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The Saxon Scope
Bringing you the latest at Langley

The Saxon Scope
Bringing you the latest at Langley

The Saxon Scope

Best Buddies: a club for friendship and inclusivity

Isabella Hutter, Reporter • March 21, 2025

Best Buddies International is the largest organization dedicated to advocating for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and ending their isolation. Over the past fifty years, the nonprofit...

Shoot for the Stars

Elakshi Nedungottil, Reporter • February 5, 2025

Astronomy Club is a new club that has recently started up at Langley that deals with the study of space and current updates on exploration of the cosmos. However, according to the club sponsor, Madame...

Hoffman reads questions, while Mosby keeps track of score. The quiz bowl practices every Wednesday in Banker’s room.

Co-President Players

Daniel Park, Reporter • March 1, 2024

  With great power comes great responsibility, as is the case with the Langley quiz bowl, or scholastic bowl, club’s two co-presidents, seniors Ian Hoffman and Margaret Mosby. The two have managed...

The quiz bowl team hosted an after-school practice. During practice, one person keeps track of the score, and the machine in the middle of the table indicates who has buzzed.

How Quiz Bowl Practices

Daniel Park, Reporter • January 29, 2024

The Langley quiz bowl club’s weekly, after-school practices are just like the real competitions, except in a more casual way. The only major difference is that, at the practice, the club practices in...

New SRO at Langley

New SRO at Langley

Wes Knaggs, Reporter • January 13, 2023

Many people at Langley don't have an idea of what it means to be a Student Resource Officer (SRO), especially at Langley High School. Langley’s new SRO, Officer Anthony Campos, believes a necessary part...

Don’t Cry for Me Langley Students, The Truth is I Never Left You

Don’t Cry for Me Langley Students, The Truth is I Never Left You

Ann Bedford Gillis, Reporter • January 13, 2022

The Saxon Writing Center is back, but in a slightly different way. Rather than being a class that happens during lunches, the Writing Center now occurs during Langley Links on the last day of the week,...

Photo Credit: Philip Perry

Decades of Education – Langley’s Longtime Teachers

Philip Perry, Reporter • November 5, 2021

Amongst the educators at Langley, there are many who have worked at the school for decades. These longtime teachers have witnessed an ever-changing school building, a technological revolution, and an increasingly...

Isabella Obradovich spends hours in her art studio to intricately perfect the pieces (Photo by Koenig).

Behind the drawings

Maddie Koenig, Managing Editor of Design • June 18, 2020

With over 144k followers on Instagram, Langley’s famous teen artist Isabella Obradovich can draw it all. Obradovich is only a sophomore, but she has been drawing since she was eleven years old. Obradovich...

Senior John Callahan works with others to complete his service hours during the monthly Saxon Service time (Photo by Chen).

The stories behind service

Grace Chen, Reporter • February 20, 2020

The only cord that can be worn during graduation without any effort put in grades, skills, or ability is the service learning cord. In order to earn this cord the only effort that is needed to put in this...

From left to right: Caroline Cassidy, Alison Buckler, Rachel Rhee-Feitel, Olivia Carnot, Katherine Moe, Laila White, and Reese Villella pose with 6-year-old Sydney Belsher, a recovered cancer patient whose story inspired the girls to take action in conjunction with the Belsher family (Photo by Belsher).

Saxons: call to action

The Saxon Scope • January 25, 2020

For Fay Shuai, it's the news of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan where her aunt and uncle work as doctors in the hospital. For Alison Buckler, it's the memory of hearing the news her great-grandfather...

Teachers occasionally have to deal with cheating students; it's an unfortunate reality of the job. Fortunately, Mr. O'Rourke has never caught someone cheating in his class before (Photo by Lucas Aue).

Cheating the system

Lucas Aue, Reporter • January 13, 2020

Cheating happens at every school--tests, quizzes, and homework create an inevitable obstacle that some students attempt to circumvent by cheating. Math teacher Mr. O'Rourke discusses how cheating can occur,...

Junior Andrew Kim is behind the original Langley food review account, on Instagram as @thelhsfoodreview (Photo by Quinn Brown).

Food for thought

Quinn Brown, Reporter • December 10, 2019

School lunches are one of the most universally hated parts of public schooling. Parents voice endless complaints over their lack in nutritional value, and students are often disgusted by some of the foul...

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