New and exciting things are happening after school

This year something mysterious came to our school. A mysterious thing that has students stay after school and learn about things they don’t learn in class! This mysterious thing is called 4H clubs. These clubs are a way for students to learn about the things they’re interested in outside of school hours. The person behind all this work is Ms. Justine Kent. She gave SJHS the opportunity to have these clubs at our school. 

“We wanted to give students an opportunity to have a positive experience at school,” said Mr. Ken Van Ausdal, the principal of SJHS. He got a grant that let us have these clubs at our school.  The clubs are American Sign Language, drama, jewelry, chess, dance, and Spanish.  Every one of the clubs is unique and has something fun to do and teach. If students don’t like any of these clubs then every ten weeks they can create one of their own clubs as long as they get a teacher to help them. 

If students go to the American Sign Language club, they learn to communicate with people who are deaf. 

The drama club helps you to sing and act better.  

“I love to act and I wanted to become better at acting, that why I joined the drama club,” said Carly Maughn, a seventh grader at SJHS.

In the jewelry club students go and learn how to make jewelry. After they learn about jewelry they get to make it and show it off to all of their friends.

Learning strategies and moves to win the game of chess is what students learn in the chess club.

The dance club teaches students cool dances and move so they can make up their own dances.

All of the clubs start at 2:50 and go until 4:45. If you want to make your own club, just wait until the end of November, when they’re signing up again, give Ms. Kent your name and what club you want to be in or start.