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Jackson Academy students joined with others across the Metro area to help with flood relief efforts. Sunday, a group of students accompanied by Associate Head of Student Life Jimmy Messer, his wife April, and other parents, prepared sandbags at Christ United Methodist Church.
As the school year opened, each student had a morning time to pause to worship and spend time diving into the word of God. Last week, Upper School and Middle School students joined in the Performing Arts Center for their first chapel of the year to hear from Assistant Baseball and Softball Coach JG Miley.
How Jackson Academy faculty, families, students, and alumni express their experiences with JA helps others know and understand the school, its purpose, and its personality. When faculty and staff gathered for Teacher Work Week in August, before students arrived on campus, they participated in sessions about refreshing JA’s brand platform.
Jackson Academy’s own Ann Boswell Carlson is to lead test prep for tenth to twelfth grade students. Carlson’s journey at JA started as a student in K4 and continued through graduation. While finishing her education at Belhaven University, she returned to JA, working with her mom, George Johnson, the Preschool librarian.
Join us in welcoming more than 30 new employees to Jackson Academy this year. These faculty and staff members took part in a new employee orientation before school began, and they are actively teaching, coaching, and providing support to the school in their respective roles.
The Jackson Academy Association opened the new school year with a festive event for parents and friends that harkened back to the Roaring Twenties. As guests entered the Country Club of Jackson for A Blue & White Night, they received pearl-colored flapper necklaces and tickets for table games.
Jackson Academy’s new Director of Choral Music, Garrett Lindsey, began preparations this summer for the show choir and choral music seasons and the academic instruction accompanying them. In his role, he oversees Upper School choral music programs and the Upper School showchoir, Encore.
JA conducted graduation ceremonies in the Brickyard for the third year in a row, a new and favored tradition introduced during the pandemic. At 7 p.m., the ceremony opened with Faculty Member Chris Tucker carrying the school banner onto the field for the very last time. Administrators, faculty members, and seniors followed, processing from the west end of the field to the east before taking their seats.
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