Joseph City School District

Community Invitation: Help Shape the Future of Our High School Track! Joseph City Schools invites you to a public meeting to discuss the condition of the high school track and explore solutions, including potential improvements. We value your ideas and input as we plan for the future. Join us and be a part of the conversation! Tuesday, October 29, 2024 @ 6:00 pm in the JCUSD Board Room. 8176 Westover Ave .

Bonding lab - Do Covalent bond and Ionic Bond act similarly?

We want to inform you about an important upcoming election that will directly impact Joseph City Schools. On November 5, 2024, eligible voters in our district can participate in the budget override election, either by mail-in ballot or at the polls. This override is crucial and will affect every student and family. For details on what it entails and its impact, please visit www.jcusd.org/override.

The JCH Hot Rod club had a popular entry in the Homecoming parade.

Another Homecoming Week is in the books. Congratulations to our Homecoming king and queen, Jeffrey Howerton and Staisha Murdock.

Congratulations to our Powder Puff and Macho Volleyball winners from last night! Our junior girls pulled off the upset and beat the undefeated senior girls, ending their 3 year run as champions. The freshman boys surprised everyone and dominated Macho Volleyball. In unsurprising news, the JCHS men's alumni team remained unbeaten all-time, beating the freshman class.

October School Newsletter

Always a favorite lab - The Flame lab - what different colors do different elements cause - or do they cause sparks - this is the basis for fireworks.

Joseph City Schools would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Bill Bennet. Mr Bennett, the former educator and Superintendent who was also a longtime contributing community member has recently passed away. His contributions to our schools and community were many and he will be greatly missed. The Joseph City Auditorium has been named after him. His legacy will live on in our schools and in the hearts of us who had the privilege to know him. Thank you Mr Bennett ❤️

Earth & Space science performing a Chemical Weathering Lab as they are about to go into their cave projects. Which types of rocks react to Hydrochloric Acid? What is the pH of Hydrochloric Acid?

It's getting close to Homecoming time! The 7th grade class is busy getting ready. Come see what their theme is at the parade.

Students did a fantastic job with the Carbon Snake Lab. This lab uses an acid and the reaction can produce a temperature over 300 degrees.

As Photography students finished up their History unit, they had the chance to tour the old Courthouse Museum in Holbrook, where they could photograph artifacts and explore the camera display, seeing cameras from 1935 and even older. Some Photography and Art students also earned the opportunity to attend the Navajo County fair and practice their live sketch skills for art, as well as practice composition skills as it relates to photography.

The football game at El Capitan is at 6 pm Arizona time.

In an upcoming unit, our Jr/Sr English classes will do a mock career fair. Students will get the opportunity to role-play as the hiring manager and the job seeker. They will create a cover letter, resume, and a thank you letter to bring to the mock interview. This is an image of the advertisement for this mock career fair that was posted in our classroom today.

Monday our Jr/Sr English classes started their class presentations for our Grendel project from Unit 1. After reading Beowulf and selections from John Gardner's Grendel, students researched a monster of their choice and compared and contrasted the two monsters. They will also be writing a short fictional narrative based on either Grendel or their researched monster. At the end of the school year, their work will be part of the Show What You Know program!

Chemistry is everywhere! Seeing the difference in how salt water and sugar water dry shows how the bonding in Ionic and Molecular compounds.

September 2024 School Newsletter

Sport Schedule Update The Volleyball Games scheduled for Saturday, September 7th with El Capitan have been canceled. The games will be rescheduled. Go Wildcats!!

Photography students have been learning about the history of photography and building Pinhole cameras. They took on this challenge with enthusiasm and were excited when they Pinhole cameras really worked and project scenery inside the cardboard box.