Quinlin Gallagher, Naty Gutierrez, Carson Goodrich, and Frida Diaz-Esquivel

On Friday the 22nd of February at Harvest Middle School, there was an assembly for the American Heart Association. However, this wasn't just your run of the mill assembly, it was a basketball game, students versus teachers. The student players were...

Selected Harvest Middle School students were awarded the opportunity to pie a teacher in the face. The teachers that were willing to give up a lunch to get pied in the face were, Coach K., Mrs. Ready, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Esparza, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Albertazzi,...

Joe Collar, Staff Editor

March 1, 2019

Approximately a month after a threatened mass shooting at River Middle School, which Harvest shares a campus with, the Napa Police Department is trying to receive funding to hire a second officer to work in middle schools in the NVUSD, according to Napa Police Chief Robert Plummer. Following the Jan....

January 19, 2019

Saturday, January 19, 2019, marked another day of Napa marching around in a part of town chanting, waving signs and speaking out. The Napa Valley Women’s March. This year’s march was as well attended as the three other marches. Men, Women, Children, and Teenagers all joined together for one purpose:...

Olivia Degnan and Naty Gutierrez

March 15, 2019

On Thursday, March 14, it was another National Pi Day at Harvest Middle School, a 15 year HMS tradition, celebrating the number 3.141592653589.......... There were a lot of activities and challenges to choose from: the hula hoop contest, the pie eating contest, Pi recitation, the Pi relay and calculating...

MARISSA BLACKWOOD, MIKAYLA ROBERTSON, and OLIVIA DEGNAN

February 28, 2019

Do you struggle with self-confidence? If you do, you don’t have to worry. Many people struggle with it. Just because you have low confidence, doesn’t mean you have none at all. Everyone on the inside has confidence. Many students we interviewed have at least some self-esteem. There are a few students...

REESE DE LORIMIER and CARSON GOODRICH

February 26, 2019

     In 8th grade, all students must work on a community project. A student’s community project can be worked on with a partner in at most a group of three or by yourself. During this project, students must create journal entries to log progression on their project and take pictures of them doing...

NATY GUTIERREZ, Staff Writer

February 12, 2019

Brief History of Spanish Spanish comes from the Latin language Latin as many other languages do. It was created on the Iberian Peninsula around the Middle Ages. Spanish consists of various languages such as Latin, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Basque, Iberian, Celtiberian, and Visigothic.        ...

MARISSA BLACKWOOD and OLIVIA DEGNAN

February 8, 2019

Have you ever thought about what Harvest would be like if you could change one thing? Many students had very different answers. You'd think that the typical one would to make breaks longer and let us use our phones at school. However, that isn't true. Answers range from many different perspectives and...

December 1, 2018

     Napa Valley Film Festival 2018 invited young journalists from Harvest Middle School to join the working media as members of Teen Press for the third consecutive year.      Our journalists participated in both sit-down and red carpet interviews with nearly 20 Hollywood celebrities. The following narratives detail the film festival experience for these students:     _____________________________________________________   Frida Diaz-Esquivel My experience...

FRIDA DIAZ- ESQUIVEL

November 25, 2018

September 23, 2018, students at both Harvest and Redwood Middle School went, as the song goes,  26 miles across the sea to the beautiful and famous Santa Catalina Island. The trip was long and extensive but a huge growing experience in many ways for each student.“Redvest”, as Mr. E (one of the Redwood teacher chaperones) called the two groups, had another great experience on the ride there staying the night on the famous ship, The Queen Mary. Where students awaited a knock from one of the haunted ghosts! They took a boat over to the long-awaited Catalina Island Marine Institute, entering...

FRIDA DIAZ-ESQUIVEL and JEMMA CEJA DELGADO

August 28, 2018

Harvest is excited to have recruited amazing new teachers this 2018-2019 school year! All 11 new teachers couldn’t wait to start the year off successfully and are excited to make a strong impact on the students. Our new teachers fill a spot or two in each department of Harvest! The subjects consist of Math, Science, English, Choir, History, Language...