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Students in Waynflete’s 4–5 program are currently engaged in a “Farms to Foods” study. Their work focuses on aquaculture, vermiculture, botany, and food systems, along with related climate impacts. Last week, a group of 59 students visited Merritt Island Oyster...
Read Head of School Geoff Wagg's Convocation remarks below, or watch a video of the event. Welcome to our opening Convocation for the 2021-2022 school year. I would like to begin with acknowledging that we are gathered today on the...
The Perspective Project—an Upper School student-led organization formed to bring new perspectives to the Waynflete campus—recently welcomed its first guest speaker of the season. James French is the inaugural chair of the Montpelier Descendants Committee, an organization formed by the...
Participating in local service trips for Outdoor Experience (OE) is an annual opportunity that many Upper School students select, but this year our usual community partners weren’t able to schedule groups. With that obstacle in mind, OE Director Nikki Dresser...
Congratulations to Patrick Shaw '21, who made it to the quarterfinals (top 8) at this year's Super Ball, the global freestyle soccer skills competition. Watch the action: Top 32 battle (vs. Bas) Top 15 battle (vs. Marco) Quarterfinals battle (vs....
After missing the spring 2020 season due to COVID-19, Waynflete teams took full advantage of a return to sports in 2021. All our MPA teams won at least one postseason contest and Waynflete track athletes impressed on the track. (more…)
Waynflete's 123rd Commencement was held the afternoon of Thursday, June 10 at Thompson's Point—a beautiful early summer day accompanied by the cooling breeze that we've come to appreciate about this venue! View/download Commencement photos Photos can be downloaded from SmugMug...
Waynflete’s Class of 2021 is a group of accomplished young adults with an impressive list of colleges and universities that they will be attending! Below is the list of where our 73 graduates will/may matriculate this fall. Some students may...
This spring, faculty members in the Lower School’s 2-3 program added an environmental unit to their yearlong maritime study, with a focus on marine debris. Teachers reached out to staff at the Rozalia Project, an organization that is committed to...
On behalf of the Upper School faculty and administration, it is my pleasure to announce the 2021 recipients of departmental awards, inductees into the Cum Laude Society, and recipients of other awards (descriptions of the awards are linked here): (more…)
By Lowell Libby (Upper School Director) There is little doubt that extreme political division in America is paralyzing the nation’s ability to meet the many challenges we face and has left our democracy floundering. When encountering people with different viewpoints...
For the past year, as part of the Exploration of the Moon and Asteroids by Secondary Students (ExMASS) initiative run by the Lunar Planetary Institute, five Upper School students have been conducting a research project of their own design, in...
2-3 students recently made beautiful clay medallions for 4-5 students as a service project. Student names are on inscribed on one side—shoe tread impressions are on the other.
Longtime visual arts teacher Judy Novey discusses a project that started with "super humble little stamps" and kept multiplying, both literally and educationally... The hybrid learning environment presented a challenge: how could I teach a printmaking class when kids weren't...
Having spent their entire year “attending” school during a pandemic, our senior class is closing in on their final weeks at school, preparing to begin the next stage of their lives equipped with the values of optimism, curiosity, responsibility, and...
Last Saturday was a record-breaking day: Cathie Connors become the first coach of a Maine girl's lacrosse team to cross the 300-win threshold. To add to the wonders of the day, it was Cathie’s daughter, Jess, who scored the winning...
Waynflete Upper School teams took both first and second place at this year’s Maine State Science Olympiad tournament, which was held virtually over two weeks in April. The events include tests of content knowledge, the scientific process, and engineering build...
Several Upper School students recently completed a four-week Climate (EX)Change with peers from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in South Paris, Maine, and Friends Seminary School in New York City. This collaborative storytelling project resulted from community engagement programming at...
On February 4, Boni Kabongo '14 welcomed the first of thirteen guests to "Lunch with Boni," a speaker series running over the spring semester. These events give Upper School students the opportunity to chat with college seniors and recent college...
During his tenure as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang challenged young readers to open their eyes to new ideas and experiences by initiating the Reading Without Walls Challenge. Readers are encouraged to step outside their...
