State Education Chief Visits Union Middle
Students tend to sit a little straighter when visitors come to observe their class. When the visitor is the state’s public education chief, they walk a little taller afterward, too. Union Middle School students, educators and leaders, as well as Canyons District’s superintendency and academic leadership, last month hosted a tour of State Superintendent of […]
CSD Plans Middle School Orientations For 6th, 7th Grades
Perhaps you remember what it was like: The wide hallways, lockers that wouldn’t open, trying to wend your way from class to class. The first day of middle school is, for most people, an experience they wouldn’t want to repeat. Canyons wants to change that by hosting half-day orientations for CSD’s middle-school first-timers on Aug. 15 […]
Goal! Mount Jordan, Union, Butler Win Soccer Titles
Mount Jordan soccer netted its second consecutive championship, and Union and Butler students secured their first titles in Canyons’ 2013 Middle School Intramural Soccer Tournament. The Mountaineers’ ninth-grade team won the age-division championship, maintaining their winning streak set with an eighth-grade championship in 2012. Union Middle School’s eighth-graders won the title in their grade-level division, […]
Union, Indian Hills Net Most 1st Place Wins At Hoops Tourney
At the same time NCAA athletes were hustling for a national hoops championship, aspiring Sweet 16ers from Canyons District middle schools were hitting the court in their own version of March Madness. Union and Indian Hills both ran away with two first-place trophies in the District’s Middle School 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament. Boys and girls teams […]
New Lighting System Shines In Union’s ‘High School Musical Jr.’
What time is it? It’s almost time for Union Middle, which later this month will produce Disney’s “High School Musical Jr.,” to cast a spotlight on dancing and singing students with a new stage-lighting system that was funded by a $20,000 grant. Union’s theater club, also known as the Union Theater Group, in December received […]
Union’s Anderson Named Utah’s Top Middle School Principal
Union Middle School Principal Mary Anderson has been named Utah’s top middle school leader. Anderson is the 2013 Utah Middle School Principal of the Year. The prestigious honor was announced on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, by the Utah Association of Secondary School Principals, and awarded to Anderson by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Martell Menlove. […]