This Week's Dispatch and April Edition of The Hawk

[Greg Orpen]

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Attached is the April Edition of The Hawk along with some additional notes shown below.

Have a wonderful weekend.

All School News

Next week is Spirit Week.   Each day of the week has a different theme (see attached flyer) and

Monday:  School Spirit Day (wear red, white, blue)

Tuesday: Favorite Team Day

Wednesday: Recycle Day (wear hand me downs)

Thursday:  Famous Day (dress as someone famous)

Friday:  Earth Day (wear green)

Expansion Initiative:  Thanks to the growing generosity of our families -- through our new Hawk Walk Brick Campaign and our 1st Annual Fundraising Relay event in October --  in addition to the track and field complex, 5/6 building and 7/8 science rooms, the Expansion Initiative has been able to assist the school with new track and field equipment.  This equipment includes:

• 90 new hurdles
• starting blocks for eight lanes
• fully outfitted pole vault pits including mats, crossbar, poles and the pit
• high quality javelins
• turbo javelins
• discus
• 4-12 pound shot puts
• batons

Coming soon, you will see new flagpoles near the entrance of Hawk Walk, where over 100 bricks have already been graciously donated by families, friends of IACS, alumni, companies and others, to commemorate activities, memories and events at our school.  Once all the nets come out, the athletes take the field, and our new cache of equipment fills the complex, please be reminded that it is your generosity, our community’s efforts (students and families) and everyone working together on our Expansion Initiative that we are realizing our dream for new facilities.  As we see this coming together, with our 1^st Annual Innovation Spring 5K and FunRun (May 16 – don’t forget to register: www.innovation5k.com) only weeks away, a heartfelt THANK YOU to our IACS community!

 

Athletics Surveys:  Calling all Hawks!  Our Athletic program builds student success through active participation, increased skill building, positive sportsmanship and teamsmanship. Parents, we need your input!

Please use the following links to participate in our current athletic survey. We are currently planning for spring and fall program development and need to know student involvement. Thanks for your feedback!

MS Athletic Survey

HS Athletic Survey

Middle School News

Yearbook:  The IACS 2013 Middle School Yearbook is now on sale!  The initial sale price of $20 will be available through May 3rd.  Between May 6th and May 31st the price will be $23. Orders must be received by May 31st. It is vital that every order be accompanied by an order form.  The order form will be sent home with your student starting this Friday, April 5th and will also be available for reprinting on the website.   Please make sure to include a parent/guardian email address so that your order can be confirmed.  If you do not receive an email confirmation of your order within a week, contact Peggy Stephens-North,  pstephe...@innovationcharter.org so that we can track down your order.

High School News

Performing Arts:  Dating can be hard, especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac.  Or a mime.  Or a pirate.  

Check Please follows Guy and Girl through a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse. Unfortunately, the dating pool is filled with fake multi-linguists, texting-lingo speakers, foot-reading psychics, obsessed Patriots fans, frustrated polygamists, confused actors, everything-phobics, burlap-sac wearers, and extreme accountants. 

IACS Performing Arts takes a comedic look at the dating scene with their hilarious spring stage production, Jonathan Rand’s Check Please and Check Please, Take 2.  Performances are on Saturday, May 11 at 2:00 and 7:00pm.  Tickets are $8 through April and $12 in May.  Ticket order forms can be found in the front office and  in the performing arts section of the school's website, www.innovationcharter.org.  

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Please consider supporting IACS performing arts by buying space in the Check Please and Check Please, Take 2 program!  Order forms are available in the front office and  in the performing arts section of the school's website, www.innovationcharter.org.  

Dance Performance @ IACS:  Through dance, video, monologue and story-circle, “No School” invites community members to share personal memories, think constructively  together, and talk cross-generationally about the daily lived experience  of our young people, asking:

What scars and blessings do we carry from our years in school? 

How do our years in school shape our identities?  Our social interations?  Our sense of empowerment?

How does the culture of school reflect socia values and vice versa?

What should a 21^st century school be and do? 

For more information, contact High School English teacher Lise Brody (lbr...@innovationcharter.org).  Round the Corner Movers is an intergenerational dance/peformance company that has been doing experimental work since 2005.  You can learn more about them and “No School” at www.roundthecornermovers.org.  (See attached flyer for details)

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Greg Orpen
High School Principal
Innovation Academy Charter School
72 Tyng Road
Tyngsboro, MA 01879
www.innovationcharter.org
Phone: (978) 649-0432 x3141
Fax: 978-649-6337

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