SJHS News

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

David Kindrick: Athlete and Teacher at SJHS

Faculty and Staff Spotlight, Sports January 5th, 2010

Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer
A great component to the quality teaching in both schooling and sports at Springville Junior High is thanks in part to Mr. David Kindrick. Mr. Kindrick teaches science at SJHS, coaches the girls’ basketball team, and also helps out with the track team.
Mr. Kindrick has been teaching for nine years, eight of [...]

Girls Make Basketball Team at SJHS

School Activities, Sports, Student Life December 21st, 2009

Kaleb Barnum
SJHS Staff Writer
Mr. David Kindrick, Springville Junior High science teacher, is coaching the SJHS girls’ basketball team. They seem to be in good shape, since their record is 1-2. They are on their way to going to district! The names of the girls on the team are: Mindy Staple, Sarah Ripley, Ripley Tew, Mackenzie [...]

Mr. Kindrick’s class: Helping the environment

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

Mr. Kindrick and some of the logos his students created.
Cody Woolsey
SJHS Staff Writer
This week in Mr. David Kindrick’s eighth-grade science class, everyone is looking a little bit greener. Mr. Kindrick is teaching his students about the environment and how important it is to us living on this earth. “We impact the environment,” said Mr. [...]

Chemical reactions in Mr. Kindrick’s class

Classes, Student Life November 3rd, 2009

Andrew Garza
SJHS Staff Writer
Mr. David Kindrick, eighth grade science teacher at SJHS, is doing a class experiment about chemical reactions. They are studying about how the statue of liberty turned green, how you make nylon, how pancake batter changes to pancakes, and other cool stuff.
Each student in Mr. Kindrick’s class is doing something different. Students [...]

October Scientist of the Month

Student Life, Student Spotlight October 12th, 2009

Jacque Kass, SJHS’s Scientist of the Month
Each month in eighth grade science, SJHS teacher Mr. David Kindrick selects a “Scientist of the Month.”  Jacque Kass received the honor in October because, according to Mr. Kindrick, not only is Jaque a great student, but she is also “very friendly and has a positive attitude about everything.”
Jacque [...]

Springville Junior High’s New Tardy Policy

Announcements for Parents, Student Life September 14th, 2009

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 [...]

Students building Mousetrap Cars

Classes, School Activities, Student Life April 6th, 2009

Robin Anderson
SJHS Staff Writer
These next two weeks will be very busy for some eighth grade students at SJHS. The students in Mr. Kindrick’s and Mrs. Carpenter’s classes will be building mousetrap cars and Rube Goldberg machines. They started building these machines on March 27th, and they will be due on April 10th.
“The students will have [...]

Who Rocked the Battle of the Bands?

School Activities, Student Life March 16th, 2009

KresLynn Knouse
SJHS Staff Writer
The Battle of the Bands took place on February 27th in the Springville Junior High School auditorium. The cost of admission was five dollars, and the money earned served as a fundraiser for the girls basketball team. Many different styles of bands performed, including two rock bands, one screamo band, and one [...]

Mr. Kindrick: Science Teacher and Basketball Coach

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

Mr. Kindrick always has a smile.
Nikki Drake
SJHS Staff Writer
Mr. David Kindrick is a SJHS science teacher, the girls’ basketball coach, and a former body conditioning teacher. He enjoys teaching science, because science changes every year so he learns new things every year too. He would like to think he inspires students for the good, and [...]

Scientist of the Month

Student Life January 8th, 2009

David Kindrick
SJHS Science Teacher
Batbileg (Max) Sunjidmaa is an outstanding student who considers himself someone who likes to explore and seek new thing to learn and enjoy. He has many hobbies and activities that he likes to do. But he’s mainly interested in architecture and engineering. He loves to design things like buildings and mechanical [...]

SJHS Is Going Green—and Wants YOU!

Faculty and Staff Spotlight, School Activities, Student Life December 15th, 2008

Kristi Hatch
SJHS Staff Writer
At Springville Junior High School, Mr. David Kindrick’s eighth grade science students are “going green.” For a classroom assignment in the month of November, Mr. Kindrick presented the idea to design T-shirts that promote being environmentally friendly. The assignment started out as just a design on a piece of paper, but [...]