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March 9, 2023

Posted at 12:25h in Uncategorized by

The first part of Thetford's Town Meeting, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturday, featured a school budget informational meeting. Thetford Academy Head of School Carrie Brennan and Donna Steinberg, chair of the the TA Board of Trustees, presented, alongside TES principal Bernice Mills and the president of the Thetford School Board, Julie Acker. For the TA portion of the presentation, Brennan reviewed the school's five-year strategic plan, highlighting successes and current areas of focus for the faculty and administration. Examples include: the campus master planning process; a new position focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts; and, a...


March 9, 2023

Posted at 09:38h in Academics, Parents by

Before February break, Thetford Academy's middle school English students were studying up for the school's annual spelling bee, a qualifying event for Vermont's Scripps State Spelling Bee in March. On February 20th, the top three spellers in each of the two seventh grade sections – along with interested 8th grade spellers - took the stage in the Martha Jane Rich Theater to compete for a spot at the state competition. The event followed the Scripps rulebook, with increasingly difficult words chosen from Scripps official word list. Spellers must say the word, spell the word, and say the word again -...


March 8, 2023

Posted at 17:04h in Athletics, News, Parents by

The girls varsity basketball team ended its title run with a tough 44-40 loss vs. the Windsor Yellowjackets on Saturday. The Panthers were riding high from their semifinal rout of #2 seed Hazen (60-32) where the team's focus and determination were on full display. In an interview with the Valley News, junior Charlize Brown, the game's high scorer, said, “I came into this game knowing that we are such a strong, impactful team when we work together.” Brown led the Panthers with a season-high 20 points, junior Addison Cadwell added 16, and Madi Mousley put up 12. Tensions were high...


March 8, 2023

Posted at 14:17h in Academics, DEI, News, Parents by

Thetford Academy's Student Alliance for Racial Justice (SARJ) will host a free screening of the movie "My Name is Pauli Murray" on March 10th at 7 p.m. in TA's Martha Jane Rich Theater, with discussion to follow. The film is a look at the life and ideas of Pauli Murray, a non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet who influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall. "Overlooked by history, Pauli Murray was a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG’s fight for gender equality and Thurgood Marshall’s civil rights arguments. This is a portrait of their impact as a non-binary Black...


March 8, 2023

Posted at 09:39h in Arts, News by

In case you missed it, Thetford Academy's Martha Jane Rich Theater became a hot spot for local film enthusiasts last summer. The Thetford Arthouse Cinema (TAC), a 501c3 nonprofit, launched last year with a mission to "build local community by sharing the world's greatest films." The Cinema will return to TA this spring with an exciting new lineup of film and discussion events. TAC will run three discrete sessions in the 2023 season, with the first session of the season starting on Thursday, March 16 at 7 p.m. The new schedule (Tuesdays and Fridays through April 11) includes a wide...


February 24, 2023

Posted at 16:35h in Academics, Head of School, News, Parents by

Dear TA Families, Congratulations are in order! TA was a force to be reckoned with at last weekend's NH/VT robotics championships. TA teams took half of the six spots to go to the VEX world championships in the spring. Check out the photos below and read all about the meet on the TA website! (And to learn more about what the robots have to do in this year's competition, watch the short clip from a meet earlier in the season.) Congratulations are in order, part 2! The TA girls varsity basketball team had a victory on Wednesday night and heads to the next level...

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