Veritas Christian Academy: Recent Episodes
Veritas Christian Academy
Welcome to The Voices of Veritas Podcast!
Veritas Christian Academy is an independent, non-denominational, PreK - 12, college preparatory school with an educational culture built on the classical Trivium and historic Biblical Christianity. VCA is located in Fletcher, NC.
Tune in to hear from our literature festival committee about the exciting activities planned for our school community next week -- including details about our Open House and Book Fair!
Tune in to hear more about the expansion of the Opportunity Scholarship from Veritas Headmaster Dr. Woods, Admissions Director Buffey Smith, and business manager Missy Jenkins.
Other important information included:
- How to apply for it.
- Who can and should apply for it
- When to apply
- Relationship to tuition assistance at Veritas
Tune in to a special episode (in Latin!) of The Voices of Veritas podcast, featuring a Conversational Latin class with Dr. Sundt, students Gracie Coe and Hannah Stage. The students share some beautiful devotions that they wrote... we hope you enjoy!
Tune in to hear more about the Classical difference at Veritas, and in what ways our school draws from great educational reformers such as John Amos Comenius and Charlotte Mason.
How might the education our students receive at Veritas, as a Classical Christian school, be a counter to the terrible education Lewis describes in The Abolition of Man?
Tune in to hear an interview with Mrs. Ward (Rhetoric school teacher) about a recent course on C.S. Lewis's book that she recently completed.
Tune in to hear about the story of how the VCA chickens came to be in this podcast episode with fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Black.
Welcome back! We hope you enjoy tuning in to the Voices of Veritas podcast this year, as we celebrate 25 years of the good, the true, and the beautiful at Veritas. Listen in to hear about the topics we will be discussing.
Veritas will be holding its first Book Fair and Literature Festival, February 6-10. Tune in to hear more details!
Veritas Christian Academy will hold the first-ever school-wide (PreK-12th grade) seminar before the school year ends. Tune in to learn more!
Tune in for a visit with Coach Chris. He shares about Grammar and Logic PE, The Jog the State event, and his Logic School OWL's elective!
Tune in to hear from PTF President, Adam Guice about this year's Salt & Light Serve-a-thon, reimagined.
Join Dr. Woods and Nick Phillips in a discussion about civics and civility in Classical Education and get a glimpse of what Civics Class is like at Veritas's Rhetoric School.
This a special episode! We hope you enjoy tuning in and listening to your children, our students, speak their minds and hearts!
The fall season has kicked off! Tune in for an update from Warrior Athletics and get to know our interim Athletic Director, Mr. Lee Burgess!
In this episode, Mr. Thompson (VCA House Sponsor) shares some of the excitement surrounding The VCA House System and all of the good it is bringing to the entire school community. Tune in!
In this Voices of Veritas episode, we are delighted to have Mrs. Marty Reed on her first Voices of Veritas podcast! Tune in to hear an update from Dr. Woods and a special announcement of what's ahead and how you can be a part of The Act of Grace Campaign.
Click here to see the BRICK CAMPAIGN.
Welcome back to The Voices of Veritas Podcast! In our first episode back, Dr. Woods and Nurse Wack will be speaking about “The State of the School” -- what’s the same, what’s new, and what's to come, now that we are back together on campus together. Tune in!
We are again at the time of year when people start looking or considering where they want to have their child educated. They begin to think about "why a Classical Christian school." Today, we visit that subject with Dr. Woods. Tune in!
Tune in and hear the discussion as the students give their poetry presentations of Langston Hughes.
The 6th Grade Class is reading Exodus Chapter 2 in Biblical Studies. Their seminar centers on student-led interpretive questions along with discussion of prominent biblical motifs arising from this episode.
Exciting times are happening here at VCA! Tune in to hear an update from Dr. Woods on Act of Grace/ Project Exodus!
A podcast celebrating the very first Headmaster Essay Contest! Today, we hear from our winner Lydia Moffitt and second place winners, Molly Young, Gracie Coe, and Sloan Nichols. Tune in to hear "Why Veritas?" from their perspectives.
What is logic? Why logic at a Classical Christian school? Let's tune in to hear the importance of logic within a Christian Classical Education.
Summer 2019, Classical Academic Press published Dr. Woods's book, "Mortimer Adler: The Paideia Way of Classical Education." Let's hear more about this!
Resources Mentioned:
- The Paideia Proposal,
- Reforming Education: The Opening of American Mind,
- How to Speak How to Listen: With the Mind's Ear,
- Mortimer Adler: The Paideia Way of Classical Education by Dr. Robert Woods
Tune in to hear an update on the Act of Grace Building Campaign and why we are choosing to read through the book of Nehemiah as a community.
New year, new prefects, new House Challenges... catch up on what's new with the VCA House System this year!
Welcome back to The Voices of Veritas Podcast! We are excited to kick off our second year of podcast recording by sharing this new exciting opportunity: Miranda Forma. This is a new tradition open to our Rhetoric School students. Tune in to hear the announcement!
We have aimed to have a podcast each week since we starting The Voices of Veritas Podcast this year. We will be having more audience participation with future podcasts, including some LIVE podcasts as well.
Let’s tune in to hear more from Dr. Woods on what to expect to hear in the 2019-2020 School Year.
Veritas has made some encouraging and enriching improvements within the school community this year. There is even more to be encouraged about as we enter the 2019/2020 school year, specifically with streamlining “day to day” communication and encouraging others to attend special VCA events. Tune in!
Tune in to hear about Camp Veritas, the exciting, newly improved program to be hosted at Veritas Christian Academy this summer. There will be 16 different camps, led by over 10 clinicians!
If you haven't listened to a podcast yet, start now! We have some encouraging affirmations, updates, and news to share. Tune in!
The fine arts play an essential role within Classical Christian Education. The arts were created and established by God to enrich the human soul. Today, we will be discussing all of The True, The Good, and The Beautiful that occurs within the vibrant Art Program at Veritas Christian Academy.
Tune in to learn how School Within a School Support uses the principles of Classical Christian Education within the Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric Schools of Veritas.
Why is it called a "Renaissance" Lecture? Who all is invited to the March 12th event? Tune in!
Tune in to hear from Registrar, Karen Benfield, and College Counselor, Caroline Bullock, about transcripts at VCA and how colleges view them.
The study of nature, art history, the written word of God...
Listen in to hear more about the The Good, The True, and The Beautiful at VCA in our Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric Schools.
The House System has been around for hundreds of years. Find out why VCA has adopted this new and exciting tradition. Featuring Mr. Peter Haile and Mr. Mark Thompson.
Veritas has just joined a league of several hundred classical schools as a partnering school testing out the new Classical Learning Test.
Tune in to hear about it!
Latin is an integral part of Classical Christian education. It is one of many things that sets Classical Christian education apart from all other educations. In other words, Latin is a major part of the Classical Difference.
Veritas went through a very positive and major improvement for a Latin reboot beginning this year. Let’s talk about all the good that’s happening with Latin!
Most schools have a "service arm" of the school. At Veritas, we have our PTF. Jesus said, " I came not to be served, but to serve." Imitating Jesus, service is at the very core PTF.
If you visit the Grammar school classrooms, you will notice on the walls the following phrase, “I am, I can, I ought, and I will.” Listen in to discover what this means for our school.
Even though the word is not used often today, it is central to the Classical Christian school heritage dating back thousands of years. Let's talk about piety...
Discover "what's going on" in the Biblical Studies classrooms at Veritas Christian Academy.