Rhetoric School Drama students had the opportunity to take a stage combat workshop from Mr. Aaron Hall and Mr. Gabe Van Oven from Liberty University today. Students learned how to safely stage a believable 30 second stage combat sequence and then had an opportunity to perform it for their peers! Stage combat is a great skill for any growing actor to have, and it proved to...
Read MoreFirst grade has been studying Prehistoric Art in the Chauvet Cave Drawings to learn how to draw what they see in its simplest lines and shapes, and discussed the value of drawing as a means of communicating, and why cave people would have used quick lines to communicate what they saw. They experimented with the medium of charcoal on crumpled paper and using...
Read MoreMiddle 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!
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