Each year, Thetford Academy's Timber Framing course takes on a new design build challenge. Since the course launched in 2014, the class has designed and constructed four timber-framed dugouts for TA's baseball and softball fields, a picnic pavilion on the upper soccer field, and in a ambitious two-year project -...
CLICK HERE FOR FOUNDERS' DAY PHOTOS! Last Friday, Thetford Academy celebrated its 203rd birthday. Founders' Day, now in its 79th year, was postponed from its traditional February date as a Covid precaution. The shift to March had advantages (it was MUCH warmer and the sun even came out!) and disadvantages (snow...
Did you know that Thetford Academy has two Italian students enrolled this year through the AFS-USA program? In order to continue this successful partnership in the upcoming school year, AFS-USA is seeking host families for high school exchange students who would be attending Thetford Academy in 2022/23. Most students will...
Thetford Academy Drama Club students will perform “The Insanity of Mary Girard,” by Lanie Robertson, in the MJR Theater at the school on Friday, March 25 at 7:00 p.m. and on Wednesday, March 30 at 7:00 p.m. Robertson’s play is a dramatic re-creation of the real-life story of the wife of the famous Philadelphian philanthropist,...
It was an exciting race season for TA's alpine skiers, culminating in the State Championship at Burke Mountain on March 1 and 2. TA sent six skiers from its boys team to the event: Ben Acker, Liam Patterson, Logan Wurtz, Harland Ransom, Isaac Yukica, Oliver Yukica, and Uly Junker-Boyce. Despite...
This season has been quite a ride for our Panthers. Last night's playoff game v. the Vergennes Commodores ended in defeat for the varsity boys, officially closing the 2021-2022 season for TA. After graduating some of TA's powerhouse players last year, this season's developing team worked incredibly hard both on...
After the last bell signaled the end of the school day and the beginning of February break, TA’s campus cleared out quickly, leaving only one group of students behind. In the robotics classroom, TA’s team 4886 was hard at work preparing for the next day’s VT/NH VEX Robotics State Championship. The...
Over the last thirteen years, Thetford Academy's Poetry Out Loud competition has become TA tradition. Poetry Out Loud is a recitation contest created by the National Endowment of the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, and administered with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the...
Photo of "Baby Bites" production provided by Molly Longwell. After graduating from TA in 2011, Molly Longwell was excited to “bust out of Vermont” and dive headlong into urban life. She attended American University in the heart of D.C. before heading to Boston and, in 2017, finding her home in...
TA's Thetford Outdoor Program (TOP) is excited to announce an expanded slate of summer leadership opportunities in 2022. This year, in addition to the program's annual Connecticut River canoe trips, Appalachian Trail backpacking trip, and the TA trail crew, TOP is planning an advanced canoe trip in Canada and new...