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These resilient and determined young people accomplished something very special together this semester. Be sure to check out the combined ensembles—all 30 players!—playing "Draganovo", a difficult Bulgarin folk song. Watch the videos
June 12 was a special day for the Class of 2020. In the midst of a global pandemic with all the associated and necessary restrictions, we held a beautiful, inspiring, thought-provoking live graduation for our seniors. They were able to...
Waynflete’s Class of 2020 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 61 graduates will/may matriculate this fall. Obviously some students...
The Class of 2020 is chock full of talent! Twenty-four of our graduating seniors found a kind of second home in the Franklin Theater. They are actors, dancers, choreographers, composers, costume crew members, instrumental musicians, singers, stage managers, and stage...
Each June, the sixth grade culminates the year by celebrating students’ learning through the preparation for and presentation of the Night at the Museum. This year, as with all of our school activities, our culminating event went online—a celebration of...
One of the rituals of spring in the Upper School that has been canceled by the virus is the annual awards assembly. Waynflete values all of our students equally and prizes each student’s growth and accomplishments. Another ritual of spring...
Sometimes there is a silver lining! Waynflete's online platform made it easy for L.A. television and audio book actor Kathe Mazur to take time out from recording in her home studio to speak with Waynflete theater students. Kathe talked about...
Debbie Landry, PhD, founder of iXplore STEM, recently dropped in to Katrina St. John’s virtual biology class. Debbie discussed the structure of viruses like SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). She reviewed how viruses infect cells and what vaccines are currently in development. Debbie...
Twenty-four baseball, crew and lacrosse senior athletes will not have a chance to wear the Waynflete uniform and represent the Flyers this spring. But their impact on Waynflete athletics has been significant. The crew team had the best season in...
Last fall, K-5 students used their hands as inspiration for self-portrait relief prints. Students focused on mirror image design, pattern, and color theory. We had originally planned to exhibit these prints in the Spring Gallery Show. With the temporary closure...
Elliot Nye '15 led the company of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through a puppetry handling and building workshop. Come see giant butterflies, big birds, fairy alter egos, and the faces of Titania and Oberon for this production on April 30-...
Dax Penney ’21 envisions low-cost computers for the resettled refugee community Junior Dax Penney's interest in computers, programming, and robotics was sparked by his experiences as a sixth-grader attending Waynflete summer camp. It was here where he first encountered open-source...
In 2019, Portland artist Anna Dibble began planning a collaborative public art installation to help promote stewardship and awareness by reconnecting people with the natural world. The multi-year art/science/education initiative would focus specifically on biodiversity changes in the Gulf of...
On March 7, two teams of Upper School students competed against 20 schools from around Maine—including neighbors Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, and Yarmouth—in the Maine Regional Science Bowl Competition. The tournament is a round robin-style STEM trivia competition and is sponsored...
It was another successful winter for Flyer teams on the hardwood, on the ice, on the trails, and in the pool. The boys alpine ski co-op captured the Class A state championship, and boys basketball, boys hockey, and girls hockey...
On March 4, 125 students from nine area high schools assembled at Waynflete for the Pi-Cone South "Portland Large" divisional math meet—the fifth meet of the year and the third time that the school has hosted in the past four...
Click here to read a great article about how LEGO is training the scientists and problem solvers of the future!
Junior Patrick Shaw was featured in a recent ABC News segment on freestyle soccer. "At the Red Bull Street Style World Final, 16-year-old Patrick Shaw of Maine competes against athletes from around the globe in freestyle soccer, which blends break...
Waynflete is thrilled to once again be hosting the Hardy Girls Healthy Women annual "Girls* Rock!" conference on March 27. Hardy Girls Healthy Women takes girls seriously through year-round, state-wide programs that put the power in their hands to challenge...
