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During the last round of class meetings, Associate Director for Student Life Jimmy Manyuru and I invited Waynflete juniors and seniors to apply for an opportunity to take on perhaps the most pressing challenge of our time—civic dysfunction. While our...
Some people are unaware of the girls’ activity in which we strive for equal rights: GLTR (Girls' Leadership Training) We recently joined this group to broaden our perspective of women’s rights and the inequalities women face. This group has been...
The winter musical is on its way! Director and Musical Director Katy Cavanaugh, Choreographer Susan Nelson and the cast of The Drowsy Chaperone have been hard at work for weeks putting this ambitious show together. Our stage and costume crew are about...
Our entire seventh grade spent advising period on Friday making winter cards for their friends at Head Start, whom they will visit on Tuesday. Our relationship with the Greater Portland area Head Start Program has emerged over the past twenty...
At our assembly on Wednesday, a group of students and teachers read quotes inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King’s call for social justice. Click here to view a few selected quotes.
Olya Gregg '20, Eliza Gervais '20, Assistant Head for Student Life Lydia Maier '90, Ian McClure-Chute '20, Amelia Bertaska '18 and Laura Baginski '18 (crouching) pose outside the walk-in refrigerator at Preble Street this past Saturday. It was much colder...
Assistant Head for Student Life Lydia Maier has been instructing 4-5 students in social-emotional learning for the past four years, checking in every two weeks with each of the program’s four home stations. This year’s topics have included: What it...
Thematic studies are designed for interdisciplinary immersion in an age-appropriate, high-interest topic. Students acquire and employ skills in a wide range of disciplines and have many opportunities to extend and enrich their learning through open-ended exercises. 4-5 students were recently...
As part of the “People’s Movement West” 4-5 study, students created their own board games to play during our celebratory Prairie Day and with their K-1 buddies. Reading Jean Craighead George’s The Buffalo are Back, students began to understand the...
Saturnalia was an ancient Roman holiday that occurred during the winter solstice. It celebrated the return of Saturn, god of the harvest. The streets of Rome would be filled with greetings of "Bona Saturnalia.” Gifts were exchanged, and much feasting...
Waynflete's 4-5 boys and girls basketball team played an exciting game last Saturday against undefeated Riverton School—and came away with their first win of the season! Our players showed great determination, enthusiasm, and skill in the toughly fought match, coming...
The latest update from Wright-Ryan's Millard Nadeau...
Interesting piece in the December 14, 2017, issue of the Times on the importance of an effective Pre-K program. Read the article Information on Waynflete's Early Childhood curriculum Information on student life in Waynflete's Lower School
The “Racial Awareness at Waynflete” group (RAaW) was created for students who are interested in examining the impact of race at Waynflete, in Portland, and around the world. Students meet for lunch and activities during the school year. The group...
The third annual New England Youth Identity Summit is just around the corner! The theme of this year's event: Reshaping Communities: Finding the Courage to Talk to Each Other We'll kick things off the evening of Friday, April 6 with an event...
Lila Reid, '11 recently returned to Waynflete and conducted a workshop for the US dancers, Danceflete, on Dec. 12. This was a special opportunity for both our dancers and for Lila to reconnect and share ideas. Welcome back, Lila, to...
At 3:30 on Friday, December 8th three playwriting prompts were chosen by Waynflete theater students and were sent out by email to eager student playwrights from four other schools. The 24 hour theater festival had begun. (more…)
UPDATE: Congratulations to schoolwide winner Grace Nowacki '21 and runner up Kiely Callahan '21. It was an intense competition at the all-school assembly, but the admirable crew of poetry enthusiasts kept their collective cool and read beautifully. A panel of...
