Every year the three classes of Payson High compete in a competitive competition known as “Penny Wars.” Each class (Sophomore, Junior, and Senior) chooses whether to help themselves with pennies and dollars or decrease the rivals’ score with silver coins. The proceeds are given to families in need for the holidays. We often take for granted the simple things that we have, while others struggle to survive each day.
Señor Peck’s class always starts out the day with a song. Starting with a song really gets the students ready to learn, waking them up as well. Señor Peck’s class really is one of the best classes, especially his B/3 class. The students really get involved and Señor Peck makes learning the language of Spanish easy and fun. Google says that Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world at 414 million people speaking it. Spanish is a very important language, and learning it from Señor Peck will be easier than on your own.
After weeks of practicing, the first game of the season came around for Payson High’s basketball game and it couldn’t have gone better. On December 1, 2015 playing against Timpanogos High, Payson High won with an outstanding first quarter at 16-20, then second with Timpanogos falling behind at 25-37, third with Payson shooting up at 40-54, and lastly fourth with an impressive 19 point win at 54-73. Go Payson!
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Welcome to December!
The Mane Street Journal is in its third month of publication, and all of us on the team are very excited to present this issue to you. We have been working hard and are proud to announce that this edition of the magazine is one hundred percent student produced. From the layout of the pages to the pictures and videos, everything has been created by the amazing students of PHS.
Every year, Payson High School’s clubs give to charity in a fun way with the annual Tree Auction. Selected clubs design a christmas tree with different decorations and themes, The money made from selling these trees goes to families to help give them a Christmas worth remembering. The trees were sold at the home basketball game on Tuesday, December 1. The clubs that participated were: Student Council, DECA, Debate, Choir, Japanese Club, Cheer, HOPE Squad, Girls Basketball, HOSA, Key Club, FFA, and PTSA. The trees all looked amazing and all sold at the auction.
When Did You Stop Believing in Santa?
Mrs. McMurdie is an amazing character who is another great teacher here at PHS. She teaches the infamous course titled, AP Statistics. In AP stats, the students learn to design and organize surveys and experiments, gather and analyze data numerically and graphically, and apply inferential statistics to draw conclusions for a population. One of her AP students, Tyler Johnson, has very high praise for the class saying, “Mrs.
On November 24, 2015 the Lady Lions had our first game verses Juab. We had a hard time, the head coach Mrs. Fox stated, “We were a little nervous to start and didn’t shoot the ball real well, or it would have been really tight.” The ending score was 39 to 57, however we have high hopes and are trying to make it into the state play offs.Our Sophomores and JV team both played that night it was exciting and memorable because we won both games. They were fantastic games, we won by around 10 points at each game and each team worked very well as a group.
There have been rumors of a dance this December, but are they true? They are! The PTSA is in charge of the dance, and it will be called “Winter Wonderland.”
Senior Class President McKenna Charles and member of the PTSA says:
