On Saturday, March 16th the Diamond Fork Junior High Concert band, under the direction of Dan Bigler, attended the annual BYU Concert Band Festival.  At this festival, the band played three songs in front of a panel of judges.  The band practices all year preparing to perform at this competition.

Diamond Fork Junior High recognizes excellent student attendance with "Diamondback Five On Friday."  This new program encourages students to come to class on-time everyday, and rewards those who do by entering them into a weekly drawing for $5 if their attendance is perfect when their name is drawn.

March's Five On Friday winners are Hayden Pierce, Mariah Burnham, Jonathan Candia, Julianna Keele, Jaden Peer, Skyler Peterson, Hannah Seamons, Avery Curtis, Braxton Ferguson, and Ezrie Pierce.  Congratulations to March's Five On Friday winners!

At Diamond Fork Junior High School the National Junior Honor Society is making friendship bracelets to sell and raise money for a Veteran’s nursing home being built in Payson to provide services to Veterans and their spouses.

Every month at Diamond Fork Junior High two students from the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades are selected as students of the month.  These students are nominated and then voted on by the entire faculty.  The students of the month for February are:

7th Grade: Carynn Nosack and Samuel Campbell

8th Grade: Erika Nunez and Tyler Collings

9th Grade: Lizzie Gunyan and Jax Tobiasson

Latinos In Action is a class at Diamond Fork that allows Latino students an opportunity to serve the community and participate in many exciting activities.  Latinos In Action class president Florencia Ascensio has recently been buzy when she helped choreograph dances, brought in speakers, and organized and helped during parent night. She says that she has gained new leadership skills, and is happy seeing the group succeed, and taking Latinos in Action to the next level.

Diamond Fork Junior High School is putting on a production of "The Little Mermaid" March 6 - 9.  Drama students at the school are working hard preparing for the big event.  Kara Poulsen, drama teacher at Diamond Fork, commented, "This is the first year 'The Little Mermaid' was released and available for school's to perform, and we are very excited to put on this production."

Diamond Fork Junior High students raised over a thousand dollars for charity by selling candy grams this Valentine season.  Over 1,000 candy grams were delivered to students at the school, and 30 singing valentines were delivered to very embarassed students.

Every month at Diamond Fork Junior High two students from the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades are selected as students of the month.  These students are nominated and then voted on by the entire faculty.  The students of the month for January are:

7th Grade: Melissa Carter and Laton Hansen

8th Grade: Madelyn Marshall and Andrew Werner

9th Grade: Emma Hansen and Brandon Bundy

Every day during e-time students can be found in the DFJHS library practicing their chess skills in preparation for the Nebo School District Junior High Chess Tournament.  This big event will be held on Saturday, February 9th from 8:30 - 3:00 at Cherry Creek Elementary in Springville (484 South 200 East).

During the month of December, all the students at Diamond Fork Junior High got the opportunity to show their knowledge of geography by answering questions written by the National Geographic Society.  The top scoring seventh and eight grade students participated in the school geography bee on January 4.  The winner of the geography bee was Jaci Hulse, an eight grader with Johnathan Tanner, the runner-up.  Jaci was awarded a certificate and medal from National Geographic.