October Lunch Delivery on Thursdays
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!Urgent Need for Parent and Family Volunteers
To help our families know when we will have all of our events that need volunteers, we have put the events/activities into a SignUpGenius list at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0449a4a629abf85-parent.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). We also need drivers for field trips during the Intensive Week explained below. 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!
Warrior Challenge - Ready for Kickoff
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 IPF@ironacademy.org for more information on being a sponsor.Tribe Day on Oct 10 and Challenge Coin Ceremony on Oct 26
A very unique aspect of an Iron Academy education is the attention paid to truly living up to our Honor Code. Parents should be on the lookout the week of October 3 for a survey to fill out about your son on where you see that he stands in his efforts to live the Honor Code and be a gentleman scholar. On Monday October 10, please be sure that you son is in school for the entire day for their first Tribe 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. The faculty will also assess each student. By October 20, parents will be notified if their son is or is not eligible to receive his Challenge Coin if he does not currently have one. The Challenge Coin Ceremony will be on Wednesday, October 26, 11:30-12:30 if the parents would like to attend.School Holiday on Fri Oct 14 and Intensive Week Oct 17-21
October is a busy month! Please be sure to frequently view our Events Calendar that can be found in the tab above or from the ironacademy.org website under the Welcome tab: http://www.ironacademy.org/events-calendar/. Please note that Friday October 14 is a day with no classes so that families can enjoy the NC State Fair and that we will have our first INTENSIVE WEEK from Oct 17 to 21.Our exciting line-up for this upcoming Intensive Week
- 6th grade: Orienteering and Outdoor Skills. There is an open invitation to 6th grade dads to join us on Thursday night Oct 20 for an overnight camp out with our instructor/minister and former Navy seal.
- 7th grade: Art History II. We will take a trip to the North Carolina Museum of Art on Tuesday morning, Oct 18. Two volunteer drivers will be needed.
- 8th grade: Mon/Tues/Wed will be "Creative Storytelling and Critical Analysis" from a biblical worldview and Thurs/Fri will be Apologetics
- 9th grade: College Application Planning and will need volunteer drivers on Friday morning Oct 21 for our college visit. ALL parents are invited to attend a meeting on Thursday evening, Oct 20 (time to be announced soon) with an Admissions Officer from Campbell University to discuss how families can plan and navigate the college admissions process. Families with older students who are soon applying to college will find this meeting to help them too.
Announcements from September Parent Kickoff Meeting
In case you missed the September 6 Parent Kickoff/Open House meeting, Mr. Hahn made several announcements.- The IA Core Values were discussed. "That we may glorify God in all things, we will:
- Love every student so that every student knows it
- Complement the family and the church, never displacing either
- Build and embody a discipleship community by biblically resolving conflict, eliminating gossip and slander, and loving the IA family
- Live the Honor Code"
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Video of School Day
What happens during a typical IA school day? A lot! Learning, leading, fitness, and fun! Anne York is putting together a video to illustrate our school day, but here is a sneak peak from a video that Google Photos randomly put together from video clips:Science Lab Saturday - Oct 22 - 7th and 8th graders only
The science labs for this month are only for the 7th and 8th graders. 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.Athletics Update
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 Conference Championships on these days:- Soccer: October 13 and hosted by Thales-Rolesville
- 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 am.
Cross country news: 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. Of note, 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 cross-country team is coached by Jon Mitchell.
Winter sports will begin on October 31. We will offer Middle School basketball, JV basketball, and a combined middle school/JV wrestling club. Students who are interested in participating in winter sports must meet eligibility requirements (good academic standing and conduct) prior to trying out. Contact Coach Mitchell for questions about eligibility.
For our PE courses, Coach Mitchell would like to remind the parents to have their sons come prepared each day with approved PE attire, a towel, water bottle, and if needed, deodorant. Approved PE attire is an IA t-shirt from Land's End or any of our spiritwear t-shirts. Athletic shorts must be solid black, gray, or crimson/burgundy.
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