Thetford Academy is excited to join forces with the Flynn Theater to host The Playing Fields Project, a back-to-school celebration that travels to school districts around Vermont. The project invites communities to gather together for joyful and awe-inspiring performances on school fields. Everyone is invited to join the fun! The event...
TA recently concluded this summer's “Tuesdays in the TA Garden,” a series of volunteer work parties designed to grow both food and community in the school garden. Each week since July 9, Thetford Academy's garden coordinator Ehrin Lingeman and her student interns have welcomed TA families and community members into...
With the start of each new school year, there are always exciting changes. Students will meet new teachers, make new friends, and – most importantly – learn new things! In addition to these exciting new experiences, some important changes also happen behind the scenes. This year we are transitioning from Web2School...
Thetford Academy is looking forward to hosting students and families for two community events on August 25: a new student welcome and TA’s annual back to school picnic. Beginning at 4:00 p.m., TA invites all new, incoming students to campus for a fun opportunity to get comfortable before the first...
In July, Joel Breakstone and Emily Silver, TA's track and field teams' longstanding coaches, were named by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association as the 2024 Boys' High School Track & Field Coaches of the Year for the state of Vermont. The honor, according to the...
This Saturday, August 10, from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., TA's Schoolhouse Rocks Summer Concert Series continues with its second show of the season featuring local legends the Western Terrestrials. Fronted by Thetford Academy alum Nick Charyk ’04, the "hard-driving outsiders from Vermont" conjure up “sweeping panoramas of dusty astral...
Thetford Academy's new Panther Pride disc golf course is open to the public and ready for play! For those new to the sport, disc golf is played much like golf. Instead of a ball and clubs though, players throw a flying disc into chain baskets located throughout the course. The sport...
We're almost to the finish line of another year at Thetford Academy! The last day of TA's fiscal year is June 30, 2024 and we are so close to our annual fund goal of $100,000. To the nearly 200 community members who have already made their gift to TA, thank...
Longtime Thetford Academy English teacher Joe Deffner recently sat down with his former colleague, author and educator Ken Cadow. Cadow's first novel, Gather, released last fall, was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Deffner and Cadow overlapped as Thetford Academy English teachers over a decade...
Thetford Academy's Schoolhouse Rocks summer concert series opens its second season this Sunday with a performance from Burlington's bluegrass greats Good Gravy. Good Gravy members Joe Agnello, Jeff Wilson, and Jack Vignone pay homage to bluegrass legends Tony Rice, Norman Blake, and Doc Watson - a show you won't want...