SJHS News

Kaleb Barnum
SJHS Staff Writer
A lot of people in the world list weights almost every day; SJHS has a great teacher who is willing to spend his time and help kids work out. Mr. David Hansen, history teacher and weight lifting coach at SJHS, thought that there was a need to have a weight lifting program [...]

Cody Woolsey
SJHS Staff Writer
One of the mandatory, but maybe the most fun, classes at Springville Junior High is Mr. David Hansen’s Utah History class. Seventh-grade students are required to take this class, and many of them enjoy it a lot.
I love the “interesting things we study,” said Trista Linder, a seventh grader at Springville Junior [...]

Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer
For many years now Springville Junior High School has successfully held a peer court in their government and law class. Soon the class plans to reopen the court system for this year.
According to Mr. David Hansen, the government and law instructor, the class plans to start the court within the next two [...]

Cody Woolsey
SJHS Staff Writer
Mr. David Hansen is one of our most important history teachers here at Springvile Junior High. He not only teaches history to seventh graders, but he also teaches something he thinks is very important: civic rights and character.
Mr. Hansen has been teaching at Springville Junior High for 22 years. In that amount [...]

Christopher Taylor
SJHS Staff Writer
Many kids want to have a position in or participate in the government someday. The Government and Law class teaches them how to do this.  Government and Law is an exciting class at Springville Junior High, where kids learn about how the government works and how they can apply its principles to [...]

Christopher Taylor
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High School has a new tardy policy. For many years, students had to go to Morning Enrichment at seven o’clock if they were tardy to class.  This year SJHS has switched to a lunch detention tardy policy.
Once students have been tardy twice, or have sluffed class, they must report to [...]

Kayla Price
SJHS Staff Writer
There is justice at Springville Junior High school!. Mr. Hansen is the 7th grade history teacher and Peer Court advisor.  What Mr. Hansen is looking for students “that are clear thinkes. Students  that stay in the law and want the truth.”
Peer court is where you take someone to court that has said [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
Schools around the US have put together a competition in which students who wish to participate may take part in the school’s mock trial team. According to Mrs. Rice, one of the teachers involved in the mock trial, ever since 1980, a volunteer attorney writes out a legal case involving issues that [...]

Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High School has decided to implement a new program for students who choose to break the rules. From now on students might have to report to Peer Court. There are various offenses that could get a student referred to Peer Court: bullying, swearing, butting in line at lunch, or [...]

Darryl Barnes
SJHS Staff Writer
On Election Day, Tuesday November 4th, most history classes at the junior high had the opportunity to vote and the candidate they felt was most qualified to be president of the United States.
On Election Day Some of the history teachers decided to hold an in-class election where the students decided on the [...]

Springville Junior High School

Whitney Norman
SJHS Staff Writer
How would you describe the Springville Junior High School? Just an old school or… is it a building filled with history and facts? Springville Junior High school is definitely worth something. It has history, and great stories from the past, and more for the future. SJHS was built in [...]

by Darryl Barnes
SJHS staff writer
Every week students get together with the PE teachers after school to participate in intramurals. Intramurals are fun after school activities in which students can express themselves through physical activity. This program has physical benefits, but it can also help the students make friends.
There are a couple reasons that we have [...]