Dear TA Families, There is so much talent at TA - and we've been taking it on the road a lot lately, traveling to destinations throughout Vermont and beyond to compete, perform, and shine! Seniors Madison Balch and Lorelei St. Martin competed in the VT/NY state culinary championships and won 1st place...
My colleague, English teacher Sarah Hancock, and I have been thinking about how we, as educators, can help our students and colleagues make space in our distracting world for reading. And so school break reading challenges have become a staple this year at TA. February is Black History Month, and we...
Step into the wit and romance of Pride and Prejudice by Melissa Leilani Larson, a lively one-act adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. This production is part of the Vermont State Drama Council’s One Act Festival. Presented by the Thetford Academy Performing Arts Department, this spirited production brings to...
For the past six years, Thetford Academy's 2025 Strategic Plan has served our community well, providing a helpful framework for our work as educators. With the expiration of the plan, we are excited to come back to the table to develop a thoughtful vision for TA's future. Thetford Academy has...
The girls’ varsity basketball team concluded their season (5-16) last Wednesday in the first-round playoff game against the #3 seeded Oxbow High School. The team fought hard throughout the game, narrowing the deficit to just five points with three minutes remaining. All of the players showed remarkable growth and improvement...
The smell of pizza wafted through campus last Wednesday evening as both the girls and boys middle school basketball teams celebrated the end of successful seasons. The girls started off in a challenging position when an injury left the team with just six active players. Of course, that didn't stop this...
On Friday, February 13, 2026, Thetford Academy celebrated its 207th birthday and its 83rd annual Founders’ Day. Former Head of School Carl Anderson started the Founders’ Day tradition in 1944, after a tragic fire destroyed the school’s original campus. With Founders’ Day, Anderson hoped to honor the school’s deep history,...
This year, all seven of Thetford Academy's VEX Robotics teams (two middle school teams and five high school teams) qualified to compete in the VT/NH State Championships. The event, hosted by Manchester Community College in Manchester, NH, was full of exciting matches and some disappointing losses. At the end of...
Thetford Academy recently hosted its 17th annual Poetry Out Loud (POL) recitation contest featuring poetry performances from nine talented TA students: Eleora Santor, Lucca Huling, Maddie Piecuch, Camren Murray, Anna Ferrier, Evelyn Hayden, Twyla Weinstein, Ranee Hall, and Jay Hill. Each student recited personally selected poems for the team of community judges,...
Dear TA Families, Yesterday we celebrated our 83rd Founders' Day as a school community. This is an energetic mid-winter event that Carl Anderson started to bring people together after the school burned down in 1942 - and it has been a treasured tradition ever since. Students in every grade demonstrated incredible creativity...