Here at Springville Junior High, we have a new 2015 student council! Student council is a student government that helps around SJHS and helps kids learn to be an ally! The student council does assemblies, Red Ribbon week, and many other things around the school.

To be in student council you have to make posters and be voted in. Kaitlyn Gee, a ninth grader on student council, said, “Getting in student council was a lot of work. All in all though it wasn’t too hard.”  

This is the fifth year that Ms. Clement, the SJHS drama teacher, has taken the Shakespeare Team to St. George for the Shakespeare Competition. On October 1st and 2nd the team watched a lot of Shakespearean scenes, were trained by professionals in workshops, and competed in group and solo competitions. 

This was the thirty-ninth annual Shakespeare Competition. It gives junior high and high school students from around the nation the chance to present material from Shakespearean times, in various artistic forms. The work is presented by professionals in their field, who offer various workshops for the students to go and learn and work on various acting skills. 

Here at SJHS, we support many talents such as sports, and academic prowess.  Yet some of our favorites are singers, and they got a chance to showcase their skills in a concert on Wednesday, October 21.  In the first semester, the groupings of singers are Apprentice, who are seventh grade girls; Knightingales, who are eighth and ninth grade girls; and Master Singers, who are eighth and ninth grade boys and girls.  According to Mrs. Utrera, the choir teacher here at SJHS, students get nervous before these concerts, yet the payoff of having a full house applaud is great.

On October 6th, the Drawing class took a field trip for art.  They went to the Springville Museum of Art.  According to Mrs. Wallace, an art teacher at SJHS, they were gone for two hours.  She also wanted to make it a priority to go on these field trips for her advanced classes. 

Ms. Bird has been teaching sewing for eleven years. Sewing is her favorite thing to do. She loves her students. She also loves working as a sewing teacher. She is a hard working mother of four, and a loving wife for thirty years.

In her sewing classes students make duffle bags, pajamas, two sided aprons,and quilts. Controlling the sewing machines is very easy if you know what you are doing. The classes have tests before they get to make anything, and students have to pass at 100%. 

Ms. Pina is a seventh grade English teacher at SJHS. Ms. Pina has been at SJHS for two years. According to Ms.Pina, she likes to teach seventh grade because she loves having 90 minutes. She feels like she can spend more time on reading and doing other activities. She also likes being able to spend  more time with her students. “I am so proud of my students when I see them succeeding and doing cool things (like winning the district poetry slam),” said Ms. Pina.

According to Marsha Wood, a seventh grade student at SJHS, Ms. Pina is really nice and funny, and she has a great taste in books (and jokes). Hekela Mavae, a seventh grade student at SJHS said, “She is funny. She’s like a kid, but still acts like a grown up.” 

On the 28th of September, several students went golfing for the first of many field trips for PE.  According to Coach Parker, a PE teacher at SJHS, they went to the East Bay Executive Golf Course.  They left at 8:20 and got back at 1:50.  Coach Chambers, Coach Parker, Coach Gerhauser, and Mr. Kindrick went with the students.

Ishmael Mavae, an eighth grade student, said that he went because, “I like to golf and I like whacking the ball.”  According to Sophie Mendivil, a seventh grader here at SJHS, she went to be with her friends and learn to golf.  

“I’m very excited about Red Ribbon Week!” said Ms. Murray, the food exploration teacher here at Springville Junior High. Red Ribbon Week is a week specifically put together to warn students of the dangers of alcohol and drug use at our school. Red Ribbon Week was October 5-9. Ms. Murray was in charge of putting this week together. To kick off Red Ribbon Week, Zero Fatalities came on Friday, October 2, to give a presentation on underage drinking and drug abuse. 

Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Luke are the foods teachers at SJHS. Foods is a class you can take when you are in eighth or ninth grade. According to Mrs. Luke and Mrs. Murray, students make lots of yummy recipes for occasions and learn about different food groups and new cooking techniques. They also make yummy foods for the holidays, and in ninth grade, students make recipes from around the world.

Here at Springville Junior High (SJHS) we have spirit because we have cheerleaders! The eighth grade cheerleaders cheer on SJHS football teams! 

Sophie Noyes, an eighth grade cheerleader, said, “Cheer is so fun. We get to makeup stuff, watch football, get candy, and you get to be with your friends.” According to Abby Carlton, another eighth grade cheerleader, cheer is very enjoyable and the coach is awesome. 

Presley Kennard, another eighth grade cheerleader, said, “ Cheer gets you motivated.”

Haylee Carpenter, another eighth grade cheerleader, said, “Cheer’s a great way to be with friends.”