Teacher Spotlight: Taryn Bodine

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After graduating from Brigham Young University, Taryn Bodine because a teacher. She has been teaching for two years, but this is her first year at Spanish Fork High School, and she loves it.

"Everyone is so nice and has school pride," Bodine says with a smile on her face. "The students, teachers, and administration are just amazing." She doesn't find anything she dislikes about SFHS.

Taryn Bodine was born and raised in Orem, Utah, and graduated from Orem High School. She served an LDS mission in Thailand, and she says she would like to go back to visit and travel.

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Taralin Durrant

Teacher Spotlight: Kip Spencer

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Kip Spencer coaches boys wrestling and helps to coach the sophomore football team here at Spanish Fork High. This is his first year coaching here, and he is excited to be teaching here as well.

Coach Spencer grew up in Pleasant Grove, wanting to become a cowboy as he got older. But instead, he decided to coach here and stick with his wrestling tradition. He was also asked to help coach the sophomore football team, and he happily agreed to it.

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Sydney Harward

Hogwarts Takes Over Spanish Fork High School

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Hogwarts School briefly took over Spanish Fork High School on Friday, October 18, 2013 as students competed in the first spirit bowl assembly of the year.

The theme was Harry Potter and many of the students dressed up to show spirit for their class. Seniors were Gryffindor, juniors represented Sytherin, sophomores were Huffle Puff, and the faculty and staff were Hogwarts professors. We even had an appearance of the beloved character Hagrid thanks to football coach and financial literacy teacher Kirk Chambers. 

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Harley Smith, Michael Roudabush, Sydney Harward

Reflections

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The PTA Reflections program encourages students to explore their artistic
talents by creating works of art for fun and recognition.  Local winners
in each category go on to compete at the council, region, and state
levels.  This year's theme is “Believe, Dream, Inspire” and includes the
categories of Dance Choreography, Film Production, Music Composition,
Literature, Visual Arts, 3-Dimensional Artwork, and Photography.  Entry

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PTA

A Round of Applause for Shakespeare Team

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Take a bow. The Shakespeare team brought 3rd place overall home to Spanish Fork High School after their competition at Southern Utah University in Cedar City October 3 through October 5.

The SFHS team competed against 30 other schools from Utah and neighboring states.

Kenny White and Jessica Peabody placed first with their scene from Measure for Measure. They each received a $1000 scholarship to an acting camp at SUU. 

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Abraham Zambrano

Concurrent Enrollment Numbers Lead the District

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In the past three years, Spanish Fork High School has been leading Nebo School District in the number of students enrolled in concurrent enrollment with UVU, and "we're getting better," says Dave McKee, principal of of SFHS.

Since the fall of 2011, SFHS has had 193 more students enroll in classes for concurrent enrollment, making a grand total of 884. This bests most of the other schools in the district by 300 students or more. Salem Hills is the exception, coming in closest to Spanish Fork with 803 students in concurrent enrollment classes.

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Abraham Zambrano

Teacher Spotlight: Ryan Kunzler

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Ryan Kunzler teaches Spanish 2, Spanish 3, and Spanish 4 at Spanish Fork High School. He is in his second year, and he says he can't think of anything he doesn't like about it. Kunzler's favorite part of teaching is the students.

Kunzler was born August 4 and grew up in South Carolina. He attended BYU and now lives with his wife and two children, Ryan and Emma. While they don't focus on it, Kunzler and his wife try to teach their children a little Spanish by speaking it at home.

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Taralin Durrant

SFHS Welcomes Utah Colleges

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Representatives from Utah's colleges and universities spent the morning at Spanish Fork High School on September 25, 2013 to take part in the annual college fair for seniors. 

After a keynot address in the auditorium, seniors could select three college presentations to attend. Schools from Utah State to Dixie State and everywhere in between were represented.