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  • Art Walk 2020
    Programs Arts Our Repertoire Art Walk 2020 Grow: Nature 1 / 1 To kick off the remainder of our virtual Art Walk 2020, we will showcase divisional exhibitions. For this year’s theme of “Grow,” Collegiate art teachers wondered if a trajectory of growth would be apparent over time if they curated a se ...
  • Lower School Art Walk
    News • 5/14/2020
  • Davis Messer
    News • 4/30/2020
  • Lily Crawford
    News • 4/30/2020
  • Eli Schwartz
    News • 4/30/2020
  • Connor Romanosky
    News • 4/30/2020
  • Grace Kinder
    News • 4/30/2020
  • Jessica Lightfoot
    News • 4/30/2020
  • Jay Mai
    News • 4/30/2020
  • Charles Armstrong
    News • 4/29/2020
  • Elizabeth Hamner
    News • 4/29/2020
  • Liza Abbe
    News • 4/29/2020
  • Connor Yackel
    News • 4/29/2020
  • Jack Bullard
    News • 4/29/2020
  • Upper School Art Walk: Printmaking and Art & Text
    News • 6/4/2020
    The images you see in this Art Walk 2020 Upper School gallery were created by Collegiate students in the Printmaking and Art &; Text classes. These artworks are responses to various project prompts affording students an opportunity to reflect on and express something about the current cultural conte ...
  • Art Walk
    News • 4/18/2016
    Student artists display their work throughout the School for Collegiate’s Art Walk, allowing the community to familiarize themselves with the many talents each student has.
  • Honors Art
    News • 7/28/2015
    The annual Art Walk turns the hallways of Collegiate into breathtaking galleries of student artwork. Read more.
  • Art Walk 2014 Soared
    News • 4/8/2014
    Student artists K-12 showcased their work yesterday in a campus-wide exhibit that featured paintings, woodworking, ceramics, photography and more.
  • Middle School Art Walk
    News • 6/5/2020
    The Collegiate Middle School arts program helps provide one avenue for our students to grow and learn new skills as they each develop an individual awareness of themselves. Our efforts emanate from the earth itself — clay, pigment, wood and paper. Our students’ hands get dirty, they take ...
  • Upper School Art Walk: Woodworking
    News • 6/4/2020
    ... before they commit. Our efforts emanate from the earth itself – trees and wood. Our varied furniture finishes derive from pine solvents, resins from lac beetles in Asia, natural oils from flax seed and tung trees, and beeswax. Students also get to handle, work with and study numerous speci ...
  • Upper School Art Walk: Painting 1, Drawing 2 and Painting 2
    News • 6/3/2020
    The final installation of Art Walk 2020 features a selection of work made during the quarantine from the Painting 1, Drawing 2 and Painting 2 classes taught this semester by Upper School art teacher Pam Sutherland. “While the work ranges from still life to portraits to abstraction, at the core ...
  • Upper School Art Walk: Fundamentals of Photography
    News • 6/3/2020
    Our Collegiate Upper School Art Walk continues with the work of students in the Fundamentals of Photography class. They used frame-within-a-frame composition as a metaphor for isolation for their Windows and Doors Project, and used the work of Edward Hopper from the VMFA show as a reference. “ ...
  • Annual Art Walk Exhibition Showcases JK-12th Grade Work
    News • 5/29/2020
    Collegiate School held its annual Art Walk virtually this year, featuring the works of JK-12th Grade artists over the final weeks of the school year.
  • Campus-wide Art Exhibition Showcases Student Work
    News • 4/12/2018
    Collegiate School’s campus will transform into an art gallery next Monday, April 16, with more than 800 pieces of JK-12th Grade student work on display during Art Walk.
  • Collegiate's Annual Art Walk Is Monday
    News • 4/11/2016
    BY ASHLEY JONES  Collegiate’s annual Art Walk will be held today from 4:30 to 7:30 pm.
  • Save the Date: Art Walk 2013 is April 15
    News • 4/9/2013
    Make plans to attend GROW , Collegiate School's fifth annual Art Walk , on Monday, April 15 from 5 to 7 p.m .
  • Alumni Art Exhibition 2013: GROW
    News • 1/25/2013
    ... ding until March 19. In this current show, alumni artists share work which explores the germination, cultivation, development and expansion of their individual artistic processes and journeys. The theme was chosen to link to Art Walk 2013, which will also be titled GROW in a nod to the addition ...
  • Collegiate Responds to Art Walk 2011
    News • 4/12/2011
    From the Hershey Center for the Arts all the way to Luck Hall, families made their ways across campus to view a dynamic array of student works of art. This year's event also included entertainment by VCU and Collegiate musicians, a family picnic, an interactive weaving wall, and an opportunity for v ...
  • African American Literature and Honors Art Classes Explore Space and Place
    News • 2/12/2020
    ...ican 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 pla ...
  • Upper School Art Walk: Ceramics
    News • 6/3/2020
    ... basic ceramic building and decorative techniques. Art Walk 2020 includes work built using slabs of clay. Forms were inspired by classical pottery. Some students used a transfer technique for surface decoration demonstrated by visiting potter Carla Pillsbury. The theme of “grow” is us ...
  • Collegiate Holds Annual Art Walk
    News • 4/17/2017
    Collegiate School transformed into an art gallery this evening, showcasing a campus-wide exhibition of more than 700 JK-12th Grade student works during the annual Art Walk.
  • *Registration Closed* Art Walks and Ice Cream
    News • 12/22/2016
    Grades: K-4 Cost: $155.00 Dates:  Monday’s – 5 Weeks Jan 9, NA, 23, 30, Feb 6, 13, NA Location:  2nd-4th grade art room/studio - Weinstein 112 Dismissal until 4:30 Pick up:  Centennial Hall Instructor:  Anna Lyon-Lunsford
  • Art Walk 2015 Features Alumni Show
    News • 4/13/2015
    Once a year, the Collegiate campus becomes one big art gallery featuring many works by many students, from self-portraits and furniture to drawings and ocean creatures. This year, in honor of our Centennial, a special Alumni Art Show was included -- in Saunders Family Library.
  • Art Walk is Stroll Among Great Works
    News • 4/17/2012
    Last night was a glorious evening to wander the campus and appreciate all of the artistic talent right here in our Collegiate family at the annual Art Walk, a campus-wide display of works in many media.
  • Russian Theater Students Visit
    News • 11/9/2010
    This week, Collegiate has hosted six students and their teacher from School 213 in St. Petersburg, Russia. They are part of an English Speaking Theater Troupe at their school, which performs dramatic works and musicals in English.
  • Mindcraft and Star Wars Computer Design and 3-D Printing
    News • 12/1/2015
    There’s Building and Then There’s Building Grade 5 &; 6 Dismissal-4:45 p.m. Reeves Center Conference Room Tech Em $250; 7 sessions Minimum: 6 students Maximum: 12 students Read more about this activity by selecting the title.
  • Mindcraft and Star Wars Computer Design and 3-D Printing
    News • 11/25/2015
    There’s Building and Then There’s Building Grade 3 &; 4 Dismissal-4:45 p.m. Reeves Center Conference Room Tech Em $250; 7 sessions Minimum: 6 students Maximum: 12 students Read more about this activity by selecting the title.
  • Minecraft-Computer Design
    News • 8/29/2015
    There’s Building and Then There’s Building Grade 5&;6 At dismissal-4:45 p.m. Reeves Center Conference Room Tech Em $250; 7 sessions Minimum: 6 students Maximum: 12 students
  • Minecraft-Computer Design
    News • 8/28/2015
    There’s Building and Then There’s Building Grade 3 &; 4 At dismissal-4:45 p.m. Reeves Center Conference Room Tech Em $250; 7 sessions Minimum: 6 students Maximum: 12 students
  • Collegiate Music Groups Rock the Park!
    News • 5/19/2010
    Four of Collegiate's finest music groups particpated in the Music In The Parks series on Saturday, May 8 at Busch Gardens and walked away with some serious hardware!
  • Acclaimed Artist-Alum Shares Evolution of His Work
    News • 2/6/2020
    Upper School art teacher Mary Arzt this afternoon introduced Collegiate alum Pieter Schoolwerth ’89, her former student, in the Craigie Boardroom, where he walked students, faculty, alums and other guests through his journey as a painter, filmmaker and musician.
  • Collegiate Alum, “Hamilton” Actor Visits Campus
    News • 12/4/2019
    Taylor Daniels ‘10, currently performing in the national tour of Hamilton , visited Collegiate School this week, sharing his expertise and stories about his career path.
  • Collegiate 10th Grader Designs Mural
    News • 9/3/2019
    Collegiate School 10th Grade artist Diamond Lightfoot, along with classmates Grace Hugo and Anju Natarajan, created a mural to connect the Middle School and Upper School dance studios.
  • Summer Fun Continues at Collegiate
    News • 7/14/2017
    Summer is in full swing at Collegiate School with more than 1,000 campers participating in more than 175 activities provided by our Summer Quest program.  
  • Language Arts in Kindergarten
    News • 7/21/2016
    ...e is Anne Gray Siebert. It is my pleasure to be the Lower School Reading Specialist working with Kindergarten students in language arts throughout the school year. My main goal is to help every student reach their full learning potential through engaging, hands-on, multi-sensory learning activiti ...
  • POSTCARD from Columbia University
    News • 7/5/2011
    ...sional development was funded by an Alumni Grant. "We both loved it and are eager to begin writing with our students," says Sallie. "We had great weather and enjoyed walks in Central Park and outdoor dining. Also took in a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and to the amazing Frick Collectio ...
  • Art Walk 2009 Draws Big Crowds
    News • 4/7/2009
    Following last year's great success, the Collegiate Fine Arts Department once again curated and installed a campus wide Art Walk , with a diverse selection of art from kindergartners through seniors, including installations in stairwells, lobbies and outdoors.
  • Campus Wide Art Walk Will Be a Movable Feast
    News • 4/4/2008
    The Collegiate Art Department took on a big task this year -- curating and hanging a campus wide art show which reflects the artistic talent of Collegiate students K-12, all aligned on the single theme of place . The Collegiate campus will be turned into a giant art museum on Monday April 7 from 5-7 ...
  • Collegiate's Own Art Walk: Advanced Art Show Opens May 18
    News • 5/17/2007
    ... perhaps, from Richmond's successful First Friday art walks, where people stroll from gallery to gallery, the Collegiate Advanced Art Show opens with a reception in the Hershey Center on May 18, and then attendees are invited to stroll around campus to see art installed in several locations. The ...
  • Joan Oates: A Collegiate Icon
    News • 4/4/2007
    Walk the Collegiate campus – actually, walk even a few steps – with Joan Oates, and you’ll feel as if you’re in the presence of a rock star.
  • An Exhibition of Styles
    News • 7/18/2023
    Collegiate’s Upper School Art Walk is a culminating show, and it has allowed India Mansfield ’23 to reflect on her work as an artist.
  • A Meaningful Visit
    News • 4/26/2016
    In April, Martine Tchitchiche, a native of Cameroon who risked her life to receive an education, spent two days visiting Collegiate to share her experiences with students.
  • Art Walk 2011: Celebrating Visual Self-Expression
    News • 4/8/2011
    ... at long ago when Collegiate’s most talented artists displayed their greatest creations in a gallery in downtown Richmond. That’s right. For almost two decades, the culminating event of the school year was a month-long exhibit in the lobby of the Crestar (later SunTrust) Bank headquar ...
  • For the Greener Good
    News • 2/22/2023
    The 5th Grade recycling effort gets students to think intentionally about the process of recycling.
  • Collegiate 2nd Graders Salute the Fifty Nifty
    News • 1/31/2020
    The large headwear worn by Collegiate School 2nd Graders marching around the Upper and Middle Schools this morning could mean only one thing: The States Fair performance was happening in Oates Theater to celebrate the "Fifty Nifty" United States.
  • Collegiate Alumni in College Sports Report
    News • 3/2/2008
    ... gepeth '06 scored 2 goals for Savannah College of Arts & Design, but the Bees fell 20-7 in lacrosse to Methodist College March 3 at the SCAD athletic complex in Hardeeville, SC. Earlier this season, she scored 4 goals against Kennesaw State, 3 against South Carolina, and 2 against Emory. Britten ...
  • Cameroon Native, Girls Education Advocate Visits Collegiate
    News • 4/26/2016
    Martine Tchitchiche, a native of Cameroon who risked her life to receive an education, has spent the past two days visiting Collegiate to share her experiences with students.
  • A Dish Worth Sharing
    News • 4/26/2023
    Mary Margaret Chappell ’86 has found a life in France that merges her passion for cuisine and writing into a career.
  • Joyful Retrospective
    News • 5/29/2020
    Head of School Penny B. Evins takes a look back at the 2019-20 school year.
  • Joyful Retrospective
    News • 5/28/2020
    I  am excited to shift my perspective and guide you on a nostalgic walk down memory lane, otherwise known as the 2019-20 school year.
  • Visual Arts
    Arts From Junior Kindergarten to 12th Grade, the Collegiate visual arts program focuses on the development of the cognitive skills necessary for deciphering, discussing and participating in the ever-changing cross-cultural conversation which informs the artistic process. The curriculum is designed ...
  • Stars Behind the Curtain
    News • 4/25/2024
    The small but mighty theater production team working behind the scenes makes those on stage, when the spotlight is on them, look and sound their best.
  • Patterns of Learning
    News • 4/1/2024
    The pattern alphabet brings the classroom outdoors, sparking curiosity and enhancing critical thinking.
  • Collegiate Honors Faculty and Staff for their Ingenuity and Care
    News • 8/28/2023
    Collegiate is happy to honor the recipients of the Ann Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Andrew Jackson Brent Award, the Anne Jones Award, the Clarence B. Williams Fund and the Martha Elizabeth Schwarz Award.
  • Collegiate School’s Class of 2031 Moves Up
    News • 6/1/2023
    Collegiate’s 4th Graders completed their Moving Up ceremony this morning, officially marking their transition to the Middle School.
  • Our New Normal, Volume X
    News • 2/21/2021
    Today’s installment of the Our New Normal series takes us to Room 145 in the Hershey Center where Steve Hart is overseeing his Fine Craft Furniture II class, a second-semester Upper School woodworking elective.
  • The Rejuvenation of Oates Theater
    News • 8/15/2018
    Another school year is quickly approaching, which means another major bricks-and-mortar project is near completion, which means another state-of-the-art, aesthetically pleasing facility is set to debut on Collegiate’s North Mooreland Road campus.
  • Julia Williams: Always a Lady
    News • 10/1/2010
    ... lliams reluctantly agreed. “The first day I walked on campus to substitute, I fell in love with it right then and there…surprisingly…because I’d been so adamant about the fact that I would not teach,” she recalled. “I had done a lot of volunteer work in the ...
  • Kevin Kelley's "Rivers" Revealed
    News • 2/22/2002
    Kevin Kelley and I were talking one day recently when I broached the subject of writing a column about "Rivers," his one-man show that’s on display during school hours through February in the Parents’ Gallery of the Hershey Center.
  • Collegiate-Hosted CreateAthon Sparks Ideas for Area Nonprofits
    News • 3/13/2017
    ...med during a CreateAthon on Campus from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in Sharp Academic Commons Octagon as part of their seminar, CreateAthon: Working with Nonprofits , in which they help area organizations with their marketing campaigns. Collegiate is the first high school to participate in a CreateAth ...
  • Pioneering a New Reality
    News • 10/26/2020
    Here we stand, Mike Boyd and I, in the very back of the Oates Theater, Collegiate’s spacious, state-of-the-art facility which hosts all manner of activities including the always well-received fall musical, a rite of the season since the ‘60’s.
  • Remembering Sue Jett
    News • 12/15/2017
    Sue Jett made me smile.
  • Collegiate Students, Teachers Share Hopes for the School Year
    News • 8/29/2017
    The 103rd school year in Collegiate’s history began this morning with students from Kindergarten to 12th Grade enthusiastically greeting friends and faculty members as they made their way to their classrooms. (Junior Kindergarten students start their school year on Wednesday.)
  • Busy As Ever
    News • 7/19/2017
    Walk around Collegiate’s North Mooreland Road campus at any time during the summer, and it’s easy to delude yourself into thinking that there’s not much going on. Nothing could be further from the truth.
  • Centennial Hall: The Sky's the Limit
    News • 9/25/2015
    Centennial Hall was a mess. Dust was everywhere. The concrete slab of a floor was littered with all manner of construction equipment and materials. The mind-numbing cacophony of sounds from saws and drills filled the air. It’s all good, though.
  • Honoring Bill Reeves
    News • 4/29/2014
    ; ; ; It's never been about Bill Reeves. ; ; ; Today was, though, and rightfully so.
  • History
    ... o be good citizens of the world lives on in our hearts and informs all of our endeavors. The following are milestones that map our School's evolution over the last century.  1915 Collegiate School for Girls, founded by Helen Baker with help from Mary Carter Anderson, opens on Sept. 23 at 11 ...
  • Collegiate Rising Seniors Participate in Trailblaze Program
    News • 6/18/2019
    Collegiate School students are participating in their second week of Trailblaze, a job shadowing program established last year to connect rising seniors with Richmond-area alums working in various professions.
  • Art, Running, and Life
    News • 5/14/2018
    The day was hot, and the pool looked oh, so enticing.
  • A Culture of Excellence
    News • 4/4/2018
    The day was damp, cold, and about as disagreeable as it could get.
  • Richmond Area High School Students Deliver Real-World Business Solutions During Collegiate-Based Institute
    News • 7/21/2016
    ...from Clover Hill to Glen Allen gathered to participate in the 39th Cochrane Summer Economic Institute, an intensive program that partners learning about the economy and entrepreneurship through a series of workshops by local business leaders and Collegiate faculty with an immersive group internsh ...
  • Arielle Galston '12: An IELC-Inspired Leap of Faith
    News • 10/5/2015
    There was no doubt whatsoever. ; ; ; One day soon, Arielle Galston would make a bold leap of faith from the secure, familiar confines of Richmond’s Far West End and Collegiate School and travel to parts still unknown to her.
  • Any Given Friday
    News • 6/29/2015
    The campus seemed relatively quiet this past Friday morning, so I did a walk-through looking for signs of action.     What I found on my impromptu, self-guided tour was really very cool.     Here’s a sampling.
  • The Evolution of the Robins Campus
    News • 10/3/2014
        Thirteen years ago this fall, when the garden spot now known as the Robins Campus opened for business, that vast expanse in Eastern Goochland County more closely resembled the surface of the moon.
  • Reflections on the New Year
    News • 1/4/2013
    ; ; ; Welcome, my friends, to 2013, a time for rebirth, rejuvenation, and resolutions. ; ; ;As one who’s lived a lot of years and seen far more along the way than I could ever have imagined, who sports the handiwork of several skilled surgeons and has come face-to-face with his own mortality, ...
  • A Tribute to Kevin Kelley
    News • 12/11/2012
    ; ; ; The news arrived Monday with rapier-like swiftness. ; ; ;Kevin Kelley, our Middle School colleague, had lost his courageous battle with liver cancer. ; ; ; No , my inner voice protested. Kevin didn’t lose anything. ; ; ; The disease just beat him to the finish. No way did it beat him. ; ...
  • Remembering Bob Livy
    News • 4/29/2011
    ... the moment, and leave enduring memories in the hearts and minds of their students and colleagues. Such is the way I remember Robert Bruce Livy, who died this past Saturday at the University Park Nursing Home following a period of declining health. A proud alumnus of the University of Virginia, ...
  • Selling Collegiate
    News • 5/14/2010
    ... his role. You see, when the Baltimore native meets with prospective families and walks them around campus, it’s his opinion that the school really sells itself. “All I do,” Stanley said, “is put people in a position to see all the great things Collegiate has to offer.&rdq ...
  • Charlie McFall: "It's All About the Experience"
    News • 12/11/2009
    ...veterans on the staff as well as the newcomers. McFall and I, friends and colleagues for nearly four decades, sat down on the porch of the Jacobs Gym recently and reflected, as we do from time to time, on the joy of being part of the Collegiate family. We began with his message that late summer d ...
  • Collegiate Alumni in College Sports Report
    News • 3/10/2008
    ... y over No. 5 Notre Dame March 8 in Chapel Hill, starting midfielder Michael Jarvis '06 had 2 ground balls and forced 2 turnovers. Ginny Rider '06 contributed 2 goal in Colorado College's 15-1 lacrosse victory over Northern Colorado in Colorado Springs March 8. Amy Hedgepeth '06 scored 3 times, b ...
  • Dedication Behind the Scenes
    News • 7/14/2020
    It was a different feeling.
  • In the Beginning
    News • 4/24/2009
    ...lp but be impressed by the aesthetically-pleasing, state-of-the-art facilities. In 1960, however, when the young women from Monument Avenue made their bold move to the suburbs and took residence in a building just down the way from the newly created Boys School, the place had a much different loo ...
  • Our New Normal, Volume XI
    News • 3/5/2021
    This latest episode in the Our New Normal series takes us to the Saunders Family Library in the Sharp Academic Commons where Elizabeth Kerr and Ben Lamb are holding forth on this February morning.
  • Our New Normal, Volume I
    News • 9/28/2020
    It was a cool, clear late-September morning when I ventured forth to check in with folks plugging their way through this new normal and see how they’re faring, then scribble (electronically) a few words that might pass as a Reflections column.
  • "Oh...you wrestle?"
    News • 1/30/2019
    One day when Marcella Leonard-Jackson was shopping at the Walmart in Mechanicsville, a woman noticed her gray sweatshirt with COLLEGIATE WRESTLING imprinted across the front and asked her a question which, she well understands, comes with the territory.
  • Catching Up With Caliyah Bennett '20
    News • 2/20/2023
    On Jan. 26, Caliyah Bennett, Collegiate Class of 2020, reached a significant way station in her decade-long, circuitous, and sometimes emotion-filled track and field journey.
  • Claud's Seen It All
    News • 6/16/2020
    The recent retirement of Claud Whitley got me thinking.
  • A Big Day for a Big Family
    News • 6/9/2006
    ... ters took those first tentative steps into kindergarten. Where, they wonder, did the time go? No one at Collegiate’s commencement today knows the drill better than the Jarvis clan. Mom and Dad – Christy ’68 and Michael ’64 – are graduates. Their daughters Jenna ’97, Liza ’99, and Maria ’02 walke ...
  • Inspired to Walk, Run or Race for the Cure
    News • 5/5/2006
    ... -plus other cities throughout the country, local participants will come in all shapes and sizes. They’ll be young and old. They’ll be fast and slow. They’ll be serious competitors and folks just out for a casual Saturday morning stroll. There’s one common thread, however, among those who will co ...
  • Farewell to a Class with Heart
    News • 6/4/2004
    ... h different North Mooreland Road campus as kindergartners in the fall of 1991. In the 13 years that followed, they witnessed incredible improvements in facilities, technology, and opportunities, and they made the most of the bountiful resources provided for them. They excelled in athletics, a fa ...
  • College Counseling
    ... or course selection, testing, and college lists, participating in our annual application workshop with admission deans from across the country and engaging in small-group classes. Our office houses five college counselors with over 100 years in the profession, experience as admission officers in ...
  • Slowing the Pace
    News • 6/10/2021
    Their time is short.
  • Humble Service to Collegiate
    News • 12/13/2019
    Zack Trivette’s cell phone rang.
  • Granville Scott '75: Reprising a Role
    News • 3/20/2008
    As a senior at Collegiate, Granville Scott played the lead role of Elwood P. Dowd in the performance of Harvey on the old Memorial Hall stage. “It’s a beautiful script,” said Scott, a 1975 graduate of the ‘40s vintage comedy, “but it was already something of a creaking antique. We did it as a period ...
  • Inspired to Walk, Run, or Race for the Cure
    News • 5/5/2006
    ... -plus other cities throughout the country, local participants will come in all shapes and sizes. They’ll be young and old. They’ll be fast and slow. They’ll be serious competitors and folks just out for a casual Saturday morning stroll. There’s one common thread, however, among those who will co ...
  • Mike '84 and Patrick '90 Henry: Creativity Runs in these Family Guys
    News • 1/27/2006
    ... e Memorial Hall stage -- the home of the drama department back then -- is long defunct, but what has endured is Henry's talent. Indeed, in the years since, he's parlayed his prodigious gift into his role as a supervising producer, writer, and voice of several characters on the Emmy-nominated tel ...
  • Newly Named Powell Center Bids Farewell to Becky Shepherd
    News • 5/20/2005
    ... erials to keep her company. As she surveyed her quarters on the ground floor of the now departed tri-level on North Mooreland Road, she also had one overwhelming thought. “I remember thinking, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’” she said one day recently from the well-appointed conference room ac ...
  • Philip Akogu '04: Testimony to Strength of Spirit
    News • 4/2/2004
    ... him to Collegiate, he has learned first-hand that art truly imitates life. This is his story. When Philip was two, his mother Pamela married Amara Akogu, a native of Nigeria. From the start, home life was difficult, and for years he struggled to find his identity. Through the tough times, music ...
  • Land Spreading Out So Far and Wide
    News • 9/7/2001
    When you take that first drive down Blair Road and gaze curiously across the broad vista that’s Collegiate’s Goochland Campus, you’re likely to be struck immediately by its size. Without a doubt, it’s big. Really, really big. How big is it?
  • Navigating Uncharted Waters
    News • 3/24/2020
    The loudest sound I hear is silence, and the silence this Wednesday afternoon is deafening.
  • One Mellow Summer Friday
    News • 7/12/2018
    This past Friday fell two days after the Fourth of July, and the usually bustling pace of life around Collegiate seemed unusually slow and easy considering that summer programs are in full swing.
  • Cougar Care: A Sunny Place for Faculty Children
    News • 10/13/2006
    ... w uses for offices before moving to its current quarters five years ago. “We have a great layout,” added Fuller. “It’s bright and cheery. Mom and Dad can visit whenever they want. The staff loves their job.” Ah, yes, the staff. They’re the men and women who create the nurturing, caring environme ...
  • Careers
    ... #160;Are you willing to help mold the minds and hearts of JK-6th Grade students?  Are you flexible and team-oriented?  If so, the Quest Team Member position could be an incredible fit for you! Collegiate School seeks a part-time Quest Team Member to join its after-school program for st ...
  • Honoring a True Collegiate Icon
    News • 5/11/2016
    Loyalty, humility, and integrity are noble attributes developed over time from life experience and revealed through words, deeds, and demeanor. They should never be conferred lightly or indiscriminately. Their sum total is excellence.
  • The Education of Neil Weiser
    News • 2/7/2008
    As a kid, Neil Weiser loved baseball. In fact, he loved it so much that he regularly joined the other guys in his Toledo neighborhood early each summer morning and played until darkness sent them home. The countless hours on the grass-deprived field at Wernert’s Park paid dividends. At Whitmer Senio ...
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