This year we have some very talented singers in our school choir! Most choir students have been singing for years and love to sing. Others are brand new and are learning from our great Choir teacher Mrs. Utrera.
Journalism is a super fun elective class for 8th and 9th graders. Ms. Piña is the new Journalism teacher at SJSH. Also teaches 9th grade english.It used to be taught by Ms. Dunn, But Ms. Dunn left SJSH in the 2015-16 year. Surprisingly, none of the current Journalism class( Eliza Whiting, Anya Kiel, Emma Biesinger, Angela Lopez, Amy Robertson, Hailey Gabbitas, Scout Benson, Corwynn Waycasy, Sakari Duvall, Kelby Jeppson, Lindsay Gardiner, Jocelynn Garner, Brenna Carlton, and Alex Yoder) have done Journalism before.
What is The Hope Squad? The Hope Squad is a group of students that are supposed to be a friend to everyone, and to help other students that are struggling. Here in Utah, we pride ourselves with creating the idea of Hope Squad in 1998. While Hope Squad was originally thought up of in our lovely home state, there is still lots that is unknown by the general student body about the Hope Squad. Hopefully by the end of this article, the unknowns will become knowns.
It's Football season at SJHS! Football is such a popular sport, and it always has and will be. Some of the football players had some interesting things to say about the sport, some of them also said some really helpfull things.
A seventh grader named Nash Scott said that he likes playing football because “ when you play football you stay fit and healthy.” Also a 8th grader named Hondo Quezada had some pretty good information about football and school work and how they go together. Hondo said that it just depends on how much homework you have because you have football after school, so you don't have to get out of class early or make up any work.
This year there are a lot of new 8th and 9th graders that are here at our school, SJHS. To get to know them and to give a nice welcome, we got an inside view.
We wanted to know where the students had moved here from and this is what they said. “Fresno California,” said DeShaun Knuckles. Alex Yoder just moved schools. Shawn Curtis moved here from Tucson (Too-sawn), Arizona. Martinez is where Lauren Gomez is from. Cedar City used to have a resident of the name Makailee Turner. And Heidi is from Mexico.
This year SJHS has a brand new class for 8th and 9th graders, photography! Ms. Elison the art teacher at our school is the photography teacher now as well. Some things they get to do are learning how to use a camera to take pictures, learn how to photoshop, along with framing and lighting.
8th grader Julie Rowley and 9th grader Seka Groves both said that their favorite thing to do was to go take pictures around the school and outside. Julie said “there are so many things outside that just give feeling to the picture.”
For quite a while, Springville Jr. High School has had Quest Time every day except on early-out days. Starting this school year, students and staff at Springville Jr. High will have no Quest Time on Friday, but something new called an Advisory Period. The Advisory Period is where you go to your assigned advisor for twenty minutes right after third period and learn new things such as life and social skills. Mrs. Shepherd, the dean of students, says that the Advisory Period is a “great way for kids to connect to one adult in the school.”
Here at SJHS we have some new teachers that we are excited to learn about. For some of them, this is their first teaching job, others have been doing it for years. Either way we are excited to have them in our school.
This school year we had some teachers retire, or just move to a different school, although we are sad to have them leave, we are also excited to have new teachers that we can get to know!
At SJHS the students' reward for good behavior is the WheelSpins. How you get a WheelSpin card is simple, you just do your best and have good behavior.
Mrs. Shepherd explained students get Wheel Spins by being “above and beyond normal. Teachers give them them to kids for being helpful” Mr. Rowley, the vice principal, mentioned that each teacher only gets 4 Wheel Spins to give away. You can get a Wheel Spin by just being helpful like pushing in chairs and picking up trash.
When school started about 4 weeks ago, the 8th and 9th graders continued school, but the seventh graders moved from elementary school! It was all brand new to them. Have you started to wonder how they’re doing, or how they feel about school? Well in this article, we’ll answer those questions.
