Sign up for April 5-6 Conferences
March 3, 4, 9 and 10 - Drama Performances. Click here for tickets.
March 12 - 23 - Spring Break
March 26 - Spring sports begin. Late buses resume.

Students and Parents hard at work building sets for Shakespeare in Hollywood.

The Academy is a proud signatory to this letter to state and congressional representatives and the president, along with 11 other small, independent schools in our region. In the aftermath of yet another school shooting, student safety and well being is foremost in our minds and we are compelled to register our concern that our leaders take a moral stand on the matter of stricter gun laws.

Yesterday, The Academy community observed Holi, a Hindu festival which celebrates "the vibrancy of spring, fertility, love and the triumph of good over evil". 

The faculty basketball team once again finished its season in undefeated fashion. In its first and last game of the season, the faculty basketball triumphantly defeated the student basketball teams 69-61 on Thursday!! Special thanks to Steve ZA for reffing the game and Coaches BZ, Fagan, and Spooner for a great season.

The Academy strives to give students opportunities to reflect on their learning and progress in school. While they are supported by a team of peers and adults, it is ultimately the students that are responsible for setting goals for themselves, tracking their progress, and gathering and responding to feedback. Twice a year, at the end of the first and third quarter, students are responsible for reflecting on their learning and progress toward their goals through facilitating conferences in each discipline that include their parents or guardians, and teacher. These conferences will put students in a leadership role, rather than in a typical conference role of bystander, as they lead the discussion about their successes and areas for growth while responding to questions and feedback from the adult participants in the conversation.

We ask everyone to please sign up for a conference slot as soon as possible. If you have multiple children at the school, you may sign up for multiple slots (if you wish). We will then create a schedule for when you are here so that you have 15-minute sessions with each individual teacher during your conference period. We will do our best to stick to the agreed-upon schedule, but unforeseen circumstances sometimes require that people must remain a few minutes after their scheduled end time in order to meet.

Thank you. We look forward to seeing you all in person. Please remember that there is no school for students on Thursday afternoon (4/5) or all-day Friday (4/6).

Seventh graders pose with their own renditions of Impressionist masterpieces as part of their research on French Impressionism in Intro to French. They also took a field trip to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to enjoy the original impressionist works in the collection there.  

Invitations will be going out before Spring Break for our April 13 all-day visit day for current grandparents and other special adult friends of our students. If we don't have the names and contact information for your child's invitees, please send that information to Martha Tirk.

Approximately 50 parents, students, family members and one Headmaster took advantage of the Hibernation break out last Saturday at the Shelburne Falls Bowling Alley (SFBA), sponsored by the APC.  New acquaintances were made, bowling techniques refined, and a hope for another such gathering expressed. Thanks to SFBA for giving us a half price discount and opening up early so we could have the alleys to ourselves.

Be sure to visit the refreshment table in the Common Room during the Intermission of the much anticipated drama production.

Mr. White was so happy on Tuesday, to find the first crocus blossoms of 2018!