Every year  Springville Junior High School’s orchestra and many other schools go to Utah Valley University one day in May for a six hour long festival. In this festival, many schools perform and are judged on their performance. After the performances, the judges go up on stage to help the orchestra improve. “It’s an opportunity to go and be judged on all of the work you have done over the year. It’s a good learning experience,” said Alyssa Oman, eighth grade orchestra student at SJHS.

Springville Junior High School’s boys and girls choirs recently performed in the Nebo District Intermediate Choir Festival, along with four other schools: Mapleton, Spanish Fork, Mt. Nebo, and Payson Junior High Schools. Mrs. Leslie Walker, choir teacher at SJHS, said, “Each choir sang three songs. Then the judge came up and helped the choirs with a particular thing that he thought they needed to work on.” This choir festival was held at SJHS in the auditorium. 

The Service Learning students at Springville Junior High School have just finished a big project at SJHS. The students cleaned and fixed up the courtyard at SJHS. According to Mrs. Adrienne Murray, service learning teacher at SJHS, she was excited to help the school and the students with their service project. Tyler Johnson, Bailey Bird, Jacqueline Bradford, and Christopher Esklund were in charge of this project. These students planned and designed the landscape.

Eighth-grade students in integrated science classes at Springville Junior High School were assigned to build a mousetrap car using one regular mousetrap as a source of power. You’re probably wondering how a mousetrap car works.  Mesa Bake, an eighth grade student at SJHS, said, “You need to use your notes and knowledge.”

Did you know that there is a lights and sound crew at Springville Junior High School? Yes, you heard right, The lights and sound crew is made up of a group of hand-picked students here at SJHS. Mr. Shawn Hatfield, a teacher and the lights and sound advisor, at SJHS, said, “The crew does a very,very,very good job and they are very responsible.” 

Ms. Rachel Neeley is an English, creative writing, and yearbook teacher at SJHS. Janessa Lewis, Halle Acor, Morgan Martin, Stacy Staple, Meg Longhurst, Riley Brockbank, and Maiya Buckley love Ms. Neeley’s yearbook class, and are hoping students take her class next year.  “One thing Ms. Neeley can do so well, is always keeping her students on track and making sure they are focused,” said Morgan Martin, a ninth-grade yearbook student.

Several SJHS students and teachers celebrated the start of spring and the end of winter by going to the Color Festival. The Color Festival was held on Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25 at the Sri Sri Radna Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah.  The point of the Color Festival is to celebrate the end of winter and the start of spring. At the Color Festival, attendees buy chalk that comes in  many different colors and throw it on others.  People in small groups are seen singing, dancing and throwing colors on each other.

Mrs. Erica Persson’s dance class salsa danced with Mr. Michael Parker’s Boys P.E. class at the end of March. Mrs. Persson thought that the boys and girls would have fun dancing together, and she was right! According to Caden Swendson, a ninth-grade student at Springville Junior High School, it was fun because a lot of the kids thought that they were too cool to dance, and that made it really funny. Caden also said his favorite step was “when the boys got to spin.”

There are a lot of different opinions about dancing. Some like it and some don’t. Sometimes it’s a fast learning process, and sometimes it’s slow. Caden said, “Some steps were fast and easy, but others seemed impossible.”

Mrs. Courtney Droz, a ninth-grade counselor, is very interested in counseling at SJHS. “I enjoy working with the students here, they’re all amazing and wonderful kids, and I love to get to know them.”  Claire Bunnell, a ninth-grade student, is always at Mrs. Droz office. According to Claire, she loves to go to see Mrs. Droz and talk to her, because she is so chillaxed, nice, and you could tell her anything you want.

Mr. David Rencher is the Introduction into manufacturing teacher, also called woodshop, at SJHS.  Mr. Rencher, said, ”I really love working with my hands and working with the problems that come with that kind of work.” Mr. Rencher has spent his whole teaching career at SJHS; he has been here for 20 years. Mr. Rencher, got his Master's and Bachelor’s Degrees both at BYU. “Woodshop is one of the things I did really well when I was in junior high,” Mr. Rencher said.