With the widespread use of smartphones among teens and preteens, the district is finding a number of apps that are a distraction in the classroom and are being used for cyberbullying, sexting, and accessing pornography. Certainly not all popular apps are harmful or dangerous. Many can be used for wholesome purposes, even helping to enhance ...
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Drama productions in Granite School District
Theater productions in junior high schools and high schools have begun. Below is a rough list of drama productions in the district. Please note that some schools have not announced production names and dates. Check with individual schools for more details. Cottonwood High School Big Fish - November 17-19, 21, 2016 Broadway Review - January ...
Sign up your sixth-grader for the Junior Youth Symphony Preparatory Academy
Students who will be in seventh grade for the 2016-17 school year have an opportunity to enhance their music skills this summer at the Granite Junior Youth Symphony Preparatory Academy. This one-month program is taught by highly-qualified music teachers, and will help students learn to play a musical instrument or improve their existing ...
Playwright selects Cottonwood High for world high school premiere of play that explores autism
A play examining autism, loss and acceptance made its world high school debut in the Cottonwood High School little theater. Written by Kennedy Center awardee Julie Jensen and adapted from Kathryn Erskines’s novel “Mockingbird,” the play follows Caitlin, an eleven-year-old autistic girl as she struggles to understand the world around ...
Skyline students use American Sign Language to perform anti-violence play
A group of Skyline High School students delivered a powerful theatrical performance catered to the needs of hearing-impaired teens and community members. The school's production of Bang Bang You’re Dead was performed entirely in American Sign Language by students in the school’s ‘ASL 3’ class. Narrations accompanied the performance so that both ...
Drama productions in Granite School District
Theater productions in junior high schools and high schools have begun. Below is a rough list of drama productions in the district. Please note that some schools have not announced production names and dates. This list will be updated as we receive information from teachers. Cottonwood High School Mary Poppins – November 19-23, ...
Drama performances for the 2014-2015 school year
This is a tentative schedule for theater productions in Granite School District’s junior high schools and high schools. Please inquire with individual schools for ticket prices. Cottonwood High School Shrek – Nov. 21-24 A Few Good Men – Mar. 20, 23, 24, 25 Cyprus High School The King and I – Nov. 20-25 Granger High ...
Photo Gallery: A theatrical first for Academy Park Elementary
Academy Park’s production of “Big Bad” was the school’s first-ever musical performance. Fifty-five students practiced for more than two months to portray the story of the infamous Big Bad Wolf and a class-action lawsuit brought against him by Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs, and others. ...
Brockbank Jr. High thespians celebrate ‘An Evening with the Bard’
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.” All of the world? Maybe. All of Brockbank Junior High during the school’s Shakespeare Night? Definitely. Brockbank’s annual drama competition allows students to perform classic scenes, ...