On July 16, 2018, at their annual conference in Los Angeles, the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) honored Thetford Academy's Counseling Office for earning designation as a "Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP)." The RAMP designation, awarded for aligning with the criteria in the ASCA National Model, recognizes schools committed to delivering...
By Thomas Worth There is now a sign leading up to the outdoor classroom. Now students and community members will know where to go when they come to the yurt for the first time. I made my sign by burning the letters into the wood by hand. It took me a...
By Spencer Williams To watch a video of the outdoor program highlights click Here This year the outdoor class did Three big projects that I see as highlights of the year. We built a yurt, went on an overnight, and we did a maple sugaring unit. Building the yurt was a big accomplishment....
By Hunter LeFevre For my capstone project I made a sign to recognize everyone who helped build the yurt. The sign is two feet by two feet and made out of cedar wood. It was routed on a CNC router, then it was stained, painted and sanded. I really like how...
By Alex Emerson I got the idea to build a woodshed for the yurt when I was piling wood onto the cold wet ground last fall. I thought it would be great to actually have something to store and keep the wood dry at our new outdoor classroom. I knew that...
By Joseph Dunn Next year the Thetford Outdoor Program is going to be building a sugarshack. For my capstone project I have built a model of this building. I first started by drawing the design on graph paper. I used a one inch equals one foot scale. I used building plans...
It is that time of year when students start to think about how they will spend their summers. Below is a list of different opportunities we have posted over the past few weeks, all compiled in one place for viewing convenience! UVM Extension and 4H Opportunities for Students River Bend Career...
Wallace "Wally" Roberts is an American Civil Rights Activist who considers some of his most important civil rights work to be his time as the Freedom School Coordinator for Freedom Summer in Shaw, Mississippi in 1968. The goals of the Freedom Schools were to educate white students about black history...
TA Science teacher Gary Engler is one of 18 teachers from across the country selected to attend the Glacier Institute teacher workshop "Discovering Glacier through Science and Culture" at Montana's Glacier National Park. The five-day science and field-based workshop is an opportunity for teachers to learn about resource topics at...
The Thetford Academy middle school robotics team (eighth grader Tate Whiteberg and seventh grader Isaiah Kol) competed in the VEX World Championships in Louisville, KY, Thursday and Friday, April 26-27, going 6-4-0 and finishing 25th out of the 92 teams that qualified from the U.S. and other countries. Tate's and Isaiah's robot...
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