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4-5 students recently embarked on feats of creative engineering. After a thorough study of simple machines, students examined everyday problems in their lives, formulated solutions, and crafted inventions. With testing, troubleshooting, and peer feedback, their projects went through many iterations and...
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…)
Windows from Germany, a hidden tunnel, mezzanine views, and new exercise rooms...
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...
Waynflete's fifth-and-seventh-grade girls attended the "Girls Rock! Conference" sponsored by Hardy Girls Healthy Women. Hosted at the Maine Girls Academy, students participated in workshops created and lead by high schoolers on the Girls Advisory Board. Workshops included "Let Friendships Sail,"...
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.
Mary Lou Sprague, Class of '46, was on campus for a Lower School construction site tour with supervisor Millard Nadeau. (more…)
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...
Different brain systems come online at different times. During the early teen years, the social-emotional circuitry of the limbic system becomes amplified, and teens suddenly feel their own feelings more intensely, are more sensitive to others, and have “higher highs...
Thursday morning recess is over, and students in Waynflete’s multiage grades 2-3 program return to their home stations. Teachers begin to move tables together to accommodate the 20 or more children who—lunch bags in hand—are beginning to assemble. Students begin...
