6th Hour

School of R.E.D

At Grace Junior High School, we have won the award The School of Excellence three years in a row. A school of excellence isn’t just about academics, it focuses on many things, including: Teamwork, Kindness, Hard work, Sportsmanship, Spirit etc. At our school we use the word RED. The word RED stands for Respect, Excellence & Discipline.

R stands for Respect. In our school we have many different rules. Some of them include: No hats, Be kind, No phones during school hours, and Be respectful.These rules allow students to not be distracted and focus on school work.

E for excellence. Excellence the quality of being outstanding or extremely good. Students at Grace high work hard to be excellent students they work towards having good grades being kind to everyone and to be overall an outstanding school with our extra curriculums it helps a lot cause u have to have good grades to be able to do sports and extra activity’s our teachers also work hard to be excellent teachers there always supportive with helping with your school work and willing to give up extra time to help as well 

D stands for discipline. Discipline is the act of respect and obedience. At our school we encourage students to have discipline.  Setting rules of discipline can promote safety. When kids don’t fight with teachers it creates a calm and safe environment for kids to learn better & goals to be met.

Topic: Afterschool Activities

As a class, the 6th hour decided to take up the topic of “the lack of afterschool activities and electives.”   

Owen Mussler framed the issue by noting that “School is a place of learning and supposedly having fun. But our careers class feels our school district is lacking the “fun” part. We have gathered together and elected a topic and we have all agreed that school is definitely lacking extracurricular and after-school activities. Sure, many people are not interested in sports, but there are times in the school year that have little to none sports or any fun extracurricular activities. So we have compiled some fun after school activities to attend and help school, possibly fun again. And if you have an itchy trigger finger you can try the shooting club.”

What is the Shooting Club, you might ask?  According to Hunter Jospeh Shupe, “There is a club in Soda that specializes in aiming and shooting targets and it also teaches you about gun safety and how to use it properly while making friends.”

A related idea was raised by Bode Mathews, who said that “An Archery club would be really fun for an after school activity. We would have to get the certificates to shoot bows and we could learn how to learn the techniques to be able to hit the target accurately.”

A completely different kind of club was proposed by Mac Decker, who called it Fantasy Club.  As Decker explained, “A fantasy club would specialize in writing and making fantasy stories. A fantasy club would be very beneficial in middle and high schooler’s creativity because at around age 13, creativity in the brain starts to slow down and their brain becomes unimaginative without training it and letting their creative juices flow.”

Blake Skinner proposed the related Chess and Reading Clubs. “Chess would be a good club for people who prefer playing board games over sports because some people aren’t athletic at all so it would be a good pastime for people like that. Reading clubs would be good for people who prefer to read over playing sports because reading helps with school as well for English and can’t play sports since they aren’t built for it or dislike sports. and some people just dislike sports so a reading or chess club would make it fair for people who like reaping and playing chess over sports because sports aren’t too fun to them or they aren’t built for them at all or find them boring,” Skinner said.

Contributors: Marshall Ball, Kayson Bitton, Angela Artica Chucos, Mac Decker, Samson Eddins, Burklee Edwards, Julio Lopez Gonzalez, Bode Cesar Mathews, Brigham Mickelson, Taygen Mund, Owen Mussler, Kypten Peck, Kamri Peden, Ky Rigby, Hunter Shupe, Blake Skinner, Taytum Turner, Abbigail Wright.