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BACON ACADEMY CORE VALUES & BELIEFS


With its proud history and rich traditions, Bacon Academy promotes a family-like partnership of students, staff, parents, and community.


 

Bacon 10 List

  1. Students effectively communicate (by verbal, non-verbal, written and visual means) independently and collaboratively according to their audience and purpose.
  2. Students collaborate by being active participants in the school and within the community.
  3. Students contribute to their community through participation in service learning.
  4. Students explore, choose, and engage in new and diverse experiences.
  5. Students recognize and examine perspectives of global themes
  6. Students actively engage in the inquiry process in order to articulate individualized educational and post-secondary goals.
  7. Students solve problems using academic, technical, social, and creative skills.
  8. Students analyze and evaluate sources in order to synthesize information and reach relevant conclusions.
  9. Students take a position and substantiate claims using a variety of sources.
  10. Students use technology ethically and responsibly to complete tasks and achieve goals

Because we value

  • Respect
  • Responsibility
  • Achievement
  • Safety
  • Compassion

We have a responsibility to

  • Create a cohesive and nurturing environment
  • Connect, involve, and engage in learning
  • Collaborate and communicate effectively
  • Respect diversity and encourage individual goals
  • Provide a rigorous and authentic educational experience
  • Foster citizenship and community partnerships

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June 4, 2025

Website transition

Good Afternoon, Beginning at 4 pm today, Apex Technologies and I will begin the process of redirecting the www.colchesterct.org website name to a NEW SmartSite. This process can take approximately 9. . .

June 3, 2025

Yearbooks

YEARBOOKS - Yearbooks can still be purchased for $80 (CASH ONLY). They are distributed at all lunches on Wednesday and Thursday. Class of 2026 - Information is available for their Senior Portra. . .

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History of Bacon Academy

Black and white photograph of Bacon Academy in 1896

Photograph: Bacon Academy from an 1896 article in Connecticut Magazine 

 

In 1800 a prominent Colchester farmer, Pierpont Bacon, died and left an endowment of thirty-five thousand dollars. The endowment was to the inhabitants of the First Society of Colchester for the purpose of supporting and maintaining a school "... for the instruction of Youth in Reading and writing English, in Arithmetic, Mathematics, and the Languages, or such other branches of Learning".

This established the academy that bears his name. Bacon Academy's doors opened to the children of Colchester on the first of November 1803 and from that point forward, has prepared many young men and women for the life that lay ahead. (Sourced from “Bacon Academy” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

 

Please enjoy this NBC30 news feature that aired April 18, 2024, highlighting our proud history of Bacon Academy!

 

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