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Dear TA Families, Shakespeare's famous line - 'All the world's a stage' - comes to mind this week, as students stepped into the limelight in a variety of venues to share their learning and creativity with community audiences. Senior Roundtables BeginAndy MacNeil '26 kicked off the spring season of seniors taking the stage to present their portfolios today. Andy volunteered to do his senior roundtable with a bigger audience than most students, by presenting in front of the entire TA faculty during inservice. What a courageous move - and a generous offer to support teacher learning. Thank you, Andy! The rest of...


The Thetford Academy Board of Trustees plays an important governance leadership role by setting policy, providing strategic direction, and ensuring accountability to the Academy’s mission. The group is made up of up to 21 community volunteers who bring a variety of areas of professional expertise and TA stakeholder representation to the table. The newest cohort of trustees, who started their terms in July 2025, include Peter Jenkinson of Post Mills, VT; and two student representatives, Sam Parkman '26, of Chelsea, VT and Madeline Piecuch '28, of Thetford, VT. Peter Jenkinson: Peter and his family live in Post Mills, Vermont. With a toddler...


On March 12, 2026, TA's varsity boys basketball team headed to the Barre Auditorium to take on a familiar rival - the Hazen Wildcats - in the Division III semifinal. The Panthers were making a run for their third consecutive state championship, having defeated Hazen the last two title games.  The #6 seed Panthers handily prevailed over Woodstock in the quarterfinals, but the number #2 seed Hazen came to the Aud ready to flip the script. After an exciting first quarter of neck in neck scoring from both teams, the Panthers fell behind by nine in the second quarter. Despite cutting...


Quarter 3 ProgressWith the official start of spring this weekend, it's a good time to take stock of where we are in the academic calendar. There are two weeks remaining in the 3rd quarter, which wraps up on April 3. I encourage students and families to check in together about performance in classes and review assignments and grades in Alma - thetfordacademy.getalma.com. Most classes are taught and assessed on a semester basis, so April 3 is an important halfway point between January and June to gauge learning progress.  Quarter 3 is also a time when we do state testing. I want to...


On Saturday, three Thetford Academy students showcased their research at the annual Vermont STEM Fair, hosted at Norwich University. The fair is "an inquiry-based poster presentation competition open to all middle and high school level students in the state of Vermont," and is judged by science and engineering professionals.  Elijah Renner '26, who has competed in the fair for the last three years, calls the event his "favorite day of the year." This year, he presented his project titled "Pathformer," a system that aims to address errors in manual billing of pathology reports. The VT STEM Fair, he says, is an...


Thetford Academy will host the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) NH for the Connect Suicide Prevention Training on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 4 p.m. in the school library. The training, offered with support from ALL Together Coalition and the Greater Sullivan County Public Health Network, is designed to equip participants with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to prevent suicide and support healing after a loss. This free training is geared toward adults and open to the public. The NAMI NH Connect Suicide Prevention Training is based on the Social-Ecological Model (SEM), which approaches suicide within the context of...

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