Hampton Roads Classical

We are an independent, full-time American classical academy in Smithfield, VA. We offer a traditional, liberal arts education that cultivates intellectual, moral, and civic virtue with an emphasis on the Western tradition and America’s founding principles. Now in our third year, we offer Kindergarten through 7th grade, and will expand by matriculation, adding a grade each year until we are a full K through 12th. Mission The mission of Hampton Roads Classical is to cultivate intellectual and moral virtue in our students, through a rigorous classical education program that disciplines the mind to a lifelong pursuit of wisdom grounded in the objective standards of truth, goodness, and beauty intrinsic to the human spirit. Vision In close partnership with parents and guardians, we seek to prepare students who will become the future guardians of the American republic to lead responsible, independent and productive lives, in the firm belief that such virtues are required to accept the privileges and responsibilities of civic duty in a free and just society. We follow a distinctively classical approach to teaching students and believe that the acquisition of wisdom and the cultivation of virtue are the central tasks of education. Philosophy of Education The educational philosophy of the academy will be based on four pillars: • A high view of mankind with acknowledgement of objective standards of truth, goodness and beauty. • The centrality of the Western tradition and the founding principles of America. This will include a Great Books approach to reading literature, history, science, and philosophy from original sources as they were written in that period of time. • A Trivium-based approach that teaches the Tools of Learning through the seven artes liberales in a way that is aligned to a child’s strengths and natural abilities at each developmental stage. • A virtue-based ethos, informed by the values, customs, conventions, and norms of the Judeo-Christian tradition.