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Sixth-grade students recently created an observational oil pastel that focused on marine life. Using their iPads for reference, they made preliminary sketches of both salt and freshwater fish and their habitats. They composed a contour line drawing, combining their chosen...
At today's Middle School assembly, Bukowski-Thall siblings Rosey (Grade 6), Nathan (Grade 8), and Henry (Grade 10)—accompanied by music instructor, Mike Dank— rocked out in Franklin Theater. The set list included "Hallelujah," "Let It Be," and "Day Tripper."
It starts in Middle School. “Students who had been highly imaginative writers just stop writing,” says English teacher Sarah Macdonald. “They think they have a sense of what’s good and what’s not. They decide that ‘they’re not writers’ and their...
The crowd shuffled into the gym. A heightened sense of anticipation was in the air. K-1 students took their usual spot on the faculty bench while sixth-and-seventh-grade fans began waving signs in support of their favorite players. At stake: bragging...
As Ed Sheeran’s “Touch and Go” plays from my desktop, my feet tapping to its rhythms, I click on the last essay to review from one of my seventh-grade English students. It’s a weekend morning, and Hurd House is quiet,...
Waynflete's Blake Keogh and Beth Swartz of the White Mountain Avalanche Education Foundation led an avalanche awareness course for teenagers over February break. Waynflete students Keegan (seventh grade) and Alex (eighth grade) took part. The course was offered in partnership with Synnott Mountain...
Today in French 7 and 8 we celebrated Vendredi Gras, our slightly-late Mardi Gras fête that is the culminating event of a week of hard work. Students researched the history and practice of Mardi Gras and French and Cajun history...
Saturday is Random Acts of Kindness Day! To encourage participation, The Kindness Project (a Middle School activity group with eight students) prepared bags of treats for each homeroom, which they delivered at the beginning of advising lunch today. The bags contained two...
From McKinsey & Company: For an 18-year-old today, figuring out what kind of education and skills to acquire is an increasingly difficult undertaking. Machines are already conducting data mining for lawyers and writing basic press releases and news stories. In coming...
Chinese New Year—or Spring Festival—is China's most important holiday. We spend a good amount of time studying the traditions of this holiday in our middle school Chinese classes. This year, the Chinese New Year falls on Friday, February 16. This...
Waynflete's co-ed sixth-grade basketball team competed in the Boys and Girls Club Boys League this winter. Coached by Technology Director Page Lennig and Waynflete parent Bill Frappier, the group began practicing together in November and finished up their season this...
Senior Lydia Giguere and junior Henry Spritz both have work on display through February 10 at Maine College of Art as part of the 2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. They received the two highest honors, a silver and a gold key, respectively. (more…)
Click here to read an interesting article by Devorah Heitner, founder of "Raising Digital Natives," that suggests guidelines for social media use and examines the balance between screen and technology-free time. (Bonus link: Heitner's TED talk "The Challenges of Raising a...
Dance Director Susan Nelson recently offered an Ethiopian Dance Workshop to students in honor of Waynflete's upcoming Lower School Global Focus Week on Ethiopia. From Elicia Niemiec (Physical Education): Susan Nelson held an Ethiopian dance workshop for students yesterday. I stopped by...
Waynflete's Diversity and Equity Committee (DEC) recently invited Middle and Upper School students to submit an application for the fourth annual Spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. Award. Interested students were asked to submit an essay in response to one...
These animal paintings were inspired by the design concepts of native Australian paintings. These paintings traditionally depicted the stylized interior and exterior of an animal, had closed shapes of color, and intricate dot patterning. Our students began by sketching a...
Seventh-grade math classes had a “play day!” In an earlier assignment, students used the Scratch programming language to code mazes. Today was the day to play each other's mazes and provide feedback—all while enjoying cookies, clementines, and hot chocolate! The...
Our entire seventh grade spent advising period on Friday making winter cards for their friends at Head Start, whom they will visit on Tuesday. Our relationship with the Greater Portland area Head Start Program has emerged over the past twenty...
At our assembly on Wednesday, a group of students and teachers read quotes inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King’s call for social justice. Click here to view a few selected quotes.
Saturnalia was an ancient Roman holiday that occurred during the winter solstice. It celebrated the return of Saturn, god of the harvest. The streets of Rome would be filled with greetings of "Bona Saturnalia.” Gifts were exchanged, and much feasting...
