October 16th - 22nd is national Teen Read Week. Our school goal is to have 15,000 pages read during the event that week. Students can report the number of pages they read each day to their advisory teacher. Final tallies will be done on Monday, October 24th. Prizes will be given for the top reading students.

For the following dates Villiage Inn (3500South 4800West) between 5pm and 8pm will donate part of the proceeds to our school. Be sure to tell the staff that you are supporting Kennedy Junior High!  The dates are Friday Sept 23rd, and then October 28, which is also a friday, the day after a school dance.

Kennedy will be sponsoring another great book fair starting this Friday! It will run until September 22nd during lunches, after school and during Parent/Teacher Conferences! Come check out the newest books for students and families! Profits will help supply the Media Center with more of the books students want to read. Thanks for your continued support!

This year, Kennedy Jr. High is sponsoring a fundraising sale of delicious World's Finest Chocolate!
The sale begins Thursday, September 15th
The sale ends Tuesday, September 27th
Delivery will be the week of October 10th
Sell to family members, co-workers, friends & close neighbors. Great gifts!
Our school earns 50% profit on all items sold! Funds will be used for school sponsored student activities & programs and student incentives.
PRIZES: One drawing coupon for each $10 sold. Lots of winners. Drawing prizes include 5 one-pound chocolate bars, free dance admit card for the year, school sweatshirt, school backpack & pom pom, free tardy pass, and more!
Individual prizes for students selling $25, $50, $75, $100, and $250.
Group prize for top selling advisory class.

Tuesday, September 6th is National "Read a Book Day." Students will have the opportunity to read for 20 minutes in each period that day. Reading is an essential skill and should be developed through academic and pleasure reading on a daily basis. Parents: please help us further encourage our students to read by giving them a quiet place to read each day at home. You are their greatest influence and can model positive reading habits by having books available for your children and taking your own opportunity to read every day. Thanks

As all of our students are aware already, the street in front of the school has changed.  The crosswalk near the seminary building is no longer there.  Just ordinary road, and no body can cross the street if its ordinary road, especially if there is lots of traffic, or dark.  Before and after school is the busiest times for traffic on this road, making it very unsafe to cross there. But that isn't the entire reason to stop our students' crossing habits.

The road belongs to West Valley City, and the WVC police enforce the laws.  They have informed the school that they will start issuing tickets for crossing illegally at the former location of the crosswalk.  Please spread the word about this. Any student (or anybody else) seen crossing there by police will be cited and/or fined