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November 12, 2024

Posted at 08:58h in Athletics, News, Parents, Student Life by

On Saturday, November 9th, Brady Sloop and Ava Hayden represented Thetford Academy at the 89th Annual New England Interscholastic Cross Country Championships.  Brady and Ava qualified for this event by finishing in the top 25 (across all divisions) at the Vermont State Championships held at Thetford Academy on October 26th. Following the state meet, Brady and Ava spent the next two weeks continuing their training. Their training included both primary workouts and maintenance runs, but with the regular season now over for the rest of their teammates, they only had each other for company. The New England Championships rotate between the participating states...


November 9, 2024

Posted at 10:19h in Head of School, News, Parents, Student Life by

Dear TA Families, Next week, at long last, the bridge connecting Thetford, VT and Lyme, NH will reopen. While only 18 months in duration, the project took place over the course of three school years, starting in the spring semester of 2022-23 and ending in the fall semester of 2024-25. What a relief for our Lyme students and families - and some of our TA staff - whose daily commute to and from Thetford Academy tripled in length. One TA parent from Lyme posted a reflection on the town listserv about the silver lining experience of finding new routes, patience, and discoveries...


November 5, 2024

Posted at 08:37h in Academics, News, Parents, Student Life by

On Saturday Nov 2, 2024, 32 robot teams from Vermont and New Hampshire converged on Vaughan Alumni Gymnasium at Thetford Academy for the first annual Haunted Harvest Robotics Tournament. It was the first time TA had hosted a tournament in over ten years, and due to the outstanding planning team led by Catherine Kutter and Karen MacPhee, it went off without a hitch. After opening remarks by Head of School Carrie Brennan and a performance of the Star Spangled Banner from Ava Hayden '25, parent and faculty member Casey Huling '92 took over as emcee. Throughout the morning and into the afternoon,...


November 4, 2024

Posted at 10:15h in Academics, News, Student Life by

Sonya Sotomayor, Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, Weird Al Yankovic, and Zac Efron. What do these notable people all have in common? They joined their high school speech and debate teams! And just like those notable personalities, eighteen intrepid TA students have joined TA's speech and debate team for our second season.  The high school competes in a form of debate called Public Forum, a highly structured form of debate which pits teams of two against each other on topics pulled from the headlines in front of a citizen judge. November’s topic is a timely and tough one: The United States should...


November 1, 2024

Posted at 16:41h in Academics, Arts, Head of School, News, Parents, Student Life by

Dear TA Families, We had a fun spirit week and lots of Halloween creativity. I was impressed with the number of students who participated each day, starting with a very cozy Monday with so many students in pajamas! We closed the week on a more serious note, gathering as a school community for a special Veterans Day assembly.  Veterans Day AssemblyWe celebrated Veterans Day early today with an assembly featuring the national anthem sung by Ava Hayden '25 and a presentation by Thetford resident and TA parent Kate Van Arman. Kate served as an officer in the U.S. Army for 20 years. She...


October 29, 2024

Posted at 08:47h in Athletics, News, Student Life by

At Vermont's Cross Country State Championship, the competition each year is reliably fierce. In the Panthers' Division III, Coaches Joe Deffner and Emily Silver had run the numbers and knew it would be tough for TA to beat top teams Stowe and BFA Fairfax. "Looking at the other teams before the race," Deffner told the Valley News, "we knew we were the underdogs." But if a couple of things went our way, he added, "we might finish a little better." For the boys, the predicted third place proved accurate - a strong finish from the Panthers with a lot of...

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