At Springville Junior High School, there is a system that the school has during both lunches in the lunch room, this is the wheel spin. Kids here say that the wheel spin is super fun. Tyree Strong, a seventh grader at SJHS, says, “During the first week the wheel spin was wildly popular.” 

If you get your stamps for the wheel spin, you can get really cool prizes, like soda, candy, money, a backpack, an iPod, or an iPod gift card. You can earn stamps by coming to school for a whole week, and being kind and nice to other people. 

As students are hearing, rugby is now being played at Springville Junior High school in the boy’s gym. Coach Blanchard, a student teacher from BYU, thought it would be fun to play touch rugby in P.E.  Coach Blanchard, was the one that started rugby at SJHS, and not just that, Coach Blanchard got lots of boys into playing rugby.

Garrett Bradford, an eighth-grade student in P.E, said, “I enjoy playing rugby cause it’s fun.” According to Devon Zabriskie, also an eighth-grade student in P.E, he is excited that rugby is at SJHS. “I love rugby because it is fun, and active,” said Devon. Mr. Michael Parker, teacher of boys’ P.E, hears from lots of students that rugby is so fun, and that they enjoy playing it.

Mrs. Koriane  Maughans’ ninth-grade English classes recently performed a Greek play for their classmates. According to Mrs. Maughan, her classes were reading Homer’s Odyssey and learning about Greek mythology, so they acted it out. Mrs. Maughan said, “We ate nectar and ambrosia (the food and drink of the gods), and they had a good time watching everyone. Each group had props, dressed up, and really performed their plays well

Mrs. Bell is one of the custodians at Springville Juinor High School. She has worked here for fourteen years, and she has worked for the district for a total of  24 years. Mrs. Bell would like to see more students respect the school more then they do now, but does not get annoyed by cleaning up after kids as long as kids don’t make a mess on purpose.

In this interview Mrs. Bell told me, “All Springville kids are good.” Mrs. Bell was actually a student here at SJHS. The thing she loves about her job is being around people. 

The things Mrs. Bell loves to do outside of school is to watch baseball or softball; she loves them both very much. She also loves to be with her family.

Hope Squad is ready to heal the hearts of students at Springville Junior High School. This year, the SJHS counselor who started Hope Squad was Mrs. Courtney Droz. She came up the idea of Hope Squad to help out troubled students at SJHS. The letters in hope stand for Hold On Persuade Empower, which is what Hope Squad is all about. 

Here at Springville Junior High School we have many elective classes you can take. There are classes like Art, Spanish, Science Enrichment and Peer Tutor. All of those classes are so much fun to everyone! Did you know one of the most popular electives is the Sewing elective class? Kids have been saying to people that it is super exciting and you get to make all of your own projects to take home. Students should consider taking this exciting class.

Mrs.Sue Tarin has been at our school for 3 years; she is the registrar ( the counseling office secretary).  “I register kids and get their paperwork done when they come and  leave.” Mrs. Tarin said.  Mrs. Tarin enjoys eating Swedish fish, hiking, being in nature, and running.  She has run 5 full marathons and 21 half marathons! Mrs. Tarin likes chicken cordon bleu, baked potatoes, salad, homemade rolls, and tin roof sundae ice cream.  

All of us at Springville Junior High School have individual interests. Some like music, art, singing, even exercise. There are electives for those listed, but there is a specific elective for those individuals who like to read. Reading for Enjoyment is the name of the elective. Ms. Tiffanie Miley teaches the Reading for Enjoyment class every 5th period. Reading for Enjoyment is a class for those who are avid readers. Every day there are book talks, reading, and writing of a short journal. Kids can share the books they are reading with those in the class, and their friends can do the same to them. The students also have the option to read whatever book they would like to. 

Top row from left to right: Sydney Hiester, Kayla Pexton, Ricky Moala. Second row: Jordann Wallentine, Delanie Mortensen, Shay Johnson, Camryn Rousse, Samantha Rasmussen. Bottom row: Jennifer Pizzaro. 

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Springville Junior High’s yearbook class is a full-year class with Ms. Rachel Neeley.  In yearbook, students  design pages on a online program, take fun pictures and learn how to deal with deadlines.  It is only a single period class, and it gives you a chance to be creative as well as some freedom to go along with that.