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The Upper School Music Concert will take place on Thursday, January 21, from 7:00 - 9:00 in Franklin Theater. It will feature the Upper School Chorus, Jazz Bands, and Chamber Group. Chamber Ensembles Flute Quartet in D Major, K.285 by...
On Thursday October 1st, after a day of classes and right before a soccer game, Steve Kautz and I sat across from Jan Robinson, the owner of EcoHome. Her visit came about as a part of the independent study I...
To help us explore the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement he lead, Waynflete’s racial awareness group, RAaW, has invited Arlie Schardt - a longtime journalist and public interest advocate and the grandfather of...
On a Thursday in November, the Waynflete Upper School celebrated its annual Fall Festival. From eleven o’clock until noon, students gathered at Waynhenge, where an obstacle course, cider, apple crisp, and fresh popcorn had been prepared by student government members. Students...
I stood in Eden. The warm Bahamian sun browned my shoulders. The turquoise waves lapped at my toes buried in the pink sand. Shorebirds flitted around me. I stepped backwards and within seconds the ocean pooled into my footprints. Yet,...
On Tuesday, January 5, Ben Millspaugh won Waynflete’s 2016 Poetry Out Loud competition. Maya Schair-Rigoletti was the runner-up. Ben will represent Waynflete at the regional finals on February 10 at City Hall Theater in Biddeford. For those of you unfamiliar...
The Upper School will honor the spirit of Dr. King by exploring his legacy and that of the civil rights movement he led in a variety of ways during the second semester. Waynflete's Diversity and Equity Faculty Committee has invited students to...
Shuhao Liu is a new sophomore at Waynflete. He came from China through a program working with students who want to attend school in a different country. He intends to graduate from Waynflete in 2018. USNOW staffers Kiera Macwhinnie and Chase Warner...
The students below are among a select group of musicians chosen by audition to participate in the prestigious All-State Music Festival at the University of Maine at Orono on May 19, 20, and 21, 2016. See the links below for...
Join students and educators from schools across New England for a conference designed to spark meaningful conversations about identity, diversity, and community. NEYIS kicks off on Friday evening at the Portland Public Library with a poetry, music, and theater performance by NYC-based Dialogue...
During the week of exams (Monday, December 14 - Friday, December 18), students are only required to be in school during their exam periods. They may be on campus when they do not have exams if they choose. Please make...
This year's Ethical Leadership and Service group is comprised of 19 students from all grades and is co-led by Julia Hansen '18 and Nick Jenkins '18. To maximize both their learning and impact, ELS members decided to focus their efforts...
Hello Everyone! As many of you probably know, Waynflete has an amazing partnership with Students Shoulder to Shoulder and they have just announced their courses and course dates for the summer of 2016! Here is a link to the SStS website....
This fall’s Upper School production of Legally Blonde celebrated and deepened the natural intersection of education and community at Waynflete. Staging a musical always creates a myriad of choices, and this year, a particularly difficult one arose at nearly the...
During the week before Thanksgiving break, 9th graders completed the first round of the Poetry Out Loud program classroom competition. Poetry Out Loud is a nationwide competition that celebrates poetry in its original form: recitation. Students across the country read...
This past week the Waynflete Dream Factory activity sent 17 members to help make gingerbread houses as raffle items for the annual Haven’s candy fundraiser. This fundraiser is put together by all of the Southern Maine Dream Factory chapters each...
Tuesday, December 1 10:55 - Announcement Assembly Thursday, December 3 11:00 - Lunch 11:25 - 12:00 - No Assembly - Friday activities will meet during this time Friday, December 4 10:55-11:30 - Lunch 11:35-12:00 - Special assembly - Speaker -...
The Forecaster article linked here.
The following write up appeared in the Preble Street Resource Center Fall Newsletter: Meet Julia Hansen (standing center), a sophomore at Waynflete High School who started volunteering at the Resource Center Soup Kitchen with her mom, Suzanne Fox, a little over a year...
