SJHS News

Eighth grader Samantha Child stands in front of her photograph, which is displayed in the hallway at SJHS.
Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
Students at Springville Junior High have many different fine arts classes that are available to them. One of these classes is a photography class, in which students learn how to use a camera and take [...]

Kenia Martinez
SJHS Staff Writer
There’s a new professor teaching the fine arts at Springville Junior High. Mr. Mitch Cudney replaced Mr. Jethro Gillispie as the art and photography teacher.  Mr. Cudney has been teaching for four years, but this is his first year teaching at a junior high.
According to Mr. Cudney, there’s probably more good art [...]

Winners of Mr. Gillespie’s “Photo of the Week” contest:  Maddi Dayton,  Carli Sorenson, BreAnna Elzinga and Aleks Newman.
Nikki Drake
SJHS Staff Writer
Mr. Jethro Gillespie, photography and art teacher at SJHS, does something neat every week for his photography class. He calls it “Photos of the Week.”  Mr. Gillespie chooses two photos from each of his two [...]

Ethan Trunnell
SJHS Staff Writer
On Thursday, November 20th, Mr. Jethro Gillespie’s 6th and 7th period photography classes went to Brookside Elementary to talk to the kids they would be creating books for. Groups of three students will work together to create a children’s book for a Brookside student.
The photography students will use a program called Gimp [...]

Photo of the week by Maggie McCausland

by Carolyn Brown
SJHS Staff Writer
Photography is a popular elective class at Springville Junior High. Students learn how to take pictures the professional way and enhance them with a program called GIMP. The students in the class take pictures of many things like portraits and landscapes. [...]