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February 17, 2022

Posted at 14:58h in Academics, Arts, News, Parents by

Over the last thirteen years, Thetford Academy's Poetry Out Loud competition has become TA tradition. Poetry Out Loud is a recitation contest created by the National Endowment of the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, and administered with the State Arts Agencies of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. TA's event on Wednesday featured six student contestants: Finn Liland '24, Gretta Koppers '22, Grace Solsaa '24, Annie Hesser '24, Sebastian LaBonte-Flye '24, and Mary Bosco '24. Sophomore Leo Downey started off the program reading a poem "for calibration," and English teacher Emily Silver...


February 15, 2022

Posted at 17:24h in Alumni News, Alumni Profile, News by

Photo of "Baby Bites" production provided by Molly Longwell. After graduating from TA in 2011, Molly Longwell was excited to “bust out of Vermont” and dive headlong into urban life. She attended American University in the heart of D.C. before heading to Boston and, in 2017, finding her home in NYC. This spring, Molly will return to Thetford to produce her second short film “Bad Mother” (the first was “Baby Bites,” written by Molly and directed by Nabil Elbehri in 2019), a story that features the small town life and vast Vermont landscapes she left behind. “Bad Mother” is, on its...


February 15, 2022

Posted at 13:23h in Academics, News, Outdoor Education, Parents by

TA's Thetford Outdoor Program (TOP) is excited to announce an expanded slate of summer leadership opportunities in 2022. This year, in addition to the program's annual Connecticut River canoe trips, Appalachian Trail backpacking trip, and the TA trail crew, TOP is planning an advanced canoe trip in Canada and new opportunities in the school garden. The advanced canoe trip to La Verendrye Park in Quebec will be limited to former participants of TOP’s Summer Wilderness Leadership Program who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and camping skills. In La Verendrye Park's extensive system of lakes, students on the trip will have a...


February 15, 2022

Posted at 10:13h in Athletics, News, Parents by

Header photo courtesy of Kelly Smith With both Panthers basketball teams playing packed schedules over the week, we've seen a lot of excitement on the court. The girls are back with a full roster and are regaining ground as they prepare for post-season. Starting with a home court win v. Montpelier last Tuesday (72-37), they have been on a roll. From the Valley News round-up, "Whitney Lewis helped set the tone on both ends with 13 points and 13 rebounds for Thetford. Charlize Brown added 12 points along with four assists and four steals. Madi Mousley had 10 points and dished...


February 15, 2022

Posted at 08:32h in Academics, Counseling, News by

At our most recent community day, students in Kathy Hooke’s advisory worked intently and animatedly on their transferable skills portfolios. Glancing over their shoulders, I saw home pages depicting anime artwork, family pictures, and athletic action shots, and lively “Who am I?” introductions where students talked about themselves and their interests. The 8th graders uploaded evidence of their learning, both in and out of school, including artifacts such as math problem sets, French quizzes, Design Tech projects, and plays they wrote just for fun. Their work was an impressive reflection of their personalities, learning, and accomplishments. Throughout the year, students at...


February 12, 2022

Posted at 16:44h in Alumni News, Alumni Profile, News by

If you knew Jonathan Leitschuh ‘12 when he was a student at TA, you know that his tenacity is the reason we have a robotics program today. His interest in computer science, ignited by a robotics unit in Marc Chabot’s Physics and Engineering course, drove him to Marc’s door–what would it take to build a robotics team at TA? Together, before and after school, on weekends and whenever they could grab the time, Marc and Jonathan built TA team 4886. Owen Marshall ‘13, Matt Borst ‘15, and David Henson ‘14, joined the effort. Today, 4886 is a thriving VEX Robotics team...

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