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 -...
Dear TA Families, My email today focuses primarily on our upcoming student roundtables, to share details and context with you and to send out the sign-up link. On Wednesday, April 6, the school day will be dedicated to student roundtables. The day will be a fully remote one for students. The primary...
This update was originally sent by email to TA families on March 17, 2022 Happy St. Patrick's Day! Masking: Masking is optional as of March 14th. Some students and faculty are masking some are not. All have been respectful and considerate during this transition. Vermont Department of Health Covid management guidelines changed on 3/14/22: If...
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...
Dear TA Community, Founders' Day 2022 is a wrap! We had a delightful day of community time and friendly competition, with a lot of creative flare, good humor, insightful wit, and athletic prowess on display. We also spent some time reflecting on TA's history and traditions. The theme this year was decades...
The following update from TA School Nurse Ellen Gnaedinger was sent to families via email on March 11. Covid Protocol Reminders: • Masking will be optional as of March 14th This is a positive step forward; however, as we go to mask optional, TA may see more upper respiratory infections and influenza cases. TA community...
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...
Dear TA Community, It has been an eventful week in the evolution of Covid guidelines in Vermont. This week's email shares important news on that front and other school updates. TA Shifts to Mask Optional March 14Based on developments yesterday, most importantly the shift in Orange County's Covid status to a 'medium'/yellow...