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August 6, 2024

Posted at 10:11h in Athletics, News, Parents, Student Life by

In July, Joel Breakstone and Emily Silver, TA's track and field teams' longstanding coaches, were named by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association as the 2024 Boys' High School Track & Field Coaches of the Year for the state of Vermont. The honor, according to the USTFCCCA "is based on [the coaches'] leadership and the success of the track and field team throughout the season." It's rare for two coaches to be named in a state, but for Joel and Emily, who have been coaching together (off and on) since 2003, it seems exactly right. ...


August 5, 2024

Posted at 13:11h in News by

This Saturday, August 10, from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., TA's Schoolhouse Rocks Summer Concert Series continues with its second show of the season featuring local legends the Western Terrestrials. Fronted by Thetford Academy alum Nick Charyk ’04, the "hard-driving outsiders from Vermont" conjure up “sweeping panoramas of dusty astral plains and the allure of whiskey-laden honky tonks," Western Terrestrials are the kind of wry, unconventional outsiders country music could get used to.” Food provided by Casey Huling '92's Tug Mountain Pizza. Free, family friendly, and open to the public. Questions? Contact Patty McIlvaine at 802-785-4805 x234 or by email...


August 2, 2024

Posted at 15:19h in Alumni News, News, Parents, Student Life by

If you’ve been around campus this summer, you might have noticed construction vehicles in the south parking lot and wondered - what’s going on in the annex?! We are pleased to announce that the annex classroom wing will finally be wheelchair accessible, starting this school year. Built in 1966, the two-story annex added much-needed space to the Thetford Academy campus of the time, including eight classrooms, bathrooms, a connecting hallway with lockers, and a student lounge (which older generations fondly remember as the ‘milk room’ where a daily morning snack involving legendary cookies was served). But the building’s layout, which predated...


August 1, 2024

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

Thetford Academy's new Panther Pride disc golf course is open to the public and ready for play! For those new to the sport, disc golf is played much like golf. Instead of a ball and clubs though, players throw a flying disc into chain baskets located throughout the course. The sport was formalized in the 1970s and shares with golf the object of completing each hole in the fewest strokes (or, in the case of disc golf, fewest throws).  Creating the course, which was officially completed in the spring, was the result of a months-long collaboration among students, faculty, and community members,...


June 27, 2024

Posted at 13:40h in News, Parents by

We're almost to the finish line of another year at Thetford Academy! The last day of TA's fiscal year is June 30, 2024 and we are so close to our annual fund goal of $100,000. To the nearly 200 community members who have already made their gift to TA, thank you. And if you have not yet made your gift, there is still time to support TA this year. Make your gift online today and be counted toward our 2023-2024 annual fund goal. What does the Thetford Academy annual fund support? Every year, your donations to Thetford Academy help ensure that...


June 26, 2024

Posted at 14:44h in News by

Longtime Thetford Academy English teacher Joe Deffner recently sat down with his former colleague, author and educator Ken Cadow. Cadow's first novel, Gather, released last fall, was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Deffner and Cadow overlapped as Thetford Academy English teachers over a decade ago, forming a friendship and collegiality that comes through in Deffner's recent piece about Cadow's work. In "The Principal Teacher of the Upper Valley," featured in the Summer 2024 issue of the Upper Valley's Image magazine, Deffner explores how Cadow's long career as an educator shapes his approach to writing...

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