Eighth grade students in Mr. Shields’s history classes at Springville Junior High  are learning about the “very basic foundation of our government today,” the Constitution. To learn about this important piece of our history, the students are making a brochure advertising the Constitution and what it represents.  “The Constitution enabled the people of our country to be free from an oppressive government which would limit the people’s rights,” said Mr. Shields, the history teacher who is conducting the project. He hopes the assignment will help his students further understand the Constitution and why it is so important to our history. 

The eighth-grade sewing students took a field trip on Friday, February 15, to the Corn Wagon Quilt Co., in Springville.  They were able to see many things while visiting the quilt store.  According to Mrs. Bird, the sewing teacher, the purpose of this trip was so the students could see the projects a quilting store does.  Visiting the store helped the students see some of the options they could have if they decided to have a career in textiles.  The students  saw an embroidery machine and a machine that puts holes in the fabric, that are later used to crochet.  Chloe Dean, an eighth-grader in sewing, said that they learned “how people made quilts.”

February's Super Knights were announced during the February 22nd assembly.  Lauryn Davis and Sam Farley were named the seventh-grade Super Knights.  Hannah Kallaker and Marcus Hansen were named eighth-grade Super Knights.  Reagan Park and Zachary Crocker were named ninth-grade Super Knights.  Teachers made the following comments about February’s Super Knights:

7th grade—Lauryn Davis

On February 19, Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Hansen and Mr Hatfield, Springville Junior High teachers, took a small group of eighth-grade students up to Hill Air Force Base in Ogden for an educational experience. Ben Leishman, a SJHS eighth grader, said, “Hill Air Force Base is a working Air Force Base which holds a museum with lots of cool, old planes.”  According to Chloe Wilson, another eighth grader, it is a big museum with lots of airplanes and artifacts about planes and pilots. Chloe also said, “It was an educational experience that helped us explore science, technology, and the history of flying.” The museum was large and had a lot of information about anything from pilots to the type of fuel planes use.  

Mrs. Bird’s eighth-grade sewing classes at Springville Junior High are sewing up pajama (PJ) pants. From the first week of February to the twentieth of February, the sewing students have been hard at work with their projects. The purpose of the sewing classes is to teach students how to sew. Chloe Wilson, an eighth grade girl at SJHS, said, “Mrs. Bird gives us projects to do and you choose the fabric to make them. I love adding my own little bits of design to my work.” Mrs. Bird, the sewing teacher at SJHS, said, “The sewing class is my favorite to teach.” Some of the other projects the class makes are aprons, drawstring bags, stuffed animals, and more.

Imagine walking down the halls of Springville Junior High School and smelling dinner from your childhood. You follow your nose to a classroom filled with students enjoying themselves while creating a beautiful masterpiece of pasta. That is what the ninth-grade food class looked like on February 14 and 15. The students in foods 1 class are studying countries from around the world, and that week they were studying Italy. Since pasta is a big thing in Italy, the classes made it!

You may have heard by now about something called Mock Trial. Mock trial is a club at SJHS that anyone can join. A common misconception is that it is age restricted to ninth grade, but anyone in the school can join. Mock trial is led by Mr. Hansen, a history teacher at SJHS.  He said, “It is a simulation of a real court case, and we compete with other schools. There are fake lawyers, fake witnesses, and real judges.”

Carter Call, a seventh-grade mock trial member, said, “Mock Trial is kind of like a fake court, we need to study our case, and practice our parts for when we compete against another team. One side of the case is prosecution, they need to make the defendant look guilty.” 

Ninth graders taking Mr. Hatfield’s biology class this year got to see what worms look like on the inside when they did dissections on Thursday, February 14th.  According to Dylan Park, a ninth grader at Springville Junior High, ironically enough, they dissected their worms on Valentine’s Day.  It was a long-awaited day for many SJHS students. In fact, according to Betsy Vega, another ninth grader at SJHS, the date for the worm dissection was pushed back about two weeks.  After dissecting the worms, the classes also got to dissect crayfish on the 21st of February. 

On January 25 and 26, freshmen at Springville Junior High School went with the Springville High School swim team to regionals. The swim team went to compete at the Orem Recreational Center to swim against Orem High School, Timpview High School, Payson High School, Salem High School, Maple Mountain High School, and Spanish Fork High School. The freshmen who swam at the meet were Halle Acor, Wyatt Bateman, Eleah Coral, Adam Wight, Matt Duncan, and Kelty Cope. All the SJHS swimmers did very well. According to Adam Wight, he had taken some time off his highest swimming record at regionals and is very happy about it.

Every year in the spring a new student council is elected at Springville Junior High. The new student council officially started their job helping out the school on January 14th, the start of the second semester. The student council will be helping out the school for the rest of the school year. We would like to welcome the new student council. Bailey Bird is the president. Kyle Paynter, Ciarra Snapp, and Roxie Chambers are all vice presidents.