by Adrienne Waner | Jul 1, 2021 | Classical Christian, Private Schools, The Classroom
Whitefield Academy Blog Building Friendships Across Ages and Grades This post was originally published in 2018. As a family, we are getting ready to embark on our seventh year at Whitefield Academy. Over the years I have had a chance to see classical Christian...
by Rachel Hutson | Apr 29, 2021 | Classical Christian, Middle School, Mission Trips, Private Schools, Spiritual Life, Uncategorized, Upper School
Whitefield Academy Blog Hearts of Service: 7th and 8th Grade Mission Trip It’s Trips Week! To the layman, that means that all of our students from 7th grade to 12th grade leave school for a week on either a mission trip or a cultural trip. Traditionally, our 7th, 9th,...
by John Hutson | Mar 11, 2021 | Classical Christian, Elementary School, Media, Middle School, Parenting, Private Schools, Technology, The Classroom
Whitefield Academy Blog Does Tech in the Classroom Make a Difference? This post was originally published in October of 2019 but is even more applicable in today’s post-pandemic discussions of education. In the past few decades, we’ve seen a revolution in the way...
by Sandee Finley | Feb 4, 2021 | Parenting, Private Schools
Whitefield Academy Blog Redeeming Time in the Car: The Long Commute When my husband and I began to consider sending our fifteen year old daughter Annika to Whitefield Academy, one of the costs we counted was travel, the minutes and miles we would spend on the road. We...
by Katy Slankard | Oct 1, 2020 | Parenting, Private Schools, Reading, The Classroom, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Talking with a Mask: How to Prevent Vocal Fatigue If you had told me in 2019 that in 2020 I would be teaching music at a classical Christian school in the middle of a pandemic while wearing a mask, I might have been a bit confused by your...
by Anne Rabe | Sep 24, 2020 | Classical Christian, Education, Elementary School, Private Schools, The Classroom, Uncategorized
Whitefield Academy Blog Whitefield Academy’s New Latin Curriculum Caecilius est pater. Metella est mater. Quintus est filius. Thus begins the first textbook in Whitefield’s new Latin curriculum. This Latin is so simple that you probably don’t even need me to...
