On December 3rd, 2014 Loura Martin was recognized by staff as the outstanding employee of the year. Loura is the school’s attendance secretary and does so much to help the students and faculty. She always has a smile and treats everyone with kindness. She often steps in to help in classrooms while teachers need to take a call, or other business. Loura was a huge help when she took over for several months when Mrs. Dockstader was taken ill do to a fall. She took over the office duties, and helped close out the school year. Not sure what we do without her.

Spring Lake Students have been getting together to sing Christmas Carols. Everyone loves singing Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, and other songs. The highlight each year though is the montage of the teachers missing their two front teeth! Tradition is kept by singing Silent Night as the final song, which is Mr. Sainsbury’s favorite, and continuing to sing the song as we return to class.

Mr. Ewell has carried on his Christmas Carol tradition, this year with his fourth-grade students. They opened the doors of the little theatre to upper grades to come and watch, as well as put on a performance for parents. Ebenezer Scrooge was played by Jake Wilson. The students did an amazing job.

Thursday, December 18th third-grade students got a special visit from Zion’s Bank. Ed Christensen, Manager of the Spanish Fork branch, and Jenny Castillo, manager of the Payson branch came to donate dictionaries to all the students, as a partnership with the Spanish Fork Rotary Club. They talked about how important education is, and did a couple of find the word races. Later in the year third-grade will have a spelling bee as part of receiving the dictionaries.

This year's Crystal Apple Award went to Lindsay Miller. 

Lindsay is a wonderful member of our faculty… She is so friendly, and helpful to everyone.  Lindsay is easy to work with and contributes to our school as a whole. She is always willing to share great ideas with others.

Some of her teammates, both previous and current, have mentioned that she is very energetic in her teaching, and her life in general. We hear she is amazing with transitions in her classroom, that they are really something to watch!

Spring Lake Elementary Sixth-grade students rocked the stage once again this year!  They entertained their guests with a variation of the familiar Christmas reading, T’was the Night Before Christmas, while incorporating the arts in all forms.  There was some incredible scenery, drama, dancing, and of course music.  Spring Lake students love the arts!

The Spring Lake Elementary Orchestra put on their annual Christmas performance for the school.  They have worked hard all year practicing before school and their hard work paid off.  They had an amazing performance!  Thank you orchestra for sharing your talents with our school.

Spring Lake's student council has been busy! They've made seven blankets and over 100 Christmas cards for the Veteran's home here in Payson. The student council has also made numerous posters advertising the school's annual food drive.

The Spring Lake Elementary choir has been working hard this year preparing for their Christmas concert.  They put on an excellent performance for the school as well as a performance at the Payson High School for members of the community.  They sang some familiar Christmas songs and also incorporated a variety of other music.  The choir will start up again after the Christmas break and will be taking new choir members.  Thank you to the choir for all their hard work and a wonderful performance.

Spring Lake Elementary students had an exciting visit from the Utah Jazz Bear.  The Jazz Bear got the students of Spring Lake excited about living a healthy lifestyle.  He taught the students the importance of eating healthy foods, exercising, and saying no to drugs.  His performance involved large balloons, lots of confetti, some pretty cool t-shirts, Jazz Bear posters, and some very excited students.