Mr. Booth loves music. It’s a fact. In high school Mr. Booth played the trumpet, baritone and valve trombone, and later learned to play the flute, clarinet, and the drum set and can half- play several other instruments. According to Mr. Booth, his high school wrestling coach, Mr. Hilderman, inspired him to become a teacher. Mr. Booth went to school at Eastern New Mexico University, BYU, and Rick’s College. He decided to become a band teacher halfway through college. Mr. Booth was in a band called the Desotos for several years, where he sang and played the drums. The band performed all over Utah and some in Nevada.

The history classes at Springville Junior High School are learning about the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Shields, history teacher, is teaching the students about how the colonists in America wanted to be free from the British government.   

Mr. Shields said, “I love teaching about the Declaration of Independence. It is such an important document, and sadly many Americans don’t even know what it is, let alone what it says.”  The Declaration of Independence is important for students to learn about so they can know about the wars that happened and why they happened. How many different strategies that the Americans and French used against the British to declare their freedom.   

Recently, the CTE Introduction classes at Springville Junior High switched thing up a bit.  CTE is a year-long course that teaches business, family and consumer science, and technology.   Every trimester (one third of the year or 12 weeks) the seventh-grade students are transferred from class to class so they can learn each subject.  

The students in Mr. Shields's US history class made maps for a class project. They included the regions along with the major rivers, lakes, and mountain ranges. Students made a key with it and a scale; they needed to be creative and organized. 

Students made maps so they could understand and experience what it’s like to be a cartographer and what it’s like to make an accurate and correct map. 

Did you know that at our Springville Junior High School sports teams won district many times in the past? 
In basketball we were the Utah Valley Champions in 2002 and 2004, both in girls and boys! The coaches that helped the team to victory were Tom Porter in 2002, now Spanish teacher at MMHS. In 2004 it was Scott Johnson, now assistant principal at SHS with Coach Mike Parker, our boys P.E. teacher, as the assistant coach.  

This year for Christmas, Mr. Bayles’s SJHS seminary classes video-taped themselves performing some of their talents. When they finished, they sent the video tape to the Utah State Hospital for the patients there that didn’t usually get gifts on Christmas.  The students in periods one and two moved the desks around and video taped each other playing the piano, singing, playing the violin, and even reading a story. Both classes taped on Friday, December 17th and then finished on Monday the 19th.

In Ms. Beddes’s eighth-grade English classes students are learning about legends, fairytales, and mythology. They learned this to analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character from myths, traditional stories. To help students learn this, Ms. Beddes decided to read and write stories dealing with fairytales, and mythology. 

On December 9, 2011, Springville Junior High School had an assembly to celebrate its students' achievements. A boy and girl from each grade was chosen by their teachers to get an award for their excellent behavior. Those students were Ashton Buffo, seventh grader; Jantsen Thrope, seventh grader; Sadie Ogles, eighth grader; Quinn Gleave, eight grader; Andalyn Hall, ninth grader; and Josh Dalley also a ninth grader. Ms. Amanda Cottle, assistant principal at SJHS, said, “This was the first Super Knights assembly I had been to, and I thought it as great! It was fun to see so many students acknowledged for their hard work, good grades, and awesome citizenship.”   

In Mrs. Leslie Walker’s Springville Junior High choir class they decided to mix it up a little bit and learn a new instrument, the piano.  Students had fun doing this.  Ethan Swenson, member of the eighth-grade choir, said, “It was fun learning piano it gave us a couple of days just to mess around.”

According to Ethan, learning piano helped the class learn the chords better the students also thought that learning piano helped with their singing. Moroni Black, a ninth grader in the Master Singers, said, “By us learning the piano we can learn to sing in different ways.”  According to Moroni, by learning the keys you know what notes to sing.
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Mrs. Leslie Walker’s choir classes got to sing before the sun on December 1, 7, and 8. The students in choir had the opportunity to wake up early and be at the school at 6:30 am. There are three choir classes, the Master Singers, Journeymen and the Knightingales. The Master Singers are an audition boys and girls ninth-grade class, the Journeymen are an eighth-grade boys class, and the Knightingales are an eighth and ninth-grade girls class. Mrs. Walker said, “The early morning choir practices are so that the students from all the choirs can get together on the songs they sing together.” These practices helped the choir students prepare for their Christmas concert on December ninth.