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Students are introduced to Latin in kindergarten through second grade. Students are taught using Prima Latin, an award-winning curriculum developed for young children.
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The core courses of these two years are Omnibus I. Omnibus is a Latin term meaning all encompassing. The Omnibus I textbook covers Ancient World History, including Biblical History, Literature and Art of the respective period.
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High School in the Classical education tradition is known as the Rhetoric Stage. This stage focuses on learning the art of argument and public speaking in debates and mock trials.
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St. Anne’s offers girls PK-12 a rich and scholarly curriculum based on the Classical Christian tradition of the Trivium. The Trivium is the method first developed in Ancient Greece and adopted by Constantine as the basic method of education and widely used in Europe and America producing some of the greatest scholars in the West. (Please read more about the Trivium under Academic Overview.)
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October 24, 2011
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October 13, 2011
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St. Anne's Academy Girls Skype With Students in Peru
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Come to the July 23rd Open House and learn more about why Latin is a critical foundation course, and why St. Anne's teaches etiquette and protocol beginning in the Kindergarten classrooms.
Families with daughters in 7th through 11th grades will be interested in hearing what Dr. Carolann Cirbee has to say about the need to begin early in preparing daughters for college entrance exams.
Dr. Cirbee, textbook author, English professor, college dean and SAT preparatory instructor is the Head of St. Anne's College Preparatory Program, offering supplementary SAT Prep instruction in English and Math courses beginning in 7th grade.
At the open house on August 13, she will tell parents why they should not wait until 11th grade to enroll their daughters in courses to prepare for the college entrance exams. "By starting a test prep program in middle school, there is enough time to introduce, thoroughly teach, and consistently review test material. By the time a student reaches 11th or 12th grade, she is confident that she will do the best job she can when she takes her college entrance exams and that she will succeed in her college level studies," said Dr. Cirbee.
St. Anne's Academy for Girls includes the preparation in the tuition cost.
St. Anne's Online Registration Form will remain open for the July 18th - 23rd registration week. New students are interviewed in the order that online applications are received. We have temporarily closed registration until we complete the interview process for current applicants. We will reopen registration on July 18th for seats available.
Please do not hesitate to contact Admissions via email if you have further questions. directorofadmissions.saa@gmail.com.
St. Anne's Academy girls will have the opportunity to learn English and Western riding lessons and how to play polo. Battlefield Park Polo Club has an Interscholastic/Intercollegiate (I/I) Programs that offer fun and exciting entry into the sport of polo for all students. "Most I/I programs around the country, like ours, offer great horses, low cost lessons, and free games," said the Polo Club owner. As the girls increase their proficiency, they can plan against other girls' schools' polo teams.
Mrs. Del Vacchio is the Fine Arts instructor for St. Anne’s Academy. She formerly served as the Director of Fine Arts for St. Paul’s School in Haymarket, Virginia and inspired the School’s First Annual Art Show, which received widespread recognition in regional newspapers. She will work closely with St. Anne’s Academy administration in organizing annual art exhibitions of students’ work.
In addition to teaching in private schools, Mrs. Del Vacchio was selected to teach in the award-winning, national art education program, Kidzart. Mrs. Del Vacchio was also a seminar arts instructor for a private firm overseas and a children’s art instructor in a Christian-based program in The Bahamas.
In addition to teaching, Mrs. Del Vacchio has worked as a graphic design specialist at the headquarters of an international technology company designing, producing and overseeing all elements of visual material. She has also worked as a graphic artist for Gannett, Inc. and produced designs for HarperCollins Publishers. She has designed magazine spreads, constructed and designed electronic manuals, worked on web designs, generated advertising campaigns for national corporations, and contributed to weekly publications as well as literary magazines. Her studio-based background has also led her to produce works in various mediums in drawing, painting and printmaking.
She has been the recipient of several art awards including those from the Art Directors Club of New Jersey and Monmouth University. Mrs. Del Vacchio’s work has been featured in a number of magazines and newspapers between 1999 and 2010.
Mrs. Del Vacchio holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. She is pursuing graduate courses in arts education.
St. Anne's Academy welcomes Donna Tavani, who will lead our Girls' Choir. She is a lyric soprano whose performances have taken her to audiences in Israel, Palestine, Russia and all over the United States.
She has a degree in Voice Performance from Florida State University and a Masters of Music from University of Maryland College Park.
Mrs. Tavani has directed and written children’s musicals, with children’s choirs of over 100, and coached prize winning young performers. As director of Youth-to-Youth Concerts International, she has coordinated fundraising events that have raised thousands of dollars for charity.
Mrs. Tavani has been married to Dr. Tavani for 25 years Five of their six sons are musicians; the three oldest pursuing professional studies that have already taken them around the globe.
As the Tavani Ensemble, the family has performed at many churches and other venues, including the State Department. Their youngest son, Jonathan has Down Syndrome and enjoys bouncing on the trampoline to the music his brothers make. According to Mrs Tavani, her proudest achievement is being a wife and mom--“Everything else is icing on the cake!”
Welcome Donna Tavani!
St. Anne's Academy will be holding OPEN HOUSES on Saturdays, May 21st, June 18th and July 23rd from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 pm at St. Anne's Academy Historic Old Town Manassas Campus.
Reminder, all application forms must be accompanied by a $150 Application Fee to be processed If your child is not accepted by St. Anne's, this fee will be refunded.
Families will be registered for the spaces available in the order of the date of the receipt of the online application.
At the most recent Board of Directors meeting, Mrs. Susan Sutton Scott was elected to the position of Chairman of the Board. "I am very pleased to take the lead in ensuring that St. Anne's Academy offers an oustanding education for girls, and provides them leadership opportunities and internship opportunities in business, government and media at the local level and national," said Sutton Scott.
She brings to St. Anne’s more than 30 years in education, both as a teacher and as an education administrator.
Mrs. Sutton Scott has worked in private Christian schools and in Los Angeles public schools (LAUSD). Ms. Sutton Scott has taught elementary and middle school students, military students in Germany and undergraduate and graduate students in the United States. She served as an adjunct professor at Temple University and Central Texas University, and worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Colorado.
Mrs. Sutton Scott left teaching to become a director of graduate degree programs for the University of Southern California, University of Denver, and most recently headed Old Dominion University’s Graduate Teacher Education Program. Ms. Sutton Scott received a Letter of Commendation from the president of Old Dominion University for her outstanding contribution to the graduate teacher education program.
She is a native of Texas, but spent part of her youth in Iceland and Germany. As the daughter of a military officer and the wife of a military officer, Mrs. Sutton Scott lived in two dozen cities throughout the world. This experience has been invaluable to her teaching and administrative work. Her appreciation for culture and language enriched her experience teaching ESOL students in Panama.
She earned her Bachelors degree from Rice University (Houston) where she graduated Cum Laude. She holds a Masters of Science in Education from Old Dominion University.
(To read more, see "Meet the Chairman of the Board" under the Welcome menu.
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St. Anne's Academy for Girls will begin accepting applications on April 1, 2011. Registration for Fall will begin on May 2nd. Registration will be in order of online applications received. Applications must be accompanied by a $150 Application Fee. If an application is not accepted, the fee will be refunded in full.
Kathleen Katz, St. Anne's Headmistress, advises parents on how to select a preschool: http://www.gainesville-times.com/news/2011/jan/29/column-preschool-open-...
St. Anne's Academy offers a PK2 program one day a week and a PK3 program two days a week. Please see our preschool curriculum offering under Academics.
Micca Bucey, former Curriculum Director at St. Paul's School in Haymarket, and a former Department Chair for Specialized Instruction at a public school in Florida, has joined St. Anne's Academy as the Director of Specialized Instruction. Welcome Ms. Bucey!
St. Anne's Academy held a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) meeting to discuss the Fall 2011 afternoon STEM schedule. Engineers from a wide range of engineering fields will be offering workshops throughout the year. A hands-on approach is planned to demystify the scientific principles of designing and developing structures and processes. Karen Voth, Faculty Dean, is developing professional sources for the program. Engineers interested in helping may call the Academy: 571-991-0844
St. Anne's Academy welcomes Joanna Hensley, a Latin language specialist to the Advisory Board. Ms. Hensley is the Vice President of the Veritas Press Scholars Academy. She is a Latin and Omnibus instructor. Ms. Hensley is extremely resourceful providing us with college interns who are majoring in classical languages and civilizations.
St. Anne's Academy welcomes Carol Brown, one of the early leaders in the U.S. Classical Christian education movement to the Academy's Board of Advisors. Ms. Brown brings with her more than 12 years in leadership at private classical schools from Lyon, France to Atlanta, Georgia. She also served as Head of School for Ad Fontes in Centreville, Virginia. She currently serves as executive director of the Academic Success Center of Kentucy. She share with us resources she has used to successfully transform low-performing students into academic achievers. Read more about Ms. Brown under our Advisory Board link.
Karen Voth, Dean of Faculty, and Kathleen Katz, M.Ed. met with Classical Education leaders in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to obtain information on the most up to date textbooks and instructional strategies. It was a very productive and energetic session. Both Ms. Voth and Ms. Katz said they came back energized and confident that the curriculum texts purchased for the fall 2011 would be embraced by both teachers and students. "They are outstanding texts," said Katz. "They are written in such a way that they entice students to keep reading and to learn more."
Academy administration and curriculum specialists met with Ethan Demme, COO and founder of Math-U-See curriculum publisher. "Math-U-See is a great curriculum for girls because it helps them understand the concepts behind the formulas," said Ms. Voth. It will serve as a strong supplementary curriculum to the lauded Saxon Math curriculum that builds confidence through review and reinforcement. "After watching Mr. Demme film a demonstration video for teachers, we realized how valuable his hands-on approach will be for our students," said Kathleen Katz, M.Ed., Headmistress.
