Ashley Mitton, a technician here at Westside, helps students with whatever is needed.  She was born in Provo and grew up in Mapleton and Springville.  She is one of our recently married teachers.  Ashley's favorite things do do are reading and running.  Her favorite thing about Westside is the students and that the teachers are awesome and fun to work with.  Ashley thinks the most important thing teachers and educators can do is to help students learn and build their confidence.  An interesting fact about her is that she used to teach second grade, but now she

On January 9th, parent conferences were held at Westside.  Many teachers, however, chose to do what are called "Walking Report Cards" which give the students the opportunity to showcase what they have learned, and demonstrate their knowledge of various concepts in certain subject areas.

The week students came back from the Christmas break, Westside held the annual Geography bee.  Two students from every class had to win several rounds in order to progress to the school-wide level.  The two top winners were Natalie Bourgeous, and Owen Ngaluafe.  Owen was the finalist from Westside.

Recently, sixth grade students learned about Ancient Greece.  As a finale to their unit, students participated in the Greek Olympics, where the students were broken up into teams from Sparta, Athens, Megara, and Corinth.

On Thursday, December 19th, the kindergarten classes performed their Christmas program for their parents and classmates at Westside.  The performance involved many traditional Christmas songs with speaking parts from the students.

On Tuesday, December 17th, the Springville Junior High School Choir performed for Westside students.  Many former Westside students were showcased in the performance.  During a portion of the program, students from the audience were brought up to participate in an interactive Christmas song.

During the week of December 9th-13th, students at Westside Elementary participated in the Penny Wars.  The Penny Wars were a way to raise funds through a school-wide competition.  Each grade level competed by earning points, or bringing pennies.  One point equaled one penny, whereas a dollar bill equaled 100 points.  Other classes, however, could bring silver change to counteract the positive penny points.  On Tuesday, December 17th, the student council who helped count the money and organize the penny wars, presented a check to Dave Smith, the food bank manage