Math Olympics 2017
Congratulations to the 28 students who competed in Math Olympics on Friday, April 7. There were six other school competing at Penn Christian Academy in Butler, PA. Students took four eleven minute tests in either the reasoning (word problem) or computation category. This year, 12 students earned ribbons. Well done JCS! Grade 3: Cheyene Berkebile, […]
Jr. High Speech Meet
On Friday, March 31, the JCS middle school held an in-house speech meet where students in sixth through eighth grade enjoyed a one-class period of speech presentations. Over the course of a month, seventh and eighth grade students diligently prepared to present speech meet pieces in front of their English classes. Not only did they […]
Regional Band 2017
Lorna Speigle attended the Regional Band Festival March 22-24 held at Richland High school. Regional Band is comprised of the approximately 190 students from 8 counties. The festival was conducted by world renowned music educator and conductor Peter Boonshaft.
Skyping with Alumni in Ukraine
On Thursday, March 9, Johnstown Christian School students in 8th Grade Geography were able to video-chat with 2013 Alumni, Sadie Sprankle, using Skype. Sadie is participating in a year of missions in Kiev with One Mission Society.
National Honor Society
Congratulations to the following students who were inducted into the National Honor Society at JCS on Thursday, March 9. Pictured: Front Row: Shiloh Peruso, Caleb McDowell, Alaina Miller, Michael Hartman Back Row: Sophie Sprankle, Jeanna Harclerode, Sarah Lushko
ACSI Band Festival 2017
On Friday, March 3, fifteen JCS band students joined with eight other Christian schools for the ACSI Western Band Festival, 2017, held at Porterville Christian School. Students presented “A Night at the Movies through Music.” A full orchestra was present including strings. Songs from The Hobbit, The Sound of Music and Star Wars were enjoyed.
RoboJays Earn the Strategy and Innovation Award
On Saturday, February 25, 2017, the RoboJays participated in their fifth regional First Lego League tournament held at Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center. They placed 8th out of 22 teams in the robot game, in which their robot was programmed to perform missions to help “Animal Allies” on the game board. The team also worked […]
JCS Elementary Celebrates National Read Across America Day
Elementary Students at Johnstown Christian join with millions of their peers across the country to celebrate National Read Across America Day (Dr. Seuss Day). Activities and events have been planned all week to celebrate the day. Students dressed up each day in a different theme and a Dr. Suess book was read to the entire […]
Regional Spelling Bee
On Monday, February 27, 2017, at the ACSI Regional Spelling Bee in Lancaster, JCS was represented by seventh grader Mary Hostetter and fifth grader Mikey Furdella. They competed against forty other students. These students represented twenty-eight schools from seven states. Mary completed ten rounds and placed ninth out of forty-two spellers. Congratulations, Mary! We are very excited that a fifth grader made it to the regional bee. Congratulations, […]
