New this year in the Logic & Rhetoric School is integrating a type of Christian formation called catechesis into the curriculum. In Mr. Harris's classes in the Rhetoric School and Mrs. Webb's classes in the Logic School, each period begins with the same call-and-response recitation that prepares students for class. The word...
Read MoreTucked back in a corner at Regents on a Thursday morning, it’s “Valley Forge Day” for fifth graders. Dressed in dirty and frayed colonial clothing, the students, made up to look like they have war wounds, march single file out of their classrooms. Each student will be challenged to submerge their feet in a bucket full of ice for 30 seconds so they can...
Read MoreRegents' families and students spoke at a recent Virginia General Assembly press conference to ask our legislators to keep the Education Improvement Scholarship Tax Credit in effect and to expand it to serve more students in the Commonwealth. Mr. Harris's tenth grade rhetoric classes made the trip and also went room to room to visit their elected delegates. Special...
Read MoreHow does this beautiful ideal play out in day-to-day life at Regents School? Each year in Grammar School, students learn oration by speaking publicly before an audience. Starting in kindergarten, teachers help students memorize facts to present before an audience at Planet Day. What starts as individual recitations of memorized facts in kindergarten and first grade,...
Read MoreThe senior class came together to create an original canto inspired by Dante’s Inferno! You can see their creative visual elements made to accompany their literary piece in the photos. To celebrate, they enjoyed a meal together while reading each other's amazing work! A canto is a major unit of division in long narrative poems. Similar to a stanza, it helps divide...
Read MoreFifth graders Sophie Mulcahy and Virginia Sheriff were accepted to the Charlottesville Astronomical Society’s Future Astronomer’s Club. After attending three one-hour instruction sessions at the McCormick Observatory at UVA, they will be given their own telescope at no cost, to view and study the moon, planets, and many other deep sky objects! They learned about...
Read More| After fifth grade’s trip to Jamestown in October, students came home with an idea: start their own colony at recess. Many fourth and fifth grade students have devoted their recess time since then towards the intricacies... |
Fifth grade practiced for their Gift of Words assignment by writing acrostic poems to Jesus Christ. Poem by Margaret C.
Read MoreEach year at Regents we pick a virtue to serve as the theme of our year. The theme guides what we talk about in Chapel and upper school devotions. It is what we reflect on as teachers and strive to keep in the forefront of our attention as we interact with students. This year our virtue is hope.
"I want to make sure we define hope rightly," said...
Regents is excited to welcome Mr. Riley Lindsay (no relation to Amy Lindsey) as a new Logic and Rhetoric School humanities teacher. Mr. Lindsay was a Philosophy major at Hillsdale College where he fell in love with the Great Books.
"We are storytelling creatures," says Mr. Lindsay. "We make sense of our lives through narratives of the...
Congratulations to Ainsley Shonka, our 2023-24 Coram Deo Award winner, which is Regents School's highest recognition. Each year the faculty select one student to receive this honor who has embodied the spirit of Coram Deo here in our school. "To live Coram Deo is to live one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of...
Read More"There are many marks that have been left on me during my time here. This school has filled my mind with knowledge I will never forget, passion that will never leave and faithfulness that will always endure. … Our teachers have taught us to think for ourselves, reason through things, put our thoughts into words and actions, ask questions and communicate...
Read MoreCongratulations to the Class of 2024 for successfully defending their theses last week! All eleven seniors prepared 20 minute speechs, then answered questions from panelists for 15-20 minutes.
“The senior thesis is both summative and formative in the life of our students,” said Logic and Rhetoric School Principal Christopher Webb. “It brings...
If you had to identify one facet of education that has been shown to improve the parent partnership, deepen classroom discussions, identify and ameliorate student learning gaps and teach students executive functioning skills - in only twenty minutes a day - what would it be? That's right, homework. Here is a snapshot of the reasons why purposeful homework is integral to...
Read More“I really desire to connect every single lesson in my Calculus and Latin classes to the greater purpose and heart of Regents as a school,” says teacher Olivia Didat. “I never want my students to lose perspective of the reason why we are here: to learn about who God is through the lens of different subjects and grow in our love for Him! This may be...
Read MoreRegents is thrilled to introduce Charlotte Kennedy, our new fifth grade teacher who is stepping into Mr. Muur's shoes who is our new Grammar School Principal. While Mrs. Kennedy may be new to Regents, she is no stranger to the classroom, having spent the last three years as a second grade teacher in Houston.
"Everything at Regents is done with...
Congratulations to Abigail Keller, who was selected as a National Award recipient for the CLT10. National Awards go to the top 50 CLT10 scorers in the nation and include a $2500 college scholarship at any CLT Partner College. We are so proud of you, Abigail!
Read MoreA big congratulations to Jenna Rose (class of 2018) who is the recipient of a national award from The Daisy Foundation that honors nurses for outstanding patient care. Jenna is a labor and delivery nurse at UVA and was nominated by a Christian couple who told her they could tell she was a Christian by the way she cared for them. Jenna graduated from the nursing program at...
Read MoreFourth grade has begun a new tradition with teacher Mrs. McReynolds of reciting a poem at many Recitation Chapels in addition to their Scripture memory. In September, students recited Corpus Christi Carol, an early modern English poem written by John Hill in 1533 as part of their medieval history studies.
Read MoreIt truly is a wonderful endeavor to serve at the Regents School of Charlottesville. For the last three years, it has been my joy to teach fifth grade and coach a few sports at Regents. Now, it is my immense honor to serve as the Interim Grammar School Principal. My hope is that the families, children, and faculty of the Grammar School will strive to glorify God and enjoy...
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