The Tiger's Roar

Happy Monday! Only 2 more Mondays to go. This week is an A week. This is the last full week for 10th + 11th graders to be in shop and last week for our 9th graders to be in academics. Please have your students get all assignments in this week for those respective areas!! Sunday, June 14th is Flag Day! It is a day to commemorate the adoption of the American Flag, the “Stars and Stripes”, which was officially approved by the Continental Congress on June 14th, 1777.

Elias Layng, seen here completing the hardware portion of his weeklong competition at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference, came home with some proud achievements. Elias now holds the school's third bronze medal at the National level, as well as the fifth medal overall since Westfield Technical Academy first began participating in SkillsUSA. The competition that Elias took part in, Internet of Things (Smart Home), is a fairly new program—this is the third year that Massachusetts students have been able to actively participate. That marks three years and three medals, with a promising outlook over the next two years as Elias is only a sophomore and is hoping to get back to Nationals next year.

Congratulations, Elias, for your extraordinary accomplishment! We will be watching to see your future endeavors in the competition landscape.

Congratulations to the WTA Varsity Baseball team for a highly successful season. The Tigers represented our school and all of Westfield and carried on the proud tradition of baseball excellence. Our Tigers ended up as League Champions, made it to the semi-finals of the Western Mass Tournament, advanced to the Sweet Sixteen of the Massachusetts D5 State Tournament where they lost a heartbreaker to Maynard and finished as the Runner-Up in the MVADA Small School State Vocational Tournament. Thank you to all of the seniors for their dedication to the program. See you at Bullens next season!

Register now for all of our fall sports on Family ID. You must register and have a current physical and concussion training before you will be allowed to practice. Register for any of our fall sports that we offer: boys soccer, girls soccer, boys cross-country, girls cross-country, and golf here at WTA—as well as field hockey, gymnastics and unified basketball with Westfield High School.

Saturday School takes place as a venue for students to get extra help with schoolwork as well as make up hours of school. It is also used as an alternative remedy when using student discipline. It runs from 8-10:30am on select Saturdays. Students should meet Ms. Markowski at the main entrance to the school on Smith Ave.

Next session: Fall of 2026