Almost 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...
Read MoreDear Regents friends and families,
We are all greatly anticipating the move to the new campus, but as I’ve been praying, this question came to me, and it was one I posed to the Logic & Rhetoric Schools recently: are we prepared for the move? There has been much prayer and labor and trust and faithfulness behind the scenes to get to the point...
Seven buildings are under roof, with only two buildings left to go to finish framing the Grammar School side of the campus. Thank you, Lord! One of the biggest breakthroughs this last month on the new site was getting approval of a solution for a way to bring water to the site. This may not sound like a big deal, but it had held up large parts of our site work for almost...
Read MoreCongratulations to Grammar School students who read a total of over 120,000 minutes during the Regents Reading Revolution! One student read 110 hours over the 17 days! Special congratulations goes to sixth grade who read the most minutes as a class.
Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and friends who supported our eager readers. This year, over...
This is the second year of the Regents Cantorum, an extracurricular choir in the Logic and Rhetoric schools. “Starting the Cantorum last year was a God thing,” says music teacher Kara Faraldi, “Three of us, separately, came up with the idea at the same time and the synergy gave it momentum.” So far the Cantorum has performed the national anthem at...
Read MoreOne of the beloved traditions in the Logic & Rhetoric Schools are our class trips. After a three-year COVID hiatus, the trips joyfully resumed this year with seventh and eighth grades spending two nights in Baltimore and Washington, D.C, 10th and 11th visiting Charleston for three nights, and 11th and 12th taking the train to New York City. “I love how these trips...
Read MoreAuthor Jonathan Miller visited Grammar School in March to talk about his work as an author-illustrator. Mr. Miller has published a four-book series about Sammy the dachshund and captivated students with his work. His time with grades four through six focused on the writing process. Students learned about how Mr. Miller has approached writing and had the chance to ask...
Read MoreDear Regents friends and families,
One of the goals of this newsletter is to give you a glimpse of what life is like at Regents School. There are the funny stories like the kindergartener who recently came to my office because he was having a hard time getting along with another friend. After talking through the behaviors that brought him to my office, it...
The Logic and Rhetoric School Board game club enjoys weekly meetings at lunch. The club is devoted to playing Mars 41 BC, a game like Axis and Allies (or Risk), created by our very own Dr. Aaron Larsen. Students begin from a region of the world and work on their conquests over many weeks as the game unfolds.
Read MoreThree buildings are under roof! You are looking at a fifth grade classroom on the far left of the picture, the foundation for third and fourth grade, Regents Hall (the Grammar School dining hall) in the middle, and the administration building to the right. Please pray for good weather so the work can continue without interruption!
Read More...The parents leave for a night out and the older siblings who are babysitting declare an oligarchy. -Allan Paurillo, father of 4 Regents oligarchs
Read MoreThank you for your tremendous support of the Regents Gala on Friday! From superb emcees and speakers to community business support, it truly took a village to create such a wonderful night. Special thanks to our auction chair Monique Moshier and to the many amazing volunteers who made our celebration a wonderful success! It was one of the most well-attended Galas ever!...
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For the first time ever, Regents is hosting fall extracurricular dance classes in the Grammar School! Students are learning The Waltz of the Flowers and the Snow Scene from the Nutcracker for a performance before Christmas. “One thing that has been special about this year,” says teacher Olivia Pincombe, “is how the group of students who danced last year...
Read MoreKeith McCurdy, a licensed counselor who has been on the board of Faith Christian School in Roanoke, spoke last week in three different sessions, first to students, then to faculty and local and pastors, and then to parents. Mr. McCurdy said that every child needs to answer three existential questions on their way to a sturdy adulthood, "Am I valuable? Am I capable? Do...
Read MoreYou may not know much about Dr. Aaron Larsen who works behind the scenes advising on curriculum and research at Regents (in addition to teaching Latin I this year!), but if you’ve had children in 4th to 8th grade, you’ve probably seen his work. Dr. Larsen (affectionately known by the students as “Doc”) is the author of Latin for Children used by...
Read More“Each and every one of us is an image bearer of God carries the weightiness of God’s glory. Just as much as we’re called to steward our time and our finances, we are called to steward the glory of being His image bearer. We are constantly interacting with other people made in the image of God. There is a weightiness of being invited into a relationship...
Read MoreRegents is thrilled to welcome Katy Shonka as our first school nurse. While she may be new to the role of school nurse, Mrs. Shonka is neither new to Regents nor new to nursing. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Virginia and has worked in post-surgical and oncology units of the hospital as well as a volunteer nurse at Thrive Pregnancy...
Read MoreYou're invited to join fellow Regents supporters and families at a dinner and silent auction to celebrate Regents School on Friday, November 4th at 6:00 in the evening at Farmington Country Club. Please see the following invitation for more information. Tickets may purchased online by clicking the button below the...
Read More“Courage is a command. It’s not optional for God’s people. God commands His people to have courage as we live in a world that could frighten us and tempt us to take the easy way out. But what we need to do is to stay firm for what is true and good and beautiful.
Courage comes from having a big sovereign God. If God had told Joshua,...
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