Middle school volleyball's season ended with a win in the quarter finals of the VACA tournament. Great job, Coach McReynolds and Coach Smith and the whole team!
Varsity volleyball was 9-1 in the regular season this year and advanced to the semifinals of the VACA North region where they lost to Faith Christian. Way to go ladies!
From Amerigo Vespucci to Samuel de Champlain, Regents fifth graders dressed up and presented speeches on the lives of famous explorers of the New World. Mr. Muur challenged students this year not just to read their speeches, but to actually memorize and present them. Way to embrace the challenge, fifth grade!
Read MoreFrom climbing Pike’s Peak to running away from bears, these young sixth grade settlers had an amazing Pioneer Day. Students in sixth grade study the early American settlers in westward expansion, and each create and write about a character along one of the six overland trails that pioneers used to cross the country. The unit culminates with a day of celebration and...
Read MoreOne of third grade's big challenges at the beginning of the year is memorizing and reciting all of Genesis 1! They memorize this over two months and their recitation in October lasted almost ten minutes! "We don't memorize to show off or to show how smart me are," said Head of School Courtney Palumbo at Recitation Chapel, "but to hide God's word...
Read MoreFourth grade is learning about the middle ages and recently became monks for the day, taking a vow of silence, copying manuscripts in the Scriptorium and performing acts of service for the Regents community.
Read MoreSecond grade class is studying Virginia history and geography and mapped the topography of the state in salt dough!
Read MoreFirst graders picked a mammal to research and memorize three facts about to present on Mammal Day! The students also sing the Mammal March which teaches them about the orders of mammals and the characteristics of mammals. Mammal Day is one of many types of "Living History Days" in the Grammar School where students get the opportunity to delve deeply into a topic...
Read MoreIn the afternoon, the kindergarteners who stay for the full day have time for enrichment activities like learning about Michaelangelo. They immersed themselves in the experience by practicing painting on the "ceiling"! Afternoon kindergarten and art teacher Olivia Pincombe loves asking big questions with the littlest of her students: "What does it mean to...
Read MoreStudents in the Rhetoric School are hard at work nearing the end of the first trimester. At the Upper School, students take exams after the first and third trimester to start developing the study habits that will serve them in college and beyond. Tenth graders taking European Literature have started off the year with Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. “When it comes to...
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