Entries by Lou

Believe… in the Team!

Mount Prospect Academy Students and Faculty put their best foot forward in last week’s community football game. The mixed teams of students and faculty held their Fall Flag Football Tournament in classic New Hampshire style on semi-wet but cool autumn day to the cheers of onlookers. Four teams competed for more than 3 hours for […]

Summer Vibes

The summertime school semesters came to a close in celebratory fashion at MPA’s Squamscott River Academy in Hampton, N.H., MPA’s Plymouth Academic School, and MPA’s Karen Langley Learning Center also in Plymouth, N.H. Mount Prospect Academy’s academic schedule operates using multiple semesters throughout a year as opposed to a traditional two-semester design.  As expected, the […]

Off to the Races

Last month seven Mount Prospect Students from Ashuelot Valley Academy in Keene applied their classroom instruction in an innovative and enjoyable way. The challenge over a three (3) week instructional period was to successfully construct a solar car and be able to enter the car in a performance race. It was a chance for students […]

MPA Faculty Olympics

The Mount Prospect Academy Self-Care Committee consists of Megan Marra (Plymouth MC), Ashley Ackert (Plymouth PC), Jennifer Michaud (Rumney MC), Rachel Umberger (Plymouth Rumney ED), and Emily Boyd (Plymouth PC). This year’s Summer Event took place at Smith Bridge Field with the organizational assistance of Mike Adamkowski of Upper Valley Stewardship Center. The goal of […]

Horses as Helpers

This summer, six Mount Prospect Academy students from the Ashuelot Valley Academy School (AVA) in Keene, NH participated in an equine program at Cooper’s Crossroad Elm Farm. The program, G.L.O.W.E. (Growing, Learning, and Overcoming With Equines) was designed to assist students to gain a better understanding of horses, general horse care, and offered them the opportunity […]

Along the Pond: Disconnecting and Reconnecting

With open skies, in a uniquely safe location with a welcoming calm pond lying before them, a small group of MPA students and Faculty explored the possibilities and created a space of their own during a three day overnight stay in Maine. The therapeutic experience was designed to blend outdoor recreational activities and learning – […]

Making the Mark

On Friday, July 19th, 2024, MPA Faculty and Administration hosted an Awards Ceremony to celebrate students who made the 4th Quarter Honor Roll and High Honors. More than a dozen MPA Plymouth Cohort students were acknowledged for their commitment to their academics and their outstanding effort. The students represented were from a range of grade […]

A Natural Community

Throughout the spring semester, MPA Blake Cohort students utilized birds as a model to study climate change and its impacts. Before diving further into avian biology and the unique characteristics that make birds so cool and diverse, MPA students started by learning the basics of birding and bird species ID.  Additionally, as a service-learning project, […]

The Air of Success

From the multiple Mount Prospect Academy programs throughout New Hampshire, this year’s graduates totaled seventeen (17). As a group they are diversified by age, gender, ability, personality, hopes, desires, and dreams. Yet together they are united by maturity and determination, confidence, and adaptability. They arrived together on these graduation days having emerged from personal hardships, […]

Prom Day

The “Prom Day” is a tradition started at Squamscott River Academy in 2021. Since then, the occasion has blossomed into the biggest annual event of the school year.  This year, for our small school of 22 girls, May’s Prom Day ensured that our students could relax and enjoy a normative American high school tradition that […]