Chinese language students at Collegiate bring in the Year of the Monkey. Read more
United Sisters and Brothers
Members of United Sisters and Brothers, Collegiate School’s Upper School resource group for African-American students, participated in a panel discussion during an Upper School assembly to share their perspectives on their experiences as students of color at Collegiate. As they shared openly, their peers were encouraged to be "active listeners." Read More
TEDx Youth
Members of the 2016 TEDxYouth@RVA organizing team celebrate their dedication to building a community event that highlighted the diverse, powerful ideas living in the Greater Richmond area. Read More
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.
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.
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.
Edward Ayers, the Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities at the University of Richmond, where he is President Emeritus, spoke this morning to Collegiate School seniors in The River City Capstone and juniors in American History classes.
Kindergartners in Kim Hines’ class had a paint party and created “Be Kind” signs with Richmond resident Gini Bonnell, who makes the signs and distributes them to schools, local businesses and individuals.
During the second of three Book Gatherings in the Lower School this year, the focus was on love and kindness. Collegiate librarian Kate Featherson read “The Proudest Blue” about a young girl’s first day of wearing a hijab to school.
Collegiate students in Dr. Linda Rouse’s African American Literature class and Pam Sutherland's Honors Art class took a field trip down Monument Ave to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. They started at Stuart Circle, where they discussed the J.E.B. Stuart monument, what they learned about Monument Ave, and experienced the space and the place.
The Cougar Shoe Store opened for business this morning in Centennial Hall, a collaboration between Collegiate School Kindergartners in Beth Anne Shelly’s and Elizabeth Andrews' classes to create a shoe store to learn about economics and empathy.
A group of our Upper Schoolers and four faculty members enjoyed participating in the Virginia Diversity Network’s MLK Jr. Symposium today at Episcopal High School in Northern Virginia. It was a meaningful way to spend the holiday.
At this morning’s Upper School assembly, six Collegiate students shared their experiences from the national Student Diversity Leadership Conference they attended in December.
John Dau, Collegiate School’s Global Scholar-in-Residence, has spent time this fall talking with students across Collegiate’s three divisions. He also has remained dedicated to the John Dau Foundation (JDF), whose mission is to provide health care and nutrition programs to the citizens of South Sudan — one of the most war-torn, impoverished countries in the world.
This group of Upper School Cougars spent a December weekend in Seattle attending the National Association of Independent Schools Student Diversity and Leadership Conference with peers from across the nation. Our faculty members who accompanied them were excited to simultaneously attend the People of Color Conference.
As a culminating event to their immigration unit, for three weeks in November Collegiate 4th Graders participated in a service learning project that allowed them to spend time with and get to know local immigrant and refugee children.
Seven Collegiate Middle School students, accompanied by faculty members Michael Blair and Sandy Ting, recently attended the “Building Bridges: Stories Told – Stories Heard” conference at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia. Collegiate students met with other Middle School students from all over Virginia to identify ways to make their Middle School community a stronger and more inclusive one. The students also enjoyed a performance by professional storyteller Diane Macklin.
Collegiate School 4th Graders this morning launched their grade-level Capstone experience, Envision Collegiate, by meeting School leaders from various departments who will guide them as they explore the question, How might we improve the sustainability of Collegiate’s campus by 2028?
The sixth annual TEDxYouth@RVA will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, 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 Fusion.
Collegiate 9th Graders boarded buses for the second of six visits to Richmond-area nonprofits as part of their grade-level service learning program, Community Engagement 2019-20, through which all 9th Graders volunteer once a month from now through April (excluding December) at Richmond-area nonprofits. The program builds upon the experiences provided to students through the 7th Grade service learning program, Connect Richmond, and the 8th Grade Capstone program, Envision Richmond.
Collegiate senior Shreya Sharma and five other Upper School students attended the inaugural RVA Engage Civic Impact Summit this week, and Shreya had the opportunity to meet keynote speaker Eric Liu, CEO of Citizen University.
During a special presentation yesterday morning, seven Collegiate School seniors shared how student endowments made possible by the generosity of Collegiate families enabled them to travel and explore their individual areas of interest over the summer.
Collegiate Middle School students in English teacher Meg Evans' class are creating visual representations of some aspect of the novel they have read, "My Name is not Easy," by Debbie Dahl Edwardson. The students are working in the Makerspace in Reed-Gumenick Library. One pair of students crafted an "emotional rollercoaster" to reflect the emotional journey that one of the novel's characters experiences.
With visits from Collegiate School parents and presentations at an assembly, Middle and Lower School students have learned over the past week about Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights.
Collegiate School hosted a Virginia Diversity Network workshop, "Navigating Difficult Conversations." Collegiate’s Director of Global Engagement and Inclusion Erica Coffey, who serves as co-president of VDN, introduced Collegiate Head of School Penny Evins, who welcomed the 90 attendees from 18 Virginia schools saying, “I hope you leave here feeling a bit deeper and a bit more courageous.”