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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When you are trying to become a teacher, it can be very hard to get an experience with students in a classroom. Usually, you have to learn on the job. But sometimes, college students get the opportunity to come into classrooms and learn from what the teachers do. We now have two such teachers here at Springville Junior High. Their names are Ms. Gardner and Ms. Rowley, and they are BYU students looking to become math teachers. They are here at SJHS to teach and learn in Mrs. Gleave’s room. According to Ms. Rowley, BYU asked Mrs. Gleave if she wouldn’t mind “mentoring” a couple of student teachers from BYU, and Mrs. Gleave agreed.
Orchestra is back for another successful year at Springville Junior High School! Orchestra is an elective class that all grades at the junior high can sign up for and learn how to play an instrument. Specifically, students can learn how to play the violin, viola, cello, or bass.
Here at Springville Junior High we would like to recognize some of our great and talented singers. Most of these students have been singing for as long as they can remember. They also have been singing in choir since seventh grade with Mrs. Walker, the choir teacher at Springville Junior High. They sing almost everyday and are natural born singers.
Spencer Johnson, an eighth grader, said, “ You don't really learn it, just comes naturally,and I sing everyday.” Spencer Johnson now in the Journeymen choir. Last year he was a Apprentice Singer.
