We continue to have a lot of fun during the Rhetoric years.

Rhetoric School begins with the initiation of 9th graders and transfer students called Rhetoric Boot Camp. During this Boot Camp students compete individually to win accolades, as they seek to persuade each other concerning the case of the Rich Man, the Poor Man and the Bees and other cases that were used to train lawyers during ancient times.

Every other year families of Rhetoric students enjoy the Family Field Trip. This four or five day trip involves special events for the entire family. Recent Family Field Trips have walked down Boston’s Freedom Trail, danced in the Governor’s Mansion at Colonial Williamsburg, and visited Plimoth Plantation and Salem, Massachusetts.  Click here to see where our families visited on the most recent family field trip to Charlottesville, VA.   

Rhetoric students also have fun dancing and singing. One annual dance at Veritas Academy is the Colonial Christmas Dance. After a few practices, students and parents dress in their finest colonial garb and take to the dance floor. From time to time we also have ballroom dances and dances from other time periods.

Students in Rhetoric School make trips to New York, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore to visit places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walter’s Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.