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After a weekend of pure energy from the Summit, the vibe this past Monday around school was a mix of the usual exhaustion with a hint of something else—something rooted in perspective. The main goal of this year’s Summit was...
The Waynflete Writers’ Guild has been around for a number of years as a place for students to meet, have fun, and share their writings. This year’s guild has taken on the ambitious goal of publishing student written and visual...
On March 23, I was honored to receive the Rotary Youth Service Award from the Portland Rotary Club. I was instructed to be at the Holiday Inn by the Bay with my parents at 12:00pm. I did not know what...
This is a guest post by Waynflete parent ('20, '22, and '25) Jonathan R. Werner. Jonathan is a library and instructional technology specialist at Cape Elizabeth Middle School. Let me be clear. I am no technophobe. In fact, I spend my days surrounded by...
The lights dimmed on the theater stage as the actors from The Defamation Play entered and took their places on the set. As I sat amongst the students of the Upper School, I felt the anticipation in the room. We...
Last night three Waynflete students participated in the Lion's Club Speak Out competition against Cheverus at USM. For the third year in a row Waynflete won first prize! (more…)
Congratulations to Luna Soley ’18, winner of a 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing National Medal! Luna was recognized with silver medals for her entries in the “personal essay and memoir” and “memoir poetry” categories. Creative professionals reviewed nearly 350,000 works...
Congratulations to Shuhao Liu ’18, Molly McNutt ’18, Tabarak Al Musawi ’19, Carter Dexter ’19, Adelaide Lyall ’19, Abby Aleshire ’20, Thys Geldenhuys ’20, Haoming Ma ’20, Selina He ’21, and John Moon-Black ’21 on for their third place finish...
The energy for this show is fantastic, and I certainly have grown to love this play tremendously from when I first read it. The ensemble plays a very important role in setting the stage for wherever the Antrobuses find themselves...
Paul Okot ’07 visited recently with students in Sarah Macdonald’s “Literature of Maine” English class. The class is reading the novel The Good Braider by Terry Farish about a teen who leaves Sudan with her family and eventually settles in...
Congrats to the students who participated in this year's Science Olympiad. Upper School placed first and third out of 16 teams. Middle School placed second out of four teams. (more…)
Congratulations to Lydia Giguere and Diraige Dahia, named by The Forecaster as Waynflete's winter athletes of the year! Read the full story.
Students in Cathy Douglas’s and Lisa Kramer’s Calculus Accelerated classes are in the thick of a unit on the disk method and volumes by rotation. In today’s "opener" (an exercise used to get the math brain engaged), students were asked...
For most of us, customizing a car might mean upgraded wheels or a new stereo. Not for Ben Levite. For his Senior Project at Waynflete, the 17-year-old imported the front end of a Honda Civic from Japan, then used the...
Waynflete Science Department Chair Wendy Curtis is always on the hunt for ways to connect her students to research opportunities. Last year, she discovered ExMASS (The Exploration of the Moon and Asteroids by Secondary Students), a yearlong research program that...
Each "What Matters Most?" interview tries to capture an aspect of a student’s pursuits or interests that might not be visible in their everyday Waynflete experience. This week, I caught up with Will Armstrong who has dedicated countless hours backstage...
Waynflete is pleased to announce the hiring of Emily Birchby as our new Associate Director of College Counseling. Emily brings with her nine years of experience in selective college admissions having served as an Associate Dean of Admissions at her alma mater, Bowdoin College....
Congratulations to the Upper School Jazz Combo for traveling to Newport, Maine, and playing its way to the top of Combo Division 3 at the Maine Music Educators Association State Instrumental Jazz Festival! (more…)
The Waynflete Environmental Action Group (WEAG) is a student-led activity that raises awareness about environmental issues in our community. On Wednesday, March 21, WEAG will present a screening of Before the Flood. The film follows Leonardo DiCaprio as he examines...
Congratulations to Riley Mayes '18 who was chosen to receive a 2018 Girls Rock! award. Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Moxie Maine Magazine, The Maine Girls’ Academy, and National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman joined together for a night of celebrating...
