Kelby Raines Jeppson is a 9th grader at SJHS. She was born on August 26, 2002, in Utah. She is the oldest of three children. She lives in Springville, Utah, and she is one of the nicest people you will ever meet.

Kelby is in Honors Math and Honors English, National Junior Honor Society, Student Council, Journalism and Youth Court. On top of all that Kelby has had perfect attendance since 4th grade, has had a 4.0 gpa for all her junior high years (so far), plays the piano extremely well, and teaches preschool at her house in the summer.  

Have you ever made a goal to try and eat healthier but it was just too hard?  Here at Springville Jr. High the awesome health teacher, Mr. Hammon, decided to host a Green Week for his eighth grade students. October 17th through the 19th some of his students participated in a week full of dressing up and eating healthier. Green Week is supposed to be fun and really good for you.  It is a part of the nutrition unit and is meant for students to make goals to eat healthier and quit eating sugar for the week.

Mrs. Porter, one of the history teachers at our school, is one of our teacher spotlights this week! 

Tuesday through Thursday in between third and fourth period every student goes to Quest Time. Quest Time is when each student goes to a room and does either an activity or intervention depending on their grade. There's lots of things to do if you have a good grade such as conversation rooms, movies, study halls and more. If you have a deficient grade in one of your classes though you go to intervention to get your grade up and some extra help if you need it.

Halloween is the funnest time of the year, where you get to dress up in funny costumes and get scared with scary movies, and most of all get free candy! And since it’s getting closer and closer to Halloween, we wanted to see what people’s favorite part about Halloween is.

If you've ever had Mr. Jensen for science then you've had an amazing science teachers. He said that he has been teaching for 10 years; he taught for 3 years at Sandy Eastmont Middle school, 6 years at Payson Jr high and this is his second year at this school.

Have you ever wondered why people go by a different name than what’s on their birth certificate? We asked SJHS students about their nickname. This lets other students in the school let them know what they are called, and what they like best. These students are all in 8th and 9th grade.

The first student is named Matthew McKade Child, a 9th grades, but goes by the name Kade. People call him this because “it is shorter for McKade”. Kade likes to be called this. The real reason why he is called this is because of his “beautiful mother”.

We asked students from SJHS questions which book character that they would like to meet. Three 8th grade students were questioned about book characters.

Which book character would you like to meet? Eliza Whiting said that she would like to meet Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter. Josie Rey said that she would like to meet Hermione from Harry Potter. Hekela Mavae said that she wants to meet Daniel from The Fallen series.

Every year, SJHS has a girls tennis team in the fall, and a boys tennis team in the spring. Tennis is a very fun sport, many people enjoy playing it. Unfortunately, the girls’ season just came to an end. 

Mr. Dahl, a science teacher at Springville Junior High, is the coach for tennis. There are 16 girls on the team this year. There is Lydia Felix, Christine White, Kelsey Sumsion, Amanda Gardner, Camille Cedeno, Emily Snyder, Mazey Schofield, Elizabella Francom, Gracie Sentz, Calli Egbert, Halle Platt, Libby Hodson, Maizie Thompson, Paige Simpson, Calianne Skinner, and Cheyenne Skinner. They had a wonderful season, and played very well.

Come find out how amazing Springville’s girls soccer team is! The Fall 2016 through Spring 2017 players on the team are an amazing bunch. Recently they won the title of being the 2016 Region 8 Champions. Coach Baker is very proud of her team.