SJHS News

The journalism class brings you all the news of the Knights.

Students rewarded for good attendance & citizenship

School Activities, Student Life November 20th, 2009

SJHS students board the busses for the 95% attendance activity.
Morgan Bowser
SJHS Staff Writer
Now that the end of the term has come it’s time for the 95% attendance award activity.  The 95% attendance award activity happens at the end of each term. Students who have 95% attendance and didn’t get any F’s, N’s, or U’s on [...]

The Gathering of the Musical

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

The SJHS Chamber orchestra preparing to go on stage at the festival.
Robin Anderson
SJHS Staff Writer
The orchestras at Springville Junior High School busily prepared all last week for the Utah Valley University (UVU) festival on Wednesday May 6th.  They traveled to UVU and stayed there all day to perform in the district-wide festival.  The festival was [...]

Let’s Draw Animals

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

Nikki Drake
SJHS Staff Writer
The Art Foundations classes at Springville Junior High School are going to pay The Hogle Zoo a nice little visit on May 1st. They get to do school work and have fun at the same time. They will be drawing animals and getting a closer look at the colors for the school [...]

Go to school enough?

School Activities, Student Life April 13th, 2009

Makaiah Williams
SJHS Staff Writer
As term three comes to an end, the students at SJHS are rewarded for their good attendance. Students with good attendance get to go to a movie of their choice. The students can have a combined total of two tardies or absences in each class; if they have three or more tardies [...]

9th Grade Gifted & Talented Activity

School Activities, Student Life April 6th, 2009

Delon Lier, Matt Fitzgerald, Micah Hansen, David Hobb, and Nathan Thurman dissect a brain during the gifted and talented activity.
Brittany Blackmon
SJHS Staff Writer
On March 19th, there was something brainy going on in Mrs. Lise Carpenter’s room. Mrs. Carpenter is a teacher at SJHS. Robin Anderson, a ninth-grade student at SJHS, gave me the slimy details.
Before [...]

Service Learning class visits the Humanitarian Center

Classes, School Activities, Student Life March 16th, 2009

Kaydie Kerby
SJHS Staff Writer
The SJHS Service Learning class went on a field trip February 27 to the LDS Humanitarian Center. Humanitarian Center employees and volunteers put hygiene kits together for people all around the world. The students spent two and a half hours packing 3,000 sanitation kits. The kits had four toothbrushes, tube of tooth [...]

We are United

School Activities, Student Life March 16th, 2009

Springville Junior High’s Model United Nations team
Makaiah Williams
SJHS Staff Writer
On January 26th fourteen Springville Junior High School students went to Brigham Young University (BYU) for a Model United Nations conference. Before the conference each school was assigned a country to represent. Springville Junior High represented the country of Azerbaijan.
“One of my favorite parts of [...]

SJHS Students Participate in the State Math Competition

School Activities, Student Life March 9th, 2009

Rylee Vest
SJHS Staff Writer
The state math competition is a fun and exciting chance for students to test their math skills for on behalf of Springville Junior High. The students will participate in the competition on March 18th at Utah Valley University (UVU). Mr. Jim Anderson, the math teacher in charge of the competition said, “At [...]

The Gifted, the Talented, and the Future Lawyers Visit Capitol Building

School Activities, Student Life February 20th, 2009

Representative Francis Gibson from District 65 met with SJHS students during their visit to the capitol.

KresLynn Knouse
SJHS Staff Writer
On Wednesday, February 11th, Springville Junior High School’s Government and Law class, accompanied by the seventh grade Gifted and Talented, visited the Utah State capitol building. Students took a tour of the capitol, were able to watch [...]

An opportunity to excel

School Activities October 31st, 2008

Matthew Fitzgerald
SJHS Staff Writer
“It’s an enrichment program that goes beyond a normal class,” stated Mr. Hatfield, vice chairman of the Gifted and Talented Program. Four to six times a year thirty students from each grade at SJHS go on some sort of field trip dedicated to learning something new and out of the ordinary.
To get [...]