SJHS News

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Musical Math at SJHS

Classes, School Activities, Student Life January 11th, 2010

Mrs. Gleave’s geometry class sings math Christmas carols to a seventh-grade English class.

Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer
A new tradition has sprung at SJHS in Mrs. Corrin Gleave’s most advanced math classes. A unit she started just last year is her Christmas caroling unit, which she has decided to revive again this year.
Last year Mrs. Gleave had [...]

Mrs. Gleave: Making Math Easy

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

Kenia Martinez
SJHS Staff Writer
Mrs. Corrin Gleave is the Geometry and Algebra 1A teacher at Springville Junior High School. She has been teaching at SJHS for three years. “Over the last 25 years, I’ve taught mostly by request, and not as a classroom teacher in other schools,” she said.
She’s also taught math at Le Jordan Academy [...]

Geometry Students Create Art Using Quadrilaterals

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

Quadrilateral art projects displayed in Mrs. Gleave’s classroom.
Christopher Taylor
SJHS Staff Writer
“What’s the point of learning math if we can’t apply it?” asked Mrs. Corrin Gleave, the geometry teacher at SJHS. Geometry students are learning to apply the math they have learned to various shapes, angles, and lines. One of these shapes is the quadrilateral, or [...]

First School Newspaper at SJHS

Classes, Student Life November 3rd, 2009

Members of the journalism staff dividing up the school newspaper to pass out to the student body.  Left to right:  Max Schreiner, Kara Dunn, Christopher Taylor, Morgan Bowser, Jacob DeRosia and Cody Woolsey.
Cody Woolsey
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High school’s faculty and students are buzzing about the first school newspaper to be released in seven years. [...]

Learning and teaching math at SJHS

Classes, Student Life October 20th, 2009

Christopher Taylor
SJHS Staff Writer
Every year in school brings changes, but math is something that remains constant for your entire education. SJHS is just like any other school in this regard.  However, our school is different from others because of the kids and teachers that participate in the math program. We not only learn, but many [...]

Teachers and Students Swap Places at SJHS

School Activities, Student Life October 12th, 2009

Mr. Mikesell, Tanner Gervais, and Mrs. Gleave, believe it or not.
Jack Setzer
SJHS Staff Writer
Thursday was crazy at SJHS! Students dressed like teachers, and teachers like students! What’s going on? Why, it’s Swap Day, part of Red Ribbon Week. Swap Day represents “Swapping Drugs for Education.” On this day, students were SUPPOSED to wear what the [...]

Mrs. Shurtz is Moving

Faculty and Staff Spotlight, Student Spotlight May 22nd, 2009

Sariah Morris
SJHS Staff Writer
Mrs. Natasha Shurtz, a Springville Junior High School math teacher, is leaving us. Mrs. Shurtz is moving to Memphis, Tennessee. She is pregnant with a baby boy and will be due in August. She and her husband hope to be settled in by then and will be moving in the end of [...]

School Isn’t Over Yet

Classes, School Activities, Student Life May 18th, 2009

SJHS student Delon Lier shows off the origami airplane he made in math.
KresLynn Knouse
SJHS Staff Writer
Although end of level testing has been winding down, classes have not stopped just yet. Every teacher at Springville Junior High has been coming up with creative ideas on how to end the year with some interesting assignments.
Mrs. Corrin Gleave, [...]

Student-led Conferences on April 30th

Announcements for Parents, Student Life April 20th, 2009

Corieshae Nunley
SJHS Staff Writer
Here at Springville Junior High School, we are flipping some things around with the last parent-teacher conference of the year. The school has decided to add a little bit of a twist; SJHS still does the regular parent teacher conferences, but we also added a student-led conference last year.  Mrs. Gleave, math [...]

Mrs. Gleave Makes Math Fun

Faculty and Staff Spotlight, Student Life March 9th, 2009

Corieshae Nunley
SJHS Staff Writer
Here at Springville Junior High School, we have some amazing teachers. One of them is Mrs. Corrin Gleave; she is a math teacher here at SJHS–a truly outstanding teacher!
Mrs. Gleave enjoys learning new things and wanted to become a math teacher because of the not so great math teachers she had. She [...]

Advanced Math at SJHS

Classes, Faculty and Staff Spotlight, Student Life March 2nd, 2009

Mrs. Corrin Gleave teaching her algebra 2 class at SJHS.

Robin Anderson
SJHS Staff Writer
At Springville Junior High, there is one particularly small class- this class is algebra 2. All the students in algebra 2 are ninth graders, yet they are learning eleventh grade math. How is this possible?
The students in algebra 2 got to where they [...]

Fiddler on the Roof Jr. – A Big Hit at SJHS

School Activities, Student Life October 24th, 2008

Kristi Hatch
SJHS Staff Writer
Excited parents, students, and friends lined up at Springville Junior High School on Wednesday, October 8 through Saturday, October 11, highly anticipating the start of the school play, Fiddler on the Roof Junior. Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Gleave, Springville Junior High School and Mapleton Junior High School students put countless [...]

SJHS Brings Fiddler on the Roof to the Stage

School Activities, Student Life September 19th, 2008

by Brooke Caswell
SJHS staff writer
Lights! Camera! Action! This year Springville Junior High is putting on the play Fiddler on the Roof. It is being produced by Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Gleave and Mrs. Bailey. It will be coming to the stage October 8th through the 11th, at 7:30 each night.
Mrs. Walker, the director, is in [...]