By: Jennifer Walton Batavia High School is nowhere near perfect. There are many changes that can be made to it. School staff doesn’t typically listen to the students, ask what there opinion is, and what they would like to change or add to the school. This week, The Spectator made an anonymous survey and sent […]

This is the first episode of the Gorlewski Podcast. Today’s episode will be about mobile gaming and microtransactions. Host: Bailey Gorlewski   Gorlewski Podcast Thanks for listening! Music Used: Quirky Dog By: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

By: Elyssa Hammond You’ve probably never thought about how much you don’t know about your community. You can find this information on BATV, a local broadcast channel that highlights of all the current local, national, and worldwide news. Have you ever just felt a little unaware of what’s going on in your community? It’s an […]

By Samantha Fricano Two students from Aurora Central Catholic High School, Ally Bradford and Seth Egger, were killed while driving on a fog-covered road to a basketball game at their school on Tuesday, March 10. Ally Bradford and Seth Egger are being remembered as goofy, adventurous, positive teens by their friends, and classmates. ¨She was […]

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 […]

Students and staff at Batavia High School are getting ready for the annual Homecoming dance that is to be held in the school’s cafeteria on the evening of Saturday September 24.             The dance will follow the football game against St. Charles East High School on Friday. The week prior to the dance will be […]

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 […]