It is a mealtime moment of pride for students at Silver Crest Elementary School. Once a month, teachers nominate one student from every class to be recognized for an act of kindness, hard work leading to academic success, or simply being a good Silver Crest student. Every student nominated is then invited to enjoy a “Kindness Rocks” lunch with the principal.

Principal Patty Bowen has a great time at the special lunch, greeting the honorees, then reading the reason their teachers say they should be recognized. McDonald’s provides lunch, and to everyone’s delight, the tasty meal comes with a fun toy for each student as well.

Congratulations to Silver Crest students for their kindness, always striving for success and being good to one another. Thanks to Principal Bowen for recognizing the rock stars with her “Kindness Rocks” lunch.

It was an evening of connections, resources, music, student performances, and most importantly, fun at the 2025 Fall Family Fair at the Veridian in West Jordan. This event is an excellent opportunity for Jordan School District students and their families to connect with community resources and have a great time.

The fair, hosted by JSD Language and Culture Services, features departments from across the District. The Superintendents of Rock also made an appearance, showing up to entertain the crowd.
Thank you to everyone who made this year’s fair such a big success!

Jordan School District has amazing art teachers, but you may not know that they are amazing artists themselves. The “I Teach Art” exhibit in Riverton provides many of the amazing middle and high school educators with the opportunity to showcase their talents in photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture. 

Thank you to the following talented educators for sharing your abilities with us!

• Bryan Leggat, Mollie Marie (Elk Ridge Middle School)
• Anne Rowell, Nathan McDonald (Fort Herriman Middle School)
• Lexus Rahmeyer (South Jordan Middle)
• Amy Boehme, Daniel Johnson (West Hills Middle School)
• Cara Bailey (West Jordan Middle School)
• Jaime James, Autumn Jennings, Jenny Udall (Bingham High School)
• Rebecca Blue, Jocelyn Wilcox, Taylor Thoman, Meagan Stelter (Mountain Ridge High School)
• Ashley Combs, Jen Riley-Hansen, Shauna Mitchell (Riverton High School)
• Angelica Barney, Robyn Briggs, Soobin Kim (West Jordan High School)

You can view the exhibit and see the incredible works at the Old Dome Meeting Hall in Riverton from 12-5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. More information is available at https://www.rivertonutah.gov/exhibits/. 

Students, faculty, and alumni gathered at Daybreak Elementary to celebrate the school’s 20th anniversary. The event included scavenger hunts, craft booths, and food trucks lining the sidewalks.

Former Daybreak students on the Herriman High School basketball team shot hoops with current students, and alumni leafed through yearbooks to find pictures of themselves from their elementary years to show to their children. Current and former Daybreak faculty came together to share memories from the last 20 years at Daybreak Elementary.

Daybreak opened its doors in the Fall of 2005 as a year-round school with four tracks. In the first year, just 300 families lived in the surrounding neighborhood and 80% of the students were bused in from Herriman, Riverton, and South Jordan. Now the school serves as one of four elementary schools within the still-growing Daybreak community.

Congratulations on 20 outstanding years of education to all of the current and former Daybreak Dolphins! Here’s to the next 20 years!