Isle of Wight Academy has cause for celebration
Published 12:04 pm Friday, August 26, 2016
- Seniors gather in their homeroom to get information about a number of things, such as yearbook portraits. -- Stephen Cowles | Tidewater News
ISLE OF WIGHT
Students, teachers and faculty of Isle of Wight Academy are going into their school golden.
Mary-Margaret Wells, director of development, said that IWA is celebrating its 50th anniversary; the academy began its first school year in 1967.
Buses arrived early on Wednesday morning loaded with their Chargers while parents drove in with their own. Inside the office and throughout the campus, everyone was moving with purpose.
Headmaster Benjamin Vaughan, who’s been here for 47 of those years, said that the first major activity to mark the anniversary will be Homecoming on Friday, Sept. 30. Other events will be announced through the school year.
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- Seniors Alyssa Felgentreu, left, listens intently during homeroom. Abigail Hickman captures the camera’s eye.
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- Cheri Wilson, who teaches science in the middle school, gets her class started on preliminary information they’ll need for the year ahead.
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- Blake McConnell, left, and Hadley Savage have rounded up all the pretty horses for the corral.
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- Jessica Sawyer of Suffolk, left, with her son, Wes, 1. They just dropped off his sister, Hadley, 4, in one of the new classrooms. With them are Shelly Garner of Smithfield with her son, Nash, 1. They just left Ellary, 5, in a classroom as well.
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- Students in Jenny Caterbone’s first grade class have found their assigned seats and await the bell to begin their lessons.
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- In back is Lucas Keith, 7, who started first grade in Jenny Caterbone’s class on Wednesday. With him are classmates Presley Young, left, and Ryder Bailey.
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- Lisa Kurowski of Smithfield with her daughter, Hannah, stopped in the central office on the first day of school at Isle of Wight Academy. Hannah said she’s in seventh grade this year.
