Last week, in honor of Veteran's Day, many students in our school wrote letters to some of our active service men and women in the military to thank them for their service and show appreciation for what they do for our country. Students had a great experience with this activity. They wrote letters and created cards that were sent off to Mrs. Betteridge's son and his squadron in the Middle East. Mrs. Betteridge was excited and thankful to the students for the letters that they wrote.

Last week at SAJHS was hope week. On Monday, it was dress up like a tourist, on Tuesday was sports day, Wednesday was hat day, Thursday was a whiteout, and Friday was pajama day! We had hope week so we could get off our phones. The theme of hope week was unplug and reconnect. A lot of the world today is experienced through our phones. We should start to unplug from our phones and connect with real people more often.

Hi guys! This past term, our choir did a great job and the time has come for our new songs. We will be having a couple different performances. On November 17th, the Chamber Singers will be attending the ACDA UT performance at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall in SLC.  They will leave right before school ends.

Next week our school's counselors and the Hope Squad are sponsoring Hope Week with the theme Unplug and Reconnect. The theme is focused on the concern that too much time spent on electronics and especially social media can be detrimental to student's physical and mental health. This whole week our counselors will be reminding students to put down their phones and reconnect with their friends and their surroundings on a personal level. Above is the schedule of planned activities for the week.

Congratulations to the 7th grade football team for winning the super bowl! The 7th graders are the only grade in the school that won their super bowl. They played a tough game against Springville, a team that they had lost against earlier in the season. Everybody came together as a team and several students made some great plays that helped our team take the victory. That is incredible. We are so proud of the 7th graders! 

Hey guys! The Halloween dance is going to be this Friday, Oct 27th in the gym. Come dance & enjoy with some of your friends it's going to be a thriller! The dance will be from 6-8pm. Also, for you to participate you can only have 2 tardies & good citizenship for you to come inside. You can wear your Halloween costume but NO MASKS nor lots of face makeup. The cost will be $4.00 with your school ID. Hope you guys enjoy!

After a two year absence, we have decided to bring back our school newspaper The Spartan Chronicle. After Mrs. Ashworth used old Chronicles in her production of Guys and Dolls last year, students began asking why we didn't have a paper anymore, so we have brought it back. 

Our journalism students are proud of their articles and excited to see their names and their writing in the newspaper. Having a large audience like this can be great motivation to get kids writing more. 

1ST QUARTER ENDS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2017. EVERYONE FINISH (SPARTAN) STRONG!

The golf team this year in districts did good and the golf team coach, Mr. Roberts said that he liked the season and that the golfers did well this year.

Mr. Roberts and the golf team this year the kids were happy how it ended up they all did really good and they wish they were still playing and now they don’t get checked out and they don’t get to do golf.

The tennis team had a good year they finished their season on Tuesday, Oct. 10 with varsity district. They tied for third with Springville Jr High. The team captain Emily Van Ausdal took second in second singles and Salem's first singles player Emily Nicholls took third place. Mapleton Jr did good and took first place good job Mapleton.