Beyond the Classroom
Extracurriculars
Exploring interests and fostering well-rounded students, through travel, service, leadership, and clubs.
Field Trips
Veritas students don’t just study about places around the world. They experience them. Nothing makes history come alive like seeing firsthand where it took place.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Students and family members have traveled to a growing list of destinations, including Italy, Greece, Germany, France, and Switzerland, to personally encounter what they’ve read about in their Omnibus studies. And these locations are just the beginning.
Mission Trips
Our mission trips might be better called “service learning” trips, because students are actively engaged in helping and serving others, and they learn through the work they do.
Whether it’s helping on a construction site for the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian rainforest, learning from Christian lawyers who advocate for abused women and children in Washington, D.C., or learning from pilots and engineers who deliver literature and food to people in need in Malawi, students have many opportunities to discover how they can use their knowledge, gifts, and talents to serve others.
Student Government
VSA’s student government is a practical opportunity for students to demonstrate leadership. Each class in grades 7–12 is led by a president, vice president, and secretary. They lead Student Connections discussions, serve as liaisons with school administration, play key roles at the End-of-Year Gathering, and more. Officers are selected by their peers through annual elections, a riveting time of persuasive campaigns, creativity, and a bit of competition.
Student Connections
Full-time secondary students gather online by grade level twice a month to talk about everything from politics to poetry to pastries. (Okay, forced alliteration, we confess.) Students pray for one another, share stories, play get-to-know-you games, debate favorite movies, trade good counsel on surviving exams and college applications, and talk about upcoming school events.
Class officers lead the fun and discussions. Friendship, camaraderie, and community are just some of the benefits of our full-time school community. Oh, and what would Connections be without themed costume parties and karaoke?
Yearbook
le·ga·to /ləˈɡädō/
adverb & adjective
In a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes.
The VSA yearbook, Legato, captures the essence of our student body: a group that works together, demonstrating the love of Christ in all things. As one of VSA’s clubs, yearbook students help capture and document fond memories for students and their families each school year.
Clubs
Personal interests often carry students beyond the classroom, and VSA’s clubs are the perfect outlet. Whether you’re interested in exploring computer programming with a Silicon Valley engineer, chess with a National Master, or biology with an ornithologist, there’s a good chance VSA offers something that will appeal to every student.
Interested in an Accredited Diploma?
Full-time Diploma students enjoy the complete VSA community, from Student Connections to class elections.