tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39395234370800702442024-02-06T22:57:14.061-05:00Iron Parent Fellowship News and InformationA newsletter/blog of announcements and happenings for the families of Iron AcademyIron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-7058134244825619542019-06-07T12:19:00.000-04:002019-06-07T12:19:08.415-04:00MAY 2019<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to all of our parent volunteers who made this year successful! Here is what we accomplished this year:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Awesome fun was had at our father-son and mother-son events. The fathers and sons enjoyed go-kart racing at Rush Hour Karting and bowling at Buffaloe Lanes. The mothers and sons reveled in a corn maze and engaged in battles with Action Archery (bows and safe arrows). Some sons were surprised at their mother's fierce competitiveness! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please plan again for our annual Back to School Family Picnic that will be held on Aug 24 at Sandling Beach on Falls Lake, shelter #4. We all look forward to getting back together again after the summer break!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Teacher Appreciation</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our teachers work hard not only doing the typical duties of teachers, but also mentoring our sons in biblical manhood. Thank you for sending in food for the delicious lunches we provided for them throughout the year! For our teacher appreciation gifts, we collected around $2200 in both December and May to distribute as cash gifts to our faculty and staff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Fundraising</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We raised over $18,000 this year, with most of that from our Warrior Challenge and Used Uniform and Spiritwear sales. Some key expenses that we covered were: $2200 for AP physics equipment; $1000 for photo printing, frames, and bulletin board decorations to decorate the school building; $5000 to Raleigh Parks and Rec for soccer field and basketball court rental; $400 for a new water fountain; $600 for new library books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>IPF Officer Elections</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for serving to our 2018-2019 officers: Anne York (Chair and Vice Chair of Fundraising), Becky Ulrich and Heather Seeman (co-Vice Chairs of Family and Social Activities), Todd Grantz (Treasuer); Greg Huntington (Secretary).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations to our new officers for 2019-2020: Greg Huntington (Chair); Debbie Drew and Karen Sabo (co-Vice Chairs of Fundraising); Becky Ulrich and Selina Murrell (co-Vice Chairs of Family and Social Activities); Angie Schulz (Treasurer); Nannette Collier (Secretary). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z5AX9xkYiXCumV4eawsQj1Y6LtLrOGGl/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">May School Newsletter</a> tells of exciting changes for next year! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please email our IPF officers at IPF@ironacademy.org if you have any questions. Enjoy your refreshing summer break! </span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-57738812199728282662018-11-16T01:16:00.003-05:002018-11-16T01:16:29.491-05:00HOLIDAY SHOPPING FUNDRAISER<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>You can support Iron Academy through your holiday shopping! </b>We have 3 shopping opportunities to raise money for IA described below that are in addition to the ongoing retail partnerships we have with Harris Teeter VIC card, Lowes Food card, Teach Me store, Smile.Amazon.Com instead of amazon.com, BoxTops, and the Shoparoo phone app that you can take a photo of any store receipt and we earn money! See our tab above for Retail Fundraising for more details on how to connect your shopping with these retailers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shopping Opportunity #1: Online Book Fair</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have an account with Children's Bookstore, which is an online child and teen bookstore. Their prices are similar to Amazon and when you shop there at ANY time, we get a 15% donation from your purchase. <b>BUT IF YOU BUY BOOKS FROM OUR SCHOOL'S ACCOUNT BETWEEN NOVEMBER 26 TO DECEMBER 10, WE WILL GET A 30% DONATION!</b> Do you want to give books for Christmas gifts? Then please shop at this link <a href="https://www.childrensbookstore.com/welcome/iron-academy/" target="_blank">https://www.childrensbookstore.com/welcome/iron-academy/ </a>and share this link with your family and friends to also do their book shopping to support our school. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shopping Opportunity #2: Gift Certificates for Professional Photography Session</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are fortunate to have a parent who is an outstanding professional photographer, Kira Atwell Grantz, who owns <a href="http://blessedreflectionsphotography.com/" target="_blank">Blessed Reflections Photography</a>. Kira specializes in child and family photography is offering gift certificates for 20 minute mini-sessions for up to 5 people and you will receive your choice of 7 digital images that you can take to get printed in any format that you want. <u>Sale price for this package of the session and digital images is $150 + tax and Iron Academy will receive a donation of 10% of your purchase! </u> This special offer is available to purchase between <u>November 23 to December 23</u> and you can schedule your photography session any time by <u>April 15, 2019</u>. Kira plans photo sessions for all occasions and holidays - how about husband and wife Valentine photos? If you want photos with more than 5 people, Kira can give you additional pricing options. <b>To purchase your gift certificate, email your request to IPF@ironacademy.org and it will be forwarded to Kira.</b> Can you spread the word to your family and friends about this offer too? Here is a sample of Kira's work - she makes everyone look great!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parent Dionne Moragne is pleased to partner with our school and is offering a 10% donation to Iron Academy for purchases from Paparazzi Accessories. Paparazzi products are lead-free and nickel-free and are one-of-a-kind accessories featuring original design, style, and feel. It is fabulous fashion for just $5!! <u>Dionne will have two ways to make purchases. </u> First, she will <i>come to the school one day</i> in December with several pieces of her accessories for our sons to make Christmas purchases for mom, grandma, aunt, and sisters! We will announce that shopping day when we return after Thanksgiving. And second, she is setting up an <i>online store just for this Iron Academy fundraiser </i>and if you <b><a href="https://paparazziaccessories.com/party/112612/join/?fbclid=IwAR1-M4hdaY5dU-Fx1xHW6s8_ccnyU7xyX8UQXSkZxfwpOhX5jdR2EVwIzvw" target="_blank">JOIN OUR PARTY and buy through this link</a> by Wednesday, Dec 19</b>, she will also donate 10% of the sales! Please do forward the link to your friends and family to support our school and get a fabulous gift for others - or themselves! Items purchased from the website will be mailed to your home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PLEASE SHARE THESE SHOPPING AND FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NEW LOCAL UNIFORM VENDOR.</b> Thank you to Renaissance Apparel for providing great clothing at a very good value for our students and staff! An online store is now open <a href="https://renaissance-apparel-company.myshopify.com/collections/iron-academy" target="_blank">AT THIS LINK</a> with short sleeve polo shirts for our female staff, for youth, and in adult sizes and each shirt is $15 including the logo! Items ordered will be delivered to the school twice per month around the 15th and 30th. Long sleeve polos and outerwear will be added soon. See the Dress Code tab above for more details about our dress code and information on where to purchase them. Our used uniform inventory and new spiritwear are now available to view and purchase online through Signupgenius <a href="https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-preowned" target="_blank">AT THIS LINK</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BOXTOPS!</b> October is Boxtops collection month. We will have a ziploc bag (ziploc brand has boxtops!) pinned to the bulletin board in the lobby for students to place their boxtops in them. Deadline to collect is Monday, Oct 29 so we can count and mail them in by the Nov 1 deadline to get our payment from the boxtops people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>SATURDAY OCT 6: Corn Maze adventure</b> for mothers and sons at Phillips Farm in Cary, 4:00-6:00. Please <a href="https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-motherson3" target="_blank">RSVP on this signup</a> so we can know how many to expect. We will pay with a group rate of $8 per person. Please arrive at 4:00 with the exact cash to combine our purchases into a bundled group payment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>WEDNESDAY OCT 10: PSAT NMSQT</b> for 11th grade students. Arrive at IA before 7:00 am to promptly leave to go to another school to take the test. Bring money for lunch to be picked up on the way back to IA. Bring two sharpened #2 pencils, PSAT approved calculator, bottle of water, snack, and a photo ID.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>TUESDAY OCT 16: WARRIOR CHALLENGE!</b> We will have our event at Laurel Hills park from 1:00-3:00. Please see the Warrior Challenge tab above (or scroll through the tabs options on your phone) for more details about this event. The website for making online donations is <a href="https://warriorchallenge2018.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://warriorchallenge2018.blogspot.com/</a>. For the donation to count toward student prizes, it must be received by October 31.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>THURSDAY OCT 18: Blade Maintenance Day. </b>See an email message that Mr. Anderson sent on October 1 for more details about this day. Instead of their regular classes, students will spend the day doing tribe and individual activities to sharpen him as a gentleman scholar and a godly young man. Parents are to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HfMzsV797OJLcloIGf9ONEKPnsCoprau/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">COMPLETE THIS FORM</a> and <u>for discussion with your son</u>. Your son will also complete a similar form on himself during Blade Maintenance Day. This day is also the last day of the first quarter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FRIDAY OCT 19: Fall Break - No School and optional weekend camping trip</b>. Mr. Mack is leading an optional school camping trip to Stone Mountain State Park. Please see email messages from Mr. Mack for more details about this trip. Mr. Mack sent a message on Friday, Oct 12 with an itinerary. Students going on the trip should be at the school around 9:00 am on Oct 19. They will arrive back on Oct 21 between 1:30-2:30.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>MONDAY OCT 22: Accountability Day and Teacher Appreciation Day</b>. Students do NOT have their classes on this day but will need to come to school with their parents for their 10 minute accountability appointments. Mr. Anderson sent an email message on Friday, Oct 12 with <a href="https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-accountability1" target="_blank">THIS SIGNUP LINK </a>to schedule your 10 minute appointment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For all of our teacher work days this year, we want to provide lunch to them. For this first teacher work day that the teachers will also spend long hours going to accountability conferences, we want to have a <b>chili bar lunch for teacher appreciation</b>. A <a href="https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-october2" target="_blank">SIGNUP OF ITEMS TO BRING</a> has been created. For many of the items, you can drop them off at the school on Thursday Oct 18 to leave at the school but some more perishable items may need to be brought in the morning of the 22nd. There is a refrigerator in the teacher's workroom. We do ask if there could be two volunteers who can be at the school 10:00-10:30 to assemble the chili bar luncheon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>TUESDAY OCT 23 TO WEDNESDAY OCT 24:</b> <b>Overnight trip to the Lapinskes farm, 4424 Wilmington Rd in Garner for the 7th to 11th graders. </b>See an email sent by Mr. Anderson on Oct 17. Permission forms must be submitted by Oct 23. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>TUESDAY OCT 23 TO FRIDAY OCT 26: Intensive week activities for 6th and 9th graders.</b> Sixth grade will have a week of orienteering. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More information will be sent out soon and will be repeated here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>THURSDAY OCT 25: College planning night</b> at IA for 9th grade families but everyone is invited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>WEDNESDAY OCT 31: Challenge coin ceremony at 11:00</b>. <u>Students will all wear button down shirts and their school tie on this day.</u> If you need to purchase an official school tie, their price is $10 and available through our <a href="https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-preowned" target="_blank">school clothing signup site</a>. If your son will be receiving his challenge coin, Mr. Anderson will contact you around October 24.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>THURSDAY NOV 1: Fall sports award ceremony </b>at 7:00. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-1378575390485138422018-07-12T21:54:00.000-04:002018-08-15T12:28:53.508-04:00SUMMER 2018 INFORMATION<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello Iron Families! Please visit this page often during the summer as it will be updated when any new information is emailed out and to help you find previous information. The goal is to allow you to have "one stop shopping" for information and news through the links below as we get started for the new school year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Supply Lists:</b> Click on your student's grade level to open its supply list:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Su3ZMNSpRXOOivRvyPjhzVSE5-FdD4UW/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">7th grade list </a></span></li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13loopH8_Z7myCUZfe8VmzGCnIuPHNka6/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial";">8th grade list</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16sjBNoNehXxYoNeloGJB_N2kUE-f8_3m/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">9th grade list</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qQs73FjDhwSVFSgFQosxLI1qpuhpOvzD/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">10th and 11th grade list</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">-<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MPOAYEyj2y6dfQSJCvZeOT5iiyQ353ZY/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">School calendar</a> with dates for Crucible Camp (Aug 13-16), Forging Camp (Aug 6 to 10), and first day of school for all on Aug 20, and all school holidays. Also be sure to save the dates for the evenings of <b>Thursday, Aug 2 for an Open House</b> to meet the teachers and <b>Thursday, Sept 6 for a night to walk through your son's schedule</b>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">-Document of <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ze4bdoffj63uahk/Billing%20and%20Payment%20Timetable%20for%202018.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">tuition and fee deadlines</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0rfso1sqrpbrotf/IA%20FORM-Physician%20Authorization.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">Authorization for Physical Activity</a>: Given the regular physical activity that occurs during the regular school day, <b>each student needs to have a physician complete this form by the start of the school year </b>to verify his ability for rigorous physical activity or to document limitations</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Used Uniform and New Spiritwear Sale!</b> This year we will offer our inventory of new and used uniform and spiritwear clothing in a pop-up store at the school. The dates that you can purchase clothing are Tuesday, July 17 at 3:00-6:00, Tuesday, July 24, 3:00-6:00 and Thursday, Aug 2 (Open House Night) from 6:00-8:00.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">S<span style="font-family: "arial";">ave the date for our annual <b>Back to School Family Picnic at Falls Lake,</b> planned for <b>Saturday, Aug 25, 3:00-7:00 pm. </b> Click on this <a href="https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-back" target="_blank">SIGNUP</a> to RSVP and bring potluck items. The signup has information on the location.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Retailer Fundraising:</b> You can have retailers make donations to Iron Academy at no cost to you! Be sure that grandparents, relatives, and friends are also connected to Iron Academy through these retailers. Whenever you shop at AMAZON, instead of going to the website amazon.com, always go instead to <b>SMILE.AMAZON.COM</b> and connect to Iron Academy as your preferred nonprofit organization. Your prime membership and prices are the same. Then every purchase you make from this version of Amazon's website results in a 0.5% donation of your purchase amount. Click or scroll on your phone to the Retailer Fundraising tab above for more information on getting donations through Harris-Teeter, Lowes food, BoxTops, Shoparoo app, Teach Me store, and Office Depot/Office Max. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-73768671529616377572018-04-20T19:06:00.000-04:002018-04-23T16:58:08.674-04:00APRIL 20 UPDATE<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FATHER-SON GO-KART RACING AT RUSH HOUR KARTING</b><br />Our father-son outing is on Tuesday night, May 1. Please do RSVP as soon as you can, even with a "maybe" so we can give Rush Hour Karting an estimate of how many will participate. Our sign-up has more information about this event: <br /><a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-fatherson" target="_blank">http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-fatherson</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK</b><br />The week of May 7-11 is Teacher Appreciation Week. We will use our IPF funds to cater a luncheon for the teachers on Wednesday, May 9. Parent Emily Curran is working with the students to put together jars filled with thank you notes. If anyone would like to make a monetary donation to the teachers for a year end gift, we will have parents available on Tuesday and Wednesday that week to collect money before and after school. We will email again with specific information on the collection as we get closer to that date.<br /><br /><b>ARTS OF THE SWORDSMEN (AOTS) UPDATE</b><br />What is AOTS? Think student talent show but with the quality of a Broadway production. For this year's show, we will have several acts of students singing and playing music but also have a shortened production of the Broadway show "Newsies The Musical." Our students have been hard at work perfecting their singing and choreography. Please do plan to attend on Tuesday night, May 22 at the Garner Performing Arts Center. We are working on putting together the stage set for Newsies and we have a list of needed prop items for the entire Iron family. Please take a few moments to look over this list of items that you probably have around your home and sign up if you have any of these items that you can bring in to the school this week (or know where we can get these items):<br /><a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-stage" target="_blank">http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-stage</a><br /><br /><b>YEARBOOK</b><br />We have a fabulous yearbook full of Mr. Anderson's outstanding photography! Please do place your order now for our yearbook. The directions on ordering are found on our IPF website:<br /><a href="http://ironparentfellowship.blogspot.com/p/yearbook.html">http://ironparentfellowship.blogspot.com/p/yearbook.html</a><br />We had a few of us already purchased the yearbook to get a discounted price. The families who already ordered are: Seemann, Swart, Collier, Huntington, Kiker, Ondachi, and McMurray. <br /><br /><b>END OF YEAR FIELD DAY</b><br />Friday, June 1 is the last day of school! Students will take exams that morning and as has become our tradition, we will have a field day that afternoon. We will have a family lunch at noon at Laurel Hills Park and then a basketball tournament on their outdoor courts. We will send out a sign-up later to request items for the family lunch. If possible, try to request that afternoon off of work to join us! <br /><br /><b>IPF BUDGET UPDATE</b><br />Our net fundraising proceeds this year (Warrior Challenge, GoPlaySave books, uniforms and spiritwear sales) is $19,336.48. The AOTS in May is also a way for us to raise money and we hopefully will raise at least $2000 more from that. We are going to get a check for $66 from BoxTops and a quarterly check for $43 from Kroger. Thank you all for your participation in our fundraising! <br /><br />Our main expenses this year are to support the athletics budget with $7434, educational expenses (mostly library and science equipment) with $3,330, repair of the school van for $1500, and decorating the school building for $1670. <br /><br />We currently have around $10,400 in our checking account, which is separate from the school's accounts. We are working with a generous family to upgrade the security of our school building and the IPF officers agreed to spend up to $4000 toward that with this family paying an equivalent amount from their own funds. </span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-5513880103099471942017-12-30T12:41:00.000-05:002017-12-30T12:45:50.163-05:00December 30 Update<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we start the new year, our school needs some refreshing too! In our first week back, we ask if you could bring in these items:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">High school families bring in large packages of toilet paper (Scott brand has Boxtops) </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For any one who wants to, the teachers also ask for loose leaf paper (college ruled), pencils, and white board markers (these can be purchased in bulk at <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/" target="_blank">smile.amazon.com</a>). Review your son's own stock of school supplies to also be sure he has enough notebooks, pens/pencils, and paper to start the new semester.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And as previously announced, we are having a <b>Work Day on Saturday Jan 6 </b>to spruce up our school and to redesign one of our rooms. Please see our sign-up on SignUpGenius for the list of projects and more details about that day. We will start at the school at 10:00 am except for one group who will meet at our storage unit on Durant Rd at 9:00. <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-family" id="LPlnk968798" target="_blank">http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-family</a></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lunch orders can now be submitted weekly by Saturday night for the following week through our new website <a href="https://ironacademy.myfooddays.com/" target="_blank">ironacademy.myfooddays.com</a>. Lunch information is available on the Lunch tab on our parent website ironparentfellowship.blogspot.com.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parent prayer meetings every Friday morning at 7:45. Join us any time that you are available!</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday, Jan 5: all students on field trip to NC History Museum for WWI Exhibit; HAVE YOUR SON BRING MONEY TO BUY LUNCH while they are downtown</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wednesday, Jan 10: All payments or returned books due from our GOPLAYSAVE fundraiser. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monday, Jan 15: no class for Martin Luther King Jr holiday</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuesday, Jan 16: Family Information Meeting for prospective families at 6:30 - please invite anyone whose son you think would be a good fit for IA or whose daughter would be a good fit for Academy 31</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday, Jan 18: Parent meeting at 6:00 to discuss results of the cognitive testing that will be given the week of Jan 8 (sign-up for this testing was due Dec 19)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday, Jan 19: MOTHER-SON GAME NIGHT at 6:30</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday, Feb 2: No class for Teacher Work Day</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of basketball games and a middle school wrestling tournament to attend! See the school's Events Calendar on our website under the Welcome tab for the dates and locations of sports activities.</span></span></li>
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<br />Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-68587972990380981722017-12-07T22:18:00.000-05:002017-12-07T22:18:21.339-05:00Update: GoPlaySave Fundraiser Information<h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Who to write the checks to?</b> All checks need to be written to IRON ACADEMY. Payments can also be made online through our virtual store at <a href="https://www.goplaysavetriangle.com/store/ia2018" target="_blank">https://www.goplaysavetriangle.com/store/ia2018</a>. </span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear Iron Academy Parents,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 14.4px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">We trust you have all enjoyed the Thanksgiving break with friends and family. We have so much to be thankful for. Speaking of thanks... Christmas is only 21 days away!</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 14.4px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">The <span class="m_8847493064680171951gmail-m_-8359805001868538478gmail-il">Teacher</span> <span class="m_8847493064680171951gmail-m_-8359805001868538478gmail-il">Appreciation</span> Commi<wbr></wbr>ttee would like to present the eight </span></span>full time and five part time faculty and staff of Iron Academy with Visa gift cards for Christmas. We want to thank them for their hard work and dedication to our <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">young men. No other school asks so much of its teachers to be mentors and positive role models to their students! They help our sons develop their critical thinking skills and hold them accountable to being gentleman scholars. </span></i></div>
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<i>The Visa gift cards will be given to the faculty and staff on <b><span class="m_8847493064680171951gmail-aBn"><span class="m_8847493064680171951gmail-aQJ"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1067106856" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">December 13th</span></span></span></span> during a Christmas Luncheon </b>we are planning for them. Please<b> click<a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-christmas" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">HERE </span>for the signup of food items</a></b> to bring for the luncheon. </i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 14.4px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 21.6px;">Any contributions towards the gift cards are strictly voluntary and choosing to contribute any amount, or none at all, would be fine. No individual names will be on the cards. The gift will be from the entire school regardless of contribution. </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A guideline might be $5.00 per <span class="m_8847493064680171951gmail-m_-8359805001868538478gmail-il">teacher that your son has</span>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 14.4px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you would like to contribute, <b>write a check payable to Anne York </b>(this contribution does not count as a charitable donation to the school and must be given as a private gift). <b>We will have volunteers at all bus stops, and morning and afternoon carpool holding a big green envelope on the following dates: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1067106857" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Thursday December 7th</span></span>, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1067106858" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday December 8th and Monday December 11th</span></span>. </b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 21.6px;"></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Thank you in advance for your generosity!</span> Blessings to you and your family this Christmas season.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">The</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Iron Academy </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"><span class="m_8847493064680171951gmail-m_-8359805001868538478gmail-il">Teacher</span> <span class="m_8847493064680171951gmail-m_-8359805001868538478gmail-il">Appreciation</span> C<wbr></wbr>ommittee</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who are these other parents who have the same educational and spiritual vision for their sons? Come meet them at our Parent/Faculty/Staff Christmas party! Thank you to the Seemann family for opening up their lovely home for our casual, drop-in party from 7:00-10:00 pm. Their address is 1419 Lutz Ave, Raleigh, 27609 near downtown Raleigh. We have created an evite for you to RSVP and to offer to bring appetizers and desserts. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click this link to RSVP to the evite by Thursday Dec 14: <a href="http://evite.me/11K3cUm3Ms" target="_blank">http://evite.me/11K3cUm3Ms</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GOPLAYSAVE Coupon book fundraiser</span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are making arrangements with GoPlaySave to sell their coupon books from mid-December to mid-January. The books sell for $30 and if each student sells just 3 books, we could make $1800 profit! Do you have a business that could set out some books to sell? We can sell these for Christmas presents or sell them in January when people may want to start saving money. The coupons start on Dec 1 2017 through Nov 30 2018. We'll have more details soon when we confirm the delivery of the books. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>RETAIL REMINDERS to support IA with your shopping:</b><b> </b> </span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For your Christmas shopping, please use <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/" target="_blank">smile.amazon.com</a> rather than amazon.com and choose Iron Academy as the charity you are supporting. Amazon will then make a donation to IA of 0.5% of your purchase. Your prime membership and all prices are the same. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have you signed up your Harris Teeter and Kroger cards to support IA? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be sure to save your BoxTops for our next collection date at the end of February. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Can you help us raise money for IA by simply taking photos any store receipt with your phone? Please download the Shoparoo app on your phone and connect to Iron Academy. Here is more information about Shoparoo and how it works: <a href="https://shoparoo.com/" target="_blank">https://shoparoo.com</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also our spiritwear makes a great gift for all family members! We have sizes from youth small to adult XXXL and for girls and women! All of our <a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-preowned" target="_blank">NEW spiritwear is now listed on our signup</a> with all of our clothing for sale. Contact Anne York if you have questions on what a particular item looks like. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to our young men who raised $512.64 in quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies in early November for Operation Gratitude, a nonprofit organization that sends care packages to deployed military. The Shammah tribe raised the most. Well done! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Swordsmen Sports: Basketball and Wrestling Update</span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our
JV basketball team is off to a strong start with 3 wins and 2 losses.
We have a talented team led by starting players DeAngelo Ross, Eden
Ondachi, Jon Anderson, Heath Mann, and Logan York along with Casher
Collier, Chad Lilly, Bryce Von Seemann, Forest Southwick, AJ Kloehn,
Jackson Welch. Our middle school team is winless so far but our players
are developing their skills quickly. The middle school team is Garrett
Anderson, Javaun Tatum, Will Curran, Dylan Hector, Brock Winstead, Leo
Dean, Isaiah Wilson, and Clayton Baynes. </span><br />
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basketball players would love for their classmates to come to the games
and cheer them on! We have upcoming games this week not far from the
school: At Thales-Apex (1300 North Salem St, Apex) on Tuesday Dec 5 at
5:30 for MS team and at 7:00 for JV team. At North Raleigh Christian
Academy (7300 Perry Creek Rd) on Thursday Dec 7 at 4:30 for JV team.
See the school's <a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/" target="_blank">events calendar</a> for our game schedule. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Participants
in our wrestling club are Drew Atwell, Deacon Rock, Kendall Moragne,
Carter McMurray, Jackson McMurray, Stephen Anderson, Stone Kiker, and
Brayant Sanchez. Practices have started and they are preparing for
tournaments in January. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fall Semester Exam Schedule</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HKciEAax91tQ_Mp9qrMkcIPv4y31FeAOSo-IfgJOylA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE </a>for the spreadsheet sent by Mr. Anderson for the final exam schedule on Dec 15, 18, and 19. On Tuesday, Dec 19, we will also have a little<b> Christmas party and fun time</b> <b>during the extended lunch time for the students</b>. We'll send out a sign-up soon of some items to bring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead of using Signupgenius to manage our lunch ordering program, we are switching to MyFoodDays.com. MyFoodDays.com offers better credit card processing and website management fees that will allow us to lower the prices of the lunch menu. You will also be able to order more frequently rather than for the entire month at a time. Be on the lookout in your email for instructions in the next week or two on how to sign up to use MyFoodDays.com. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All Student Field Trip to NC History Museum on Friday, January 5</span></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All of our students will go on a field trip to see the exhibit "<a href="https://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/NC-World-War-One" target="_blank">North Carolina and World War I</a>" at the NC History Museum. Students will leave campus at 8:00 am and will eat lunch during their visit. There will be no lunch ordering that day. More details coming soon! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we start the new year and new semester, we need a work day to move around and throw out some items that are not needed (some left by the previous school who used this facility) and to do a deeper cleaning of the floors and walls and dust the furniture. We'll ask for RSVPs as we get closer to that date. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Save the date for our second annual mother and son game night on Friday, January 19 at 6:30 pm at the school. We'll have pizza and snacks and loads of fun games! Watch for a signup to RSVP and for items to bring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've got a lot of shirts, pants, and shorts and a lunch box in our Lost and Found bin. Photos of each item are shown <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/NdQJSjxbiOEXPpE22" target="_blank">HERE </a>to help your son claim what belongs to him. Any items left at the school on Dec 19 will be claimed to be resold, donated, or thrown away. Please write your son's name in his clothes to help him get any lost clothes returned to him. </span><br />
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Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-91473876760908933322017-11-05T15:05:00.000-05:002017-11-05T15:05:21.312-05:00November 5 Update<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Upcoming IPF Activities:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Monday Nov 13, 7:00 PM</u>: One night only showing of <a href="https://genesismovie.com/" target="_blank"><i>Genesis: Paradise Lost</i></a> at the North Hills Cinema and other local theaters. Click <a href="https://youtu.be/8Sq02Mj-fKk" target="_blank">HERE </a>to watch the movie trailer. Thank you to Parent Dionne Moragne who set up an <a href="https://www.punchbowl.com/parties/45d73bf19eda34db33c0" target="_blank">invitation to purchase tickets </a>if anyone would like to go to the North Hills Cinema. A description of the movie is: "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cutting-edge cinematography meets proven science and biblical accuracy to deliver <strong>GENESIS: PARADISE LOST</strong>,
bringing the first book of the Bible to life in both 2D and 3D formats
on the big screen. Stunning visual effects and field research invite
audiences to explore the much-studied and debated opening chapters of
the Bible. This highly-anticipated movie event will show in cinemas
nationwide on Monday, November 13 at 7:00 p.m. local time." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Wednesday Dec 13, 11:15 AM:</u> Teacher Appreciation Luncheon. We will have a signupgenius go out after Thanksgiving to request food items to bring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Friday, Dec 15, 7:00-9:00 PM</u>: Parent and Faculty/Staff Christmas Party at the home of Michelle and Shea Lilly, parents of Chad in 10th grade. You can find their address in the Renweb directory. We will have potluck items to sign up to bring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Friday, Jan 19, 6:30-8:30 PM:</u> Mother-son game night at the school! We are planning a father-son activity in April. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Reminder</b> to send in the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzAZFU4nWj3zZmFBTUdRYVBOMU5qUkVBMnREVW1hNnV6VDln/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Parental Mentor Information Sheet</a> to Mr. Mack as soon as possible. Mr. Mack sent this in an email message to all families on Oct 17. He is offering a lunch of grilled bratwurst to the tribe that gets all of their forms turned in first. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Information from Mr. Hahn as we start the second quarter</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Information included in the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzAZFU4nWj3zcjlWVm9CN3dnZGViMVlIa0Z1c3kwWGpfWVc4/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">attached pdf (click here)</a> goes from Navy SEALs to 6<sup>th</sup> graders making fire to college :</span></span></div>
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Matching Donation</a>!</span></span></li>
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Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-58340348463114889382017-09-17T17:13:00.000-04:002017-09-17T17:13:19.564-04:00September 17 - Warrior Challenge Sponsorships<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are just 4 weeks away until our Warrior Challenge Student Fundraising event! I'm reaching out to our parents to ask if your
<u>business or employer would like to sponsor this event</u>. Click this <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzAZFU4nWj3zaTN0bXRXckxucExJUlB1WWtzcU9zSUROZ3p3/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">link for a handout</a> that explains our contribution levels and the promotional
opportunities that your business will receive. To see what we have
previously done to promote and thank our sponsors,
click this link for last year's event: <a class="m_5620915882635905045m_-6846874086969624650OWAAutoLink" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.ironacademy.org/2015-warrior-challenge/&source=gmail&ust=1505768815515000&usg=AFQjCNGkla3D9xKDkbeIpRytYpehweHpIw" href="http://www.ironacademy.org/2015-warrior-challenge/" id="m_5620915882635905045m_-6846874086969624650LPlnk466635" target="_blank">http://www.ironacademy.org/20<wbr></wbr>15-warrior-challenge/</a> We will also set up a web page to receive
online donations this year and your business will be listed there too. <b>If you are interested in being a sponsor, please reply back to this message no later than <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_281734703" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Friday, Sept 22</span></span>. As explained below, IA has a
<u>matching grant</u> to raise $100,000 by this <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_281734704" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">December 31</span></span> and your sponsorship can help the school reach that goal!</b></span>
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fun-run type of event but instead of students asking for donations for
the number of times they walk/run around a track, our students will ask
for donations for how many sit-ups, push-ups,
or big tire flips they can do or for how FAST they can run one mile. I
will give a handout to our students this week with more details about
it. Students compete individually on how much funds they raise and
we have a tribe competition to earn the title
of the "Mightiest Tribe" for the year, as determined by the tribe's
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contribution underwrites the costs of our events but also will
contribute toward academic and extracurricular spending. The Iron
Parent Fellowship (our version of a PTA) has recently spent $850
for 4 microscopes and about $2000 toward school furniture (desks,
chairs, bookcases, carpets), photos to decorate our hallways, library
materials, and painting. <span>The IPF checking account currently has a balance of around $4000 and we like to keep a minimum
balance of $3000 for emergency funds.</span> This year our spending
plans include buying more science equipment (stereoscopes, additional
microscopes, dissection supplies); continue to support the library with
purchases of newer, recently written books (nearly
all of our library books are older used books); PE equipment; and
recreational items for the students to play during lunch or afterschool
care such as board games, corn hole, magnetic darts, etc. (If you do
happen to have any board games in good condition
that your family no longer uses, we'd be glad to accept that
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>$100,000 matching grant:</b> The school has a matching grant opportunity of up to $100,000 with a <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_281734705" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Dec 31</span></span>
deadline! But this matching grant only applies toward new donations or
donations higher than what has previously been given. That is, if your
business
has not previously sponsored an IA event, then we can apply 100% of
your sponsorship toward the matching grant! If you sponsored the Warrior
Challenge last year, we can apply the amount above last year's
sponsorship rate toward the matching grant. The IPF
is under the school's 501c3 designation as a nonprofit organization. </span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-51543920300413983142017-09-04T15:09:00.000-04:002017-09-04T15:09:00.707-04:00September 4, 2017 Update<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Update from Mr. Hahn:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> </b><br />We love our students! It is a privilege to partner with your family in helping your son become a gentleman scholar and mighty man of God. Thank you for choosing Iron Academy. We had two amazing weeks at camp, and are pleased to see great potential in the students attending Iron this year. The new students are adapting well, and this year promises to be a landmark year for Iron Academy. We have a lot of information to pass on about upcoming events.<br /><br />Mid-term grades will come out in September. In the meantime, homework assignments and grades are posted daily for your son on RenWeb. RenWeb also hosts an Iron family directory, in case you’d like to contact other Iron families. New families, please be sure our emails are not hiding in your spam folder. Most information will come via email, and we want you to stay in the loop. One of our focal points this year is to make sure we are communicating better with you. That starts today. Link to <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzAZFU4nWj3zNGk2LWVTRkQ4bDFnVmE5dG5oRmFKUGJvdV9B" target="_blank">document for RenWeb</a> login tutorial.<br /><br /><b>At the end of our first quarter, 6th and 9th grades will have one week of intensives</b>. All other grades will continue classes as usual. In October, 6th grade will participate in orienteering and outdoor skills. We have a former Navy SEAL fly in from Kansas to teach our young men about orienteering (map and compass work) and other outdoor skills. 9th grade will focus on college application and resume planning. This class has been tremendously valuable for our 9th-grade students. It will be even better this year with the addition of our college counselor, Bethany Benson, arranging visitors and visiting monthly with our high school students. We’ll also have a night for parents to come in and learn about what you can and should be doing now. College, after all, is not far away. 7th, 8th, and 10th will not have a fall intensive. <br /><br />We will be hosting a work day on campus on an upcoming Saturday. Summit Church may be coming in with a small army of volunteers to help us with several things: painting, removing coat rails/hooks, making cross country trails, etc. As we are trying to plan with them and in accordance with the volunteers, an announcement may come out within a very short time of the actual date.<br /><br />We do have some <b>volunteer opportunities</b> if you are interested now.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We need a volunteer team to pick up a refrigerator in Holly Springs and deliver/install it at school.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also need a father/son team with some easy technical work with a PC and speakers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have some Bose speakers donated for use in the Study Skills room. We need an old-school receiver/stereo setup to power them. If you would like to procure an inexpensive used system (widely available on Craigslist) and install the system and speakers, we’d love to hear the Bose 401s in action.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Becky Visser continues to lead a team of students and parents in making the school a beautiful place. Thank you, Becky! I know they will do wonders with any cash and time donations.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our <b>first tribe day will be September 25th</b>. Attendance is mandatory for students. Students will start Blade Maintenance Plans this day, which will help hold him accountable to the honor code. <br /><br /><b>Fall sports awards will be September 26th at 7 pm</b>, so mark your calendars if your son is participating in Fall sports. <b>Basketball tryouts</b> will be in October for middle and high school teams. Coach Mitchell will publish more about that.<br /><br />In looking ahead, <b>10th graders will be taking the PSAT on Saturday, October 14th</b>. Please put that on your calendar so your 10th grader can participate. </span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-4051134830583471802017-08-31T21:51:00.001-04:002017-08-31T21:51:36.567-04:00August 2017 Newsletter<h3>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome Back to School!</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Welcome back for the 2017-2018 school year at our new location on Edwards Mill Rd! Our school year has started out with its own unique experiences of Forging Camp and Crucible Camp. Below are photos of our young men at the end of each journey! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our third Arts of the Swordsmen (AOTS) event will be held on <b>Friday evening, May 12!</b> This event is a fun way for our sons to develop and showcase their artistic talents: drama, dance, singing, musical instruments, and once again, a STOMP show! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No previous artistic experience is required! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please do show your son this video from last year's STOMP performance:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parent Travis Kiker of 9th grader Stone will organize our events. Travis will meet with the students at school soon and we will start rehearsals in early March. We do also have some fundraising aspects with this event. Areas of HELP NEEDED FROM PARENTS are:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Can you connect us to people who would be good mentors for our students to develop and showcase their talents?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asking businesses to donate door prizes for us to give away during the event, such as gift cards to grocery stores?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asking businesses for donated merchandise that we can raffle or auction off?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you have a business or know of one who would want to buy an ad in our Playbill and be recognized as an event sponsor? We will have very reasonable advertising rates - more information coming soon. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are able to help in any of these areas, please send an email to <a href="mailto:IPF@ironacademy.org" target="_blank">IPF@ironacademy.org</a> soon. We are looking forward to another amazing display of the talents of our young men!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you all for the fundraising you have helped us with so far this year!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Educational: $5600 (including $2200 to support trip to St. Benedict's in New Jersey to learn about their student leadership model, $2500 to support salaries of instructors hired for the October Intensive Week, $220 for Honor Code t-shirts for students who went to Crucible Camp, $180 for dissection kits for science class, $350 to buy the student school planners given to all students)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Social Activities: $400 (Teacher Appreciation luncheon, snacks for family events, Christmas party for students)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have two opportunities for raising more funds in February:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Selling donated merchandise at the Kids Exchange. Do you have any of these kids items (babies to teens) that are in <u>good condition</u> to donate to IA for us to sell: books, sports equipment, dolls, video games, old video game systems, kid and family movies on DVD, children's furniture, bikes, back packs, puzzles, board games, shoes, Nerf guns, toys, etc? Do your relatives and friends have kids items they are willing to donate to us? If so, please contact Anne York at <a href="mailto:IPF@ironacademy.org" target="_blank">IPF@ironacademy.org</a> to arrange to deliver your items no later than <u>Friday, Feb 3.</u></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Time to collect BOXTOPS! The BoxTops people have a deadline of submitting them by the end of February. We will have bags pinned to the bulletin board in each classroom for your sons to submit their BoxTops - please bring them to school by <u>Friday, Feb 24.</u> This is the last time to submit BoxTops this school year - please feel free to scour your pantry and clip them off food you haven't eaten yet! :) </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And our retail fundraising continues - please click or scroll to the tab above to see how to support IA when you shop at Amazon, Groupon, Harris-Teeter, Kroger and help us by simply scanning copies of your grocery store receipts with the Shoparoo app.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both schools are now enrolling for grades 6 to 10 for the 2017-2018 school year! There will be information sessions from February to April at Providence Baptist, Crossroads Fellowship, Colonial Baptist in Cary, and RFA (Raleigh First Assembly). Please send this webpage with the dates for the information sessions to anyone with sons or daughters who would be good fits for IA and A31: <a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/admissions/the-admissions-process/" target="_blank">http://www.ironacademy.org/admissions/the-admissions-process/</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">The IPF officers will have a meeting on Saturday, Jan 28 at 9:30 am to work on plans for our family and student events and activities for the spring semester. If you have any ideas, please share them at IPF@ironacademy.org. </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Our faculty and staff do an AMAZING job with teaching and mentoring our sons in biblical manhood. As a show of our appreciation, we will celebrate with a Teacher Appreciation Luncheon on Wednesday, December 14 during the 11:20 lunch. Our IPF funds will pay for a meat dish and we have sign up slots to bring in soups, salads, desserts, etc. We will also need a couple of parent volunteers to watch our sons during their lunch so the teachers can enjoy their time together. Click on this SignUpGenius link below to sign up soon: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our Teacher Appreciation Committee will also collect any monetary contributions that you would like to make toward Visa gift cards that we will give during the luncheon. Any contributions toward this gift are completely voluntary and choosing to contribute any amount, or none at all, would be fine. A useful guideline might be $5 to $10 per teacher that your son has. The cards will be from the entire school with no names included. Envelopes to put your contribution in will be sent home with your sons on Monday, Dec 5. You can pay with cash or check. If writing a check, you should write it to "Anne York". (To avoid income tax issues for the teachers, do NOT write the check to the school. This gift does not count as a charitable donation.) Parents will be available to collect your contributions during 3 carpool times: Wednesday afternoon Dec 7, Thursday morning Dec 8, and Friday morning Dec 9. Your son can also give your contribution to 9th grader Logan York no later than Monday, Dec 12. Thank you for your support of our dedicated teachers and staff! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Are there any book lovers on your Christmas shopping list from toddlers to senior citizens? </span></span></span>If so, we are excited <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to offer </span>our fundraising partnership with Quail Ridge Books! For any person who purchases any merchandise at their store between Dec 11 to Dec 13 and simply <b>tells the cashier that they want to</b> <b>"support Iron Academy,"</b> then we receive a <b>donation of 20%</b> of that buyer's purchase amount! Come to the new Quail Ridge Books located in the North Hills Mall area at 4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road. Please let grandparents and other family and friends know about this opportunity to support IA. Reader's Club discounts do not apply for book fair purchases.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Quail Ridge will host two events during our book fair days. </span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Have a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> food lover <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on your Christmas list? </span></span>On Sunday Dec 11 from 2:00-4:00, they will have a <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/book/9781607746874" target="_blank">book signing</a> of Ashley Christensen's new cookbook "Poole's: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Diner." Ashley is the chef and owner of seven local restaurants: Poole's
Diner, Beasley's Chicken + Honey, Chuck's, Fox Liquor Bar, Joule Coffee
& Table, Death & Taxes, and Bridge Club all located in downtown
Raleigh. Ashley's cooking and her philosophy of bright,
fresh flavors and locally grown, seasonal ingredients have garnered
local and national acclaim. In 2014, Ashley was awarded the James
Beard Award for Best Chef Southeast.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">On Monday Dec 12 at 5:00 pm there will be a Christmas concert from the <a href="http://www.quailridgebooks.com/event/rbchoir216" target="_blank">Raleigh Boychoir</a>! Enjoy the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">beautiful music of Christmas while you shop for books.</span> </span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) 30% <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Off Sale <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All New </span>IA Spiritwear and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pre-Owned Clothing</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">O<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ver these same 3 days of Dec 11 to Dec 13<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, all of our sp<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">iritw<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ear and used clothing can be purchased through <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">our <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SignUpGenius listing<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and upon receipt of payment through PayPal, we will <b>issue you a refund <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">30% off the total purchase price</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">! We do have s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">everal LAND'S END JACKETS w<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ith the Iron logo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in our inventory. See the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Clothi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ng Sale tab above for<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> pictures of some of our spiritwear<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and you can make the purchase on SignUpG<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">enius at <a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-preowned" target="_blank">http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-preowned</a>. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">THANK YOU GIFT WITH PURCHASE</span>: Our gift to you for making either purchase is an Iron Academy car magnet! <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We will <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">be notified by PayPal of </span>any clothing purchases but simply let any IPF officer (Anne York, Heather <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mauzy, Lisa Wald, Wendy Collier, Denise Lake) </span>know if you do make a purchase at the book fair and we will <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">give to you<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> an IA car magnet to show our <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">appreciation of your support!</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you only want to purchase a magnet (or want a second or t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hird magnet)</span>, we will put those on sale too <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at </span>$3 instead of our<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> regular price of $5 between Dec 11 to 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also remember that we have s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">everal ways for IA to receive donations from retail<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ers<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> with no add<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">itional cost to you<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> See the tab above for information on how to use the phone app Shoparoo, the web browser plug-in Ziggedy for online shop<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">p<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing discounts</span></span>, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harris<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-Teeter, Kroger, Office Depot/Office Max, Amazon, and BoxTops.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Update<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s</span> from Mr. Hahn</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NEW LOCAT<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ION: </span>We had a terrific second meeting with a pastor and deacon board this past week for a new location for our school. Our lease proposal to<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> them will be submitted to the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> church for approval on December 14. Please pray for this deal to<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> come quickly and smoothly to fruition.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ADMISSIONS: For those who are not on Facebook, we had a recent post that you can copy and paste below if you know of any rising 6th to 10th graders who would be a good fit for IA:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Online Application is Open Now for 2017-2018! If you are looking for
something better for you son, you need to check out Iron Academy.</span><br />
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Looking for an intentional discipleship community that works with you
and your church to build your son according to the timeless principles
of biblical manhood? That's Iron Academy.<br /> Looking for a superb
education that takes male learning preferences into account to achieve
an astounding average first-year IQ growth rate of 8.6% and two-year ave<span class="text_exposed_show">rage of almost 16%? That's Iron Academy.<br />
Looking for an environment that strategically and effectively builds
globally demanded higher-order critical thinking skills in ways
consistent with modern cognitive science? That's Iron Academy.<br /> Looking for daily, intensive, hands-on leadership training? That's Iron Academy too. <br />
If your family is looking for an ally in the educational process, Iron
Academy is here. Sounds too good to be true? Come and verify. Begin the
process now and schedule a tour by emailing us at info@ironacademy.org</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Please feel free to also share this video with prospective families that shows what our unique school day is like by copying this link: https://youtu.be/DWRRwG7zu88</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;">Two Day Lunch Delivery</span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Starting in January, we will be able to have Grand Street Pizza deliver lunches on both TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS! To start our first delivery on Tuesday, January 3, look for our Lunch SignUpGenius for January that will be distributed after Christmas. You must place your January order by Sunday, January 1. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><b>DEBATE TEAM</b>: On Monday Dec 12, Zach Wald and Brendan Hanna will use the cutting edge TelePresence technology from Cisco Systems in RTP to debate against Prestonwood Christian Academy in Texas! Forest Southwick will serve as the timekeeper. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BASKETBALL TEAM</b>: Our middle school team is off to a great start with 2 wins and 1 loss! The JV basketball team will have its first game on Monday, Dec 5 against Cary Academy. The games are listed on our Events Calendar under the Welcome tab of the school's website. Home games are played at the Wendell Parks and Rec center at 601 W. Third Street, Wendell.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><b>SPANISH CLASSES</b>: Several of our Spanish classes are finishing up a unit on food and recipes. The students are assigned an interesting project to create a "Cooking Video" on how to cook a dish of Hispanic origin. The students researched the dish and its recipe and created a script for the video. Spanish class will be delicious when the dishes are brought in to eat! </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><b>BLADE MAINTENANCE PLANS</b>: See the recent email message from Mr. Anderson that has your son's scores and feedback for his Blade Maintenance Plan. Discuss this plan with your son and develop a plan of action to address any areas that need improvement. Please review and sign the Blade Plan Form and return it to Mr. Anderson no later than Friday, Dec 16. That day is a mandatory Student Tribe Day.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><b>EXAM SCHEDULE</b>: Mr. Hahn recently emailed a listing of which exam will be on which day. The schedule for the week of Dec 12 to 16 is:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Monday: All students will go to all classes for review with their teachers</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">6th grade: Literature, Study Skills break, Bible, Math</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">7th grade: Science, Study Skills break, Bible, Spanish</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">8th grade: History, Study Skills break, Spanish, PE</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">9th grade: Spanish, Study Skills break, Science, PE</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">6th grade: Study Skills break, History, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break, Science</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">7th grade: Math, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break, History</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">8th grade: Literature, Math, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break, Bible</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">9th grade: Greek, Literature, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Thursday:</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">6th grade: Spanish, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break, PE, Chores</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">7th grade: Literature, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break, PE, Chores</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">8th grade: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break, watch Civil War documentary, Science, Chores</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">9th grade: History, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Study Skills break, Math, Chores</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Friday: Mandatory Student Tribe Day</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HAVE A JOYOUS AND BLESSED CHRI<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">STMAS AS WE CELEBRATE THAT TRUE REASON FOR THE SEASON, THE BIRTH OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR!</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </h3>
Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-82919328952506241282016-10-28T20:11:00.000-04:002016-10-28T21:09:30.464-04:00October 28 Update<h3>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lunch Delivery for both November and December</span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">You can start signing up now for the 6 weeks of Thursday lunches for the rest of the second quarter. <u>Please submit your menu choices by <span style="background-color: yellow;">Tuesday night, Nov 1</span></u>. See the tab above for "Lunch Delivery" or when you sign into your SignUpGenius account you will see the sign-up for November and December lunch delivery already there. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;">Warrior Challenge Update</span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">As of Friday, Oct 28, we have earned $3000 in sponsorships and about $1200 in donations have been submitted so far. Our goal is to raise $10,000. The Grand Prize of being designated as the Ultimate Warriors is awarded to the tribe that has each member raise at least $40 and has the highest average fundraising total. Each Ultimate Warrior tribe member will get an Iron Academy pocket knife and doughnuts one morning for "refuel time"! Students will also have the opportunity to choose prizes if they are among the top 10 fundraisers. The prizes they may select include passes to Defy Gravity, free bowling passes at Buffalo Lanes, Grand Slam USA voucher, Gamesturz free game time passes, free putt-putt and video game tokens at Adventure Landing, Chick-fil-a free breakfast cards, or one free sandwich per month for an entire year from Big Apple Bagels! Many thanks to parent Emily Curran who contacted all of these businesses to get donated prizes. We have already determined who the "Strongest Tribe" is from their activities on the WC day and that winner was Josheb! This tribe will be treated to an off-campus lunch at the Mellow Mushroom in Wake Forest, sponsored by the Kiker family. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><b>We will accept any donation at any time that it comes in but try to have the donations submitted no later than Tuesday, Nov 1 to count it in your son's fundraising total to determine prizes.</b> <u>For both the morning and afternoon carpool times this Monday and Tuesday, you can give your donations to Anne York, Rebekah Anderson, or any of the teachers who are at the doors.</u> Online donations can be submitted through Tuesday evening at <a href="http://warriorchallenge2016.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://warriorchallenge2016.blogspot.com/</a></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Our young men did a great job! They tried their hardest in sit-ups, push-ups, and squats and clocked some of their fastest times ever for the 1 mile run! Below is a brief video (more polished than what was sent out already) that shows all of their outstanding efforts! It was also so heartening how the young men rallied around and encouraged each other to do their best. This video is on Iron's Facebook if you want to share it to request donations. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">You can also email this link to the video to show what your son has been doing to raise money for his school: <a href="https://youtu.be/vILJODUyzU0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/vILJODUyzU0</a>. The funds that we raise from the Warrior Challenge help to pay for many school expenses such as library books, the challenge coins, the knives for the 9th grade Forging Camp, referees, athletic uniforms, field rental for our athletic teams, PE and classroom supplies. Through the generosity of the donors who sponsor your son, we are providing an extra source of revenue to help fund school operations. Mr. Hahn is also doing a major fundraising campaign for the school and if you know of a potential donor who is interested in investing in the future of Iron Academy, please talk to Mr. Hahn.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">R<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">equest for hosts for grade level dinners</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lisa Wald, th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IPF Co-Vice <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chair of Family and S<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ocial Activities, has sent out a request to see if anyone <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is willing to host a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">parent dinner <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">party <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the parents in your son's grade. We did these last year and it was a great opportunity to get <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to know the parents of the new friends that our sons are making at IA. The dinner party will be potluck<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Please reply to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lisa very soon at lisa.wald@yahoo.com<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> if you are willing to open yo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ur home<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dinner </span>can be planned at a time that work<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s best <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the host's schedule. We would like to do these in November or December.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BASKETBALL: Tryouts for middle school and JV basketball start Monday, October 31! Please encourage your son to try out - we need enough to fill two teams! A middle school player can "play up" on the JV team but 9th graders can't play on the middle school team. The basketball participation fee is $150 and can be paid in full to Coach Mitchell or Rebekah Anderson by Friday, Nov 4 or make two payments $75 by Nov 4 and $75 by December 1. The basketball practice and game schedule is already on our school events calendar at:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WRESTLING: Wrestling is a club sport for Iron this year and will begin <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on Tuesday, Nov 1</span>. Coach Mitchell will be the coach and will teach the basics of wrestling and take the students to tournaments for individual competition. There is no participation fee for wrestling but players will need to buy their own uniforms which are expected to cost around $50 and may need to pay very small tournament fees. Players will keep their uniforms. The dates and times for the wrestling practices is also already on our school events calendar:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">any questions about our <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">athletic teams or <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">player <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">academic and conduct eligibility requir<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ements</span></span></span>, contact Coach Mitchell at jmit<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ch<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ell@ironacademy.org.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SOCCER AND CROSS<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> COUNTRY <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UPDATES: Our middle school soccer team won the tournament and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">first eve<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Triangle Area Athletic Conference <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">C</span></span></span>hampionship by beating Thales-Rolesville 3-1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">! The team ended <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eason with 11 victories and 2 close losses. They played with heart, character, and tenacity.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our cross country team <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was the runner-up in their <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">conference tournament!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> All of our cross country players did very well this year with many top 10 finishes or <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">finishing in the top 50% of the runners. </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span> </span></span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-39256112436778074362016-10-02T22:07:00.000-04:002016-10-03T10:46:42.403-04:00October 2016 Newsletter<h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">October Lunch Delivery on Thursdays</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Please click the "Lunch Delivery" tab above for information and the link to the SignUpGenius for our October Lunch delivery. You can also find the sign up for delivery whenever you sign into your SignUpGenius account. Please try to place all orders for the month no later than Tuesday, Oct 4. The students are really enjoying the food!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Urgent <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Need for </span>Parent and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Family </span>Volunteer<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To help our families know when we will have all of our events that need volunteers, we have put the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">events<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">/activities</span></span></span> into a SignUpGenius list at <a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-parent" target="_blank">http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-parent</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>We have two events in October in immediate need of volunteers: the Cross-Country Conference Meet that IA is hosting at our school on Saturday morning, Oct 8 (9:00-noon for volunteers) and the Warrior Challenge student fundraising event on Oct 25 (noon to 3:00 pm for volunteers). </u> We also need drivers for field trips during the I<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ntensive Week explained below. </span>While it is a blessing to have a small school with the mentoring relationship that our teachers have with the students, it also means that we really need each family to volunteer at least once this year in order to have enough help with our activities. Grandparents are welcome to volunteer too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Warrior Challenge - Ready for Kickoff</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">This Thursday Oct 6 the students will set their goals for the fitness activity they will do for the Warrior Challenge on October 25! With their fitness goal in hand, the students will seek donations from family, friends, relatives, neighbors, etc. We'll have information sent home in a packet on Thursday and will also email it to the parents. Thank you to everyone who has requested to be a corporate sponsor - we still have some room on the t-shirt for more logos! Our t-shirt vendor has given us until Friday, Oct 7 if anyone else would like the opportunity to ally with IA and promote your business. Send an email to <a href="mailto:IPF@ironacademy.org">IPF@ironacademy.org</a> for more information on being a sponsor. </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tribe Day <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on </span>Oct <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10</span> and Challenge Coin Ceremony <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on </span>Oct 26</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A very un<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ique aspect of an Iron Academy education is the attention paid to truly living up to our Honor Code<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Parents should be on the lookout the week of October 3 for a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">survey to fill out about your son on where you <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see that he stands in his efforts to live the H<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">onor Code and be a g<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">entleman scholar</span>.</span></span></span> On Monday October<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 10, please be sure that you son is in school for the entire day for their first Trib<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e Day. The Tribe Day is NOT an A or B day and students will not need to bring their textbooks to school that day. The students will do tribe activities, including assessing where they see each other stands in living up to the Honor Code and in being a gentleman scholar<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The faculty will also assess each student<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> By October 20, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">parents will be notified if their son is or is not eligible to receive his Challenge Coin if <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he does not currently have one. The Challenge Coin Ceremony will be on Wednesday, October 26, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11:30-<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12:30<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> if the parents would like to attend.</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scho<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ol Holiday on <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fri Oct 14 and </span></span>I<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ntensive Week Oct 17-21</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">October is a bu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sy month! Please be sure to frequently view our Events Calendar <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that can be found in the tab above or from the ironacademy.org website under the Welcome tab: <a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/" target="_blank">http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/</a>. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please note that <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Friday October 14 is a day with <u>no classes</u></b> so that families can e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">njoy the NC State Fair<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and that </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we will have our first <b>INTENSIVE WEEK from Oct 17 to 21</b>. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our exciting line-up f<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or this upcomi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ng Intensive Week</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6th grade: Orienteering and Outdoor Skills. There<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is an open inv<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">itation to 6th grade dads to join us on Thursday night Oct 20 for an overnight camp out with<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> our instructor/minister and former Navy seal. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7th grade: Art History II. We will take a trip to the North Carolina Museum of Art on<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Tuesday morning, Oct 18. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two volunteer drivers will be needed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8th grade: M<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on/Tues/Wed will be "Creative Storytelling and Critical Analysis" from a biblical worldview and Thurs/Fri will be Apologetics</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9th grade: College Application Planning and will need <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">volunteer drivers on Friday morning Oct 21 for our college visit. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ALL parents are invi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ted to attend a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> meeting on Thursday evening, Oct 20 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(time to be announced soon)</span> with <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n Admissions Officer from Campbell University</span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to discuss how families can plan and navigate the colle<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ge admissions process.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> Families with older students who are <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">soon applying to college will <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">find this meeting to help them too. </span></span> </span> </span> </span></span> </span></span></span></span> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Announcements from September Parent Kickoff Meeting</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">In case you missed the September 6 Parent Kickoff/Open House meeting, Mr. Hahn made several announcements. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The IA Core Values were discussed. "That we may glorify God in all things, we will:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Love every student so that every student knows it</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Complement the family and the church, never displacing either</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Build and embody a discipleship community by biblically resolving conflict, eliminating gossip and slander, and loving the IA family</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Live the Honor Code"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> Handouts were distributed with contact information for each teacher and who to contact for different questions. Please see Rebekah Anderson to get a copy of this handout. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">There will be various surveys sent to the parents from school administration throughout the year. Please complete these surveys very soon when you receive one.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">We are looking to move IA by next year to a location in North Raleigh, to the west of where we currently are at Radiant Church. We are in talks with a couple of churches in the Six Forks Rd area. Please be in prayer about a location that is more convenient for our families.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">We have had many requests to open a single gender school for girls with a focus on biblical womanhood. We have therefore decided next year to open "Academy 31," which is named for Proverbs 31. Academy 31 and Iron Academy will operate under one administrative structure but students will be in single-gender classes. We are in the process of hiring a female leader for Academy 31 and have three outstanding candidates. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The school calendar has been modified and Veteran's Day on Nov 11 will NOT be a school day. Families can use that day on their own to commemorate Veteran's Day. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What happens <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">during a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> typical IA school day? A lot! Learning, leading,<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> fitness, and fun! Anne York is putting together a video to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">illustrate our school day, but <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here is a sneak peak from a video that Google Photos randomly put together from video c<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lips:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Science Lab Saturday - Oct 22 - 7th and 8th graders only</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The science labs for this month are <u>only for the 7th and 8th graders</u>. Time is 8:00-11:30 am. Please have your son dress in his academic clothes (polo shirts, khaki shorts or pants) with closed toe shoes. He needs to bring a pencil, notebook, and snack and water. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Athletics Update</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">IA is a member of the newly formed Triangle Area Athletic Conference (TAAC) for middle schools. The other TAAC members are Thales-Rolesville, Thales-Apex, Wake Forest Charter, and Southside Christian. All of our MS teams will compete for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">C</span>onference <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">C</span>hampionships on these days:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Soccer: October 13 and hosted by Thales-Rolesville</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Cross-Country: Saturday October 8 and hosted by Iron Academy. We will need 15-20 volunteers to manage this event, including timers, course guides, registration, and parking. The races start at 10:00 am but volunteers should come by 9:00<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> am</span>. </span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><u>Soccer news</u>: We have clinched the 2nd place seeding in our conference with a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7</span>-1 record, including 3 shutout wins! Game 1 of the end of season tournament will be played at home on October 10 at 4:30. We w<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ant to t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hank Mr. Rich Anderson for getting our team started<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> this season and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">welcome </span></span></span></span>Mr. Wes Starr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to our coa<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ching staff to fini<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sh the season. </span></span></span></span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><u>Cross country news</u>: In our first year as a team, we have 7 young men who stepped up to tackle the grueling endurance challenge that is cross country. Middle school races are approximately 2 miles while high school distance is 3.25 miles. Our middle school runners are Brendan Hanna, Zac Lake, Ben Boylston, Casher Collier, and Jon Anderson. Our JV runners are Stephen Anderson and Byron Brewington. Our runners have done very well with finishing in the top half of the rankings. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of note, </span>Zac Lake has finished 3rd out of 52 and Ben has finished 9th out of 52 at a recent race, each having shaved a minute off of their previous times. The c<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ross-country team is coached by Jon Mit<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chell.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Winter sports</u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u> will begin on October 31.</u> We will offer Middle School basketball, JV b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">asketball, and a combined middle<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> school/JV wrestling club. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Students who are interest<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ed</span> in <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">participating in winter sports must meet eligibility requirements (good academic standing and cond<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uct)</span> prior to trying out. Con<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tact Coach Mit<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chell for questions about eligi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bility. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For our PE courses, Coach Mitchell would like t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o remind the parents to have their sons com<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e prepared each day with approved PE attire<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, a towel, water bottle, and if needed, deodorant. Approved PE attire is an IA <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t-shirt from Land's End or any of our <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">spiritwear t-shirts. Athletic <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s</span>horts must be solid black, gray, or crimson<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">/<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">burgundy. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Extracurricular Club Activities</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debate Team<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> members will be selected in mid-October. Any students who are interested in joining the debate team can still come to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one of their meetings on Wednesday<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s, 3:30-<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5:30 in the History c<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lassroom. For <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o</span>ur <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Real Adventures Outdoors Club, the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> October s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">chedule is 10/7: orienteering on campus ($20)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; 10/21: fishing off campus ($25)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">; and 10/28: camping skills on campus ($20). You can contact Danny Myers </span></span></span></span>at <a href="mailto:danny@mtstosea.com" target="_blank">danny@mtstosea.com</a> if you would like to be added to the email list for Outdoors Club activities. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-16799361095999205672016-09-02T00:10:00.001-04:002016-09-02T08:03:45.884-04:00September 2016 Newsletter<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to everyone who shared food and their recreational equipment at the Back-to- School Picnic on August 27! What a fun time we had!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">NEW - Lunch Delivery on Thursdays starting Sept 8</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are pleased to partner with Grand Street Pizza in Knightdale to start with once per week lunch delivery on every Thursday. We have choices of 21 different entrees! <b>See the Lunch Delivery tab above for more details and how to place your order.</b> We will use SignUpGenius and PayPal to order and pay online and will order for a month at a time. Please place your order for September no later than Tuesday night, Sept 6. Many thanks go to parent Denise Hanna who scouted out all of the Knightdale restaurants to find good food for us! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parent Open House Meeting on Tuesday Sept 6 at 6:30 PM</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are looking forward to seeing everyone at the Open House night for the parents to meet their son's teachers. We will begin in the Conference Room that is inside the church building. Enter through the covered walkway between our school building and the church building. After some announcements you will go to the various classrooms to walk through your son's class schedule. Refreshments will be available.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also remember to bring your son's STUDENT FORMS to the Open House if you have not already submitted them. To download copies of the forms, see the Forms tab above. ALL families need to submit 3 forms: the Emergency Contact and Medical Administration Release, Immunization Records if you have not already submitted an up-to-date copy when you applied, and the Physician's Approval for Physical Activity. By law, immunization records must be submitted by the 30th school day, which is September 21. Optional forms as needed are the Medication Administration if your son needs to bring medicine to school and Volunteer Driver and Volunteer Background Check if you will ever drive students on a field trip or extracurricular activity or do </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unsupervised </span>work with the students. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rebekah A<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">erson collects all of these forms and maintains your student's files.</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is it an A day or a B day?</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you ever need to know which days are A or B, there is a calendar in RenWeb in the School Information menu section. When you need to schedule medical appointments for your son, it is most helpful to schedule them when he has his study skills class time. See the tab above for the daily schedule for your son's grade. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2016-2017 Parent/Student Handbook is available</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our 2016-2017 Parent/Student Handbook can be viewed and downloaded from the Handbook tab above. Please do read the handbook to become familiar with discipline, academic, and general school policies. Contact information for each teacher is in the handbook. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Student Activity Clubs; Outdoor Adventures Club</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We do plan to offer several athletic activities<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the debate team, and the outdoors adventure club as described below. But we would also like to see how much </span>interest our students have or if any of our families have any connections to help mentor our students in club activities such as chess, singing, musical instruments, drumming, dancing, robotics, photography, yearbook? <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please talk to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jon Mitchell about any extracurricular activities that your son is interested in doing and of anyone that you know who woul<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d help lead it</span></span></span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">W</span>e do have one club that is starting on Friday, Sept 9 - the <u>Outdoors Adventure Club</u>! It will meet for most Fridays during the fall semester and their activities will continue in the spring semester too. We are partnering with MTS TO SEA Outdoor Athletic Company to teach camping and outdoor skills to our students. The club will be led by Danny Myer who will be at our Open House event to meet the parents and answer your questions. They have an exciting curriculum for our students. There is a fee for each event paid to MTS TO SEA and you can sign up for any events that your son is interested in attending. Click <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k5tPBLZ58s1B4EjpkhfpJbEVWS-8B8uCHDDppl7nVHk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE </a>for the schedule of activities and description of what students will learn for each activity. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No-fuss Fundraising</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Would you like for Iron to earn donations at no cost to you? There are many retailers who contribute to schools if you will make it known to them who you want your shopping to benefit. We have partnerships for Iron to earn funds when you shop at Harris Teeter, Kroger, Amazon, Groupon, and Office Depot/Office Max. We also collect BoxTops and will submit our next batch the end of October. We are also partnered with a phone app, Shoparoo, where Iron can earn donations by you simply using the app to take a photo of any store receipt and giving a rating to the retailer. Please do ask grandparents, neighbors, friends, and relatives to be willing to connect their shopping habits to Iron Academy! See the Retail Fundraising tab above for details on how to help Iron by simply shopping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Warrior Challenge Student Fundraiser </span> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Did your son participate in a walk-a-thon type of fundraising activity at his previous school? We have a way cooler version of that for our students - the Warrior Challenge! It will be held in the afternoon on <u>Tuesday, October 25</u>. Our students are being challenged to pass the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Physical_Fitness_Test" target="_blank">Army Physical Fitness Test</a> for 17 year olds: do at least 42 push-ups in 2 minutes, do at least 5<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3</span> sit-ups in 2 minutes, <u>and </u>run 2 miles in less than 15:54 minutes! Alternative fitness activities will be available too and your son will ask for donations for how many repetitions he does or flat donations. We do need a lot of volunteers for that afternoon if several parents are able to take a vacation day from work. We also are selling <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sp<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">onsorships for $250 to businesses to ad<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vertise their logo on t-shirts that each student will receive and be recognized on our fundrai<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sing website. If your son <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gets a sponsor to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">contribute, that will count in your son's fundr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">aising total.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We will have more details coming soon. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Soccer and Cross-Country Team Update</span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our soccer team is off to a promising start with a 1-1 record! We lost our first game against Thales-Rolesville but won our second game against Wake Forest Charter. Our cross country team will have its first match on Friday, Sept 9. You can find the schedule of games in our events calendar on the tab above. Go Swordsmen! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Used Clothing Sale</span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">still have a lo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t of used <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">clothing available to purc<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hase! More items are being added to our inventory. See th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clothing Sale tab above for the link to make you<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r purchase. </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September Calendar</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monday 5th: Labor Day Holiday</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuesday 6th: Soccer Home vs. Thales-Apex at 4:00 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Parent Night Kick-off Open House at 6:30 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday 9th: Cross-Country at 4:00 at WakeMed Soccer Park</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Saturday 10th: SCIENCE LAB DAY #1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Monday 12th: Staff Planning Day - No School</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Soccer Home vs. Southside Christian at 4:30 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 15th: Soccer Away vs. Wilson Prep at 5:00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday 16th: Soccer Away vs. Thales-Apex</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday 18th to Wednesday 21st: Mr. Hahn, Mr. Anderson, and student leaders visit St. Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark, NJ</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monday 19th: Soccer Home vs. Oxford Prep at 4:30 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 22nd: Cross Country at Cardinal Charter School in Wilson, NC</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monday 26th: Cross Country at Blue Jay Point Park at 4:00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Soccer Home vs. Wake Forest Charter at 4:30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thursday 29th: Soccer Away vs. Raleigh Christian Academy at 4:30 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-53828230023714492412016-06-29T00:51:00.000-04:002016-06-29T16:29:12.482-04:00July 2016 Newsletter<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Iron Student and Family Summer Activities</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are looking forward to getting back together for our returning families and welcoming our new families and students! The school<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'s <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">calendar is located from a tab<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> above. </span></span></span>Mark these addition<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">al </span>events on your calendar<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Summer R</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">eading</span>:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Click (or scroll) on the tab above for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sum<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mer Reading" to get the book for each grade along with t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he assignment to complete for your son's E<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nglish course<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s due when we return to classes. We are also running a "<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1000 page Summer R<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eading Challenge" <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to promote literacy. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See the "Summer R<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eading" page for details on this exciting Challenge.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Kids Exchange Fundraiser:</b></span> Iron Academy is a partner with the Kids Exchange Consignment Sale. We are fortunate to have <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amy Winstead, founder of Kids Exchange, as one of our outstanding parents. The Kids Exchange <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">provides a way to buy and sell gently used <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">children<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'s (babies to te<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ens) items. We are able to make this a fundraising activit<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y for Iron Acade<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my by accepting your donation of children's clothing, toys, books, equipment, and furniture <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that gives you a tax deduction the same as if you donated these items to Goodwill and we sell it at the Kids Exchange with IA receiving the proceeds<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">! Iron Acade<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my is a 501c3 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nonp<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rofit <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">school. For any of our items that are left over after the Kids Ex<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">change sale, we</span> donate<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> them </span>to the Missions Thrift Store to help fund missionaries around the world!</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have any clothing<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, particularly winter coats, that your children have outgrown or furniture, bik<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">es, or <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sports equipment in good condition<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that your children no longer need, then contact Anne York at IPF@ironacademy.org to arrange for pick-up of the items by <u>Saturday, July 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6</span>.</u> We also need a few parents who<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> are available <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">between</span> July 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7</span> to 19 to put price tags on the items and take them to the sale at the S<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tate Fairgrounds. For any questions, contact Anne York. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks for your help!</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Triangl<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e Rock Club on </span>Tuesday, July 26, Noon to 2:00</b>: </span> We will have a fun social </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vent </span></span></span></span>for students and their siblings to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d</span>o indoor </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r</span></span>ock climbing at Triangle Rock Club at 6022 Duraleigh Road, Raleigh, 27612. Cost is <u>$10 per child cash or check payable to Iron Academy </u>and given to Anne York or Heather Mauzy at the event. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please do <span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://app.rockgympro.com/waiver/esign/trianglerockclub/f14d2631-2343-4fa8-8822-a9fd3d0417d8" target="_blank">sign this e-waiver</a> </span>before your child(ren) attends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We need to tell Triangle Rock Club how many will be attending and we want to help with carpooling if your son needs a ride. Please use this SignUpGenius (click the logo below) by Sunday, July 24 to let us know that your son and any siblings will attend and if you are able to give a ride to another student or if you son will need a ride to this event. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0449A4A629ABF85-triangle" target="_blank"><img alt="Sign Up Now!" border="0" height="90" src="https://www.signupgenius.com/images/sign-up-now1.gif" width="150" /></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Coffee, Doughnuts, and Prayer<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at the</span> drop<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-off for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Crucible Camp on Monday morning, Aug<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 15:</span></span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Please plan that you can stay for a few minutes after our sons <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are dropped off for Crucible Camp <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to socialize <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the other parents and to have some time for open prayer for our sons as they take <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this important first step to learn about our Honor Code ("I will always <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">conduct myself as a gentleman, live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King") and begin their journey toward biblical manhood<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and being gentleman scholars.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>U<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sed Uniform Sale:</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Be on the lookout at the beginning of August for a SignUpGenius that will list all of the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">used </span>school uniforms and new spiri<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">twear </span>clothing that we have to offer! We will list the clothing by <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">size and quan<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tity <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">so that you can choose which ones you want and we <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will arrange delivery and payment for the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">clothing <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at the drop<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-off <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for Crucible Camp<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or first day<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s of school. T<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he used clothing prices will be about half of the Land's End prices<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, such as youth size used polo shirts with logo for $10 rather than the $23 Land's End regular price.</span></span> Click on the "<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dress Code</span>" tab above for<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> information about the school uniform policy and how to order from Land's End. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More details about the used uniform sale will be distributed at the beginning of August. </span></span></span> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have an exciting month as we close out this school year! Please save these dates:</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our lacrosse club will play against St. Raphael at 4:15. Our team is coming together well with novice and advanced players. They played their first game on April 27 against an experienced St. David's team, wh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ich also ha<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s</span> 3 times the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">number of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">players as our team has,</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and we </span>lost 12-1. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our UNDEFEATED debate team is<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">holding a tournament with Preston<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wood Christian Academy in T<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">exas <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">using the telepresence system at Cisco in <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">RTP. O<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ur teams are Zachary Wald <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with David Anderson and Jordan Chaulk with Jon Anderson. Their resolution is "Resolved: In the United States, students should be guaranteed two years of free tuition to a community or technical college." </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Doors open at 6:30 with a full coffee bar, chocolate fountain, and other goodies await you. Performances start at 7:00. Tickets are $5 with a $20 per family maximum. IA students, Playbill sponsors, and prospective families have free admission. Don't miss this exciting event - please invite your friends and relatives to share this fun evening! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we are a school that promotes a culture of reading with our young men, we are partnering with ChildrensBookstore.com to hold an online book fair! For books that are purchased between May 7 and May 18 from our <a href="http://iron-academy.childrensbookstore.com/" target="_blank">IA website with Childrensbookstore</a>, our school will receive a donation of 30% of the purchase price! ChildrensBookstore has over 200,000 titles from babies to young adult, fiction and nonfiction, and many genres, as shown by this <a href="http://www.childrensbookstore.com/lists/our-favorites/" target="_blank">list of categories</a>. The code to use when checking out to be sure that we receive credit for the purchase is IRON. We'll email a link to everyone on Saturday morning and ask that you share this link with as many others as possible to purchase their summer reading materials. We will use the proceeds from the book fair to purchase library books and classroom materials as well as award prizes for our <b>Iron Summer Reading Challenge</b> - more details about this student challenge will come at the end of May. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tuesday May 10 and Tuesday May 17: TerraNova Standardized Testing</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IA uses TerraNova, a nationally normed standardized test, to assess our students. You can find more information about TerraNova's tests <a href="http://www.ctb.com/ctb.com/control/productFamilyViewAction?productFamilyId=449&p=products" target="_blank">here</a>. For students on which we have two years of data, we saw an average increase of 6 percentile points in their scores in the second year. For a previously "average" student, that would translate to an SAT score of 40 points higher on reading and math after one year. Should we continue with even modest annual gains from this trend throughout their IA years, the Targeted Learning of the IA curriculum should result in improvements of about 160 SAT points in math and reading. Please be sure that your son is well-fed and well-rested on these two days and encourage him to give his maximum performance on these test days. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tuesday May 10: Family Information Session for Prospective Students</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please invite interested families to come to our final <a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/admissions/the-admissions-process/" target="_blank">Information Session</a> for the school year at 6:30 pm. We are gaining several high quality applicants and some grades are full or nearly full. The grade with the most open spots is next year's 6th grade. Remember that we have a <a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/admissions/referrals/" target="_blank">referral program</a> in which Iron families of currently enrolled students can earn a $500 tuition credit per referred student who enrolls. A generous donor has also made some <a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/scholarships/" target="_blank">scholarships </a>available specifically for newly enrolled students if you know of young men who would be a great fit for the IA experience. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tuesday May 10: Kamado Grille Spirit Night</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to everyone who has been enjoying the wonderful food of Kamado Grille! IA receives a 10% donation of ALL meals purchased between 5:30 and 8:30. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Wednesday May 11: Father's Breakfast</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Iron dads and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">guests <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are invited to hear Dr. Archie <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bost, founder and executive director of CrossLife Ministries, speak on the topics of bib<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lical <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">manhood, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">including marriage and parenting. Dr. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bost has over 20 years of experience</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> in counseling and discipl<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> individuals and families. Our fathers <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">find this time to be of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">great e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ncouragement as <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they</span> share experiences<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and lean on scripture to be the men that God intends for them to be. Feel free to bring a friend, relative <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or coworker!</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike>Friday</strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strike> May 13:</strike> Revised due date: Friday May 20 Blade Maintenance Plan <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Biblical Manhood <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Video Due</span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The faculty are excited to see the creativity of the videos <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> students are <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">submitting for their Blade Maintenance P<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lans. The videos are to be 3 to 5 minutes and explain the specifics of the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">student's <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">growth as a disciple of Christ<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and as a gentleman scholar.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Students wi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ll meet with<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> tribes to discuss the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> video<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> requirements</span></span>. To submit the video, you can upload it directly from your ph<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one's camera roll to YouTube (sign into your YouTube account) and choose the setting of UNLIST</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ED so that the<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> video can be shared by emailing <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the link to it but will not be visible to the public on YouTube. Alternatively you can submit the video on a flash drive. T<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he link<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s to the videos or flash drives are to be emailed/given to Mr. Meredith at smeredith@ironacademy.org. The<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">re is a tab above for information ab<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">out the Blade Plans.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To thank our teachers and staff who are also such dedicated mentors to our sons, we will celebrate them with a Teacher/Staff Appreciation Luncheon! A SignUpGenius will go out next week for food items to bring in on the 17th and we will gladly accept monetary gifts to buy gift cards. Many thanks to parents Nancy Hector and Paula Brewington for organizing this event.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Thursday May 19: IPF General Meeting for Parents</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please plan to attend this important meeting at 6:30 in an IA classroom in which we will:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Briefly discuss plans for next year's IPF activities</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elect a slate of officers for 2016-2017: Anne York (Chair); Morgan Wood (Vice Chair of Fundraising); Lisa Wald and Wendy Collier (Co-Vice Chairs of Family and Social Activities); Heather Mauzy (Treasurer); Denise Lake (Secretary)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hear updates from Mr. Hahn on the new student leadership initiative and plans to expand it next year; bus transportation plan; honors courses and implementation of innovation curriculum; administrative structure; accreditation update; and all current faculty are returning next year and we will learn about the additional new faculty</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please come whenever you are available to the Parent Prayer Meeting at 7:50 am. It is a refreshing time of praise and talking to God about the needs of our students, families, faculty, and school. God does answer prayer! A very hearty thanks goes to Natalie Taylor and Paula Brewington for their dedicated service to seeking out our young men each week to pray for their specific needs and sending each one a card to let him know he was prayed over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last day of school! Please do remember to bring in any IA materials, textbooks, and library books that your son has at home by the last school day. We'll celebrate with a family cookout for lunch, field day fun for the students, and take some time to clean up our classrooms before they close down for the summer. A SignUpGenius will go out near the end of May for contributions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">August 8-12: 9th grade Forging Camp at <a href="https://mountainshepherd.com/" target="_blank">Mountain Shepherd Wilderness Survival School</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">August 15-18: Crucible Camp at Camp Rockmont for all new students and returning students who came to IA after the start of the school year (students only go to</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Crucible Camp one time unless invited to return as a Squire or Leader) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember to view the tab above for "Yearbook" to find out how to place your yearbook order. We will also collect BoxTops <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">through the end of May so we can send in a batch before any of them potentially expire. Our next BoxTops collection will be in October. </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our students as always had fun and great learning experiences during our last intensive week. Congratulations to the 8th grade students who gave presentations to the parents to explain and showcase their innovative ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much thanks to the officers who are serving this year: Anne York, Chairperson; Jim Ferguson, Vice Chair of Fundraising; Jenn Vinkler, Vice Chair of Family and Social Activities; Heather Mauzy and Darrell Taylor as co-treasurers, and Amy Clark as Secretary. While some current officers may continue to serve next year, we do want to open the nominations for all officer positions to all parents who are interested in serving. Our Nominations Committee is chaired by Anne York along with parents Rebekah Anderson and Jenni Jordan. If you are interested in serving or want to recommend someone for a nomination, please talk to Rebekah or Jenni before April 30. We will have an IPF General Meeting in May to vote on the new officers who will serve next year.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Provide funding and volunteer time to support academic, athletic, and extracurricular activities.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be eligible to serve as an officer of the Executive Committee, the nominee must meet these criteria: should be an eligible member as described in Article III (a parent of a currently enrolled student), must be current in paying tuition invoices, has given consent to serve if elected, has the qualities of spiritual maturity, has demonstrated support for the success of Iron Academy, is in agreement with the philosophy, doctrine, and administrative structure of Iron Academy, and has paid the re-enrollment fee by the deadline established by school administration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We do hope that fathers would be willing to serve as officers. The Executive Committee meetings are held at most once per quarter and in the evening at a time that fits everyone's schedule. We are also able to hold online meetings. We understand that everyone has a full plate with juggling work and family, but we do hope that several parents would be willing to take on these leadership roles that are so vital to providing extra funds and activities for our students. The IPF Committee tab above has the full Committee Guidelines that established and guides the actions of the IPF and includes descriptions of each officer position. We operate under the umbrella of IA's nonprofit status and we are a Committee under the Board of Governors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The JV team played in a tournament on March 24. Congratulations to Caleb Stroup who was a co-medalist as he tied for first individually and to the IA team as they finished 3rd out of 4 teams in our first ever tournament! </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Debate Team Update</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Congratulations to the team of Ian Taylor and Jordan Chaulk who won the intramural tournament in March!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Many thanks to parent Tod Manning for coaching our young men! Starting on April 12, practices will be from 3:30-5:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I recently shared by email, we are excited to start implementing a new student-directed Honor Code Hierarchy that will take full effect next year. This new system will place most of the responsibility for building upon our Honor Code culture on the young men - where it should be. We were inspired by an example at St. Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey that was <a href="http://www.sbp.org/60Minutes" target="_blank">featured on <i>60 Minutes</i></a>. The student-directed leadership structure will build our students into better leaders, more self-disciplined young men, and disciples better equipped to serve others. Students will be placed in leadership positions over their chore teams, tribal teams, and school teams. As with St. Benedict's young men, iron will sharpen iron, brother will build brother, and the feeling of "what hurts my brother, hurts me" will permeate Iron Academy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IA Parent and our AOTS Director, Travis Kiker, is very pleased with the efforts and talents of the students who are performing this year. As with last year, it will be an exciting night of fun on<b> May 6</b>! We will also recognize our outstanding scholars and athletes that evening. There are a lot of items to purchase to put on this production and to help offset that, we do want to sell ads in the Playbill. See an email message that was sent on March 30 for the details on the benefits that the sponsor receives. Please send an email to IPF@ironacademy.org if you would like to advertise your business or can recommend a business for us to contact. Tickets for the event will be $5 per person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are using a new yearbook company this year, Treering. You order your yearbook and pay online to them. The price of the yearbook is $39.93. One benefit of using Treering is that each student is also able to have TWO PERSONALIZED PAGES that will only appear in his yearbook. What a great way to also remember other family events that took place during the school year or personal photos of school activities! Click on the YEARBOOK tab above, under the page banner, for more details on how to order the yearbook. So that photos and activities of the entire school year can be in the yearbook, we will work on finishing page layouts and photo selection during June, submit the yearbook for publishing in July, and it will be shipped in bulk to the school in August and distributed to our students on the first day of classes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>New Blog for Biblical Manhood</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A blog about biblical manhood has been started on the IA website and is being managed by parent Rob Wald. The first post is now available <a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/i-am-iron-blog/">http://www.ironacademy.org/i-am-iron-blog/</a>. Various authors will post twice per month. Keep an eye on this blog for interesting information to share about biblical manhood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every Friday from 7:50-8:30 am - Parent Prayer meeting. Please join us whenever you are available!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5th: Golf tournament </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12th: Golf tournament</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12th: Kamado Grille Spirit Night</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13th: Father's Breakfast at 7:30 am</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">19th: Please pray for our Stakeholder Celebration Fundraising Event at 7:00 pm! Please contact <a href="mailto:jjordan@ironacademy.org" target="_blank">Jenni Jordan</a> or Natalie Taylor if you know of individuals who who be interested in aligning with IA to support our school or if you would be able to volunteer at the event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reminder: Monday May 2 is a Staff Planning Day - No school for students but a dress rehearsal day for AOTS.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our exciting Intensive Week activities are:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><u>6th grade</u>: Art History I with Maureen Seltzer, a long-time Art History teacher and artist. She operates Maureen Seltzer Art Studio and Gallery in Wake Forest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><u>7th grade</u>: Service Days on Mon and Tues; Robotics II on Wed to Fri under the guidance of Ray Barnes of Robotics and Innovation of Wake Forest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><u>8th grade</u>: Innovation Intensive Mon to Wed; Small Engines Thurs to Fri.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><u>9th grade</u>: Robotics on Mon to Wed, Service Days Thurs to Fri. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Description from Mr. Hahn of the new 8th grade intensive topics: Under the guidance of Ted Morris, PhD, of CrossM Innovations and the Associate Vice Chancellor of Engagement, Innovation, and Economic Development of East Carolina University, the Innovation Intensive will begin roughly 10 days prior to class. Students will be encouraged to "identify, imagine, design, execute, fail and repeat. In doing so, they gain the creative confidence essential for design thinking, innovation, entrepreneurship, and servant leadership." Our goal is to learn their Design-Driven Philosophy as we prepare next year to implement more meaningful and engaging ways of exercising the highest levels of critical thinking. We see this as our next stage of growth as an academic institution and as an all-male environment. Our goals is not to build engineers, but broad-spectrum thinkers adept at creation/innovation, synthesis, and evaluation. That kind of thinker can pursue any path he chooses whether in the arts and sciences, in humanities, in ministry, or in the business world. Why an innovative intensive? From <a href="http://www.crossminnovations.com/#!about2/cnsm" target="_blank">CrossM Innovation's philosophy page</a>, "Innovation is a priority for employers today. In a current national survey, 95% say they give hiring preference to graduates and workers with skills that enable them to contribute to innovation in the workplace, and more than 9 in 10 agree that 'innovation is essential' to their organization's continued success." We see tremendous opportunities to incorporate more authentic, real-world projects each quarter as we continue to build genuine thinkers. Though we're learning with the 8th graders during this intensive week, the effect will be widely felt across Iron Academy. We're very excited about this new partnership with CrossM. For the Small Engine class, Hudson Rice has a terrific curriculum planned for our young men that will teach them the basics of combustion engines, maintenance, and basic diagnostics and repair. This topic will be useful for all of our young men, from the least experienced to those with time around the shop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we are nearing the end of the third quarter, here are some updates about what our students are learning in the classrooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>History 7th grade:</b> The students are learning about issues of American colonization and expansion in the modern era. They studied the Gold Rush of 1849 and set up a miners camp, where they enjoyed eating beans and beef jerky, dressing up as miners, and playing a capture-the-flag type of game using fools gold. A few weeks later they learned about the American Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. They had a Juneteenth celebration which commemorates when the slaves in the South heard about the Emancipation Proclamation and had a huge celebration. Our Juneteenth celebration had a picnic with fried chicken, mashed potatoes, trivia contests about the Civil War, and a best dressed Abe Lincoln contest. The 7th graders are gaining in their ability to critique and defend. This period of history gives much material for both critique and defense, such as the actions leading up to the Sepoy Mutiny and the Paraguayan's perspective on Lopez. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>History 8th grade:</b> Ms. Bowen is pleased that the 8th grade class continues to grow as gentleman scholars and she is very proud of their work and dedication. Their discussions throughout each class period have grown increasingly profound. They just completed a unit on the Reconstruction period and the growth of industry. They are seeing how businesses developed, how technology advanced, how the economy boomed, and also the social benefits/problems that came as a result. One of Ms. Bowen's favorite discussions and essay assignments is on the wealthy industrialists known as "Robber Barons." Did they deserve this title or is it misleading? The students critiqued the actions and decisions of these men in light of biblical manhood. Ms. Bowen's prayer is that our students look toward their own vocational futures and see how they can live out biblical manhood not only in their homes but in their vocations as well. In the photos below, the students are working together to study for an upcoming history test. They are divided into groups and each question on the study guide has its own station. Each group writes historical details to support the question and then rotate to a different station, continuing to add information. At the new station, they have to evaluate what is already written and consider what is missing. If the group before wrote a defense, then the next group will come up with a critique. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Basketball:</b> As predicted, our team did win our first game of the Swordsman Shootout tournament and made it to the championship game, but unfortunately lost to St Raphael. We had a strong lead in the first quarter of the championship game but fell into early foul trouble. While the loss was disappointing, our team continued to show outstanding sportsmanship. Coaches Roggie and Kiker were pleased with how well our young men pulled together as a team and are proud of their winning record. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Wrestling:</b> Some of our students in the wrestling club went to their first ever tournament and represented IA very well. David (9th) and Stephen (8th) Anderson were undefeated in 2 matches each and Garrett Anderson (rising 6th grader) was undefeated in 3 matches. Coaches Nick and Josh have volunteered their time to begin our wrestling program and look forward to continued progress as we will eventually compete at the high school varsity level where there are more opportunities for competition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Debate Team:</b> On Saturday March 5, the IA debate club will be competing in an intramural tournament against each other. One of the goals for debate is to teach our students to communicate and persuade anyone they meet, and as such they need your help! They are in need of tournament judges. No previous experience or special expertise is necessary and if you do not understand the arguments the debaters are making, that is their fault and not yours. <u>Are you available on Saturday to be a judge at the 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 or 1:00 rounds?</u> If you are, contact our debate coach, <a href="mailto:natedog_wilson_hm@hotmail.com" target="_blank">Nathan Wilson</a>. Or if your son is interested in joining the team and would like to watch, we cordially invite you to attend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>MATHCOUNTS Competition:</b> 8th graders Ethan Manning and Ian Taylor represented IA by participating in the local level of the MATHCOUNTS Competition on Feb 13 at Athens Drive High School. Ethan and Ian participated in a Sprint round, which is 40 minutes to solve 30 problems with no calculators which focuses on speed and accuracy, a Target Round of 30 minutes to solve 8 problems which focus on problem-solving and mathematical reasoning, and Team Round to solve 10 problems in 20 minutes. It was a tough competition but they enjoyed it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Message from Mr. Hahn on the growing maturity of our young men:</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've witnessed remarkable growth in our young men in recent weeks. From young men being accountable for their own actions and behaviors to peers quietly going to one another practicing Matthew 18:15-17 principles, our young men are changing. It is a profound thing to see a 7th grader correcting a peer, holding him accountable to a higher standard of living, being willing to face the fear of doing such a thing. It is encouraging to see our young men growing as individuals and as a team. Seeing 9th grader Will Thompson step into a leadership role with a 7th grader and 8th graders mentoring 6th graders as they work through bathroom duty are examples of many signs of growth in our students. In the Iron Academy environment, there is plenty of opportunity to be annoyed with peers and plenty of opportunity to mess up on the Honor Code. It is through these inconvenient circumstances or lapses of judgment that iron is able to sharpen iron. A sterile environment where everything runs like clockwork does not prepare our young men for the freedoms, chaos, and temptations of the world. We are confident that our young men are learning how to deal constructively with one another and what it means to be godly men. They are growing in areas in which their outside peers can't even imagine because this discipleship community of families, churches, and school is working together to build something special<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">! Thank you for your support of your sons <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as they continue to grow as Jes<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">us did in Luke 2<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:52</span>.</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday, March <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8</span></span></span> is the next <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">deadline for an upd<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ate for the Blade Maintenance Plan. For this update, the students are to submit a short writing on<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "how your under<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">standing of the Code has changed and how you are living the Honor Code." One of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">header tabs for this newsletter website has the link to the Quarter<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ly Plan Rep<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ort Template<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to use <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for each <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blade Plan </span>s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ubmission.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Parent Volunteers Needed</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IA is hosting a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n event <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the purpose of gathering more <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">individuals who are willing to h<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">elp us in </span>our cause of crafting gentleman scholars and training young men in biblical manhood.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is fundraising event will be held on<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Tuesday April 19 at <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6:30 pm at a home on Oberlin Rd, near downtown Raleigh. If you <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">know of anyone who would like to learn more about our school and support <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">our efforts, contact <a href="mailto:bhodges@ironacademy.org" target="_blank">Bob Hodges</a>, our Director of Community Relations<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, about sending an invitation <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to this person. We also need <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">parent volunteers to help with directing our guests for parking<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, handing out name tags, and leading groups of guests<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to different stations around the home. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be a volunteer, you will <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">need to be able to attend both the rehearsal at 6:00 pm, Thursday April 14 as well as the event on April 19<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. If you are available to volunteer, please send an email to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:IPF@ironacademy.org">IPF@ironacademy.org</a>. We <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">need several volunteers and no experience <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is necessary - just <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a heart for s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">haring the messag<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e of<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Iron Academy! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IPF Budget Update</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The IPF was able to bless our math teachers with the purchase of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">two <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lar<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ge magnetic </span>graphing whiteboard</span></span></span>s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for $197. We've had a big boost to our account with recent fundraising activities. First, our basketball tournament<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> admissions and concession sales gave us net proceeds of nearly $600. Second, thank you to eve<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ryone who <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">do<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nated items for us to sell at the Kids E<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">xchange January sale. We received a check for $</span></span></span></span>404! Third, we received a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">quarterly payout from <a href="http://www.fundyourpta.org/ironacademy.php">http://www.fundyourpta.org/ironacademy.php</a> for $<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">39</span> (1% <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">donation for all of our Amazon.com purchases that go th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rough this link<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). And lastly, we are submitting $122 worth of BoxTops. Thank you to everyone who clipped them for us and thank you to Kelly Thompson for counting 1,220 BoxTops! </span></span></span></span> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Calendar of March E<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vents</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can access our school calendar of events on Iron's website through the Welcome tab or it is also one of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the tabs in t<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he header to this message. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Every Friday 7:50-8:30 am<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Join us for the Parent Prayer meeting. Please <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">feel free to come at any time that you <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are av<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ailable. It is a pleasure to pray for our students, faculty, parents, and school. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sat 5th</b>: <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9:00-2:00 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debate Tournament at IA</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tues 8th</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: 5:30-8:30 pm Kamado Grille Sp<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">irit Night</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Wed 9th</b>: Father's Breakfast at 7:30 am</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><strong>Fri 18th</strong>: Second deadline to submit order for Sword Photos that Mr. Anderson took of each student.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sat 19th</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: </span>LAB DAY AT NEUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tues 22nd</b>: Prospective Family Information S<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ession (<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">W</span>e had a wonderful crowd at our Feb session. Please let all of your friends <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">know about our March session</span>.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Thurs 24th:</b> Middle school golf versus Falls Lake Academy</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Fri <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">25th to Fri April 1</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">: EASTER AND SPRING BREAK - NO CLASSES</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-15162249865565194282016-02-10T00:50:00.002-05:002016-02-10T08:36:21.603-05:00FEBRUARY UPDATE (Feb 10)<h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our Swordsmen have ended the season with an impressive 8-4 winning record! We are hosting a tournament this Saturday with Thales-Rolesville, Thales-Apex, and St. Raphael. <strong><em>We hope that a lot of IA students attend in their spiritwear to cheer on their basketball friends! Admissions is FREE for IA students and staff!</em></strong> Regular admission for the all day tournament is $10 for adults but only $5 to enter for the championship game. All children 17 and younger get in free. The location is the gym of Celebration Church at 8700 Capital Blvd (just north of Durant and Capital). Below is the schedule of games and here is a secret - we are definitely going to win our first round game. We have won this season against every team in the tournament but it will be a competitive game for whichever team we meet in the Championship round. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">9:50 Opening Prayer and National Anthem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">10:00 Thales-Rolesville vs. St. Raphael</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">11:00 Iron Academy vs. Thales-Apex</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">1:00 Consolation game for teams that did not win in first two games</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">2:30 Championship game for winners of first two games</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFFGej_iuHQRQk5rtBy6bn0aSbJhe2S9v-n1yAqIJzcmGi2UsqIgBSCegPe2zJTC3ghGclj5ny_YP74mWf7LJbdpHeebst6RFDScNfjCuOUrTWXJVmd2LdJdiucY0cfcXm81wYd3fF80/s1600/Box-Tops.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFFGej_iuHQRQk5rtBy6bn0aSbJhe2S9v-n1yAqIJzcmGi2UsqIgBSCegPe2zJTC3ghGclj5ny_YP74mWf7LJbdpHeebst6RFDScNfjCuOUrTWXJVmd2LdJdiucY0cfcXm81wYd3fF80/s200/Box-Tops.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The BoxTops people only send out payments twice per year and it is now time to send in our BoxTops to get our check! There are Ziploc bags pinned to the the bulletin board in every classroom for your son to place his BoxTops. Feel free to take the BoxTops off of items still in your pantry! :) Thank you very much to Kelley Thompson, mother of Will in 9th grade, for counting and bundling our BoxTops. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iron Academy on Called2Action Radio Show</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Hahn, Ms. Bowen, and Mr. Mack were the featured guests on Steve Noble's Called2Action radio show on Feb 9. They discussed why a biblical worldview is important. The podcast of the show should be available soon on this website <a href="http://www.c2atoday.com/podcast/">http://www.c2atoday.com/podcast/</a>. </span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-34344779537439539462016-02-02T10:15:00.002-05:002016-02-02T10:27:51.130-05:00February 2016 Newsletter<h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>RE-ENROLLMENT</b> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Re-enrollment plays an important role in planning for the next school year. It is important to make your plans known soon to help the school administration determine how many new students and new staff members to bring into the Iron Family. If you have not yet re-enrolled, you can do so by:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Log into RenWeb.com on your computer</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Select <b>Logins</b> from the menu bar and <b>ParentsWeb Login</b> from the drop-down menu</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Type in your username and password. If you have forgotten your username or password, please click on the link provided.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After logging in, click on the <b>Family Information </b>button on the left menu</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click on the <b>Enrollment/Re-enrollment</b> button and follow the instructions from there.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Re-Enrollment fee is $750 and is due in full by April 1, 2016. You may also choose to pay 3 monthly installments of $250 on Feb 1, March 1, and April 1. If you have questions about the re-enrollment process, please contact Mr. Meredith at smeredith@ironacademy.org. Tuition rates will remain unchanged for 2016-2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES UPDATE</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeRSItlpk8zN8-qdqQPoU1mVSY2q-1__qMIjbfzOgDvRbI2Z7ESWiSEgyY6WAfQ9YH7LY0onvjcGsHI7W593_2rsufwBIpQgw0UswifgcL8wUQp5TmUs_Fgsaw-PDWUsuw9R43_FCoGmI/s1600/debate1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeRSItlpk8zN8-qdqQPoU1mVSY2q-1__qMIjbfzOgDvRbI2Z7ESWiSEgyY6WAfQ9YH7LY0onvjcGsHI7W593_2rsufwBIpQgw0UswifgcL8wUQp5TmUs_Fgsaw-PDWUsuw9R43_FCoGmI/s320/debate1.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Debate Team:</b> Three new members have joined the debate team for the spring semester: Chance Tschirret, Zach Wald, and Jordan Chaulk. Our team will host a debate tournament at Iron Academy on Saturday March 5 and spectators are welcome! The resolution they are currently working on is "Resolved: Committing United States ground troops to fighting ISIL is in the best interests of the United States." To prepare to debate, each student must be ready to argue both the pro and con side to the resolution. At the tournament, there is a last minute selection process to determine which side each team will debate. The Iron Debaters have won every tournament for the past two years. Congratulations and keep up the good work!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Basketball:</b> The basketball team is playing together </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">very well </span> with a 6 to 3 winning record! The team plays its final two home games on Feb 2 and Feb 4 at 4:30 at the Wendell Community Center at 601 W. 3rd Street in Wendell. They have a final away game on Feb 9 with the Eastern NC School for the Deaf. The season will end with the team hosting a tournament with 3 other local schools on Feb 13. Come support our team as they wrap up a great season!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Yearbook Club:</b> Our yearbook club had its first meeting with Kyle Hector, Caleb Stroup, David Anderson, Noah Kirby, and Casher Collier volunteering to help put together this year's yearbook. If your son has any photos of school activities, please ask him to send the photos to one of these students. Our yearbook this year will be published by treering.com and every student's yearbook will have the option of adding two pages of individually chosen photos that the family can add of school events or anything else to commemorate the school year. The yearbook price is $39.93. We will finish editing the yearbook over the summer in order to incorporate photos and events from the entire school year. More information will come soon on how to place an order for those who have not already done so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Arts of the Swordsmen:</b> We're in the planning stage for the performances that the students will do. If your son is interested in showcasing his artistic talent of any type, then contact IA Parent <a href="mailto:tbkiker@gmail.com" target="_blank">Travis Kiker</a>. All of the students likely know Mr. Kiker and he is planning to visit often during lunch to talk to our young men about the opportunities to perform. If you or someone you know is able to volunteer to help put together this event, also contact Travis Kiker. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>OTHER SCHOOL NEWS</b> </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Prospective Family Information Meeting:</b> Our next information session for prospective families will be at 6:30 on Feb 16. If you know of any families who are interested in learning more about IA, they can send an RSVP to attend the information session to <a href="mailto:ironacademyadmissions@gmail.com">ironacademyadmissions@gmail.com</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>IPF Budget Update:</b> We were able to bless Ms. Bowen by purchasing about $100 of books for a unit on the Middle Ages for the 6th graders. The books included interesting titles such as "Archers, Alchemists and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed." The books helped to create lessons to develop the students' critical thinking skills. The IPF checking account currently has a balance around $8200.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UPCOMING EVENTS FOR MARCH</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have an events calendar on Iron's website under the Welcome tab and through this link: <a href="http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/">http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/</a>. And you can access the calendar from this newsletter website in a tab above. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Every Friday: </b>Parent Prayer Meeting 7:50-8:30 am. Please drop in whenever you can!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tues 2nd:</b> Home basketball game at 4:30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Thurs 4th: </b>Home basketball game at 4:30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tues 9th:</b> KAMADO GRILLE SPIRIT NIGHT 5:30 to 8:30 and away basketball game</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Wed 10th: </b>FATHER'S BREAKFAST at 7:30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sat 13th: </b>Basketball tournament<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mon 15th: NO CLASSES - STAFF PLANNING DAY</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tues 16th: </b>Prospective Family Information Session at 6:30 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>Iron Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900596550511287492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939523437080070244.post-18680424950212619642016-01-10T19:17:00.000-05:002016-01-11T09:04:39.377-05:00January 2016 Newsletter - Update (Jan 10)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u><span style="color: red;">Arts of the Swordsmen (AOTS) Planning Meeting</span></u>:</strong> On <u>Thursday, January 21</u>, we will have <u>two information and planning meetings about AOTS: at 4:00 and again at 6:00</u> to allow as many families as possible to come at whichever time best fits their schedule. We do want to showcase any artistic talents that your son has, but we will also create opportunities for him to participate, such as last year we trained students who never before did a STOMP performance and they put on a fantastic show! Here is a video of that STOMP performance:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJYI5_v_mQFYyq-myHDkcoliJNV9EKfhv" target="_blank">link</a> to a YouTube playlist that has videoclips of each act from last year's AOTS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The agenda for this meeting on Jan 21 is to share information about the goals of AOTS and get a first estimate of the types of talents our students want to showcase. We would also want to know if any of our families have any talents on-stage or behind-the-stage that they can share or know of others outside of IA who would be willing to help us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will also need to form an <u>organizing committee</u> whose subtasks will include helping to monitor or lead student rehearsals, organizing volunteers for the night of the performance, and assisting with fundraising such as finding donated items to raffle off and selling ads in the Playbill. Can you help? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the AOTS event, we will also recognize students with high academic achievements (honor roll) and athletic achievements (such as MVPs for each sport). We are planning to have the AOTS in early May and can confirm its date soon after we get final approval from the venue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please take a moment to let us know which of the two AOTS planning meetings you can attend by clicking the SignUpGenius button below or if you can't make the meeting but do have a way to help, then also use the comment section on the SignUp to let us know that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much thanks to Travis and Beckie Kiker for leading our young men to boldly express their God-given talents!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u><span style="color: red;">Kids Exchange</span></u>:</strong> This is the last week to donate any items that the IPF will sell at the Kids Exchange. A good idea is to give your son a bag and tell him to put in it at least two items that are in good condition that he no longer needs: clothing, toys, video games, books, room furnishings. With a lot of participation, we could collect at least $500! All clothing we bring to the sale has to be on wire hangers, so if you have any of those at your home, please do donate them to us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We will work on tagging the items during the Work Day on Saturday morning, Jan 16. Please indicate on the SignUpGenius for the Work Day if you can help do that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u><span style="color: red;">Yearbook Club Planning Meeting</span></u></strong>: We are going to start a Yearbook Club so that our young men can develop a yearbook that best shows their experiences as IA students. For the past two years, it has been a couple of mothers who mostly completed the yearbook and certainly middle-aged women can't do justice to explaining the academic and spiritual experience of our young men! (So say these middle-aged mothers.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We need young men who are <strong>interested in photography or writing</strong> to work together to choose the photos that will go into the yearbook and write descriptions of the IA experiences. We already have a lot of photos from the first semester that need to be sorted. <u>We will have a planning meeting to start the Yearbook Club during <strong>lunch time</strong> on Thursday, Jan 14. </u> Students who are interested in the Yearbook Club should let Mr. Anderson know of their interest. Please talk to your son about this exciting opportunity. We are using a yearbook vendor, treering.com, that has training materials for students to develop their yearbooks. Any parents with project management, photo or scrap booking experience, or who enjoy writing are also invited to help our students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u><span style="color: red;">Spring sports</span></u>:</strong> The Iron Academy Events Calendar (see tab above) has the dates for middle school and JV golf. The spring sports season begins Feb 15. Our Athletic Director, <a href="mailto:jmitchell@ironacademy.org" target="_blank">Coach Jon Mitchell</a>, can answer any questions about our spring sports. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u><span style="color: red;">Science Lab Photos</span></u></strong>: Want a peek at the exciting learning experiences our young men had at Saturday's science lab? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here is a <a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B96fgQPPLN5VVTVKdzJlYWEtNEk&usp=sharing" target="_blank">folder of photos</a> from the day and a brief video below. The science lab activities included looking at living and nonliving cell structures in a microscope; rates of diffusion and osmosis by cell size; biodiversity and how species interact with each other, such as how species help and hurt each other; how scientists measure different substances in a lab setting; and rate of osmosis through a semipermeable membrane. </span><br />
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