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News
Order Yearbooks Today
As the end of the school year is quickly approaching, it is time to think about ordering your yearbooks. Our team is hard at work putting together a yearbook capturing not only our many achievements from this year, but also the love and community here at Petra. Order forms are available at the front desk, and each hardback yearbook is $25 (deadline to order is Thursday, May 23). Yearbooks will arrive during the summer and an email announcement will be sent for pick up.Ultimate Frisbee Tourney, 5/4
Plan now to attend the Ultimate Frisbee tournament scheduled to be hosted on our own Petra sports field on Saturday, May 4. We’ll publish a schedule as soon as it’s available, but if you and/or your students have never seen the sport played, it’s worth coming out to watch this fun, fast-paced game that’s enjoyable for all ages to watch.
Help with Resurrection Feast
On April 26, Petra’s students and staff will gather together for our third and final all-school feast of the year: our Resurrection Feast. As with each Feast, we are in need of parent volunteers willing to make crockpot mashed potatoes (potatoes and recipe provided) and help set up, serve, and tear down tables and decorations afterward. Here is a schedule for the morning:
- 8:30-10:00 Set up tables, chairs, and decorations in the atrium; begin prepping feast food for servers
- 10:30-11:30 Servers arrive to finish prepping Feast food
- 11:30-12:30 Feast time food serving
- 12:30 Early dismissal from school along with tear down in the atrium
Sign up to volunteer at the front desk. Thanks!
Media
Teachers | Teacher Focus
Parents | Why Petra?
Craig Dunham | Petra's Vision of the Good Life
Sam Koenen | Texts of Depravity
Bobbi Miller | Kindergarten and the Classical Approach
Sarah McClaflin | Grammar: Observing with Humility
Elias Denison | Dialectic/Logic: Thinking with Reason
Ginny Owens | Redeeming Rhetoric
ARTICLES
Music & Art That’s Not About Us
As a classical school, music is important to us – a “muse” whose presence and inspiration we trace throughout history as both source and soundtrack for so much of humanity’s existence. Likewise, as a Christian school seeking to train students to worship God, we resonate with Martin Luther’s claim that, next to the Word of […]
What Parents Want in a Christian School
In recent months, we’ve offered a few posts here in our Scholar’s Forum having to do with the impact and opportunity of Petra Academy’s particular brand of classical Christian education. In January, we introduced you to Petra senior Valerie Lewis and the significant impact that her time at Petra has had on her life (Educational […]
Why We Love, Dramaturgically Speaking
A “dramaturg” is someone whose expertise is in the literary composition and thematic elements of a play. This person works closely with the director to help in understanding the context and the major themes of the play, ensuring that the director’s vision doesn’t lose any of the author’s intention. Here is some dramaturgical insight from […]
Preaching What We Need to Hear
A few months ago, a Petra mom and I were discussing this article about classical education and the home when she started to tear up. When I asked her what was wrong, her response was genuine and heartfelt: “I read that article and thought, ‘Great! Here are just more ways I’m failing as a parent,’” she shared. […]