SJHS News

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Winter Choir Concert on January 14th

Classes, School Activities, Student Life January 15th, 2010

Mrs. Leslie Walker and one of the SJHS choirs.
Jose Martinez
SJHS Staff Writer
Every year at Springville Junior High there is always a very special concert, The Winter Choir Concert.  This year the Winter Choir Concert will be held on January 14th.  It is a prestigious honor for the choir students to be in. They have been [...]

Mrs. Walker directs SJHS choirs

Classes, Faculty and Staff Spotlight, Student Life December 21st, 2009

Spencer Duncan
SJHS Staff Writer
Mrs. Leslie Walker teaches choir part-time at Springville Junior High.  She teaches for the seventh-grade Apprentice Singers, eighth and ninth-grade Knightingales and Journeymen, and last, but not least, the ninth-grade Master Singers.
Mrs. Walker has worked at Springville Junior for seven years. Besides teaching choir at Springville Junior High, Mrs. Walker sings in [...]

Junior High Melodies Taken to Elementary Schools

Classes, Community Events, School Activities, Student Life December 11th, 2009

Katya Wagstaff
SJHS Staff Writer
When you walk by the SJHS Choir room during sixth to eighth period, you will hear melodies and harmonies. On December 11th, elementary school students will be able to hear these harmonies and melodies without leaving their schools. “All of the elementary schools in Springville will be visited (by the Master Singers [...]

SJHS Choir Shows their Christmas Spirit at Concert

Classes, School Activities, Student Life December 11th, 2009

Chelsea Ricks
SJHS Staff Writer
On Thursday December 2, 2009, the choir preformed their Christmas concert at Springville Junior High. This included the Apprentice Singers, Knightingales, and Master Singers. Some of the songs that the master singers sang were songs from all over the world. Both the Knightingales and Master Singers danced during some of their songs.
Cami [...]

The year’s first choir performance at SJHS

Classes, School Activities, Student Life November 20th, 2009

Brooke Seaton
SJHS staff writer
The choir students at SJHS are exited for this year’s first choir concert. The choir concert will be December 2nd. The Apprentice Singers (seventh graders) will be performing at 6:45, and the Knightengales and Master Singers (eighth and ninth graders) will be performing at 7:30.
Mrs. Leslie Walker, the choir teacher, said that [...]

Students Practicing The Fine Arts at SJHS

Student Life, Student Spotlight November 20th, 2009

Kenia Martinez
SJHS Staff Writier
Here at Spingville Junior High we have students with many different talents. And the school’s curriculum offers a couple of classes for those wishing to learn more and practice those talents.
The school offers a class called Creative Writing for those who love to write. It’s a class where students can practice not [...]

SJHS Spring Choir Concert

School Activities, Student Life May 1st, 2009

Jantzen Dalley
SJHS Staff Writer
The upcoming concert for this semester’s choir classes is just round the corner. Each of the choir classes has been practicing their songs, and they will have the opportunity to show off the songs they have learned.  All the SJHS choirs will sing on the same night, May 13th, at 7:00 p.m. [...]

Junior Highs Sing at Springville H.S.

Classes, School Activities, Student Life April 27th, 2009

Makaiah Williams
SJHS Staff Writer
On April 3rd SJHS choir students got to go to Springville High School to perform for schools from all over Nebo School District. Some songs they sang were” Rhythm of Life,” “In Thee Is Gladness,” and “Come Rain Come Down.” Other schols performed at the high school as well.  Some schools that [...]

Knightingales are Back

Classes, School Activities, Student Life March 2nd, 2009

Sariah Morris
SJHS Staff Writer
The Knightingales, a Springville Junior High School choir, finished doing their classes during school, but they aren’t finished singing. Thirty three eighth-grade girls and Mrs. Leslie Walker, the choir director, take their own time to get up early in the morning to go to choir. Clearly these girls and Mrs. Walker love [...]

The Men’s Choir

Classes, Student Life February 20th, 2009

The SJHS Men’s Choir, directed by Mrs. Walker, warms up at the beginning of class.
Andrew Farr
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High has a class for those men that have changed and unchanged voices and an interest in singing: Men’s Choir. Men’s choir consists of eighth and ninth graders. Eighth graders sign up for the class because [...]

SJHS Choir Teacher Enjoys Being a Part of “America’s Choir”

Faculty and Staff Spotlight January 12th, 2009

Maddie Patten
SJHS Staff Writer
Not many students outside the choir class know that we have a star in our midst here at SJHS. Mrs. Leslie Walker, choir teacher at Springville Junior High, is a long-time member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
This Christmas season, the Choir did a special four-day Christmas program from Thursday, December 11th, to [...]

SJHS Choir Concert a big success

Announcements for Parents, Classes, Community Events, Faculty and Staff Spotlight, School Activities, Sports, Student Life, Student Spotlight December 15th, 2008

M. Dayton
SJHS Staff Writer
On December 3, 2008 Springville Junior High School’s choirs took the stage with grand articulation. SJHS has three choirs, the seventh grade Apprentice Singers, the eighth and ninth grade Knightingales, Ladies Chorus, and the ninth grade Master Singers. Each choir had 15 to 20 minutes to showcase what the had been working [...]

SJHS Sings for the Christmas Season

Announcements for Parents, Classes, School Activities, Student Life November 22nd, 2008

Sarah Fawson
SJHS Staff Writer
Here at SJHS there has been some beautiful music coming from Mrs. Leslie Walker’s choir room. The junior high choir concert will be on December 3rd at 7:30 p.m. in the SJHS auditorium, and Mrs. Walker and the choir students hope to see you all there.
This Christmas, the the ladies choir, known [...]

SJHS Choir Teacher Returns

Faculty and Staff Spotlight September 19th, 2008

by Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer
After taking a year off as Springville Junior High School’s choir teacher, Mrs. Walker, decided to come back.
Just last year Mrs. Walker decided that she needed to stay home with her grandson, so she quit teaching. Mrs. Bailey, a good friend of Mrs. Walker, took over. Mrs. Bailey did double jobs, [...]