Responsible Citizenship
Responsible Citizenship
Inclusion at Collegiate means consistent work across all areas of school life and curriculum to ensure that all members of its community feel fully respected and valued, and that our students develop the skills to thrive and lead in a diverse society. Our diversity reflects differences in identity that determine our experiences as community members. Dimensions of diversity include but are not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, ability/disability, socioeconomic status and sexual orientation. Collegiate strives to instill in its students the ability to be flexible in using different lenses to make sense of the world. Collegiate emphasizes these divisional focus areas to create an inclusive community which values diversity: Grades JK-4: Developing empathy; Grades 5-8: Building a sense of community and understanding multiple perspectives; Grades 9-12: Affirming one’s personal identity; feeling like a valued member of the Collegiate community; examining social issues and engaging multiple perspectives to be a contributing member of the Collegiate community and beyond.
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Lower School
4th Grade Spanish language students explore the theme of “Family” by taking a video trip to visit families in five Spanish speaking countries; they learn about their Spanish peers’ lives and education experiences in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and Puerto Rico.
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Middle School
The 5th Grade history curriculum focuses on ancient civilizations, including the basic tenets of the five major world religions. Students visit places of worship in Richmond to learn more about Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
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Upper School
In AP Statistics, Upper School students use their math skills to focus on social problems that face the world today, including topics like disease, poverty and population growth. Greater understanding and empathy for the challenges facing real people around the world are gained through reading and analyzing statistics.
Ignite - Inclusion
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Collegiate Lower School Kindness Club Welcomes Special Visitor
Read MoreSeveral weeks ago, Collegiate School 4th Grader Catherine Conner was interviewed by NBC12 about how she started a Kindness Club. Immediately, Gini Bonnell, a Richmond resident, contacted Lower School counselor Kelsey Felton and asked to meet the club members. -
Kindergartners Spearhead “Shop for a Cause” Event
Read MoreCollegiate School Kindergartners teamed up with Saxon Shoes for a "Shop for a Cause" event that kicked off this past weekend, benefiting foster care through United Methodist Family Services. -
Upper School Capstone Classes Present Culminating Projects
Four senior Capstone classes presented projects that are the culmination of their semester-long studies:Read More -
Collegiate 10th Graders Host Meet in the Middle
Read MoreCollegiate School today hosted the 32nd annual Meet in the Middle, a Special Olympics event for Henrico County middle school students organized by Collegiate 10th Graders. Nearly 300 visiting students competed in multiple sporting events on Grover Jones Field. -
4th Grader Recognized for Starting A Kindness Club
Collegiate School 4th Grader Catherine Conner was recently interviewed by NBC12 reporter Terrance Dixon about how she started a Kindness Club. She and other students in the club have collaborated during "working lunch" periods to find ways to spread kindness throughout the Lower School.Read More -
Institute for Responsible Citizenship Named for Powell Family
Read MoreCollegiate School’s Institute for Responsible Citizenship was named last evening in honor and appreciation of the longtime support and commitment of the Powell family. -
Middle School Students Share Learnings from Prejudice Awareness Summit
In October, six Collegiate Middle School students attended The Prejudice Awareness Summit at VCU chaperoned by Carolyn Villanueva and Amasa Monroe. The Summit is designed to increase awareness, knowledge and acceptance of ethnic and cultural differences. The students returned to Collegiate and worked with Ms. Villanueva and Mr. Monroe through the fall and winter semester on a presentation summarizing their learnings that they then presented to the Middle School in assembly.Read More -
Phase II of Envision Richmond, 8th Grade Capstone, Begins
As the second phase of Envision Richmond, Collegiate School’s Capstone program for 8th Graders, students this week continued their connection with the Richmond-area nonprofit organizations they learned about last fall.Read More -
Annual Series of Religion Assemblies Focuses on Sikhism
As part of the Middle School's annual series of religion assemblies, our 5th-8th Graders learned about Sikhism from sisters Manleen and Sachpreet Kaur. Wearing traditional Sikh dress, they taught students about the basic tenets of Sikhism, with a focus on music. They showed students traditional instruments and performed a sacred piece.Read More -
6th Grade Poetry Slam Connects Communities
Carolyn Villanueva's 6th Grade English classes met up with 6th Grade students from Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School at the Richmond Children's Museum and shared our poetry out loud. The Poetry Slam experience helped students build confidence, explore their voices and identity, and connect to their community.Read More -
Upper Schoolers Share Experiences During Black History Month Discussion
Read MoreThree members of United Sisters and Brothers, Collegiate School’s Upper School resource group for African-American students, participated in a panel discussion during a February 2019 assembly to share their perspectives on their experiences as students of color at Collegiate. -
Junior Kindergartners Learn Lesson in Kindness
Read MoreAs recruits of the “Kindness Ninja Headquarters,” Collegiate School’s Junior Kindergarten classes (Sycamores and Willows) are involved in special secret missions involving being kind to others. -
Collegiate Seniors Experience Richmond Slave Trail
A group of Collegiate seniors who are taking the River City Capstone class visited the Richmond Slave Trail this week with faculty members Rhiannon Boyd and Brad Cooke in their ongoing efforts to understand the James River and its impact on the Richmond region.Read More -
Collegiate Students Celebrate Chinese New Year
Read MoreCollegiate School Chinese language students ushered in the Year of the Pig last evening at the sixth annual Chinese New Year Celebration in Oates Theater. -
Students and Faculty Participate in MLK Jr. Day Symposium
A group of Collegiate students and faculty enjoyed participating in the MLK Jr. Day Symposium at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. hosted in partnership with the Virginia Diversity Network. This year's theme was "Building Bridges: Shoulder to Shoulder, Lifting All Our Voices." Several of our students and faculty led presentations.Read More -
Guest Speaker Inspires Students to Value Their Education
Collegiate Middle School teacher Kate Cunningham’s 5th Grade girls advisory took a proverbial trip around the world today when a special guest shared her experiences with education, literature and equal rights.Read More -
Collegiate Senior Recognized for Poetry Celebrating Diversity
Read MoreCollegiate senior Maya Jackson recently had a poem published in di-vêrsé-city, a youth anthology project curated by Austin Poets International. This nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas promotes literary excellence by uniting poets from around the world to celebrate the diversity of humanity through the power of written and spoken word. In addition to publishing youth and adult anthologies each year, the organization hosts the annual Austin International Poetry Festival. -
Collegiate Students Celebrate Hindu Festival of Lights
Read MoreCollegiate School students celebrated Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, today during two assemblies. -
Upper School Students Promote Respect for All Identities
Today our Upper School leaders offered their classmates an opportunity to unite against hate and promote a community of love and respect for all identities, by voluntarily wearing a blue ribbon. Buckets of blue ribbons were placed in the Upper School hallway and students were invited to take one and pin it on for the day.Read More -
Lower Schoolers Offer Global Support Through Unique Partnership
Read MoreCollegiate School 2nd Graders have embarked on a letter-writing campaign to secure support and sales for a product that will bring light to children and adults across the globe. -
Collegiate Hosts Jazz Pianist Justin Kauflin
Collegiate was delighted to host jazz pianist Justin Kauflin today for a performance and short question-and-answer session with Upper Schoolers. The visit was a unique opportunity for students to engage up close with a well-known musician. Mr. Kauflin, blind since age 11, began performing jazz professionally by age 15. He worked with Quincy Jones on his second full-length CD, "Dedication," which was released in January 2015. The CD debuted at No. 6 on CMJ Jazz chart, No. 10 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz chart, hit No. 1 on JazzWeek's chart and remained in the Top 10 spot for nine straight weeks. His latest project, "Coming Home," also produced by Quincy Jones, was released last month.Read More -
Collegiate Upper School English Teacher Presents at VAIS Conference
Collegiate Upper School English teacher Dr. Leah Angell Sievers recently presented Service Learning? Service Writing! at the Virginia Association of Independent Schools 2018 Leading Learning Conference: Better Together.Read More -
Collegiate Senior Speaks at Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities Event
Read MoreCollegiate senior Cody Patterson was invited to speak in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Connections Institute at the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities' 2018 Humanitarian Awards Dinner. Over the summer, Cody attended Connections, a weeklong diversity camp for Virginia high school students, on behalf of Collegiate. He took to the podium to share his experience and how it helped him grow. He is pictured here with former Collegiate parent John Stallings (left), who received a VCIC Humanitarian Award, and with VCIC Executive Director Jonathan Zur (right). -
Collegiate Senior Uses Endowment Award to Create, Fund Youth Music Festival
During a special presentation last week, five Collegiate students shared how student endowments made possible by the generosity of Collegiate School families enabled them to travel and explore their individual areas of interest. One of those students, senior Azzuri Fleming, received the Mary Parker Moncure Vaden Endowment Award and used her funding to create a community-wide music festival for youth called Beats, Rhymes and Life.Read More
“I did this because I feel like there is a lack of resources and outlets in Richmond for youth who want to pursue music seriously,” Azzuri said. -
Collegiate 4th Graders Witness Naturalization Ceremony
Read MoreAs part of their social studies curriculum, Collegiate School 4th Grade students have been studying all aspects of immigration though readings, discussions and a speaker series. -
Collegiate Seniors Share Endowment Adventures
Five Collegiate School students shared during a special presentation today how student endowments made possible by the generosity of Collegiate families enabled them to travel and explore their individual areas of interest.Read More -
Collegiate Parent Shares Immigration Story With 4th Graders
As part of Collegiate School 4th Graders' study of immigration, parents of our students are invited to visit and share their immigration stories. Today, the students heard from Dr. Bushra Mubashshir Shah, who immigrated from Kashmir in 2007 in search of a better life for her family. As 4th Graders have in previous years, this year's group also heard from John Dau, Collegiate's Global Scholar-in-Residence and a former Lost Boy of Sudan. Other parents are scheduled to visit soon.Read More -
Students Explore Culture and Evolution With Visiting Dancer
Students in some of Collegiate School’s Upper School biology and Spanish classes participated in a co-curricular activity today that allowed them to study themes across two academic specialties and learn how African music, song and dance have influenced Latin American culture.Read MoreThe students welcomed Kevin LaMarr Jones, founder, artistic director and choreographer for Claves Unidos ("United Rhythms”), a Richmond-based dance company, to demonstrate the interconnection between the two subjects. -
A Life of Significance
Read MoreAt Collegiate School, every adult plays a vital role. Sometimes, it’s high profile. Sometimes, it’s understated or even far-behind-the-scenes. Really, though, everyone’s role, job description notwithstanding, is the same: Work together, be positive and respectful, and do all that you can to ensure the well-being of our children. In her 27 years of service to Collegiate, Sara Noftsinger took her role to heart, and, without a doubt, she played it well. -
Upper School STAR Tutor and Mentor Program Begins
Three days a week throughout the school year, Collegiate Upper School students can be found tutoring and mentoring immigrant and refugee students at Quioccasin Middle School through the Tuckahoe YMCA’s Strengthening Teens Academically and Recreationally (STAR) program. Our 2018-19 volunteers participated in their first tutoring session of the school year earlier this week, helping Middle Schoolers with their homework and engaging them in physical activity and in an arts and craft project. All involved are looking forward to a great year ahead!Read More -
Collegiate 7th Graders Participate in Connect Richmond Kickoff Activity
Read MoreCollegiate School 7th Grade students participated in September in Communities, Challenges and Leadership, during which senior mentors led activities and shared life experiences. -
Erica Coffey lends Insight to New Teacher Institute Training
Erica Coffey, Director of Global Engagement and Inclusion, worked with the participants of the New Teachers Institute (NTI) on the topic of multiple perspectives sharing insights into student choices and curriculum design.Read More -
Second Annual Akolkol Storytelling Festival Draws Young Writers
Young writers from across Richmond had a great time at the Akolkol Storytelling Festival, led by John Dau, Collegiate's Global Scholar-In-Residence, in partnership with Richmond Young Writers.Read More -
Upper Schoolers Mentor Richmond Elementary Students in Math
Read MoreDuring the spring semester, 16 Collegiate School BC Calculus students mentored and tutored 16 5th Grade students at Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary School, a Richmond City public school. -
Fifth Graders Celebrate Hindu Holi Festival
Read MoreCollegiate School 5th Graders took part in the Hindu Holi festival of colors, which celebrates warm weather and new beginnings. The colors were provided by two 5th Grade boys, who are of the Hindu faith. They were excited to share this tradition with their classmates. And their classmates had a ball! -
Capstone Students Consider Richmond’s Relationship to the James River
In the River City Capstone, Collegiate seniors explored how the economic, political and cultural landscape — historically and presently — is inextricably linked with the environmental landscape and health of the James, the city and the citizenry.Read More -
Collegiate School Supports Festival’s Piñata Project
During the month of April, Collegiate School worked with several community partners to construct and donate nearly a dozen piñatas to the 17th annual Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s ¿Qué Pasa? Festival.Read More -
Collegiate 10th Graders Sponsor Meet in the Middle
Read MoreCollegiate School today hosted the 31st annual Meet in the Middle, a Special Olympics event for Henrico County Middle School students run by Collegiate 10th Graders. Nearly 300 visiting students competed in multiple sporting events on Grover Jones Field. -
National Day of Silence Observed
Members of the Upper School Prism student resource group observed today's national Day of Silence by distributing pins with rainbow colored ribbons and sharing information with their classmates on why some Upper School students have voluntarily participated for more than five years.Read More -
Collegiate hosts the Virginia Diversity Network’s Spring Conference
Collegiate was honored to host the Virginia Diversity Network’s spring conference. During the all-day session, which focused on the theme of Interfaith Dialogue, four community leaders and scholars, including Collegiate Upper School English teacher Dr. Leah Angell Sievers, served on a panel. They tackled difficult questions, modeled interfaith dialogue and sparked conversation among the 30 participants from various Virginia-based independent schools, including The Steward School, St. Catherine’s School, St. Christopher’s School, Flint Hill School, St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School, St. Michael’s Episcopal School and St. Anne’s-Belfield School.Read More -
Local College Dean Explores Cultural Issues with Upper Schoolers
Dr. Corey Walker, Vice President and Dean of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University, visited Collegiate School today to discuss the issues of race, place and space with Upper Schoolers who are studying human rights, the statues on Monument Avenue and the culture of the City of Richmond.Read More -
Four Middle School Assemblies focus on Sacred Spaces in World Religions
Four 6th Graders presented information about Sikhism at the fourth and final religion Middle School assembly of the year. This year's focus has been on sacred spaces in world religions.Read More -
Symposium Explores Being a Muslim Student in Virginia
Read MoreA group of Collegiate Upper Schoolers and Erica Coffey, Collegiate Director of Global Engagement & Inclusion, participated in a symposium at St. Christopher's School regarding what it's like to be a Muslim students in Virginia. -
Renowned Artist Holds Master Classes with Collegiate Students
Collegiate School students spent three days this week learning from well-regarded artist Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., whose work has been featured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stamperia del Tevere in Rome, and in numerous other museums and university settings around the nation and globe.Read More -
Collegiate Hosts New York Lacrosse Players
A group of high school students from New York visited the Richmond area last weekend as guests of Collegiate School lacrosse players and their families. It was the third time Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership (HLL) has come to the area to participate in clinics and play pickup games with athletes on lacrosse teams at Collegiate and Highland Springs High School.Read More -
Collegiate 4th Grade Performs "An American Mosaic"
Read MoreAmerica is often referred to as a “melting pot,” bringing people together from various backgrounds to create a society based on equality, freedom, and liberty. Throughout United States history, there have been many distinguished figures that have led movements to advocate for equal rights of all people in America’s diverse community. Collegiate’s Lower School 4th graders have extensively studied these stories and presented them in a culminating production on March 16 called “An American Mosaic.” -
Articles in "The Match" Reflect Responsible Citizenship
Read MoreRecent issues of The Match, Collegiate's student-run online news site, featured several articles related to the Responsible Citizenship pillars. Each is the result of in-depth research, reporting, writing and editing, as each author delves deeply into a topic of their choosing. Highlights include: -
Lower School Students Create Expressive Portraitures
Read MoreCollegiate School 3rd and 4th Grade artists recently observed and discussed composition, emotion, realism and symbolism in relation to the portraits of Kehindé Wiley, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, FrédéricBazille and Georges de La Tour. -
Students Learn About Sacred Heart Center Using Design Thinking
Read MoreAs part of Collegiate School’s senior Capstone course, International Emerging Leaders - Americas, students focus on an in-depth service learning program in partnership with Sacred Heart Center, a Richmond nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the Latino community. -
Middle School Mosaic Club Visits Local Restaurant
Read MoreMembers of Collegiate's 5th-6th Grade Mosaic Club recently visited Postive Vibe Café to learn about the Richmond restaurant’s mission to train and employ people with disabilities. Middle Mosaic is a club that seeks to build an even better School community in the Middle School. The trip to Positive Vibe was the group's culminating event for an activity club members participated in to understand differences that come from abilities and disabilities. -
Capstone Explores Richmond's History and Impact of the James River
Read MoreAs part of their ongoing research for a senior Capstone class The River City, a group of 12th Graders met with two James River advocates yesterday to learn about Richmond's history and the impact of the river on the city's evolution. -
First Graders Study Jazz and Art During Black History Month
Read MoreIn honor of Black History month, Collegiate School 1st Graders learned about jazz and improvisation in music class, and then attended a mini-concert by the Upper School Jazz Band, directed by Bryan Hooten. Continuing their studies, the students then created drawings in art class as the basis for collages during their exploration of Romare Bearden, a Harlem Renaissance artist who often improvised with jazz musicians and included them in his artwork. -
Upper School Students Honor Black History Month
Eleven Upper School students from United Sisters and Brothers, one of Collegiate School’s student resource groups, visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., in February.Read More -
Upper School Student Shares Travel Experiences
Read MoreCollegiate Upper School student Jensen Richardson served as the guest speaker at a recent Town Hall meeting with Kindergartners. In December, Jensen traveled to India. Prior to his trip, the Lower Schoolers asked him this question: “How are Collegiate Kindergarten students the same and different from five- and six- year-olds who live in different countries?“ -
Upper School French Students Learn About Immigration
Read MoreTo gain a better understanding of immigration in France, Collegiate Upper School students in Holly Fairlamb’s Honors French V class invited Martine Tchitchihe, a human rights advocate, and John Dau, Collegiate’s Global Scholar-in-Residence, to describe their experiences navigating the immigration process in the United States. -
Sixth Graders Create Poems From the Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Read MoreCollegiate 6th Graders in Middle School humanities teacher Carolyn Villanueva's class created “found poems” based on speeches and the definition of "Beloved Community" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The students highlighted words meaningful to them and unveiled their own poetry and art to honor and share important messages from Dr. King. -
Collegiate Hosts Annual Student Diversity Conference
Collegiate School hosted the annual Virginia Diversity Network Upper School Student Diversity Conference with seven independent schools from across the state in attendance.Read More -
Senior Capstone Students Visit Richmond’s Vertical Slot Fishway
Collegiate School seniors enrolled in the Senior Capstone course, The River City, met a James River Park System biologist at the vertical slot fishway on the river’s Bosher's Dam this week to see firsthand the intricate "fish ladder" that enables native species such as the American shad to return upriver to spawn, despite the presence of the dam.Read More -
Middle School Students Honor Human Rights Day
Read MoreCollegiate Middle School students recognized United Nations Human Rights Day this month in honor of the U.N. General Assembly's adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). -
Upper School Student Shares Experience at the National Diversity Conference
Read MoreEach year, the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), gathers together 1,600 students from across the country at the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC). The conference is led by returning students, who receive training to become peer facilitators, and trained adult facilitators. -
Collegiate 4th Graders Host Dinner for Recent Immigrants
Read MoreCollegiate 4th Graders hosted nearly 100 guests from ReEstablish Richmond this evening in Centennial Hall for a potluck dinner, a culminating service learning event as part of their immigration studies. ReEstablish Richmond, a nonprofit organization, helps refugees transition to their new lives in the city. -
Embracing Diversity and Inclusion
Read MoreIn Collegiate School’s ongoing efforts to help students, faculty and staff better understand each other and the world in which we live, the School has continued this school year to foster conversation, self-reflection and meaningful action around diversity and inclusion. -
Collegiate 4th Graders Chat with Recent Arrivals to Richmond
Read MoreAs part of their study of immigration in social studies, Collegiate’s entire 4th Grade today chatted with students from Bon Air Elementary School via Google Hangouts. The Bon Air students, recent arrivals from Puerto Rico and Latin and South America, offered a child-to-child perspective of their experiences. -
Collegiate Seniors Prepare for 4th Annual TEDxYouth@RVA Event
Read MoreThe fourth annual TEDxYouth@RVA will kick off next week on Saturday, Nov. 18 in Collegiate School’s Hershey Center for the Arts. The general public is invited to hear a wide range of local speakers reflect on the theme Monumental. -
Workshop Encourages Faculty and Staff To Become Agents of Change
Read MoreFourteen Collegiate School faculty and staff members recently attended the Virginia Diversity Network's Workshop Overcoming Bias: Becoming Change Agents. More than 60 participants from independent school throughout Virginia attended the workshop. Keynote speaker, Matthew Freeman, co-author of Overcoming Bias, led attendees in various activities, including discussion and self-reflection. -
Community Members Share Immigration Experiences with 4th Graders
Read MoreAs part of their study of immigration, Collegiate School 4th Graders heard from the first of three community members this week about their experiences coming to the United States. During their study, the students are attempting to answer the question: How can we help immigrants/refugees transition as they begin a new life in our community? -
Middle School Club Focuses on Raising Awareness for Refugees
Read MoreCollegiate Middle Schoolers launched a club called Syrian Immigrant Refugee Association (SIRA) to focus on the plight of refugees. The group’s focus asks, How might we raise awareness for those who feel forgotten? The answers to the posed question will guide the mission of the group as they look for ways to raise awareness for the refugee crisis. -
Collegiate Students Plan Interactive Program for Local Youth
Read MoreThirteen Collegiate School students, 11 rising 8th Graders and two rising sophomores, met last spring to design JUMP, a weeklong summer program filled with interactive games and activities, for 2nd and 3rd Graders enrolled in Peter Paul Development Center. -
Collegiate Students attend Emerging Leaders Institute Program for Inclusion
Read MoreFor one week this summer, five Collegiate students, nominated by their peers or a faculty member, represented the School at the Harold M. Marsh, Sr. Connections Institute, sponsored and run by the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities. -
Middle School Students Explore World Religions
Read MoreEach year, Collegiate School students in 5th-8th Grade attend five assemblies that explore a theme in each of the major world religions. This year’s religious assembly theme is storytelling and sacred texts. Past themes have included prayer, art, architecture and dance, rites of passage and women’s role in the religion. -
Lower School Learns About Passover
Read MoreCollegiate Upper School English teacher Dr. Leah Sievers spoke to Lower School students about the Jewish holiday Passover and about the Seder, or special meal, that marks the beginning of the holiday. -
Final Inclusion Tuesday Activity Promotes Kindness
Read MoreAt Collegiate School, the first Tuesday of the month in the Middle School is designated Inclusion Tuesday, during which advisors lead an activity related to diversity and inclusion. In the final Inclusion Tuesday of the year, students participated this morning in a scavenger hunt to learn more about each other and focused on promoting kindness. -
Students Attend Upper School Student Diversity Conference
Read MoreCollegiate Upper School students recently attended the Virginia Diversity Network's Upper School Student Diversity Conference at St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School in Northern Virginia. The conference brought together Upper School students from independent schools to consider ways to make their schools more inclusive. -
Junior Kindergarten Celebrates Persian New Year
Afshin and Shahrazad Mohammadi, parents of Collegiate School Junior Kindergarten student Andreas Mohammadi, shared how they celebrate Norwruz, the Persian New Year, in their home.Read More -
Middle School Religion Assembly Addresses Islam and the Sacred Text
Read MoreDr. Imad Damaj, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at VCU and a board member of the Islamic Center of Virginia, spoke about Islam and the sacred text at the fourth Middle School Religion Assembly. -
Guest Speaker Discusses Her Work with Immigrant Youth
Read MoreCollegiate School’s International Emerging Leaders - Americas class today welcomed Deirdre Gill, youth programs coordinator at Sacred Heart Center, a nonprofit serving Richmond’s Latino community. Ms. Gill spoke about the current migration of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala through Mexico to the United States. -
Lower School Lessons in Global Education
Read MoreInternational education does not just include learning about distant peoples and lands. Blair Chewning’s 4th Grade class, and the rest of the 4th Grade, are currently working to create books on tape for Ridge Elementary School in Henrico County, which currently hosts one of the largest bilingual and refugee student populations in the area. Recording books on audio will help those students learn and speak English, their second language. -
Students Return from International Youth Forum
Read MoreSixteen Collegiate School seniors returned home from Mexico on Saturday after participating in the 4th annual Youth Forum on International Dialogue, as part of Collegiate’s International Emerging Leaders - Americas program. -
Upper School Jazz Band Performs at Generation Dream 2017
The Collegiate Upper School Jazz Band performed during the Richmond Peace Education Center’s annual Generation Dream concert on Wednesday at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in the city. Generation Dream 2017 is part of an “edu-concert” series held during Black History Month to honor of Dr. King. It features dozens of talented youth from the Richmond metro area.Read More -
Lower School “Buddy Benches” Inspire Kindness
Read MoreTwo new “Buddy Benches” on Collegiate’s Lower School campus — one near Fort Cougar and the other near the Estes Building patio — were installed last week to teach students about empathy and inclusiveness. -
Community Engagement Week Wraps Up
Read MoreAfter three days of engaging in service learning by volunteering at local nonprofit organizations and schools, Collegiate School 9th Graders today wrapped up their Community Engagement Week. -
Inclusion Presentation, Exercise Strives to Eliminate Cliques
As part of Collegiate’s inclusion programming, Middle School students listened to eight fellow classmates speak about their experience at the Prejudice Awareness Summit last October. The students hoped to lessen the prevalence of cliques, and talked about expanding your circle of friends and not limiting yourself to one group.Read More -
Collegiate 6th Grader Speaks to 5th Grade Advisory
Collegiate 6th Grader Naadia Rashid served as a guest speaker in Ms. Cunningham's 5th Grade Advisory and shared information about her Muslim faith and family's hajj to Mecca in 2014. Mrs. Cunningham's history students concluded their study of Islam and welcomed Naadia and her insights.Read More -
Middle School Mosaic Club Visits Postive Vibe Café
Collegiate's Middle School Mosaic Club visited Postive Vibe Café, a Richmond restaurant that offers comfort food and catering. The eatery is also a nonprofit organization dedicated to training and employing people with disabilities in food services.Read More -
Lower School Learns About Chinese New Year
Read MoreStudents in JK-4th Grade learned about the Chinese New Year holiday today at their Lower School assembly. As Lower School Head Librarian Allison Williams read “Chelsea’s Chinese New Year” by Lisa Bullard, Lower School Chinese teacher Xin-Yi Fergusson interspersed additional details about the important family celebration. In attendance were students visiting from China for the International Emerging Leaders – Asia program. -
Hinduism the focus of Second Middle School Religion Assembly
The second of five assemblies that make up the Middle School Religion Assembly series took place this week. The religion assembly theme is "Sacred Stories and Storytelling in Five Major World Religions." Director of Responsible Citizenship Clare Sisisky and 9th Grader Shreya Sharma discussed stories from Hinduism. Shreya shared the importance of Hindu stories that emphasized the values of loyalty and hard work.Read More -
Middle School Holds First Religion Assembly
Read MoreCollegiate School held its first Religion Assembly for the Middle School in what will be a yearlong series focusing on sacred stories in five major world religions. VCU Department of Religious Studies and School of World Studies Adjunct Professor Jan Hatcher-Conquest kicked off the series by presenting a history of sacred stories in religion and the commonalities shared by Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the creation story. -
Diversity Dialogue Day #powerofstory
Read MoreSeven Upper School students recently attended Diversity Dialogue Day at the University of Richmond. Diversity Dialogue Day is a one-day high school forum that brings together students from Virgnia public and indpendent schools. This year's theme was #powerofstory. -
Third Annual TEDxYouth@RVA Takes Place on Saturday
Read MoreA diverse lineup of speakers headlining the third annual TEDxYouth@RVA on Saturday, Nov. 19 at Collegiate School’s Hershey Center for the Arts will present on the theme “What Now?” -
Collegiate Middle School Students Attend Diversity Conference
A delegation of 12 Collegiate School Middle School students attended the Middle School Diversity Leadership Conference at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia, today. The Cougars, members of Collegiate’s Mosaic group, joined 150 students from 13 schools to focus on making their institutions more inclusive.Read More -
3rd Annual TEDxYouth@RVA Begins Next Week
Read MoreOn Saturday, Nov. 19, the third annual TEDxYouth@RVA will take place in Collegiate School’s Hershey Center for the Arts, and the general public is invited to hear local speakers expound on the theme “What Now?” -
City Leader Informs Upper School Students Studying Poverty
Read MoreGuest speaker Reginald E. Gordon joined Collegiate School students in their Senior Seminar: Poverty and Prosperity, along with members of the Collegiate Community Council and the Mosaic Club yesterday to talk about his work as Director of the Office of Community Wealth Building for the City of Richmond. -
Upper School Clubs, Mosaic and Sports Discussion, Host Joint Forum
Recently Collegiate’s Upper School Clubs, Mosaic (an inclusion club) and Sports Discussion hosted a joint forum to deliberate Colin Kaepernick's choice to kneel for the national anthem.Read More -
Chinese Language Students Visit Local Chinese Senior Group
Collegiate's 6th Grade Chinese language students met with a local Chinese Senior Group this week. Their visit brought alive their study of Chinese language and culture, and provided them with an intergenerational experience.Read More -
Celebrating Diwali, India's "Festival of Lights"
In Indian culture, Diwali is one of the biggest holidays and a five-day festival of lights celebrated worldwide by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains.Read More
At Collegiate's Lower School, Kindergarten parent Rupa Tak led students in learning about Diwali by reading a book about the holiday. Dr. Kavitha Krottapalli visited with Mrs. Brown's 3rd Grade classroom, in which her son is a student, to present about India's Festival of Lights. The Lower School will learn more about the different religious traditions celebrated by Collegiate families this year through books as part of the Lower School theme "Growing with Books." -
Understanding the World of The Maasai with Chief Joseph ole Tipanko
Read MoreStudents were enveloped in the world of the Maasai when Chief Joseph ole Tipanko, Cicilia Seleyian and John Kilenyi Parsitau visited Collegiate for a Middle School Assembly and 2nd Grade class presentation. Chief Joseph tours the U.S. annually in partnership with the United Nations to share stories of his people, their history, culture, traditions and the challenges of assimilating into 21st-century demands. He is on a mission to improve living conditions for his impoverished people while clinging tenaciously to the beauty of old culture and traditions. -
Collegiate Hosts New York Lacrosse Players
Read MoreThis past weekend, 15 Collegiate School families hosted 27 players from Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership (HLL) as they participated in lacrosse clinics, played pickup games with Collegiate athletes and visited two local colleges in the Richmond area. Last year, Collegiate lacrosse players visited Charlottesville to engage with HLL. -
What is the Effect of Memory on an Image?
In The Literature of Elegy & Redemption, students examine the ways in which memory is expressed in today’s world: in photographs, in museums, in film, in testimony and in literature.Read More -
Middle School Student Leaders Bring Back Inclusion Lessons
Read MoreThirteen seventh and eighth graders attended a Middle School Diversity Leadership Conference “Stand Up; Speak Out! Speak Up; Stand Out! – Empowering and Preparing Middle School Students to Lead” in November with about 175 students from various DC and Virginia schools. At the conference, one of topic students discussed was ways that people are stereotyped and mistreated. The Collegaite Middle School students helped create a lesson on this topic that was incoporated into the MS advisory curriculum in January.
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