If there is one phrase that can change someone’s day, it is thank you. There are people every day that help us and make sure that we are ok. Moms, dads, teachers, friends, they all help and are thanked every day, but have we ever given much thanks to our custodians?
Springville Junior High has Quest Time right after third period everyday other than Wednesday. If students don’t have any deficient grades they can go to enrichment. If students have deficient grades they go to intervention to fix the problem.
Mrs. Maughan, a math teacher here at Springville Junior High, teaches math intervention Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday in her class room( #61). “I think Quest Time is a very positive thing for our school,” said Mrs. Maughan, “It gives students the chance to get caught up in classes, or go to a reward activity. Students benefit by getting a reward (enrichment) so they feel appreciated and students with deficient grades may work with teachers to get assignments done.”
Musicals, some people like them, some don’t. In Mrs. Breakwell’s English class the students recently watched a famous musical, West Side Story. Mrs. Breakwell found very positive response from her classes.
Ninth graders in Mrs. Breakwell’s class were learning about Romeo and Juliet. Mrs. Breakwell knew about the musical West Side Story and how it ties into Romeo and Juliet, so she decided to let the students watch it. “Because the eighth grade will be reading it next year I decided to play it for them too,” said Mrs. Breakwell.
Everyone knows of Mr. Cudney’s toilet seat hall pass. But no one really knows where it came from or why he has it. Mr. Cudney, the art teacher here at SJHS, said, “I got the idea from an old gas station bathroom key holder. I thought it was kind of funny and that it was a good idea for a hall pass.” Students say that it is very awkward and gross to carry it around; well that was the main point. Sarah Cheney, an eighth grader at SJHS, said, “I never used the hall pass, I thought it was awkward to carry around and extremely disgusting.”
