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February 9, 2023

Posted at 09:07h in Athletics, News, Parents by

Thetford Academy's indoor track team had an outstanding day at the state championship meet at UVM on Saturday, February 4th. Competing in the D-II classification against 18 other schools (almost all of which are much larger), the Panther girls rolled to a second-place finish and the boys finished third. The girls 4 x 800 relay team, Ava Hayden '25, Ceci Luce '24, Sora Bolles '26 and Abby Egner '23, won the D-II title, and punched a ticket to the New England championships at the same time. Senior Jada Rich scored points in all four of the events in which she competed, winning...


February 9, 2023

Posted at 08:30h in Academics, News, Parents by

Last week, Thetford Academy students were invited to take on the "Impact App Challenge." The Challenge, launched in collaboration with the Impactree Foundation, is designed to inspire TA students to identify a key environmental or social problem they see and experience – and to try to solve it through technology. Impactree founder Ken Kurtzig is interested in student ideas that could help solve an environmental, social justice, or racial justice problem; a gender equity, LGBTQ+, or mental health problem – any problem that could be solved to make the world a better place. Students might develop an idea to solve...


February 9, 2023

Posted at 07:34h in Health Office, News by

Illnesses We are seeing more Covid this week and continue to see influenza, mononucleosis and strep throat. We also have students with head colds and sore throats.If you are sick, please remember to stay home until better. How to get better: stay home, get lots of rest, extra sleep, lots of fluids and gargle with warm salt water if you have a sore throat. Please don't share water bottles or food; that's how mono spreads. Thetford Academy has 13 people out with Covid this week. Take home Covid kits are available in the Health Office. TA Covid protocol Vermont Hoax School ShootingsWe are very concerned that...


February 2, 2023

Posted at 09:08h in Alumni News, Alumni Profile, Athletics, News, Parents by

Ten years ago, Morgan Gaffney ‘20 was a 10 year-old spectator near the Boston Marathon finish line. She was there to cheer on her mom Renee, who was running that day with her longtime team. The event turned traumatic for Morgan when the race was disrupted by the Boston Marathon bombing, an act of domestic terrorism that killed three people and injured hundreds of others. “It was a long time before [Morgan] was comfortable in crowds again or could even talk about the bombing,” Renee says, “the experience was very difficult for her.” This April, 10 years after the bombing, Morgan will...


February 2, 2023

Posted at 08:37h in DEI, News, Parents by

On Friday, February 10, 2023, Thetford Academy’s Student Alliance for Racial Justice (SARJ) student group will host a premiere of the PBS film "Driving While Black." "Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences – at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming – of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond – "Driving While Black" explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the African American experience for hundreds of years – told...

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