From the earliest years, Regents students practice the habits that make strong scientists and mathematicians: careful observation, accurate description, logical classification, and honest measurement. In Kindergarten and First Grade, science begins with immersive unit studies such as planets and mammals. Our young students learn the grammar of the sciences - the building...
Read MoreWinter Spirit Week wrapped up last week with a House Color Pep Rally. Congratulations to the House of Patrick on pulling out the win! While every student at Regents is in the house system and participates in House Color Day and the pep rally, upper school students have the chance to dress up every day of Spirit Week. Themes last week included: Detective Day, Zoo Day, and...
Read MoreDid you know that you can honor a student on their birthday with a book donation to the school library? For a $20 donation, your student will pick out a new book with our librarian to add to our library and will be the first one to get to check the book out! Their name and birthday will go inside on a bookplate and be part of the Regents'...
Read MoreCal Newport, a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University and the author of multiple books about the intersection of technology and work, asserts that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is the gold currency of the modern workplace. He defines this ability as deep work.
Read MoreDid you know that the next building on Regents's campus is about to break ground? By the grace of God and the generosity of many people, we have raised the $700,000 needed to construct this building which will house bathrooms for upper school students, student lockers, and a classroom! Each year, we graduate ONE class of seniors and TWO sections of sixth graders move to...
Read MoreIn a world increasingly marked by distraction and screens, this year at Regents, we are studying the countercultural virtue of beauty. When we first studied beauty as a school in the 2017-2018 school year, I was a newcomer to classical education and it felt like an odd choice compared to studying truth or goodness. Over the years my children have been at Regents, I've...
Read MoreImagine a classroom where ancient wisdom meets the truth of Scripture, where curiosity is cultivated and students wrestle with big ideas, all while growing in truth, goodness, and beauty. That is the heart of Regents School, and it’s only possible with well-trained teachers who embody and impart these virtues to their students. As teachers head back to campus next...
Read MoreFifth and sixth grade performed "An Evening of Shakespeare" directed by Miss Kara Faraldi. Fifth grade performed vignettes from Shakespeare plays, and sixth grade performed "A Comedy of Errors." The classes spent many months learning scenes and difficult scripts, including, for sixth grade, some stage combat classes. Congratulations to all the performers...
Read MoreGrammar School students read 153,990 minutes over the three weeks of Reading Revolution, including 21 students who read over 30 hours each! Congratulations to top readers: Nathaniel Lee (1st), Isabel Mulcahy (1st), Emma Montalto (3rd), Ben Mais (3rd), Ruby Mais (4th), and Jonathan Richardson (5th). Students met George Washington as they partied like it was 1776 last...
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 MoreFirst through Fourth Grade Drama Night was last week! All the class videos are in this folder (if you click on a video, it will tell you what class it is). The order of videos in the album goes youngest to oldest with one exception:...
Read MoreThe long-awaited playground is being installed! The retaining wall is complete and the structure is 3/4 installed. We are just waiting on the final elements and mulch. The swings have also arrived but need to be relocated from where our installer was supposed to put them.
Read MoreEvery year art teacher Jenn Atwell picks an artist to explore for Black History Month. "The artist we're inspired by this year is Aaron Douglas who lived soon after the end of slavery," says Mrs. Atwell. "We all put a piece of ourselves in our art so with this project we talked about the Great Migration and what the artists and musicians who lived during...
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 MoreAt Grandparents Day last year, a grandfather parted a crowd of costumed fourth graders, and walked up to a senior, asking him: “What is that gold piece of cloth you wear around your neck?” These pieces of cloth, called stoles, are a reminder to seniors to serve the younger students. Stoles resemble the cloth that Jesus used to wash the disciples’ feet...
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 MoreCross Country had a first this year, and competed in the first annual Virginia Classical Schools Cross Country Championship! Classical schools from around the state attended, and competed in a friendly but rigorous competition. Middle School Girls Cross Country won Fourth Place in their division, and fifth grade student Margaret Colquitt placed in 9th out of 41...
Read MoreFifth Grade used some of their rainy days to learn a rousing and dramatic recitation of Sea-Fever by John Masefield which they performed at Recitation Chapel. It is one of the most memorable recitations I have seen in the last couple of years - great job fifth grade! (To watch click here and...
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