Extracurricular Activities
IHA offers over 60 clubs, organizations, extracurricular activities and honors societies. Some of these opportunities include C.A.R.E. (Christian Action Reaching Everyone), Student Council, an award-winning Mock trial team, both a Science League and Math League, Model United Nations, Junior State of America, the National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, French Honor Society/Société Honoraire de Français, Spanish Honor Society/Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica, and Tri-M (Modern Music Masters). In addition, art, theater, and music related clubs are available for students to join, including an a cappella group, chorus, orchestra, jazz band and handbell choir. In January 2006, the IHA Orchestra performed a short set in Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center.
Student-run publications within Immaculate Heart Academy include Accents (the school newspaper), Halcyon (the school yearbook) and ORB, a literary magazine of students' works.
The communication club, known in school as WIHA, uses the school's in-house television studio to broadcast daily news, announcements and special events directly to each homeroom every morning. WIHA also coordinates the filming of school functions, including assemblies, prayer services, liturgical celebrations and other school events. During filming, WIHA often works in conjunction with the school's Tech Corp, students who work as stage crew, audio-visual technicians and lighting crew for school events.
In the past five years, IHA has produced the musicals The Secret Garden, Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, Cats and A Chorus Line. These musicals are performed in conjunction with students from St. Joseph Regional High School and Don Bosco Preparatory High School.
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