Welcome to Union Academy Magnet School

Our mission is to fully develop the intellectual, social and emotional potential of each student through rigorous, relevant learning experiences that result in high achievement, global awareness and lifelong learners.

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New Events of Note

New! Advanced Placement Parent Meeting

Polk County School Board has mandated all schools to facilitate an Advanced Placement Parent meeting to discuss AP classes for the 2012-2013 school year. Parent(s)/Guardian(s) and all students taking an AP class must attend. For further information, please click here.

Community and Service Hours Coming Due May 14

The deadline for completing community & service hours is coming up. The deadline is May 14th. Students should turn their forms in to Student Services, Mrs. Canning, or Mrs. Kesler

Chorus Travels to Disney

On June 1st, 2012 the Union Academy Chorus will be traveling to Orlando, FL to perform at Disney! They will perform at the Waterside Stage in Downtown Disney, and spend the rest of the day enjoying Epcot. The chorus has auditioned for and performed at Disney for many years now and hopefully the streak will continue. Join the choir in Orlando on June 1st to see them perform!

Art News Student Gallery Updated

Wow, what a great weekend!!!! Saturday, March 3, The Bloomin’ Arts Festival blew in with a big gust of wind, but Mrs. Beverly Williams’ art class display stood firm. We are so proud of students! Rebecca R won an Award of Distinction and a check for $50 for her photo/computer work titled “Crying Over You”. Shelby O won 1st place/blue ribbon for her photography/computer work “Fire Starter”. She also found out this weekend that she made it into Harrison School of the Arts. Danielle C won 2nd place/red ribbon for her painting/printmaking piece “Breakfast on the Terrace,” Megan H won 3rd place/white ribbon for her painting/printmaking pieces “Perfect Peacock.” Congratulations!

Archery Team Contest 4-24

The U.A. archery team will face off against Lakeland Christian School on Tuesday, April 24th at 5:00 pm, in the UA gym. These are the only two teams from Polk County headed to the National Tournament next month. The two best female archers in the state are U.A.’s Haley F and LCS’s Jesse A. They are both 8th graders and they are only separated by about 2 points out of 300. These two teams have shot against each other twice and each team won in their home gym. This will be the tie-breaker. If you have any interest in archery, this will be the meet to see. It’s free, come watch a little or stay for the whole thing. It’ll last about an hour and a half.

Support the UA Archery Team!

Bartow’s Beef O’Brady’s restaurant is sponsoring the Union Academy Archery Team on the 4th Monday night of each month. Dine at Beef’s, between 4:00 and closing, drop your receipt in the box on your way out the door and the U.A. Archery Team will receive 15% of the cost of your meal. Have a fun meal and help a local group of kids at the same time. See you at Beef’s on January 23rd!

UA Archery Golf Tournament Fund Raiser

UA Archery Boosters are having a golf tournament to help pay the team's way to the national tournament. If you enjoy golf, click here to play!

Media Center News

Mrs. Lunn’s Buy One, Get One FREE Scholastic Book Fair is coming soon! It runs from May 14th to May 18th. It’s almost time to stock up on your summer reading books so be sure to attend. Your free item(s) must be of equal or lesser value of your purchased item(s).

Click here to read more news from the Media Center

Spanish Classes Get Rosetta Stone

Union Academy has purchased Rosetta Stone as a supplemental program for our Spanish classes. Rosetta Stone is a world famous language instruction program that uses the immersion model of language learning. The program features speech recognition which guides students to more accurate pronunciation. The program engages students in lifelike conversations. This allows students to produce spoken or written sentences from words and phrases they’ve learned. At the end of each unit, the program has a test called a Milestone which simulates real-life conversations.
The version that we are using this year runs on our local network and is only available on the UA campus in a computer lab. There are also three computers in the Media Center set up for student before and after school study.

Music Department

Band & Orchestra to Williamsburg, Virginia

Our band & orchestra will be travelling to Williamsburg, Virginia on May 3rd – 6th for a national competition called, “Music in the Parks”. This event will be judged by a panel of renowned composers and conductors. The students are working very hard preparing their music. While there, students will peruse the historic towns of Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown, where they will get to board 3 ships from the early days of America. They will end their trip with a day at Busch Gardens, Williamsburg. What a great adventure they have in store!

Chorus News

The Union Academy Choir participated in an event entitled Music Performance Assessment on April 5th, 2012. This event is like an FCAT for chorus students, and they have to sing and sight-read for judges. The students traveled to Tenoroc High School, performed beautifully, and returned with Superior ratings on stage and in sight-reading. If you know any students in the choir, be sure to congratulate them!

Poetry Awards

The public is invited to Polk County School Board’s 34th Annual Poetry Awards to be held 7 p.m., Monday, April 26 at Florida Southern College’s Branscomb Auditorium, 111 Lake Hollingsworth Drive, Lakeland. There is no charge to attend and the event includes poetry readings and award presentations. Students in grades six through twelve submitted poems to be considered for awards. Union Academy student invitees to the ceremony are sixth grade students Amy P and Cameron B, seventh grade students Chloe M and Jakaila S, and eighth grade student Abby A.

Course Outlines

Union Academy’s course outlines have been updated and posted. Go to the course outline page

Community Service and Sweat Monkey

SweatMonkey(R), approved by the Polk County School Board, is a safe, web-based system enabling students age 13 and older to identify community service needs and opportunities.

SweatMonkey has been designed to offer students and their schools an easy-to-use, state-of-the-art service learning platform. Here is a friendly and low-risk way for students to explore new interests, develop new skills, get into college, and maybe even find a job that earns a good paycheck. It's FREE! SweatMonkey is completely free for students. There is nothing to buy or download. It's safe and secure. SweatMonkey currently holds the three most difficult Internet safety and privacy certifications that a website can obtain - TRUSTe, Verisign, and the Better Business Bureau. They do NOT sell, contribute, or give our members' identities or private information to a third party.

Other Items of Interest

Union Academy is Becoming an IB/MYP School

IB/MYP is coming to Union Academy. Click on the IB/MYP link to find out more.

Bartow Public Library

Union Academy is pleased to share relevant information of community events for students. Click on the link above to go straight to the Library's web site.

Bartow Public Library, 2150 S. Broadway Ave., Bartow, FL 33830  863-534-0131

Parent Portal

MyPolkSchools Parent Portal is designed to replace Parent Internet Viewer with a more complete means of communication. Parent Portal allows parents to check current grades, obtain immunization status, learn if their child had any recorded discipline or attendance issues throughout the day, check their child’s current lunch account balance, and more. Click the Parent Portal link to learn more!

UA Car Rider Etiquette

With so many rules for the road it is hard to know which ones to follow. For the safety of our students a list of car rider etiquette has been developed. Click here for more information.

About Union Academy

Mission

Our mission is to fully develop the intellectual, social and emotional potential of each student through rigorous, relevant learning experiences that result in high achievement, global awareness and lifelong learners.

Vision

The Union Academy community of staff, parents, business partners, and civic partners work together to guide our students' education by:

General

Union Academy was founded in 1897 (see history page [under development]). Union Academy Magnet School was established as a Magnet School in 1991. UA is located in south central Polk County in Bartow, Florida. UA maintains high academic standards and focuses on Technology, Math and Science.

School Zone

We accept applications from residents zoned for Bartow, Mulberry, Fort Meade, Lake Wales, and Frostproof High Schools. 

Student Population

UA maintains a student population of roughly 375 to 420. Enrollment is capped at 140 students per grade level. UA is a school of choice and requires an application to attend. Students not accepted are placed on a waiting list to fill vacancies that come open during the school year.

Expectations

While there are no academic requirements to apply and enroll at Union Academy, once accepted each student is expected to maintain a 2.00 GPA in order to remain at Union Academy. Discipline is also a focus at Union Academy. We maintain high expectations for our students, both academically and behaviorally. Students may be returned to their "Zoned School" if their behavior consistently falls below the acceptable standard or their year long GPA is below a 2.00. While this is a possibility, our faculty works very well with parents to ensure our students have every opportunity to succeed.

Courses

All courses at Union Academy are taught on the Advanced Level. Students are expected to achieve at this level and are given many opportunities to demonstrate their success through class work, special projects, homework and tests. Students are involved in many cooperative learning activities that help them develop skills for working with others to achieve a common goal.

Union Academy is a Bully Free Zone

Reports

School Grades

2011 - 2012 School Improvement Plan

 

SPAR (School Public Accountability Report): provides more information about our school's profile and academic performance.

PCSB is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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