My Favorite Teachers

The staff here is great. Here are a few examples. Mr. Cherry, a history teacher, is kind (unless you get on his bad side, well even then, really) funny, & understanding. Another great teacher is Miss. Goldberg, I had her in 6th grade for social studies. She is very relatable and for the most part and fun, funny, fun overall. I also really like the theater teacher, Ms. Lenhart. She is a kind, understanding teacher, not the best at puns.  If you show her respect, she will show it back, but she will get down to business (to defeat the Huns) when it is important. I'd like to thank them for making school more bearable. That's not all the staff here those are a few of my favorites. When you come here you can pick some of your favorites!

Josh
7th Grader

Meet Evelyn!

My name is Evelyn Leal, I am from Monterrey, Mexico. I have been living in Utah since 2000 and working at Midvale Middle since August 2012. Working at Midvale Middle is a great experience. What I love and enjoy about working at Midvale Middle is the cultural diversity, we have students with a variety of cultural background such as, Indian, American Indian, Asian, Hispanic, European, etc. This variety gives the school the opportunity to share and learn about different traditions from around the world. I enjoy working with kids because they give us the opportunity to learn and teach them at the same time. The school environment could be challenging sometimes for students and adults, but learning about personalities and how to address problems help us to improve the solutions.
I mainly work with Hispanic families providing them with school resources, communication between teachers, staff, and administrators, and general help that families request to get more involved with their students at school.
I recently had the fantastic opportunity to become a US citizen, that gave the experience to realize how important it is to be part of this fantastic nation and am happy to share my experience with my Midvale Family.

My MMS Experience

Hi, My name is Jon.  I'm an 8th grade student at Midvale Middle School. My Midvale Middle experience has been great. It wasn't always so great for me.  Throughout sixth and seventh grade, I was not the best I could be.  I would get kicked out of class, talk back to teachers, always have ISS, not be allowed to walk in the halls during passing period, and my dad was being called down to my school endlessly. My SRI score (reading comprehension)went from a 647 (mid-fourth grade) to a 1,058 (mid-tenth grade) in just 8th grade. I changed my attitude by wanting do better because I always knew I could do better. I just had to find it in myself to actually do it. I'm now an eighth grader,  and am considered a mentor in my school. I now help sixth graders that were going through and are going through the same struggles as I was in sixth and seven grade. I've been a Midvale student my whole life, and not even once have I ever wanted to move to a different school. Midvale just feels like home to me. I could never abandon my home. Yes, Midvale might not be the biggest, fanciest, or best school, but we have one thing that no other school can compete with, we have family, hard workers, and the will to keep fighting until we do better. GO Midvale!
Jon
8th Grade

Midvale Elementary Family Game Night

Our community is important to us as students. Being students at Midvale Middle, and being part of a MYP school, has taught us to always give back to our community,  Us students decided to give service back even if it was a little. We helped with the Midvale Elementary Family Game Night and wanted to share our experience.

Family Game Night was interesting to us because we've done different types of service, but nothing really like this. Many of us had to work doing different types of subject games.We also had to interact with families we have never seen before, which really tested some of our top BRICCCKs, especially being caring, communicators, reflective, and open minded. The games were educational and our goal was to teach something new. We also wanted to make sure they knew learning can be fun!

We showed up at Midvale Elementary and got divided into different sets of groups. Some of us had to do mostly math and reading, but we also had the chance to do active activities and also computer games. We went to our stations and the fun began when the kids arrived. Even though the game night only lasted 2 hours the experience lasted even longer.

Our goal was to teach something valuable, that the elementary students could possibly take with them.  We also learned something valuable as well . Helping and serving is a good way to give back to our community. We enjoyed the experience and giving back. Thank you Midvale Elementary for the thank you letters and for letting us help and try something new! 

Aldo & Adamaris 

8th grade

Fun Focused Learning

 As a sixth grader here at Midvale Middle, I absolutely love my core classes. Mrs. Goldberg (social studies on the greek team) always has the funnest lessons. we are always doing hands on activities, working as a group, and having enthralling discussions. I feel like this makes me remember the lessons better. During my classes, I feel included and happy, which is good.
Hanna
6th Grader

An Awesome Moment

As an administrator, I try to walk through all of the classes in the grade level for which I'm responsible at least once every day. Today, as I walked through Mr. Ford's math class, I asked a student to explain to me what the class was studying, "Mean, Median, and Mode," the student responded. I looked at the student's paper, and asked a few questions about how he was determining mode. He started to explain it. Kohen, another student at the table, jumped in to help. Kohen, very excitedly, explained the process for determining mode. The other student thanked Kohen for his help.

After school, I saw Kohen in the office. I exclaimed, "Kohen, you were a rockstar in math today!" Kohen replied, "I know! My brain felt like it went to the gym!"

I love to see students' excitement and growth on a daily basis here at Midvale Middle School. It is my honor to serve as their assistant principal. Kohen, and the rest of our Midvale Family, make me love my job!

Karen Moore
Assistant Principal

The Best Things about Midvale Middle School!!!!

The best part of my experience at MMS is the teachers. They are the most helpful teachers, along with the principal and the assistant principals.This year I have learned a lot, such as writing an essay, decimals, common conversions, and also the science chart called "The Periodic Table". The students at MMS these are also one of the things that are worth coming to MMS. It has been a great experience at Midvale Middle School for me.

Christian
7th Grader