Boxes of cereal lined every single hallway at Eastlake Elementary School after students completed a really successful cereal drive to benefit the Utah Food Bank. The students were all in on the project and managed to collect 1176 boxes of cereal, that is 2,500 pounds worth of cereal!

As a prize for completing such a successful holiday drive, the cereal boxes were lined up in every hallway, upstairs and downstairs throughout the school. Then students watched as Principal Kristie Howe toppled one box in the lineup, starting a domino effect of falling boxes through the entire school. Students were thrilled and cheered as one-by-one the boxes fell like dominos.

Congratulations Eastlake Elementary for your giving spirit this holiday season.

The totals are in and once again students throughout Jordan School District have gone above and beyond to benefit local charities this holiday season.

Thank you to all the students and staff who devoted long hours to this charitable work, you truly are an inspiration!

Here is a list of the charities for each high school and fundraising totals.

• Bingham High School – $63,686.60
  Make-A-Wish Utah Angels Hands
• Copper Hills High School – $70,000.23
  Make-A-Wish Utah and Other Needs in their Community
• Mountain Ridge High School – $89,107.74
  Hearts Knit Together
• Riverton High School – $262,229.22
  Utah Children’s Justice Center
• West Jordan High School – $30,868.00
  Tiny Tim’s Foundation for Kids
• Herriman High School – $130,351.00
  Now I Can Foundation
• GRAND TOTAL: $646,242.79

Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved for their generosity!

We want to wish everyone a safe and healthy holiday season with friends, family, and loved ones.

All schools will be on Winter Recess from Wednesday, December 22 through Tuesday, January 2. District Offices will close at 3 p.m. on December 23 and reopen on January 3.

 During the Winter Break, we invite you to enjoy some sounds of the season by listening to a special holiday episode of the Supercast, featuring high school students throughout Jordan School District singing beautiful Christmas carols.

Listen at supercast.jordandistrict.org or search for Jordan Supercast on your favorite podcasting app.

From an international soccer field to a United States National Park, Mountain Creek Middle School staff created custom gingerbread scenes of splendor with frosting and candy accenting their creations. The competition is a part of a school-wide team-building exercise with the faculty breaking into nine groups. Designs range from “Merry Christmas Charlie Brown” scenes to traditional gingerbread house designs. Students can see the staff’s work in the school’s display cases until Winter Break.

Great work, Mountain Creek Middle School staff, for building such creative and exciting gingerbread houses and showing students what teamwork can accomplish!