Skyview Junior High School
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Skyview Junior High School is a Junior high school that is part of the Northshore School District
. It is situated in Bothell, Washington
, near the Canyon Park area. Built in 1993, it supports about 1,100 students every year from grades 7–9. Skyview Jr High feeds into Bothell High School
. It has currently been experiencing some growth in student population due to the spurt of new construction in the area. Therefore, the Northshore School District has recently underwent some boundary line changes.
The students that take Eagle Eye use professional green screens and soundboards. Eagle Eye also features a Good Morning Skyview show in which teachers and staff are interviewed or participate in trivia. Students watching Eagle Eye can call in to the broadcasting room during trivia to provide questions or answers. Many teachers have connected their TV's to their projectors, resulting in a full screen view of Eagle Eye in the classrooms.
In the 09-10 school year, Eaglei consisted of several segments: the flag salute (on Monday,) the daily bulletins, the calender, the weather, the game, and sometimes a feature or video segment where school events were discussed.
at the Wild Waves amusement park, and has consistently been honored for its musical performances. However, Skyview's music groups did not attend Music in the Parks during the 09-10 school year due to budget cuts. Recently, Skyview received honors in their festival band (superior rating), full orchestra group (superior rating), and choir (superior rating) in the 2008 festival.
Northshore School District
Northshore School District is a public school district covering portions of both King County and Snohomish County, Washington. The district's service area covers the cities of Bothell , Woodinville,and Kenmore as well as portions of unincorporated King County....
. It is situated in Bothell, Washington
Bothell, Washington
Bothell is a city located in King and Snohomish Counties in the state of Washington. It is part of the Seattle metropolitan area. The population was 33,505 as of the 2010 census...
, near the Canyon Park area. Built in 1993, it supports about 1,100 students every year from grades 7–9. Skyview Jr High feeds into Bothell High School
Bothell High School
Bothell Senior High School is located in Bothell, Washington and is one of three high schools in the Northshore School District. Nearly 1,800 students in grades 10 through 12 attend Bothell High.-Demographics:...
. It has currently been experiencing some growth in student population due to the spurt of new construction in the area. Therefore, the Northshore School District has recently underwent some boundary line changes.
Eagle Eye
Skyview provides its students with a year-long class where students are taught the basics of television maintenance, program creation, and editing; This is called "Eagle Eye" or "Eaglei". Since 1993, the class has been conducted by John Moen. It was named after the school's mascot, the Skyview Eagle. The staff also uses this to televise current events, and entertainment to all classes in Skyview during "home room" on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and sometimes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. (In place of Eaglei on Tuesday and Thursday, daily announcements are spoken at the same home room time.) Home room is between 2nd period and 3rd period (in the 3rd period classroom). During the 2008–2009 school year there have been two classes who have taken Eagle Eye as a class. One class is filming and starring in the show while, the other class is taking surveys of viewers and making videos to be shown on the show. Eagle Eye also provides information on the school's event calendar, the weather, and more.The students that take Eagle Eye use professional green screens and soundboards. Eagle Eye also features a Good Morning Skyview show in which teachers and staff are interviewed or participate in trivia. Students watching Eagle Eye can call in to the broadcasting room during trivia to provide questions or answers. Many teachers have connected their TV's to their projectors, resulting in a full screen view of Eagle Eye in the classrooms.
In the 09-10 school year, Eaglei consisted of several segments: the flag salute (on Monday,) the daily bulletins, the calender, the weather, the game, and sometimes a feature or video segment where school events were discussed.
Skyview Junior High's Music Program
Skyview Junior High School's music program is very well regarded. Skyview offers a jazz band as well as various levels of orchestra, choir, and band classes. The director of the Skyview instrumental groups is Shawn McGinn. The director for choir is Ben Kromholtz. Each year, Skyview has participated in Music in the ParksMusic in the Parks
Music in the Parks is a day-long or two-day festival for student choral, orchestral, and band ensembles, held annually across the United States. Music groups perform before adjudicators who rate the ensemble in the morning, and then spend the day at an amusement park. The day culminates with an...
at the Wild Waves amusement park, and has consistently been honored for its musical performances. However, Skyview's music groups did not attend Music in the Parks during the 09-10 school year due to budget cuts. Recently, Skyview received honors in their festival band (superior rating), full orchestra group (superior rating), and choir (superior rating) in the 2008 festival.
Class Changes 2008–2009
Skyview experienced larger class sizes due to budget cuts and has brought back six new teachers. Student schedules were rearranged to reduced class sizes. Many students had at least one of their classes changed.
Honors Program
Skyview features an honors program for students with exceptional ability. Students can take a test to enroll in Honors Math or Honors Humanities, which consists of English and Social Studies. Honors classes at Skyview have an accelerated curriculum which is one year ahead than regular curriculum. Skyview also features a special program called Double Honors math. Double Honors math consists of a curriculum that is two years ahead of the regular curriculum at that age. Double Honors ninth grade students take Honors Math classes at Bothell High School.
Website Information
School information is updated on the Skyview website. Each teacher has their own webpage where they post homework, post helpful links for students, upload documents and papers from class, and update student grades online.
External links
- Great schools: Skyview Junior High
- Skyview Junior High School Home
- Videos of Skyview Junior High school events