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October 21, 2024

Posted at 08:35h in Athletics, News, Student Life by

On a bluebird day, at the league championship this past Friday in Bellows Falls, the TA cross country team accorded itself impressively well. Eighth grader Peter Horan beat 41 other runners to emerge victorious in a time of 10:44 in the middle school boys' race. While the Thetford boys did not have enough runners to score as a team, it was a strong showing by Peter against a strong field.  On the girls' side, eighth graders Emmeline Saint-Fleur and Meredith Sloop finished fourth and sixth respectively to lead the girls' team to a league championship! Also scoring for Thetford were Molly Cushman,...


October 18, 2024

Posted at 16:55h in Academics, Head of School, Parents by

Dear TA Families, Quarter 1 Homestretch Next Friday, October 25, is the last day of 1st quarter. This is an important time for students to take stock of their progress in their classes thus far, revise work they want to improve upon, and prepare for final assessments and assignments due next week. In a recent weekly email (Sept. 27), I encouraged families to review grades in Alma together, and I want to circle back with that encouragement again. The gradebook is rich with information, listing assignments, due dates, grades and performance levels. There are symbols we use in all classes that can provide guidance, such as...


October 17, 2024

Posted at 10:40h in Uncategorized by

Thetford Academy's half-day environmental studies and outdoor education course attracts students who want to take their learning beyond the classroom. The course, which meets for two full blocks each afternoon, is taught almost entirely outdoors. Utilizing TA's 295-acre campus and the adjacent Thetford Hill State Forest, students learn by doing - and by reading and writing about the natural world. Rachel Carson, one of the environmentalist movement's most influential writers, wrote her book "A Sense of Wonder" more than three decades ago. Today, Carson's words still resonate: "Wonder springs from the simplicity to admire what it discovers, whether the beautiful, the...


October 14, 2024

Posted at 09:54h in Academics, News, Parents, Student Life by

On Saturday, Nov. 2, for the first time in over ten years, Thetford Academy will host a robotics competition! About 30 VEX robot teams from VT and NH will converge on Anderson Hall at TA to play this year's game, "High Stakes." TA's team 4886, consisting of about 18 students in grades 7-11, will be competing with the six robots they have been building for the past two months. Several 4886 alumni will also be returning to help celebrate the occasion. It's an all-day event featuring about seventy 2-minute bouts, with an exciting single-elimination series to crown the champions beginning at...


October 12, 2024

Posted at 09:06h in Counseling, Head of School, News, Parents, Student Life by

Dear TA Families, My email this week features some of the many opportunities we offer for our middle school and high school students. We want to encourage them to make the most of their time here at TA and also support their exploration of what lies ahead.  Clubs, Office Hours & Power Hour Our daily schedule at TA includes a midday lunch/activity period we call 'power hour.' On Wednesdays and Thursdays, power hour is dedicated to office hours and clubs, and students have a lot of choices about how they spend their time. Students sign up each week in Alma for their preferred activities -...


October 10, 2024

Posted at 12:09h in Counseling, Parents by

On Monday, October 21st from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the library, Thetford Academy's Counseling Office will host a CSS profile workshop. The CSS profile is an online application used and required by a number of colleges and scholarship programs to award non-federal institutional aid. It is an important - and sometimes cumbersome - piece of the financial aid puzzle, The Counseling Office will be joined by Tyler Bergmeier, Senior Assistant Director of Financial Aid at Dartmouth College, who will share his expertise and help TA families negotiate and complete the financial aid form. With college's early action and early decision...

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