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A few days before Commencement, Waynflete seniors and their advisors gather for a special celebratory dinner. Each senior is honored with a "Senior Minute"—a short ode to that student and their time at Waynflete. To cap off the evening we...
Every spring, seniors leave campus in early May and spend four weeks pursuing a subject of personal interest. This Senior Project month is a fondly remembered time that opens students' eyes to new interests as they prepare to enter college....
According to the Urban Dictionary, a "chamber of commerce day" is a day with gorgeous weather when a region would want tourists to visit, such that it might make companies feel that they should relocate to the area. The on-line...
Seventh-grade students hosted a Probability Carnival in the gym this week for the rest of the middle school. After learning about probability in their math classes, seventh-graders applied their knowledge to create games-of-chance for their peers. It was a wonderful way to start the day...
Entering Waynflete as a new junior in 2014, Liam McNiff didn’t expect to befriend someone whose hometown was 10,000 miles away. Sam, who hailed from Australia, was spending the year at Waynflete as a visiting ASSIST scholar. (more…)
Earlier this month, I found myself standing in front of nearly 200 students from all around New England, explaining the benefits of limestone chimney scrubbers. What on Earth have I gotten myself into?! I thought to myself, as hundreds of...
Waynflete's Ultimate Frisbee team debuted this spring in the Maine High School Ultimate League. Ultimate is a fast-moving, 7-player game that is a little like soccer or football with a frisbee. Ultimate employs a "Spirit of the Game" ethos that...
Junior Matt Beard ’19 recently visited with K-1 students to teach them all about lobstering. The kids had lots of questions: How do you make sure the lobsters don't get out of the top of the trap? How do you...
After winning the state Science Olympiad competition, 15 students traveled to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, for the national tournament. Students competed in 23 science and engineering events against schools from all 50 states. Waynflete's team is coached...
The Waynflete Writers’ Guild has been around for a number of years as a place for students to meet, have fun, and share their writings. This year’s guild has taken on the ambitious goal of publishing student written and visual...
Katrina St. John's homeroom collaborated with MITA (Maine Island Trail Association) and spent the school day collecting trash from the shoreline of Merritt Island located in the New Meadows. MITA has a handshake agreement with landowners up and down the...
Waynflete recently welcomed Mexican folk artists Efraín Fuentes and Silvia Gomez to campus. They spent the day demonstrating their craft and sharing their family story with students in Grades K-12, faculty, staff, and community members. It was a great opportunity to observe this...
Hope McSherry '21 was selected to perform in a staged reading of a new play, Callie Kimball's Dreams of The Penny Gods, at the Maine Playwright's Festival last week. The reading was directed by Daniel Burson. Hope gave a sensitive, funny,...
The Community Service Award is given to a junior or senior who completes over 50 hours of community service. The citation reads as follows: Caring participation in the community is a core value at Waynflete. We believe such engagement promotes...
Seniors (pictured above): Callie Banksmith Claire Dubois Sophie Good Nick Hagler Leeza Kopaeva Shuhao Liu Molly McNutt Dorothea Pinchbeck Charlotte Rhoads Luna Soley Sara Wasdahl Genevieve Welch Nicholas Wagg (more…)
Dana Hirschhorn ’18 was presented with an appointment certificate to the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Upper School assembly this week. She will begin a four-year course of study at the Annapolis, Maryland-based institution in the fall. Dana was...
Both of Waynflete's ExMASS research groups—lunar and asteroid—have made it through to the national finals! The students will present online to a panel of scientist judges on Friday, May 4. Winning teams earn an all-expenses-paid trip to the NASA Ames...
Grade 7 visual art students recently learned about the textile weaving of the Gutierrez Family in Zapotec, Mexico. Students made two types of weavings. In one, cardboard looms were used to create a range of organic or geometric patterns with yarn....
