Each 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...
Read More"Does love require truth? In identity? In self? In others?"
-Ms. Hofherr's 9th grade...
Excerpt from Logic School & Rhetoric School Orientation Address
“What does it mean to have a successful year at Regents?
I believe that if in May you find yourself identifying your own tendencies towards either peace faking or peace breaking and you repent of them and you choose to live as a peace maker even though it’s...
Regents is excited to welcome Emily Mais to the Grammar School as a kindergarten teacher! Mrs. Mais may be new to teaching at Regents, but she is a stranger neither to the Regents community nor the classroom. Her children Ben (2nd) and Ruby (3rd) have attended Regents for the past two years.
Prior to joining Regents, Mrs. Mais spent eight years as an elementary...
Read MoreRegents is excited to welcome Zach Vestal to the Logic & Rhetoric faculty as a math and science teacher. Mr. Vestal graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2016 with a B.S. in Biology. Since then, he has worked at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, in insurance sales, and most recently at Summer’s Best Two Weeks where he worked with Regents' first-ever...
Read More| Ms. Sawyer's second grade class has been learning about meter and rhyming and the students have been practicing writing their own poems: |
Congratulations to the House of Luther for winning Regents’ 2023 Certamen contest! Certamen is a Jeopardy-style game for classical students. Students are quizzed on Latin vocabulary, grammar, derivatives, Roman history and daily life, and the influence of Latin in the modern world. Led by Abigail Keller, the House of Luther demonstrated commanding mastery in each of...
Read MoreAlmost 200 grandparents joined us for Grandparents Day on April 31st! What a gift it was to be together and to celebrate your students' hard work all year long with recitations of poetry, Latin, science and history, songs, and Scripture. The Logic School students presented two Socratic Seminars discussing Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan and four rhetoric...
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