Category: Clubs

Black Lives Matter is a very active club at ARHS, with about 10-12 core members. They meet after school on Mondays in Ms. Leopold’s room, 328. Anyone is free and welcome to join. Nia...

One month into the school year, the Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA) was into full swing. Last year, SAGA put together a Transgender Awareness Week, where the club educated the school community about gender...

The Best Buddies club gained an amazing advisor this year with new teacher, Justin Hoffman, 37, who works in the Pathways to Independence Program (PIP) for students with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities. Mr. Hoffman is...

Kathy Wilkes, a paraprofessional and one of the advisors of the Sene-Gambian Scholars Exchange Club has been active with the group for 10 years. She and two retired ARHS teachers, special education teacher Momodou...

At the beginning of the 2015-2016 year, the Amherst Marching band was only three members strong, and few knew who they were.  Since then, their numbers swelled to nine, with the band now a...

When Principal Mark Jackson pushed his way through a yelling crowd of ARHS seniors outside the cafeteria one spring afternoon, he found not a fight at the center of the circle as he had...

Nick Hennessy, a frequent director on the ARHS stage, took on a new theatrical goliath with his April 28-30 mounting of Ben Jonson’s Volpone, this year’s Student Produced Play. A 17th century English satire...

After the success of ARHS’s first Consent Week, members of the Man Club, Women’s Right’s club, and Gender Sexuality Alliance continued the tradition this year with another week of activities aimed at raising student...

ARHS People of Color United members Iani Ferreira, Lanre Thomas, and Edward Cage joined 1,500 volunteers who took part in the #GreenNFit Block Rebuild in Springfield, Mass. on Saturday, April 23, 2016. The volunteers...

ARHS’s Best Buddies club, is a local chapter of a global organization aimed at “ending the social, physical, and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities,” according to bestbuddies.org....