Homecoming event. “I love the themes and how we have a different theme every day.” – senior Ali Lillig “I’d have to say…the pep assembly. It’s fun when each grade represents their class and I love drumline as well!” – senior Courtney […]

Batavia High School Dance Team is hoping to make the holidays a little brighter for needy local families this season by hosting its 5th annual Holiday Kick-A-Thon fundraiser on Friday, December 16th during half times of the Batavia High School Sophomore and Varsity basketball games against Elgin-Larkin.  The team will be accepting free-will donations during […]

This was the first year AP studio art was offered at BHS and two students accepted the challenge.  In honor of their great accomplishment a show of their portfolio will be on display this weekend at the Water Street Studios.  Please stop by and check out an amazing body of work by Ian Bosak and […]

“Adelaide” by Olivia Boyd “Adriada” by Megan Pieterick “Self Portrait” by Megan Pieterick   BHS would like to congratulate sophomores Megan Pieterick and Olivia Boyd for placing in the Fox Valley Community Associates’ annual portfolio night on Tuesday.  The Director of Undergraduate Admissions for the School of the Art Institute came to evaluate local area […]

Batavia High School alum Axel Holm plans to go across country raising money for Journey of Hope, which raises money for a variety of causes. The following is from Axel’s Journey of Hope webpage. If you’d like to donate to the cause, follow this link: http://ipush.convio.net/site/TR?px=1023004&fr_id=1040&pg=personal My name is Axel Holm and I am currently […]

BHS students will be participating in Barrington High School’s Annual Teapot Art Show!  Our students made their teapots during art fundamentals using a trompe l’oeil style, meaning “to fool the eye”.  In other words, these pieces don’t look like teapots but are functional and can actually pour!.  The teapot show will run from Monday, March […]

The Batavia Junior Varsity Dance Team wins big at the first ever TeamDance Illinois (TDI) JV Championship on February 13, 2011 at Argo High School in Summit.  The 18 member team was top “Dawg” at the contest by placing 1st in the Open Pom and 2nd in the Hip Hop categories among participating Division II […]

The BHS snow sculpture team is undefeated as they won first place for the third year in a row over the weekend at the Geneva Snow Sculpting Competition.  The students were out in very cold conditions sculpting what was more like ice than snow, but they pulled through and brought another first place medal home.  Please […]