School pride
IAS has been building its traditions since 1989, and the teachers and alumni are the reason they stuck.
Athletics at IAS
Warm-ups, sprints and team games on the IAS sports grounds, filmed on a sunny 28°C day.
30 seconds · IAS sports grounds
Traditions are the part of a school nobody can start deliberately. They accumulate, or they do not. These ones have been accumulating since 1989, and the teachers and alumni are the reason they stuck.
Through the year
The holidays bring student DJ parties, run by students, with the music chosen by the people dancing to it. The Christmas play is a fixture of the winter term and one of the few evenings the whole school turns up for. The annual talent show is where it turns out half the school has been quietly practising something. And senior prom is the evening the leaving year remembers, at the end of a long two years.
The committee behind it
The School Pride Committee is chaired by the student council president. Alongside the events, it is the formal route between students and the administration, which is the less visible half of its job and probably the more useful one. A good idea from a fifteen year old has somewhere to go other than a corridor conversation.
The committee keeps finding new ways to spark school spirit, and it is a bridge between students and administration.
The IAS Tiger
The school mascot, and the symbol the youngest children and the athletics teams both claim as theirs. It turns up at games, at assemblies, and in most photographs taken on a loud day. No school plans a mascot into a strategy document. It either gets adopted or it does not, and this one did.
Come and feel it
Be part of the spirit.
The traditions are easier to understand from inside the building than from a page about them. Visits are arranged on normal school days.
