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Thank you to all the students, teachers, and parents who helped make the fourth annual New England Youth Identity Summit a big success! This year’s program, which focused on “Voices Across Generations,” featured dozens of workshops (most of them student-led)...
Six Waynflete freshmen competed in the Seacoast SeaPerch competition at the University of New Hampshire on April 5, along with close to 50 other teams from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Our ninth-graders designed and built underwater...
Check out this interesting read from the New York Times: "High School Doesn't Have To Be Boring." A great description of what brings learning to life in a high school—a close match to who we strive to be!
Waynflete participated in the 2019 Maine State Science Olympiad Tournament on Saturday, March 30, at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham. Two teams of 15 Upper School students and one team of 15 Middle School students competed in 23...
As part of the Lower School’s study of Spain (this year's “Global Focus” country), students recently participated in the celebration of a Valencian festival called "Las Fallas." Each home station in the Lower School spent weeks creating a Spanish themed...
Teams of sixth graders recently competed against each other for points by learning about Greek city states and completing as many tasks as possible. They painted shields bearing the emblems of Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Argos, engraved clay coins, decorated...
Waynflete students recently competed in the annual Lion's Club Speak Out contest at the University of Southern Maine. Students write a 4-6 minute speech on an issue they care about. After presenting, students are asked questions by judges and are scored...
On Friday, March 8, Waynflete competed in the Maine LifeSmarts Competition at Unum in Portland. Led by captain Ben Lualdi, team members included Sam Yankee, Hannah Babcock, Tabarak Al Musawi, and Haoming Ma. LifeSmarts is a consumer challenge competition whose...
The Upper School Jazz Combo recently represented Waynflete at the Maine Music Educators Association 2019 District II Jazz Festival in Auburn. Sophi Aronson '20 and Ethan Armstrong '20 each received certificates for achieving the top rating as soloists. The combo's outstanding performance qualified them...
Middle school is the most important time in a child’s life for emotional and academic development—a pivotal few years when children gain a sense of identity and independence, develop their voices in the community of the classroom, and become ethical...
On February 27, 15 students descended on the University of New England’s campus to compete in the Titan Challenge, a daylong business simulation competition. The Titan Challenge is an immersive peek into the business world, in which students—in teams of...
Students in Waynflete’s 4-5 program visited the Portland Museum of Art on March 1. To prepare for the trip, Daniel Kany—an art historian and critic for the Portland Press Herald—gave a presentation entitled, “How to Appreciate Art in a Museum.”...
The beautiful and highly adaptive adolescent brain is a marvel to behold. Technological advances have provided a clearer window into the workings of a brain that was once dismissed as a stage of development to simply "get through.” Current science...
One of the highlights of our year in 2-3 is the “Kids’ Choice” study in January. After brainstorming ideas, students vote for the topics they would like to study. This allows us to narrow down the list to four choices—one...
Chilean students Constanza and Juan Pablo arrived in Maine yesterday. The pair will attend Waynflete for the first month of their sophomore year (they live on the other side of the equator, so—hard to imagine—they are just finishing up their...
This Saturday, Waynflete students competed in the State of Maine Science Bowl, a trivia competition held at the University of Southern Maine and sponsored by the Department of Energy. Waynflete took two teams of five students each to the competition....
George Bernard Shaw wrote "Saint Joan" in 1923, just a few years after Joan of Arc was canonized. When the Nobel committee awarded Shaw the prize for literature in 1925, they noted Saint Joan to be, “marked by both idealism and humanity,...
Under 15-year veteran coach Rich Henry, the boys basketball team had a very successful season. The boys earned the WMC Division Championship on their way to a 14-2 regular season record. The team recorded impressive wins over Class B powerhouses...
The February 2019 issue of Lit Mag is out, and for the first time, we've featured alumni content! Click here to read the latest issue
Eighth-grader Yenenesh is collecting eyeglasses to hand-deliver to a hospital in Ethiopia. Yen, who was adopted from Ethiopia at the age of 5, will visit the country with her parents at the end of March. (more…)
