Iris Boarding School Complex

The **Iris Boarding School Complex** is a boarding school complex in the Free Lands of the Selkie, more specifically in Fortham. As a school complex, it covers from Elementary School to High School, although most students join at Middle School Age. It has often been called the Selkie-Version of one of the Old Academies of Kyrenaia, but such allusions have always been denied (although both school administrations admit, that there are certain similarities).

In the School Year 2019, the Iris Boarding School Complex had 193 classes with a total of 4,139 students.

## History

In 2019, the school hosted the 2019 Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Convention.

A year later, they hosted the 2020 Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Convention.

During the 2020-onwards COVID-Pandemic, the Iris Boarding School Complex mostly kept up standard operations. The garrison, the students remaining at the school, was abnormally large during the 2020/2021-Winter, however, proving quite useful, when the SDF requested administrative assistance from the Younger Militia of the School. Especially the Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Team proved to be quite useful with their heavy vehicles.

Co-Hosts: University of Fortham Sensha-Do Team (starting in 2022), GSCC (starting in 2055)

2019 Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Convention - 2020 Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Convention - 2021 Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Convention - 2022 Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Convention - 2023 Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Convention

2070 Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Convention

Other Gatherings: 2022 Trácheann Beach Tank Party

## Campus

The Iris Boarding School Complex is a small town in and of itself, covering an area of roughly 7.5 square kilometers. The Main Plaza, at which the Rectorate and several other important buildings are located, has a center stone, which is exactly 26 kilometers away from Fortham. Near the Main Plaza is the Mount Dosháraithe, the highest point of the campus, with an insurmountable 39 metres. It is often used as a picknick spot.

The Muillusce River, a small tributary of Lake Mór, runs through the campus, coming from Lake Lárnach. At its widest point, the Muillusce River is sixteen meters wide and has a maximum depth of three meters (the majority of the river is far more shallow, rarely exceeding 1.5 meters) and six bridges, including one railway bridge and one bridge for heavy vehicles, cross the river. Multiple sandbanks are well-visited during the summer.

At the Main Plaza, there is not only the Rectorate, but also the Iris Railway Station, a small railway station connecting the Boarding School with Fortham (by the way of Aita, where the majority of the staff not living on the campus lives, and Iarathar) and Lake Lárnach, a small lake west of the Complex. The station has one platform, a train comes every hour on week days. An offshoot leads to a small yard, where freight trains can be loaded and unloaded (said yard also being close to where the Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Team has its vehicles).

The Main Plaza is also bordered by the School Library and the small hospital belonging to the Complex, as well as the school cafeteria, which also has a roof area overlooking the entire complex.

From the Main Plaza, three main roads branch off, one into the Iris Village, where the Dorms are located, one towards the School Area, where the school buildings and facilities like the gyms and swimming pools are located, and one towards Felestram Castle, an old fortification ruin near the complex, which serves as landmark.

To the south of the complex is the Teorainn Estate, a cattle ranch by Lake Teorainn, while to the north, sixteen kilometers of the Rectorate, the Village of Lárnach is located.

### Iris Village

The Iris Village is where the Dorms are located. Centered around the Dorm Plaza, a small marketplace, the roads branch off to the nearly three hundred buildings counted as part of the Iris Village: From Dorms to buildings required to maintain the buildings. the largest dorms, like Dorm 15, are found close to the center, usually being multi-storey buildings with several student-flats in them, headed by a Dorm Mam. On the ground floor of these buildings, small stores offer their wares and services, many of which also employ students. The further out one goes, the smaller the buildings get, until one comes to the Clusters, groups of one-family buildings serving as dorms. Dorm 116 is close to the edge of the Iris Village. In total, the Iris Village has around 250 residential buildings, not all of them student dorms, and is thus counted as a village (more or less joking proposals to apply for City-Right have been rejected).

Many of the stores required for day-to-day operations can be found in the center of the Iris Village, from restaurants to washing salons to several corner stores and two stationary stores. A number of technicians offer their services as well. Two student run restaurants, the Cailímsire Restaurant and the Lámdénta Restaurant, enjoy widespread success.

The Iris offers its students (and their families) the option to stay at the Dorms over winter. Around a hundred students do so every year. These students are usually called *garastún* (garrison) in the internal parlance of the Iris and other Boarding Schools in the Free Lands. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Garrison was substantially larger then usual.

### School Area

In total, the Iris Boarding School Complex has teaching room capacities for 250 classes of 25 students or 6,250 students.

### Spiritual Infrastructure

On the grounds of the Iris Boarding School Complex, a total of three temples and eight sacred groves can be found, as well as two prayer rooms. The temples are dedicated to Rhiannon, Gavida and Carman Fea, a.k.a. the Students' Trias, while the groves are mostly dedicated to local deities of varying natures. All three temples are maintained by a priest each, while they supervise the cleaning and maintenance of the groves by volunteering students.

## School Uniforms

   The Iris Boarding School uses Sweater Style Uniforms for boys and girls alike, only with slight differences. The shirt forming the foundation is a white shirt, with short sleeves only being allowed during July and August, otherwise being long-sleeved. The sweater is beige and can, if the temperature is unbearable, be removed. Girls wear a bow and a grey skirt, while boys wear grey pants and a tie.

Girls may add thighhighs, while both genders may add caps. The Iris does not have any regulations about the school bags or rain jackets (which is why rainy days are also known as the "Colourful Days" in the internal jargon of the Iris).

## Famous students and alumni

*See Category: Students and Teachers of the Iris Boarding School Complex.*
Over the many years of its existence, the Iris Boarding School had many students, which reached fame in their lives, in religious fields like Morgane Macánta of the Tribe of Cork, business like Yvain Saighead of the Tribe of Westmeath, the military like Corrin Paisúile of the Tribe of Monaghan and Gwen Máthrachas of the Tribe of Fermanagh and in arts, like Viola Macnasach of the Tribe of Sligo.

### Staff List (excerpt)

#### Main Subject Teachers

* History:
	+ Finnya Máthrachas of the Tribe of Fermanagh.
	+ Alaina Raméis of the Tribe of Cavan.
	+ Ronan Saift of the Tribe of Wicklow.
	+ Alaina Raméis of the Tribe of Cavan.
* English:
	+ Coner Raméis of the Tribe of Cavan.
* Mathematics:
	+ Ronan Saift of the Tribe of Wicklow.
* Physics:
	+ Crixus Cailc of the Tribe of Navan.
* Chemistry:
	+ Crixus Cailc of the Tribe of Navan.
	+ Fiona Ubhanna of the Tribe of Louth.
	+ Alaina Raméis of the Tribe of Cavan.
* Art:
	+ Fiona Ubhanna of the Tribe of Louth.
	+ Faye Coimedaí of the Tribe of Cork.
* German:
	+ Finnya Máthrachas of the Tribe of Fermanagh.
	+ Coner Raméis of the Tribe of Cavan.
* Kyrenaian:
	+ Elian Mudaris of the Tribe of Tralee.
* Shikonjiman:

#### Elective Class Teachers

* Home Economics:
	+ Alaina Raméis of the Tribe of Cavan.
* Personal Finance:
	+ Ronan Saift of the Tribe of Wicklow.
	+ Elian Mudaris of the Tribe of Tralee.
	+ Finnya Máthrachas of the Tribe of Fermanagh.
	+ Coner Raméis of the Tribe of Cavan.
	+ Crixus Cailc of the Tribe of Navan.
#### Teachers Attending to After-School Activities

* Iris Boarding School Complex Marcach Team:
	+ Coner Raméis of the Tribe of Cavan.
* Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Team:
	+ Finnya Máthrachas of the Tribe of Fermanagh.
* Conservatory Club, a.k.a. the Green Thumb Club:
	+ Alaina Raméis of the Tribe of Cavan.
* Club of the Students' Trias:
	+ Faye Coimedaí of the Tribe of Cork.
	+ Crixus Cailc of the Tribe of Navan.

## After-School Activities

### Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Team, a.k.a. the Coileáin

The Iris Boarding School Complex maintains its own Sensha-Do Team, the Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Team, a.k.a. the Coileáin (the cubs).

The team was founded by enthusiasts in 1989 and thus is older then the Naval School Sensha-Do Team, their great local competitors. The team hosted the 2019 Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Convention, the first of, as they hoped, many. Time proved that to be a correct assessment.

In the wake of their own foundation, several other Sensha-Do Teams came into existance, a sport, which soon also extended into the University Sphere. The University of Fortham Sensha-Do Team, founded in the early 2000s, uses the same training grounds and began to be the Co-Host of the Sensha-Do Conventions with the 2022-Edition.

### Iris Boarding School Vulpine Appreciation Society

* headed by Felicia Cránna of the Tribe of Fermanagh, Attending 'Teacher' Aífe Spruchant of the Tribe of Wicklow
* concerns itself with the rescue and putting meat on the bones of vulpines in distress in the area (especially Little Black Foxes)
* Dorm 116

### Swimmer Team

   In the School Years 2013, 2014 and 2015, the Swimmer Team was headed by Kiah Cíochach of the Tribe of Navan.

From 2019 to 2022, Celina Riar of the Tribe of Monaghan was the Team's Captain.

### Football Team

The Iris Boarding School Complex boasts a total of five football teams, one of the Elementary Section and two each of the High and Middle School Sections. Additionally, an 'all-stars' team is nominated every team for a fundraiser tournament.

The High School Girls' Football Team is headed by Fiona Clipthóir of the Tribe of Dundalk until 2023.

### Conservatory Club

The Conservatory Club, a.k.a. the Green Thumb Club, is dedicated to growing and conserving plants in the green houses, as well as with supplying the restaurants with herbs.

### Younger Militia

The Younger Militia maintains a number of units at the Iris, among them the Iris-Pikemen and the Iris-Lancers,

The Iris Boarding School Complex Sensha-Do Team is also

In 1903, during the Battle of Anfa Ridge, the Iris Pikemen excelled in holding the line.