November 2011

At Springville Junior High School, a new thing is happening in the P.E. classes. Mr. Michael Parker, boys’ P.E. teacher at SJHS, came up with the idea at a disk (frisbee) golf tournament and decide to try it out at SJHS.   His classes are participating in a tournament where the best disk players go against each other to find out who is the best. Mr. Parker got three green suit jackets and whoever wins gets to wear the jackets and be king for a day. He hopes that it makes the boys and girls compete harder in class. He did it once with an old Springville High School jacket when the boys played badminton.  According to Mr. Parker, the kids loved it, and everyone played harder to get the jacket.

How would you feel if you learned how to play an instrument when you have collage students learning with you?   Well that is what happened with the seventh graders in Dr. Sam Tsugawa’s orchestra class.  Cody Page, a member of the seventh -grade apprentice orchestra class, said, “It’s nice to learn with students who are learning with you.” 

The idea to get new pictures and banners in the hall came from our very own Springville Junior High School principal, Mr. Ken Van Ausdal. According to him, the school needed to show more school pride, and the pictures and banners in the halls do just that. Mr. Van Ausdal thought they would help reinforce school rules and ideas. 

The pictures in the north hall give advice are things like “What is bulling,” “Why cheating is bad,” “Why is it important to respect the rules,” “Why teachers assign homework,” and many others. Mr. Van Ausdal found the posters in a magazine during the summer and thought they would be good to put in the halls.      

Stacy Stapel and Mckenzie Reidhead are ninth graders at Springville Junior High School who are on the Springville High School’s volleyball team.  Everyday after school Stacy and Mckenzie have volleyball practice at the high school.  Every Tuesday and Thursday, they have volleyball games. Lauren Ostler, ninth grader at SJHS, is a manager for the high school volleyball team. She collects the volleyballs when the teams are done practicing, and at some volleyball games she helps keep track of who goes in and who comes out.