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  • Softball team honors Coach Dagan’s legacy

    Softball team honors Coach Dagan’s legacy

    NPHS softball coach Mike Dagan believed his team could achieve anything they put their mind to. With passion and commitment to his role, Dagan led NPHS to CIF-Southern Section Championship in 2018, the first time in our school’s history. Dagan’s passing on Aug. 27 leaves a monumental legacy on the NPHS softball field and…

  • NPHS campus comes back to life

    NPHS campus comes back to life

    Adjusting While many students looked forward to the full return back to campus, many have lots of changes and adjustments to cope with. Many underclassmen stepped onto campus for the first time last month and are still learning the way to their classes, while returning students are struggling to get back into their pre-COVID…

  • Managing Mental Health

    Managing Mental Health

    As people experience online school, social injustices and loneliness through the pandemic, mental health has been severely impacted. Although we have come a long way in deconstructing the stigma behind mental illness, student voices have shown that there is still more work to be done. Mental health is not a binary issue, and each…

  • #HumansofNP: Positives in Quarantine

    #HumansofNP: Positives in Quarantine

    Click the link below to access our #HumansofNP spread for our 2021 Special Edition Magazine, in which we interviewed people on positives that they have found or developed during COVID-19. #HumansofNP2021

  • Cultural clubs spotlight communities

    Cultural clubs spotlight communities

    One important way in which students celebrate cultural diversity is through the several cultural clubs present at the high schools. These student groups create an enriched school environment that is more inclusive and representative of the student body. With hope on the horizon, club leadership is planning for their reunions on campus and eventual…

  • Music guides Kate Arnold through life

    Music guides Kate Arnold through life

    Just about everyone enjoys listening to music, but few are capable of making it. For senior Kate Arnold, music has made up her life since she was a kindergartener. Almost 13 years later, her love and passion for music has never faded. Arnold started playing the piano until her middle school orchestra teacher led…

  • Jill Walker paints through senior year

    Jill Walker paints through senior year

    For some people, art is just a hobby or something pretty to look at; for senior Jill Walker, art is the passion that has never left her.  Ever since Walker was little, creativity has never abandoned her mind. “I’ve been drawing pretty much ever since I was capable of holding a pencil. My dad…

  • Students showcase their unique fashion

    Students showcase their unique fashion

    Fashion is defined by each individual. It is made up of accessories, staples, aesthetics—all put together to create a personalized, picture-perfect outfit. NPHS is home to many students with unique outfits and styles, who take inspiration from several different people and give fashion a whole new meaning. Householder creates an aesthetic Paige Householder, senior,…

  • My journey through mental illness

    My journey through mental illness

    “It feels like I am in my own mental prison, I can’t escape the thoughts inside my head.” That’s what I wrote in my journal from last summer. I am not the same person from a year ago. Although my anxiety and depression can still feel like a battle, it no longer feels like…

  • Equity Task Force aims to diversify district

    Equity Task Force aims to diversify district

    The Equity Task Force (ETF), one of CVUSD’s newest initiatives, is working towards ensuring equity, diversity and progress within the school district. Made up of 15 members, each coming from a different background and with a unique perspective, they meet biweekly to discuss how the Conejo Valley public school system can become more inclusive…