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March 10, 2026

Posted at 12:25h in News, Outdoor Education, Parents, Student Life by

Save the date! Thetford Academy's Outdoor Program is looking forward to welcoming students, families, neighbors, and friends for a Maple Community Day on Sunday, March 22, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. In Vermont, sugaring is an integral part of our history and identity. It's also a unique educational opportunity for Thetford Academy students. TA's campus has a well-maintained sugar bush and taps over 250 trees each year. As a result, students in our Environmental Studies and Outdoor Education are able to participate in every step of the sugaring process, from tapping trees to boiling, filtering, and bottling in the...


March 10, 2026

Posted at 11:32h in Academics, News, Student Life by

Thetford Academy students Madison Balch and Lorelei St. Martin, both studying Culinary Arts at River Bend Career and Technical Center, recently earned top honors at the VT/NY ProStart Invitational. Hosted by the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, the event is an unique opportunity for culinary arts students to show off what they've learned in their program. Madison and Lorelei, along with their two non-TA teammates, won first place in ProStart's restaurant management competition. Their presentation of a comprehensive restaurant concept to a panel of industry judges was evaluated on the team's ability to develop and communicate a viable...


March 9, 2026

Posted at 15:46h in Athletics, News, Parents, Student Life by

Thetford Academy's indoor track team ended its season on a spectacular note with a number of terrific performances at the New England High School Indoor Track Championship meet at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston on February 28th. The girls' 4 x 200m relay team (Lilian Miller '27, Lizzie Brown '27, Aislin Peters '27 and Leah Crossett '27) lowered their own school record, finishing in 1:59.90. The boys' 4 x 200m relay team (Emmett Terry '26, Daniel Mann '26, Owen Goodrich '26 and David Thaxton '26) raced to a 1:36.99 finish, the second-best time in school history, behind only the state...


March 9, 2026

Posted at 14:03h in News by

Photo: Camp Hanoum guests arrive by train circa 1920 The Thetford Historical Society (THS) and the Thetford Semiquincentennial Committee (SQC) are excited to present "The History of Thetford and its Historians" this Sunday, March 15 at 3 p.m. in Thetford Academy's Martha Jane Rich Theater. In this engaging and informative talk, THS Director Martha Howard and former Thetford Academy history teacher Steve Niederhauser take a deep dive into the history of Thetford and share rarely seen photos of the town and its residents in times past. They will pay special attention to the town's historians from the 20th century, the...


March 7, 2026

Posted at 09:09h in Academics, Athletics, Head of School, News, Parents, Student Life by

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 in management and 3rd place in cooking. Now they move on to nationals in Baltimore. Juniors Jesse Martin and Kai Slayton grabbed first place in the VT/NH robotics championships last month (read all about it) and now head to the world competition later this spring, along with three other TA robotics...


March 3, 2026

Posted at 15:12h in Academics, News, Parents, Student Life by

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 could think of no better way to continue to help students and staff celebrate their reading lives than to celebrate Black joy by reading Black authors over break.  What is Black joy? Elaine Nichols writes on the National Museum of African American History & Culture website, that Black joy is what...

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