Many students know Ms. Miley as an English teacher, the Reading For Enjoyment teacher, or the old Journalism teacher, but now she is the new assistant principal here at SJHS!  

Her new job started on the first day of second term, October 28.  According to Ms. Miley, she is very excited to be the new assistant principal and help out around the school.  She will be helping with assemblies, helping organize the move to the new school, visiting classrooms, and helping students.  “I will miss a lot of things about teaching, but the thing I will miss most is teaching a class full of students on a daily basis,” she said.

 As many of you know Ms. Miley, a former English teacher, recently became an administrator. With her moving up we needed a new English teacher to take her place. This new teacher is Mr. Tonkinson, who likes to call himself an English Superhero.        

Mr. Tonkinson chose an English teaching route because he felt it was what he is best at. He said, “First, I discovered I loved teaching. Then I discovered that the English classroom would best utilize my strengths.”       

Have you ever wondered where High School Musical was filmed or where one of the biggest dinosaur foot was found? Or what is the most popular food in Utah? Almost every question can be answered by a random fact about Utah. 

Top Seven Most Eaten Foods in Utah:

* Fry sauce* Utah scones* Jell-O* Bear Lake raspberries* Pastrami burgers* Funeral potatoes* Collegiate ice cream

Some Cool Things in Utah:

The girls soccer team made up of mostly freshmen and sophomores had a great season this fall at Springville High School. They only had a loss of four games, according to Diana Sanchez, the team captain. “It was a pretty good season, to some end,” Diana said. 

This soccer season was a great experience for the girls to get to know each other and learn to play as a team. “It’s been fun to get to know the girls. Sometimes we nag each other, but we’re really good at getting along and helping one another,” Anna Claire Smith, a player on the team, said. 

Brooke Critchfield, another player on the team, said, “We trust in each other better.” 

This is teacher stories; a section about teachers and the strange things that happen to them.

This one comes from Mr. Taylor, one of the CTE teachers, about his experience one fateful Halloween night!

“When I was a little kid I went trick or treating. I was so excited because I got a full size Snickers bar. Later that night I trick or treated a house and a huge guy said that on his home island they don't just give out candy, they trade. The guy then reached in my bag and took my Snickers bar, and then dropped a three pack of sweet tarts into my bag. I was so heart broken and I was too little to think about revenge. I have been scarred since that day.”

 We finally got to see our October 2013 SJHS Super Knights; they all were amazing to earn the reward of being a Super Knight. There are some posters around school that say what the expectations are to be a Super Knight. The Super Knights were Tristie Whiting, seventh grade girl Super Knight, Luke Gleave, seventh grade boy Super Knight, Kaylee Cross, eighth grade girl Super Knight, Jared Buhler, eighth grade boy Super Knight, Allie Lewis, ninth grade girl Super Knight, and Zack Cantrell, ninth grade boy Super Knight. 

Red Ribbon Week is a time for students to dress up at school, participate in fun games, and also learn about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.  Red Ribbon Week usually takes place in the last few weeks of October.  Red Ribbon Week for Springville Junior High was October 7th, 8th, and 9th.  

Schools across the nation participate in Red Ribbon Week in memory of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena who was working undercover in Mexico for four years on a big drug bust.  He was soon caught and killed by a drug cartel that found out he was working with the DEA.  His family donned red ribbons in his memory, and thus Red Ribbon Week was born.

We have a new honors English teacher this year at SJHS. Ms. Neeley, the English and creative writing teacher, has taken on another challenge. She is teaching honors English and according to some of her students she is doing a great job! Ceci Sumsion, a ninth grade girl in honors English, said that she likes Ms. Neeley’s class because you can learn new techniques. Stanton Woods, a ninth grade boy in honors english, said that he likes Ms. Neeley’s class because it feels more involved. Ms. Neeley said, “I am having so much fun teaching honors English. It is fun to teach ninth graders and the students in my class are so smart and willing to do hard work. It is awesome.”       

Mrs. Droz, the eighth grade counselor and an advisor in HOPE Squad, has been helping students for a whole decade at the end of this school year.  As a counselor she says she is very busy.  But what does she do?

It’s that time of year again when Mr. Hatfield, a science teacher, throws eggs off the school roof.       

Yes, the science elective teacher dropped eggs off the roof, but not any eggs, eggs in little parachutes or covered in bubble wrap. Some kids covered their eggs in bubble wrap, others used plastic bag parachutes, and some just put them in a ziplock to see them explode.Every year Mr. Hatfield has his class make different strange devices to protect their egg when it is dropped. Mr. Hatfield enjoys letting kids try new things, and says it helps students learn the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration.