Welcome Info

Welcome Information for New and Returning Families

We are all looking forward to an exciting 2016-2017 school year!  This website consolidates the various pieces of information and documents for the parents and students.


Daily Class Schedule can be found on a tab above.  Drop-off time is between 7:15 to 7:45 each morning and pick up time is between 3:15 to 3:45 each afternoon.  

Camps and School Supply Lists:  See the tabs above for each camp and the school supply list.

Events Calendar: You can always find the school events calendar under the Welcome tab on the Iron Academy website or from the tab above on our IPF website.   
SAVE THE DATE: Please do add to your calendar our Back-to-School Family Picnic on Sat, Aug 27 from 3:00 to dusk at Sandling Beach, Falls Lake, Shelter #2 and our Parent Open House night on Tues, Sep 6 at 6:30 pm at school to meet your son's teachers and learn about our curriculum and programming for the year.        

Lunch:  We have once per week lunch delivery each Thursday from Grand Street Pizza.  See the tab above for Lunch Delivery for information and a link to the SignUpGenius sign up for ordering each month.  Otherwise, plan that your son will bring his lunch and morning "refuel" snack each day.  We have no refrigeration available to use at school but we do have microwave ovens for our students to heat up their food.  Our students tend to eat their lunch at the outside tables during warmer weather and in the gym during colder or rainy weather.  Plan that your son would bring these items each day:

• One or two bottles of water or clear colored drinks (so we do not have carpet stains) to last your son through morning refuel time, lunch, and afternoon PE classes.  Please clearly mark your son's name on all drink containers, even disposable containers.
• A healthy snack that can be quickly eaten without preparation for the 10 minute morning refuel time between 1st and 2nd period classes.  
• Lunch in an insulated lunch box with ice packs as needed to keep it cool until he eats it.  Your son will need to bring his own utensils for his food.  We do request that you send in healthy food to sustain your son's energy and focus.  Please write your son's name on his lunch box.   

After School Care: After school care is available until 6:00 pm each school day.  The price is $10 per day for up to 10 days per month for part-time care or $200 per month for full-time care.  Please notify Rebekah Anderson for your After School Care needs.
   
Dress Code:  See the tab above for more information about our dress code.  HELPFUL HINT: WRITE YOUR SON'S NAME ON THE NAME TAB THAT IS INSIDE ALL LAND'S END CLOTHING.  For shirts, that tab is on a lower bottom inside seam.  We get a lot of lost shirts since they change clothes for PE and they all look alike so it is hard to know if your son's shirt is in our lost and found bin.    

Forms:  Here is a list of all forms to submit for your son.  Click on the name of the form to open a link to it. 

1. Emergency Contact Information and Medical Administration and Release.  We will have this form with us for all activities and it gives us permission to treat your son while we are contacting you.  Please submit this form no later than August 22.  
2. Physician's Approval for Physical Activity.  Our students participate in daily rigorous physical activity.  To ensure that your son is healthy for daily physical activity and for any sports teams or clubs he may do, please have a physician do a physical examination.  The parents/guardians and student will also sign the page about concussions.  If your son is playing a fall sport, you need to submit this form before he is allowed to participate in a tryout.  Contact our Athletic Director Jon Mitchell for questions about fall sports.  For all other students, please submit this form no later than September 1.   
3. Immunization Form.  By law, we are required to keep immunization records on all students.  ALL students must have documentation of their current vaccinations submitted no later than 30 days after the start of school, which is September 21.  All new students need to submit this form and returning students need to update their vaccination record as needed for 7th graders/12 years old vaccinations.  
4. Medication Administration Form.  Please complete this form at any time during the school year for any medication that your son may need to take during the school day.
5. Volunteer Background Check Form.  If you have unsupervised contact with our students, such as volunteering with a club or team or chaperoning a field trip, you need to submit the form and pay $10 to Iron Academy for the Background Check.  Please complete this form at the start of the school year just in case you will at some point need to be approved to have unsupervised contact with our students.  
   
6. Volunteer Driver Form.  We do not have our own school transportation and need to rely on volunteer drivers.  To ensure the safety of our students, anyone who may be able to drive our students needs to submit the Driver Form in addition to the Background Check Form.   We request that all parents with sons playing on an athletic team to fill out both Volunteer forms so that we will have a ready supply of available drivers and chaperones for games.  
7.  Transfer of student records to Iron Academy.  Please complete this form to submit to your son's previous school to have his records transferred to Iron Academy.