SJHS News

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High is blessed to have such a wonderful faculty and staff, teaching them, helping them, and most importantly, being their friend. One of these amazing staff members is Ms. Diane Hamilton, a math teacher at SJHS for students who need additional instruction and help in Pre-algebra and Algebra 1A.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
Mrs. Marthea Jackson is a math teacher at Springville Junior High, as well as a friend to her fellow faculty members and the students she has taught in the past.
Mrs. Jackson started her teaching career at Springville Junior High fourteen years ago and has loved every minute of teaching. “I love how [...]

Jose Martinez
SJHS Staff Writer
There are various math teachers at Springville Junior High, one of those teachers is Mr. Dallin Krebs, who other than being here for almost three decades is also  very loved by his students, former and present.
“My career goal at a young  age was to be a farmer like my dad,” said Mr. [...]

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 [...]

Autumn Hathaway
SJHS Staff Writer
At Springville Junior High we have some amazing teachers.  Ms. Shellie Anderson a seventh grade math and English teacher is staying here next year to continue into her fourth year of teaching at SJHS.
When our parents tell kids to do something we love that we’ll enjoy doing the rest of our lives [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Madie Dockstader
SJHS Staff Writer
At Springville Junior High we have some awesome teachers; one of them is Mr. Dallin Krebs. He is one of the math teachers. “When I didn’t have him as a math teacher I didn’t really understand math, but now I do,” said Kaydie Kerby, a student at Springville Junior High.
Mr. Krebs graduated [...]

Ria Swapp
SJHS Staff Writer
It’s easy to see why Miss Diane Hamilton has such a good reputation in her fifth period class. She is caring, loving and kind to all her students. According to her student Hailey Reese, “The class goes at a steady pace for students. It never goes too quick or slow.”
Miss Hamilton is [...]

Mrs. Jackson answers a student’s question during math.
Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High is full of amazing teachers and faculty. Math students are most privileged to have Mrs. Marthea Jackson as one of our many amazing teachers.
Mrs. Jackson started her teaching career thirteen years ago here at Springville Junior High. When asked why she wanted [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]