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 More“In Rhetoric School art this year we have been focusing on creating a variety of values, layers, and washes in watercolors,” says art teacher Jenn Atwell. “The students had several projects before this still life; one was learning to paint three dimensional effects of draped fabrics. Students had to pay attention to creating soft edges in their transition...
Read MoreIf you talk to seventh to twelfth grade Regents students, you may hear about block scheduling, upcoming tests and papers, and serious classroom discussions. While this is all true, they may not let you in on the other half of the story: every single class in the Logic and Rhetoric School takes at least a five minute break every period to go outside - and study halls take at...
Read MoreDear Regents friends and families,
This month we are taking the opportunity to focus most of this newsletter on what physical activity looks like at Regents School. As Athletic Director, this is a topic that is obviously near and dear to my heart. Our bodies matter - not just as a means to an end, but as vessels created by God that reflect His...
The Girls Varsity Tennis team is 4-3 with victories over Eastern Mennonite, The Miller School, and St. Catherine's. Freshman Esther Keppel, the lone lefty on the team, helped Regents secure those four victories by winning in singles for each match. Senior Maddie Parham had a strong showing in the EMS and Miller School matches, beating her opponents 8-5 and 8-3 in...
Read MoreCongratulations 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 MoreThe sole senior on this year's varsity volleyball squad received a big celebration on senior night! Congratulations to Sterling Mesa for four years of Regents varsity volleyball. She plans to attend Boyce College after Regents.
Read More"Does love require truth? In identity? In self? In others?"
-Ms. Hofherr's 9th grade...
"The center of Christian education must be the Scriptures, and Christians will not experience growth in godliness apart from the Word of God. So I want my students to know God's Word well. I want them to see how the Old Testament (7th grade) and New Testament (8th grade) hang together narratively, thematically, and theologically. I hope if guests visited one of my...
Read MoreExcerpt 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...
If you have driven by the new site since the end of the 2022-2023 school year, you may not have noticed much difference in the way the site is looking. The tasks of the last three months have been the kinds of things that don't result in much outward change: getting electricity to the site, receiving all of our MEP permits (mechanical, electrical and plumbing), waiting...
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 MoreCongratulations to Madeline Reed and Reagan Smith who recently signed their letters of intent to play college sports. Madeline will be playing volleyball at Lancaster Bible Institute and Reagan Smith will be playing basketball at Shenandoah University.
"Madeline's influence has left such a beautiful and lasting legacy on the volleyball program,"...
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...
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...
Based on Aristotle's "Golden Mean" how should we live? What do you agree/disagree with and why? How should this knowledge influence your character development? Does it fit with Biblical morality?
Read MoreCongratulations to Abigail Keller who was accepted into the Virginia Governor's Latin Academy, a summer residential program for Virginia's most motivated and talented Latin students. Being selected for this program as a rising junior (preference goes to seniors) is a unique and special honor! The program is a three week program hosted by Randolph Macon college that...
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