Story by Rylee Robinson At Timber Ridge Elementary, students in Sandy Miller’s music classes are learning much more than keeping a steady beat. From the beginning of kindergarten; students start out at a very basic level of learning rhythm,...
Four Johnston Mock Trial teams competed at the state competition March 27-28 in Des Moines. Coach Kathy Paul reports the teams did well, with Team Big Mock Candy Mountain receiving 11th place, Team All American Redirects winning the...
Each year, teachers in the Johnston Community School District nominate a number of students to attend the Belin-Blank Summer Institute for the Arts & Sciences, a week-long residential summer program held at The University of Iowa for 120...
By Rylee Robinson Starting next week from March 27 through April 7, Johnston High School and Johnston Middle School students will be piloting a new schedule of 80 minute class periods on Wednesday and Thursday with regular eight-period...
Johnston High School students in Kayla Bousum’s Graphic, Sound & Animation Design course recently completed an assignment with an all-too-real application to their own lives: create a filter for the Snapchat app. “On a scale of one to...
(Submitted by the City of Johnston) Attention Johnston drivers! Have you noticed these new stop signs near Johnston schools? They’re here for a very important reason: to keep our kids safe. The City of Johnston, Johnston Police Department...
(submitted by Julie Probst, JHS Math) Each year, thousands of students across the nation apply their problem-solving skills in the annual Mathematical Association of America’s American Mathematics Competitions (MAA AMC) 10/12 for high school students. The AMC program...
(Submitted by Kathy Paul) Nine teams of high school students from the Johnston Community School District recently competed in the district mock trial competition held in early March. Four teams: All-American Redirects, Squadra, Big Mock Candy Mountain, and...
Twelve Johnston students and three volunteers traveled to Cedar Rapids March 3-4 to compete in the 30th annual State Academic Decathlon competition. They returned with a record-high point total, 20 individual medals and their third consecutive second-place finish....
Staff and students at Summit Middle School recently raised more than $1400.00 to donate to Amanda The Panda. Additionally, each base camp collected teddy bears and permanent markers that benefit the summer camp with Amanda The Panda. Team...