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Congratulations to Lydia Giguere and Diraige Dahia, named by The Forecaster as Waynflete's winter athletes of the year! Read the full story.
Mary Lou Sprague, Class of '46, was on campus for a Lower School construction site tour with supervisor Millard Nadeau. (more…)
Students in Cathy Douglas’s and Lisa Kramer’s Calculus Accelerated classes are in the thick of a unit on the disk method and volumes by rotation. In today’s "opener" (an exercise used to get the math brain engaged), students were asked...
For most of us, customizing a car might mean upgraded wheels or a new stereo. Not for Ben Levite. For his Senior Project at Waynflete, the 17-year-old imported the front end of a Honda Civic from Japan, then used the...
Waynflete Science Department Chair Wendy Curtis is always on the hunt for ways to connect her students to research opportunities. Last year, she discovered ExMASS (The Exploration of the Moon and Asteroids by Secondary Students), a yearlong research program that...
Different brain systems come online at different times. During the early teen years, the social-emotional circuitry of the limbic system becomes amplified, and teens suddenly feel their own feelings more intensely, are more sensitive to others, and have “higher highs...
Thursday morning recess is over, and students in Waynflete’s multiage grades 2-3 program return to their home stations. Teachers begin to move tables together to accommodate the 20 or more children who—lunch bags in hand—are beginning to assemble. Students begin...
Each "What Matters Most?" interview tries to capture an aspect of a student’s pursuits or interests that might not be visible in their everyday Waynflete experience. This week, I caught up with Will Armstrong who has dedicated countless hours backstage...
Waynflete is pleased to announce the hiring of Emily Birchby as our new Associate Director of College Counseling. Emily brings with her nine years of experience in selective college admissions having served as an Associate Dean of Admissions at her alma mater, Bowdoin College....
Congratulations to the Upper School Jazz Combo for traveling to Newport, Maine, and playing its way to the top of Combo Division 3 at the Maine Music Educators Association State Instrumental Jazz Festival! (more…)
Eighth-graders have just finished a three-part unit in Studio Art called Bridges & Ladders. Judy Novey and Jona Rice started the unit by showing a slideshow of artists through time and across cultures who used ladder-like images in a myriad...
The Waynflete Environmental Action Group (WEAG) is a student-led activity that raises awareness about environmental issues in our community. On Wednesday, March 21, WEAG will present a screening of Before the Flood. The film follows Leonardo DiCaprio as he examines...
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...
Congratulations to Riley Mayes '18 who was chosen to receive a 2018 Girls Rock! award. Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Moxie Maine Magazine, The Maine Girls’ Academy, and National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman joined together for a night of celebrating...
Astrophysics students welcomed Chris Magri, Astronomy and Physics professor at University of Maine Farmington, to class today. Dr. Magri discussed his research involving RADAR imaging of asteroids. Dr. Magri reviewed asteroid study missions that are currently underway, including OSIRIS-REx (launched...
UPDATE: The results are in, and as usual the Seniors had a huge showing and took home the win. Total points for the week are below (go freshmen!) and don't miss the full video of the Senior's dance-off routine. It's...
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...
Contributing a ceiling tile to Wendy Curtis's lab...
