SJHS News

Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer
Springville Junior High School is very pleased with their English department. One of the men that helps make the department so successful is Mr. Trent Mikesell, seventh-grade English teacher.
Mr. Mikesell is working on his fourth year as a teacher. He has taught at three schools: Payson Middle School, Pocatello High School, and [...]

Mr. Miksell teaching his 7th grade English class.
Christopher Taylor
SJHS Staff Writer
Have you ever found it hard to tell someone that you appreciate them?  Seventh grade students in Mr. Trent Mikesell’s class at Springville Junior High recently did this by writing character sketches.  According to Mr. Mikesell, kids chose someone they admire, usually in their family, [...]

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 [...]

Mr. Mikesell is one of the English teachers who supervises the after school writing lab at Springville Junior High.
Cody Woolsey
SJHS Staff Writer
Most students at Springville Junior High have not yet heard of the important news – there is an after school writing lab for students. Students can use this writing lab to finish assignments on [...]

Halley Rencher
SJHS Staff Writer
With the last day of school quickly approaching and end of year testing is wrapping up, teachers are trying to find fun projects for their classes to do. In Mr. Trent Mikesell’s eighth grade English class, the students are writing biographies, only with a creative twist.
First, the students interviewed someone who preferably [...]

Autumn Hathaway
SJHS Staff Writer
Seventh graders here at Springville Junior High are all pumped up to be becoming eighth graders next year as the year comes to a close.  At SJHS, the seventh graders are known as the “sevvies”, or in other words, the new kids at the school.  So as you could probably imagine that [...]

Sariah Morris
SJHS Staff Writer
The end of the year is coming up fast, so get ready for summer! Some of the events that are coming up are last chance dance on May 14th, and awards assembly on May 22nd, yearbook signing which starts on the 28th, and best of all…Lagoon!
Most students are excited for Lagoon which [...]

Mitchell Murray, Mr. Mikesell, and Wes Ivie re-enacting their April Fool’s joke.
Sariah Morris
SJHS Staff Writer
April Fool’s Day was just last week and students and teachers at Springville Junior High School played jokes on other students and teachers. One of Springville’s English Teachers, Mr. Trent Mikesell, played a joke on a student named Wes Ivie, but [...]

left to right:  Holly Sumsion, Kelsey Wood, Selene Mooney, Cami Sumsion, Taylor Earnshaw, Maddi Dayton, and Katie Bair act out a scene from The Diary of Anne Frank during Mr. Mikesell’s first period class.
Autumn Hathaway
SJHS Staff Writer
Mr. Trent Mikesell’s eighth grade English class at Springville Junior High is taking a trip to the past through [...]

Brooke Caswell
SJHS Staff Writer
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to speak English as a second language? It is difficult to communicate with the teachers and learn the information presented in class for those students who speak other languages. This year Ms. Josie Jarvis, Mrs. Lise Carpenter and Mr. Trent Mikesell, teachers at [...]

Jaqueline Fry
SJHS Staff Writer
At Springville Junior High School, fire drills are practiced five times a year. Would you want to be in a fire and not have a way out? Preparation is a key, and practicing these drills really helps a lot of people, including teachers. “Students need practice–if there is ever a real emergency [...]

by Ethan Trunnell
SJHS Staff Writer
Mr. Mikesell is a new English teacher at Springville Junior High. He has taught at Payson Jr. High and a high school in Idaho. Mr. Mikesell takes his job very seriously; his motivation is making sure that kids have a good experience and a good time. He attempts to achieve this [...]