Priest River Junior High announces school news
First semester awards total 131
On Wednesday, February 5, the Priest River Junior High School held an awards assembly to celebrate the hard work of many students. Ms. Pitts and Mrs. Williams put the event together and invited many parents to come see their child receive an award. The citizenship awards that were given out were, “Killer Kindness,” Outstanding Character, Mr. and Mrs. Dependable, Good Friend, and Good Sport.
For Killer Kindness, five seventh graders and six eighth graders got the award; for Outstanding Character, seven seventh graders and six eighth graders; for Mr. and Mrs. Dependable, seven seventh graders and seven eighth graders; Good Friends had six seventh graders and seven eighth graders, Good Sport had eight seventh graders and six eighth graders.
The most exclusive was the “Principal’s High Honor Roll”. Only seven students received this award, these students were Brice Bartholomew, Jade Best, Hayden Bruns, Tyler Cooper, Desarai Humphrey, Alexander Todd, and Levi Hanna. These students kept a GPA of 4.0 over the fall semester. Also, 25 kids received an honor roll award for keeping a 3.5-3.99 GPA, and 35 kids got an award for a 3.0-3.49 GPA.
PRJHS principal answers questions
Q: Why did you pick your career path?
A: As a teacher, you work with kids and do good for them, but as a principal you have a higher student base, and your able to help more people and kids.
Q: How would you handle a difficult student?
A: Try to make conversation, get to the bottom of what the real problem is and try to help.
Q: If you could choose any other job what would it be?
A: Dentistry.
Q: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
A: Same place!
Q: What is your favorite thing about being here at PRJH?
A: The people are my favorite part of the junior high and Priest River in general. Students are polite, intelligent, and work hard, which are all characteristics they have been taught by the community in which they live. The staff at PRJH has also been a blessing and really work together as a team; keeping the best interest of the students at the forefront of their goals
What is Career Café?
Career Café is put on by Brenna Ballenger, our GEAR UP coordinator. Once a month, a selected presenter(s) with a certain career comes and shares their job path and occupation with students who want to know about that particular caree.
It is meant to help students visualize different careers and the paths to get to them.
Previous presenters this year were:
October: Terri Ivie, The Beacon, newspaper editor
November: Seth Callos, Edward Jones, a financial advisor.
December: Andrew Huddleston and Kyle Mundy, park rangers from Albeni Falls Dam
January: Troy Falardeau, ex-military
February: Carolyn Purdy, retired nurse
Next Career Cafe: March 12
Who’s presenting: Patricia and Todd Sudick
Topic: The Military
Where at: Mrs. Ballenger’s office in the annex at 12:20-12:55 p.m. (lunch)
Students will be in there the full duration of lunch time. Students will also receive juice and cookies during the presentation for participation.
Honor Society news
Honor Society in our schools is very important for many reasons. One thing it does is allow students to be able to advance their studies. They are very helpful for students who are not being challenged enough and already know the material they are learning.
Carrying a high GPA and being an honors students will help allow them to take honors classes in high school and will allow a student to graduate with hon- ors if they take enough of them.
PRJH students with a GPA of 3.25 or higher have been invited to join Honor Society by completing an ap- plication to join. We are very excited to have new members, as it is a great achievement for our students and school.
Honor Society coordinates several “good deed” activities throughout the year; our first upcoming this year is Earth Day cleanup with the Priest River Lamanna High School Honor Society members. It is a great honor to be invited in and students and parents should be proud!