Sports Recap, Week of May 8:  ULTIMATE SUCCESS

The Varsity Ultimate team had a great showing at Wednesday’s RVAL tournament, winning three games and losing one. As a result of the strong play from all team members, the team finished third out of sixteen teams in the league! The JV team also persevered through the long afternoon of four games, and despite losing […]

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Community Service Day

On Tuesday, 5/2, Valley Gives Day in our region, Academy students, faculty and staff members gave a full day of service to our neighbors from Brattleboro to Charlemont, and from Greenfield to Shelburne Falls. Academy teams planted at the I.N.S.P.i.R.E. School for Autism in Brattleboro (founded by the family of Mark Vranos ’16), helped clear […]

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Sports Recap, Week of April 28

The JV Ultimate team lost to Four Rivers middle school team 15-3 on Tuesday. Patrick O scored twice and Will D scored once, while Will, Saraphina F, and Tucker B had assists. Overall, the team played well against a very challenging young team.   On Tuesday, the middle school Ultimate team lost to Bement 15-6. […]

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Classroom Close-Up

Mr. Miller’s 9th grade Biology class experimented with leaf discs in lab this week.These experiments were done to study photosynthesis rates under different conditions. Innovative use of cell phones was a feature!

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Sports Recap, Week of April 21

The Academy-Mohawk Girls’ Lacrosse team had their first win of the season on  Wednesday, 12-6 over Amherst Middle School. Sarah H had eight saves in goal and the team was lead offensively by her sister Lizzie who scored a career high seven goals! Riley H and Esme M-R each scored two goals, while Sunta C scored […]

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Classroom Close-Up

9th grade students embarked on a many month cross-curricular project in Humanities and Art, in which they studied Greek vases (in imagery and in person at the MFA in Boston), and then designed, built, decorated and glazed their own. Students took inspiration from the ancient Greeks not just in the forms of their pieces, but […]

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Classroom Close-Up

Spanish V students Henry W-W and Ben S-G try their hands at using “bolas,” a traditional weapon used by gauchos in Argentina.

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Sports recap, Week of April 10

he Varsity Ultimate team had a great week with three victories. On Monday, the team defeated Eagle Hill, 15-10 led by Sam Z-A’s five points and one assist. The well-balanced attack from the Aardvarks resulted in eleven different players scoring points or earning assists. Ben S-G and H W-W helped the team’s strong zone defensive […]

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