Spring Creek Middle School students create 1,000 valentines

Students at Spring Creek Middle School will be greeted on Valentine's Day with handwritten notes on each of their lockers. 

Spring Creek Middle School in Providence has 1,000 lockers. Tomorrow morning when students arrive, they will be greeted by handmade valentines taped to every one of them.

The idea for the “heart attack” came from Jenna Adams, an eighth grader at the school who wanted to help draw students closer together on Valentine’s Day. 

“I thought, ‘Valentine’s Day is coming up,’ and some people, like, hit me up to be their valentine and stuff, so I’m like, ‘Well, I’ll be everyone’s valentine and put a heart on their locker and say something sweet for them. And I’m just hoping that it will make their day and [help them] feel loved on this Valentine’s Day.”

Together with three of her friends, Siena Kershisnik, Emily Eubanks and Mia Gualtier, Jenna started “cutting like crazy,” spending many hours over the course of three days shaping hearts and hand writing notes on each one.

“They decided they wanted to do something for everyone,” said Doug Adams, Jenna’s father. “They didn’t have a budget, so they just started cutting.”

With permission from their principal, Blake Pickett, the girls hid the valentines in black garbage bags until after school on Monday. As they started to hang them up, students who were still in the building began to notice, stopping to read the notes.

<em>“UR a babe! Call me! You’re Awesome!”</em>

Jenna’s favorite says, “Cash me outside for a hug. How ‘bout dah.” Another reads, “RU from Tennessee? Because UR the only ten I see!”

All of the messages are positive.

<em>“Be mine! Cutie pie! You had me at hello!”</em>

“These two girls care about everyone,” said Doug Adams of his daughter and Siena. “They are just super cute girls! With the school boundary changes this year, they wanted to find a way to help all of the students at Spring Creek feel loved.”

“I feel like North Logan kids and Providence kids still kind of separate off,” said Jenna, “Some of them have been kind of combining, but yet some of them are still, like, iffy.  I kind of feel like this might help them talk to more people.”

“I feel like we should all just be friends,” Siena agreed, “and I think this will help with that.”

As students make ongoing efforts to unite, Pickett feels like Spring Creek Middle School is a better school because of the boundary realignment.

“It has been really need to see these kids grow together as a school and to watch kids start to have friends that they wouldn’t have known before,” he said.

While Pickett said he’d like to take credit for Jenna and Siena’s Valentine’s Day idea, he said the girls approached him with it independently.

“It was driven all the way by these kids,” he said. “I’d like to say that I would have thought of it, but these girls wanted to do it. I think it’s just incredible. It shows where they are as people. We are really fortunate here at Spring Creek. We have the greatest kids in the world that come here, and every one of our kids will start the day tomorrow knowing that somebody cared enough to put a valentine on their locker.  And that’s an incredible thing for all of them.”

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