THE DRAGON S PUFF. Just keep swimming! -Dory Finding Nemo. Inspirational Quote. Ambassador Encouragement. Editor s note

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1 THE DRAGON S PUFF Ambassador Encouragement Regan McEvoy stated that, You re a human and humans make mistakes. She is saying that making mistakes is normal, and that there s nothing to be ashamed about. Adi Steele encourages, Run faster, leave your worries on the other side of the river. She is stating that if you try hard enough and do the best you can, you can be successful. So there s no need to worry about what s to come or what people are going to think about you. Austin Glover says, You ll be fine. Just try your best. You can do it! He wants you to know that you ll be fine and everything will turn out the way it s supposed to. Even though Mr. Whipple isn t an ambassador, he wishes to say a few things, such as, You have already failed 100% of the shots you didn t take. He s saying that you will be overcome with the feeling of regret for the things you didn t try on. Editor s note Welcome to our first newsletter! We will be updating this letter every month. Here you will be able to find information on sports, events, games, jokes, teacher and students spotlights, and much more. This newsletter has been created by the yearbook class. We hope you enjoy reading, and we hope what we have come up with will be helpful. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us and let us know. Thanks to Mr. Matty, Mr. Pfister, and the rest of the administration for giving us this wonderful opportunity. But more importantly; thank you for reading and we hope you enjoy. :) Newsletter editor: Jaz Burke Co Editors: Hope Mickey, Mason Smith, and Hannah Iddings Inspirational Quote Just keep swimming! -Dory Finding Nemo Ember Pierce

2 Student Spotlight Hana Mohamed - Elmasry 7th grade Hana has been here since second grade. She likes running, dancing, and acting. Her favorite class is art humanities. Hannah s favorite color is turquoise. One word to describe herself is understanding because she listens to people. Spencer Austad 7th grade He has been here since kindergarten. Spencer plays soccer and hopes to play for the basketball team this year. He also likes to run and his favorite color is blue. Spencer s favorite subject is math and guitar. One word to describe him is athletic, because he likes sports. Max Reed 9th grade Max has been here since third grade. He loves music. His favorite subject is math and he excels at it. Max is on the cross country team. His favorite color is green. One word to describe max is grass because it s weird and he says he s weird. Spencer Austad Luke Blatter Luke Blatter 8th grade Luke has been at this school for two years counting this year. He likes to listen to music and play football and baseball. His favorite color is green and his favorite subject is science. One word to describe Luke is confident because he s not shy and likes to talk to people. Breklyn Burton Tiffany Garza Max Reed Hana Mohamed Elmasry Tiffany Garza 9th grade This is her first year at the school. She is on the school s A soccer team. Her favorite class is science, her favorite color is purple. One word to describe tiffany is outgoing because she s confident and loves making friends. Breklyn Burton 8th grade She has been at SAA since second grade. Breklyn loves to sing, babysit, and act. Her favorite subject is math. Breklyn is on the cheer team here at our school. Her favorite colors are turquoise and pink. One word to describe breklyn is caring because she cares about her friends.

3 Calendar of events Hannah Iddings, Justin Glover, Ricardo Rodriguez, Luke Blatter, Zack Mckell

4 September 19 Girls Venture 4:15pm September 20 Cross South Ogden Nature Center 4:15pm September 21 Girls SAA 4:15pm September 22 School SAA After School September 26 Girls Mound Fort 4:15pm September 28 Girls Highland 4:15pm September 29 Cross Country Championship TBA Trevyn s 5k Superhero Fun Run/Walk Fundraiser Saturday, October 15, 2016 Check in 8:00AM Run/Walk begins at 9:00AM Starts and Finishes at Syracuse Arts Academy 2893W. 1700S. Syracuse, UT Com Dress as your favorite SUPERHERO! (optional) $ st runner, $9.00 each additional runners: Registration Fun Run/Walk Commemorative event T-Shirt One (1) ticket for prize drawing To register go to

5 Teacher of the Month Mrs. Ressa has a wonderful husband and they have been married for 19 years. She has three amazing children. She has two sons and a daughter; they all are sophomores in high school. Her two sons are adopted from Guatemala. She said that having three children all the same age is like having triplets with different birthdays. She has a dog, Guinea -pig, and three rabbits. She has two favorite holidays, Christmas and Thanksgiving. These are her favorite holidays because she gets to she her family from all over the country. She likes Christmas because she likes the long break. She reads and makes jewelry in her spare time. She likes all sweets especially ice-cream. She came to Syracuse Arts Academy because she had some neighbors that came here and they really liked it so she came her too. She said I was an aid for the school last year and I choose to teach math because I really like math and I wanted to teach other people too. If she were to teach another subject she would teach personal finance. If she were to teach another grade beside the seventh graders, she would teach high school students math. Makenna Wilson, Tristyn Tuttle, Hailey Einzinger

6 Mr. Pfister is the new principal and Mr. Matty is the new vice principal this year at Syracuse Arts Academy. They are so excited to be with us. Many of the students, parents, and even teachers have not gotten to know them very well yet, so the newsletter decided to do an interview with both of them. Mr. Matty worked at Utah Connections Academy before he became the vice principal of Syracuse Arts Academy. This year, he is planning to change the culture of the school. He wants to do what is best for the students at SAA. In, Jr. high, he did plenty of activities. He was a part of musicals, choirs, bands, and sports. The sports he played were soccer (right striker), baseball, racquetball, tennis, basketball, volleyball, track, and gymnastics (favorite event is the floor). Mr. Matty s words of encouragement for all students is Tough days come and go. Don t let one moment ruin your life. He wants everyone to know that he is there for all students. Mr. Pfister was raised in Round Up, Montana. As a Jr. High and High School student he loved to play sports like track, football, and basketball. He was a SBO class president his senior year. Mr. Pfister s favorite color is navy blue. Before he came to Syracuse Arts he worked in the weber school district for 32 year. He was also principals and teachers at other schools. He even taught a woodshop and metal making class! Mr. Pfister wants to let all the students know that education is important and to trust your teachers, administration, and parents.

7 Join a team this year! A charging horde of red descending upon the masses. We have one of the biggest cross country in the state for Jr.High, and it is so much fun when we show up and everyone looks at us and goes ugh. Having 20 on their team, while we have over 100 on ours. It s fun. This is what coach and teacher, Lance Hislop said when asked what he wanted the team to look like this year for cross country, boys and girls teams. Mr. Hislop is not only the Geography teacher, but also, keyboarding, and coaches the cross country team, and was willing to give up some of his time in order to give his input. Kylee Sales and Lorynn Hamblin were the two individuals interviewing Mr. Hislop. The questions included things like; why is it important to join a team, his promises from being on the team, his previous year s accomplishments, and those for this year, and the requirements to be on the team. His answers are as follows. Cross country is such an important sport to be a part of because not only does it not have cuts, but it will prepare you for other sports as well as having the potential to keep you healthy your entire life. As many of us know, when Mr. Hislop makes a promise, he intends to keep it, this was his promise for cross country. I can promise you ll improve, and you ll feel good as long as you try your best this season. Although this can be a very fun sport but, it can be challenging in the first couple weeks until you are in shape. Mr. Hislop is also very competitive and had the following to say about his previous accomplishments and what he hopes for this season. Our boys team has won 3 or 4 regions and 2 trophies for state, while the girls have 6 regions and 2 state trophies. This season, we are playing against the best team in the nation, Mount Ogden, so, I m hoping to have both boys and girls teams in 2nd for regions. Unfortunately, there is no state competition this year. Just as well as any other sport at S.A.A., anyone running on the team, cannot have any F s or U s from the previous term or the ongoing term, as well as a required physical. The same amount of payment is also required for every sport, the initial 45$ payment and a 10$ for a shirt that is yours to keep at the end of the season. As a final note, Mr. Hislop left with an outstanding, too good to share idea, I m very glad we have the kids to compete instead of the coaches, because we have so much more competition, and it s much more fun to watch the kids run, rather than me waddle. This is more than enough reason to join a team here at S.A.A, but if cross country isn t really the best fit for you, here s a list of coming up sports (Excluding girls soccer, which is going on currently) and the coaches. Hope to see you out on the field! Girls Volleyball- Sarah Reed (head coach and a teacher) Jessica Farnsworth (Assistant and a teacher) Girls Basketball- Roxanne Shipman (head coach and a teacher) Meredith Hals (Assistant) Boys Basketball- Adrian Duren (head coach) Dave Henson (Assistant and a teacher) Girls Soccer- Henry Tran Boys Soccer- Melissa Miles and Rob Miles Baseball (boys only) - Haylee Velesquez (also a teacher) Kylee Sales, Lorynn Hamblin

8 SAA Art Syracuse City has asked our art teachers at Syracuse Arts Academy to display art at Syracuse City Hall! Feel free to visit and view all of our teachers beautiful works of art. Please support our wonderful art teachers! If you would like to view anymore artwork please visit Mr. Brown s blog or YouTube channel! What s Happening This Month? The art classes are learning elements and principles of design and art The Ceramics classes have partnered up with younger children to make their monsters under their beds come to life. Art 1 is working on Mandalas and color theory 3D art classes are doing optical illusions Photography is learning about photo history

9 Did you hear that one of the lunch ladies has six toes and the janitor always wears a hat because he has snakes for hair. The chatter in the hallway reveals one of the ninth grade boy s has secret super powers. Did you know one of the Science teachers can fly? I heard that they will start serving ice cream bar for lunch every Friday. Last week someone overheard the secretaries talking about how Donald Trump is going to visit the school and that Hillary Clinton is going to stop by and bring everyone cookies. A couple of the seventh grade girls were overheard saying they saw one of the cheerleaders at Rush over the summer and when her hair gets wet it turns blue! October is almost here and Black Island Farms is open, speaking of which did you know the people that work there are actually werewolves and every full moon they turn, and reap havoc on the nearby neighborhood! On one of my usual trips to the Fizz I heard a couple of kids talking about how the building was haunted. At night after it closes the soda machines turn on and spray everywhere and the lights flicker, chairs fly across the room! More news from the upstairs hallway reveals there will not be fall break for any student who has missing assignments. They will be required to stay at the school until all of their work is turned in. The gossip from the locker room is, one of the jocks has a funky fungus growing in between his toes that s a nasty shade of green. A couple of the guitar students were caught talking about how Mr. Whipple used to be a rock star but decided teaching was more important than the fame. One of the eight grade girls overheard two of the math teachers talking about how they are Roller Derby doll s on the weekend. Did you hear that Mr. Matty is secretly a Ninja? I have been listening and I cannot believe all of this, but maybe it s true?

10 Shakespeare Competition This will be our third year competing in the Utah Shakespeare Festival Competition. Ms. Burke has been working hard to help our students be more involved with performing the works of William Shakespeare. Students audition and are chosen to represent Syracuse Arts Academy as part of our Shakespeare Team. Our 2016 Team is: 7th--Issac Allred & Taylor Sachs; 8th--Jaz Burke, Andrew Bayn, Abby Fielding, Brooklyn Shearer, & Michael Painter; and 9th--Cassie Ratliff. Students will compete with monologues and scenes against students who travel from all over the country to compete in the festival. They also will have the opportunity to attend workshops with professional Shakespeare instructors and performers. The competition will take place in Cedar City the weekend of October 7-9th. We wish them the best in the competition this year! Thanks! Melissa Burke Jokes! Justin Glover, Zack McKell, Luke Blatter, Ricardo Rodriguez Q; Why didn t the quarter roll down the hill with a nickel? A: Because it had more cents! Q; Teacher: You missed school today didn t you? A: Not really! A man, his son and a dog walk into a bar.. Ow! Ow!! Woof! A very tall ninth grader was acting up in class. His teacher told him to, Act you age, not your shoe size! The boy looked down at his size 14 shoes and said, But they re the same! Syracuse Arts Academy 2893 W 1700 S, Syracuse UT Antelope 7-9 Campus