Sports Recap, Week of September 4
Last Thursday (9/6), The Academy’s JV coed soccer team lost a close away game to Four Rivers by a score of 4-3, playing from behind for the entire contest. Atticus R had two goals (one of them assisted by Anna P-C) and Charlie P scored once. Emmy P-C …
Read more »Team Naming and Rafting – First Friday Traditions at The Academy
Keeping with tradition, on our first Friday of the school year, students completed the process of choosing team name themes for the year, in a town meeting format. Categories were Cardi B lyrics, Santa’s rejected reindeer, and movie names with agricult …
Read more »Classroom Close Up: Environmental Science
Mr. Miller’s Environmental Science students have been discussing the local food movement. They harvested a crop of potatoes from our garden, planted by last year’s class, to be used in our kitchen as a way to reduce our school’s carbon footprint and en …
Read more »Finding your voice and speaking your mind, taken to a new level
Kudos to rising 9th grader Juliet C on being published by the Washington Post today with an op-ed piece entitled “The lonely world between the hearing and the Deaf”.
Read more »Thanks to Our Community for a Successful Annual Fund Year!
We did it – and then some! Thanks to the generosity of over 350 donors – alumni/ae, families, and friends of The Academy – we raised a total of $281,738 in 2017-2018, far exceeding our goal of $250,000!!
Read more »Hilltown Youth Theatre Summer Workshop
Hilltown Youth Theatre Summer Workshop has moved! The program is still on for this summer, but is now operating at Hawlemont Regional Elementary School and Berkshire East. To register, or for more information, visit hilltownyouth.org or call (413) 387- …
Read more »Classroom Close-Up: The Practice of Painting
In The Practice of Painting class Sophia C refines her masterpiece with Mr. Green.
Read more »Classroom Close-Up: 7th Grade Art
The 7th grade art classes made mixed media monster sculptures.
Read more »Classroom Close-Up: Environmental Science
Students in the Environmental Science class have been working in the school garden periodically this year. On their final day of planting and weeding in the hot sun they planted carrots, beets, fennel, tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, butternut squash, cu …
Read more »Enabling the Future
Earlier this year, Junior Liam N brought to our attention an organization called Enabling the Future, dedicated to pairing 3D printers with people in need of a prosthesis. Pictured here is the first successful output of a prosthesis called Raptor Reloa …
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