Intramurals takes place every day after school, except Wednesdays, in the gym or multipurpose room. At intramurals students can play amazing and fun activities.  “I like being active, and it’s fun,” said Simon Smith, an eighth grader who goes to intramurals. 

Intramurals is something fun to do after school, especially if you have nothing to do; it also gets you active. “You get to play legit sports, and it’s something fun to do after school,” said Ty Carter, an eighth grader who attends intramurals regularly. 

“The sports are always unique, and they change every week,” said Ammon Elzinga, a newcomer to intramurals, “and it’s fun to be with your friends playing sports.”

April was National Poetry Month. To celebrate poetry SJHS and individual English classes decided to host poetry slams. The SJHS school slam was hosted on April 27 after school at 2:00. A poetry slam is a competition using elimination rounds for the reading or performance of poetry. The top 15 finalist for the school poetry slam, get to go to a District slam and perform their poems. According to Ms. Pina, an English teacher at SJHS, the poetry slams were a chance for students to show off their own poems. Ms. Pina, Ms. Bass, Ms. Jensen, Ms. Ottley, Ms. Maughan and Ms. Dunn, all English teachers at SJHS, hosted individual class poetry slams. 

Mr. Hammon’s health class has been learning about diseases!  Learning about this is very important and can help kids through life.

 Mr. Hammon, the eighth grade health teacher, said, “Students learn about different diseases, and they gain a better understanding of what people go through who have these diseases- whether those people are in their own family or in another part of the world.”  

There are three soccer teams at Springville High School, and in order to tryout for them you have to be a freshman. The three teams are Sophomore, Junior Varsity, and Varsity. There are 11 students from SJHS who play on the high school Junior Varsity soccer team. 

The soccer coach’s name is Jay Mason. All three teams recently traveled to Uinta to play against their soccer teams. All three of the soccer teams practice 4-6 pm everyday.

Carson Bracken, a ninth grade student on Junior Varsity, said, “I have played soccer my entire life, so being on the high school soccer team is so cool.” According to Carson, he also loves being with his friends everyday.

We are going behind the scenes to see who is the main man keeping SJHS clean. Benton Locke is the head custodian at SJHS. He has been working at SJHS since the new school opened, around two years. His job consist of maintaining and cleaning SJHS.

According to Mr. Locke, he likes that he gets to work in a beautiful building, and the wonderful staff. Mr. Locke said, “There isn’t anything to dislike about the students attending SJHS. The staff at SJHS is an All Star line up.”

According to Mr. Locke, he likes hunting, fantasy football, the Boston Red Soxs and teasing the lunch staff at SJHS.

Mrs. Bass, an English teacher, assigned her students to memorize a poem, and recite it. They could either recite the poem on Monday, April 11 for 5 points extra credit, or on Friday,  April 15. The poem requirements were that you had to choose your poem from websites that Mrs. Bass suggested, and that you should relate to the poem you are reciting; you should not just say it was short and easy.

Tyler Kelly, an eighth grade student, said, “My poem was about how on the surface of the moon it is bright and happy, but on the inside it is dark and sad.” Tyler said he thinks it relates to life and society. He also really enjoys poetry.

It is definitely election time! Most people will hear that and think of candidates such as the notorious Donald Trump, and persevering Hillary Clinton. But elections in Springville are going on as well. We all know about the student council elections for the future ninth graders, but sophomore class elections happened as well. Not only were the eighth graders competing for the ninth grade title, but ninth graders were running against each other as well. The candidates for the sophomore student council were Kallysta Strong, Autumn Olsen, Jorge Escabato, Christian Small, Sierra Arbon, Jenaveve Barson, EmmaLee Smith, and Mallory Murdoch. Kallysta Strong and Christian Small were the candidates elected for next year.

During the week of April 11th-15th, our school did White Ribbon Week. White Ribbon Week was all about learning how to be safe on the internet, and how to know what to do when something bad happens when on a social media site. According to Mrs. Murray, a foods teacher and SJHS student council advisor, internet safety is hugely important for teens. She said, “Everything we do revolves around technology. It’s essential that teens know how to protect themselves and make good choices when they go online.” 

Mr. Dahl, Mr. Bass, and Mrs. Carpenter's science classes participated in creating mousetrap cars, which are cars built by only using a mousetrap and supplies you can find around your house. Mrs.Carpenter's class went first with their competition on April 13. “It’s so fun because you can find out how things work,” said Tyon Mattinson, an eighth grader.