This year, there is a new teacher at Springville Junior High School. She came to our school mid-year, and is here to replace the old English teacher, Mr. Strong. Her name is Mrs. Canar, and she is very excited to be teaching here at our school!

Mrs. Canar has been teaching full time since 2010, and says she loves teaching English. “It is an important subject because effective communication is such a critical skill in any profession,” she said.  According to Mrs. Canar, she is really enjoying our school so far, and her favorite part about teaching at a junior high is the enthusiasm of the students and their eagerness to participate.  

On October second, Springville Junior High’s seventh-grade students hosted a preschool in their CTE classes.  Tiny toddlers came to enjoy a fun day of arts, crafts, music, stories, and treats. Mrs. Bird, the CTE teacher in charge of the preschool, said that the reason for the CTE preschool was “to give students some experience with young children.”

On Wednesday October 17th, and Thursday, October 18th, Chase Kimball, a ninth grader at Springville Junior High School, was invited to perform with the Utah Valley Symphony at the Covey Center of Arts in Provo.  Chase performed a piano piece called “Movement lll of Concerto in F” by George Gershwin, who also composed “Rhapsody in Blue.”  According to Chase, both performances went well, especially Thursday’s performance.  

Some may not know it, but this year, hidden deep within our school, Springville Junior High, there are many students whose talents go unrecognized. The Journalism staff is going to highlight a few of these gifted students with the highly praised skill of creating art.

Fiction, fantasy, whatever you want! These are just a few of the many genres the Creative Writing class at SJHS gets to participate in while becoming one-of-a-kind authors straight from our school!  

“A lot of people think  honors math and English are way too advanced for them, but truly it’s not much harder than regular math or English.  You just have to put more time into it,” Tyler Johnson, a ninth-grade honors English student, said.  This year at Springville Junior High we have a lot of students in the honors math and English classes. Mrs.

This year students of all ages are participating in the statewide Reflections contest at SJHS. You might remember Reflections from elementary school. It is an art contest that the PTA puts on every year to celebrate the artistic talents of all ages. Erika Crystal, a student at S.J.H.S said “You can pretty much enter anything, photos, visual arts, or 3-D.” The possibilities never end, with all the options some of the categories include, visual art, theatre, literature, 3-D arts, photography, film, dance and  musical composition.

On Wednesday, October 10, the Springville Junior High School cross country team participated in the cross country district final. After school, around 3:00, the cross country members all traveled to Mapleton Junior High School to race against the other cross country teams in Nebo School District. The race was one and a half miles long, and all of the Springville competitors ran their hardest.

Once upon today, there is a little school district called Nebo. And in Nebo School District there is a symphony band.  A symphony band is a program that combines orchestra and band together, and it is for kids who are in the ninth grade and up. But kids can also be invited if they are in seventh or eighth grade. The program runs through the whole year.

Front row, left to right: Ceci Sumsion, Caitlin Fulkerson, Sadie Mangum, Sadie Clark, and Marin Rosenberg.  Second row, left to right”: Chloe Wilson, Bailey Patterson, and Maryn Giles.  Third row, left to right: Tanika Farrar, Allison Clisbee, Allyson Smith, and Marynda Chipman.  Back row, left to right: Austen Moon, Tiana Spencer, Samantha Sorenson, Zoe Dalley, and Abi Maccabee.

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