With a new semester, new classes, new teachers, and new opportunities to come in 2023, I thought that it would be the perfect time to introduce myself as the new member of the...
Olivia Moody, a North Polk senior, was selected to be a Page for the Iowa House of Representatives at the Capitol Building in downtown Des Moines. For the application process,...
Week One My first week, as a page, was a lot different than the job usually is. As all of the representatives kept saying, it was a lot of pomp and circumstance. I...
![Infinite Campus page [used by North Polk District] showing the calculation of the weight in Summatives and Formatives.](https://northpolkorbit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Screenshot-2023-01-10-1.20.07-PM.png)
Ever since the current grading system at North Polk has been placed, it has become a topic that can be seen as both a positive and a negative. This being not only by the student’s...
Within the past few years, there have been some severe educational challenges when it comes to schools bouncing back from global quarantine due to Covid-19 in 2020. One of the...
North Polk was founded in 1956 and had a senior class of 21 students in 1957. Fast forward to 2021 and there were 141 seniors, and through those 64 years of growth remained one...
