You might say there’s an elephant in the room when it comes to our homecoming festivities this school year: Homecoming 2024 will take place in December instead of October. To show you why this change was necessary–and how it will make Homecoming even more exciting!–read on. For multiple years...

As this year wraps up, so does college football. Throughout the rest of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, many of us will be cheering on our favorite collegiate teams. Each season caps off with playoffs, leaving one team to win the national championship. This year, the bracket looks different than years...

Every year, Rocky Mount Academy’s Key Club raises money to make spirits a bit brighter by purchasing and delivering Christmas gifts. This year, Key Club decided to try something new to have an even bigger impact on the community. For the past 10 years, Key Club has “adopted” a family for Christmas....

With the arrival of cold weather and the holiday season, the long-awaited stretch of December football is upon us. In this month many of your favorite teams will be seeing if they have a shot at making it into the NFL playoffs or if they will need to reconstruct their teams for next season and another...

On November 25, the Lower, Middle, and Upper School Exceptional Children’s classes took a trip to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina (between Greensboro and Charlotte)  to ride the Polar Express! This was their first Polar Express field trip but their second train...

September 24 through September 27, Western North Carolina was hit by Hurricane Helene. In the days that followed, the aftermath of the hurricane was shared all over social media and the news, but what is continuing to take place is not being talked about as much as it should be. Continue reading to see...

THIS STORY IS INTENDED FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE. IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR GRADES 6 AND YOUNGER. Our last issue gave the history behind the Menendez brothers’ case and attempted to explain why two sons from a seemingly perfect family committed parricide. The boys tried to cover up their crime by being...

While most schools are closed on Veterans Day, Rocky Mount Academy students were on campus to celebrate our veterans this past Monday, November 11 with a parade. We have hosted this event since 2021, but the RMA community started honoring our veterans long before then. In the days before the pandemic,...

Joining us her freshman year, Isabella Daza has brought a bright spirit and kind heart to the class of 2025 after being awarded the Ann Weaver Scholarship in 2021. Showing her kindness and positivity, Isabella received the Good Citizenship Award in 9th grade, and she also received the Turner Battle Scholarship...

Although college football has not come to a complete halt, NCAA basketball has begun! Exhibition games–two non-season games allowed for all colleges–started a little over a week ago for the majority of NCAA basketball teams. The outcomes of these games, along with which freshmen each school managed...