Paradise Junior High School

📣📣Meet our staff📣📣

First we have Leadership/English teacher, Heather Brown.
Favorite colors: yellow and red
Favorite place to visit: anywhere by the water
Favorite weekend activity: snow skiing
Fun Fact: I have a black belt in martial Arts

Next we have English teacher Valerie Rolph.
Favorite colors: Blue for cars, purple for flowers, there are more, but 2 is enough for now
Favorite place to visit: visiting my son out of state
Favorite weekend activity: gardening
Fun fact: I just turned 50!

Next we have History teacher Millie Teixeira.
Favorite color: green
Favorite place to visit: Hawaii
Favorite weekend activity: skiing
Fun fact: I ride horses, my dad was a horse trainer and my mom was a barrel racer.

Some more pictures for this week as the students prepared their raps for todays big event!

Our Virtue of the week this week was Forgiveness. These are our winners this Week! Congratulations Mason and Chris!

Food services did an amazing job setting this up for our students and staff! And thank you to Tom Taylor and David McCready for serving us!

📣📣Meet our staff📣📣
First we have Librarian Stacy Pew
Favorite color: purple
Favorite place to visit: Malibu California
Favorite weekend activities: being with family.
Fun fact: I grew up in the country.

Next we have our kitchen staff: Mary
Favorite color: blue
Favorite place to visit: Fort Bragg
Favorite weekend activities: visiting with my grand babies.
Fun fact: I love riding motorcycles and razors.

And Seko
Favorite color: blue
Favorite place to visit: Japan
Favorite weekend activities: cooking
Fun fact: I’ve only been in the United States since 2008 and I’m still learning.

This is a friendly reminder that there is no school next week. We will return on Monday, April 18th as we will be making up for a power shutoff day we had in August. I hope all of you get to spend some time with friends and family.

Take care,

Principal Larry Johnson

Our Virtue this week was Trustworthiness. Here are this week's winners! Congratulations! And thank you for being trustworthy!

A few pictures for our ground breaking this morning.

📣📣Get to know your staff📣📣
This week we are getting to know…
Principal Secretary Kristin Mundy:
Favorite color: fuchsia
Favorite place to visit: the ocean and the woods.
Favorite weekend activity: going out of town.
Fun fact: I once owned a craft company where I hand painted wood decor pieces.

Next we have Health Secretary Michelle:
Favorite color: pink
Favorite place to visit: somewhere I haven’t been before. I’m always ready for an adventure.
Favorite weekend activity: volunteering for my children’s extracurricular activities
Fun Fact: I am a mom to twins, I have sisters that are twins, I have cousins who are twins and my grandma is a twin.

Next we have our school counselor Alisa Johnson:
Favorite color: colors of the ocean
Favorite place to visit Mattole River
Favorite weekend activity: painting and ridding my bike
Fun fact: I have sailed the Caribbean twice and I have a pilot license, class 1 and class C license.

Next we have we have our school psychologist Carly:
Favorite color: green
Favorite place to visit: Switzerland
Favorite weekend activity: going to the park with my child and my dog
Fun fact: I used to play poker simi professionally

Our Leadership class took a fieldtrip to a rope course in Sacramento. Look at all the fun they had!

Education office heads to schools to ‘Take Down Tobacco’

https://www.chicoer.com/2022/03/29/education-office-heads-to-schools-to-take-down-to***co/

Education office heads to schools to ‘Take Down Tobacco’ Two Butte County Office of Education employees showed up Monday at Paradise Junior High School during lunch as part of the weeklong “Take Down Tobacco” events.

📣📣 Meet our Staff 📣📣
First up we have Principal Johnson:
Favorite colors: green and gold (of course! Go Bobcats!)
Favorite place to visit: anywhere my kids are doing something active.
Favorite weekend activity: playing sports with my kids.
Fan fact: I was raised in Paradise!

Next we have campus supervisor Shannon:
Favorite color: black
Favorite place to visit: the golf course
Favorite weekend activity: playing golf
Fun fact: my wife and I have the same name.

Next we have campus custodian Lee:
Favorite color: blue
Favorite place to visit: feather falls trails.
Favorite weekend activity: coaching wrestling or trail running.
Fun fact: I wrestled in Japan as part of Team California.

Our Virtue of the week winners! Congratulations Cole Gradnigo-Holland and Joshua Dionne!

Learning with dry ice in science today!

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First week of track practices!

Some Pi day fun yesterday!

Our Leadership and CJSF students went on a field trip to Butte College last week! Looks like they had a great time! Thank you Mrs. Brown and Alisa for putting this together for our students!!

Our 2022 boys Basketball team. You guys had a great season. Well done.

Paradise Junior High School Art students having a great time. Way to go Bobcats.

Mr. Wright incorporating sewing in a math lesson. Way to get creative.

Great basketball game at home yesterday. Nice job Bobcats. The next home game at PJHS is Tuesday the 22nd at 4:00.

We were very fortunate to have Prevention Specialist Monique Osborne from BCOE spend the past 4 Wednesdays with us in Physical Education. She taught our students about brain development, the effects of alcohol, drugs, and to***co on that development and the greater pull addiction can have on brains the younger you are. We also learned about the very real dangers of v**e products, what chemicals are in such products, and the horrible effects they have on our lungs. One such example was a 16 year old boy who was only va**ng for one year, and had to have a double lung transplant. The surgeon said he had never seen damage to a lung like this before. The consistency of his lung was similar to that of a rubber tire! We learned that the ni****ne content of some of the latest v**e products contain the equivalent amount of ni****ne as 400 ci******es! Please follow up with your kids about what they learned, and know that we are here to support them if this is something they have been struggling with. The to***co industry has been aggressively marketing these products toward our kids. As teenagers grow, they begin to take risks. Let's help our kids to take healthy risks, not ones that will negatively impact them potentially for the rest of their lives.

What a great Friday to top off an amazing week at Paradise Junior High School. This morning we gave out awards during our Friday assembly, and our Superintendent Tom Taylor came out to speak with our leadership students. Coach Shannon who is also our Campus Supervisor ran a football game at lunch. Have a great weekend everyone.

Here are some great pics of Mrs. Smith's class doing an egg drop project in science. Thank you to our custodian Troy Yartz for getting up on the lift to make it more exciting for our students.

I am beyond words in regards to how well our students did this semester. Last week I got to brag about our CJSF students. This week I get to brag about 13 student students making it on the Principal's list. In order to be on the Principal's list at Paradise Junior High School you have to be motivated, dedicated, hard working, and complete the semester with a 4.0 GPA. This is an extreme honor. Great job Bobcats. You earned it!!!

We are extremely excited to announce that Paradise Junior High School had 24 students (17.6% of the school) qualify for the California Junior Scholarship Federation. This is an amazing and impressive accomplishment for our students. Way to get it done Bobcats!!! We are proud of you.

"CJSF stands for California Junior Scholarship Federation. It is the Middle School's version of High School's CSF (California Scholarship Federation). CJSF is a statewide organization founded for the purpose of fostering high standards of scholarship, service, and citizenship in the middle grades." (CJSF)

Wanted to show off the Ag. class doing great things. They were having a blast.

We are having a great final week of school right before a well deserved two week break. We are incredibly proud of our students this year. Great first semester and we look forward to a great second semester during 2022.

Here was a great cooking lesson in Mrs. T's history class the day before Thanksgiving Beak. The kids had a great time.

We had another great week at Paradise Junior High. Great job Bobcats. I hope you all enjoy your weekend.