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The Winter Play is coming! Performances at Waynflete are scheduled for Friday, March 3rd and Saturday, March 4th at 7:00pm and please join us at the One Act Festival: March 11, 1:00 pm Morse High School, Bath, ME. For the...
Every year, the Upper School suspends classes for one day to focus on topics relevant to the grade. This year, Grade Advising Day for Upper School students will focus on building community and strengthening student health and well-being. In the...
In a show of support, the faculty and staff lined up behind Director Lowell Libby as he delivered the remarks below: Joined by a sizable contingent of your mentors, I am going to conclude today’s assembly by reflecting on the state...
Waynflete’s US Science Olympiad team was one of 71 teams from around the country to compete at MIT’s 4th annual Science Olympiad tournament on Saturday, January 21st in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The team worked in pairs to compete in 23 science...
The Upper School Theater Program will be producing a play this spring based on your stories, experiences, and feelings, with a particular focus on identity. View the letter that was recently sent to the Waynflete community.
Sitting in the auditorium for the Martin Luther King Jr. assembly, the students were all gathered as a community to join and listen to Abukar, who graduated from Waynflete in 2013 and is now a senior at Colby College. As the...
A huge thank you from Waynflete Dream Factory to everyone who supported our 50/50 raffle last night at the triple-header basketball games against St. Doms! We made just over $300—that’s enough for a dolphin cruise and a helicopter ride, or...
Cooper Chap and Will Nelligan '16 presenting their dug out canoe Senior Projects are an exciting opportunity for seniors because they are given a month off from regular classes at school to delve into an existing passion or an opportunity...
Brave 9th Graders recently took the to the stage for our annual Poetry Out Loud assembly. Read on for poem describing the experience, and be sure to check out the video at the bottom! Reflection on a Recent Upper School...
It is rare to have three accomplished violinists working together on major literature by Antonio Vivaldi and Ernst Toch. They played beautifully for the Middle School, the Lower School and most recently for the EC group where they responded to...
It’s 2:30AM and someone is knocking on my door yelling at me to get up. This is crisis session: an invention at the Maine Model UN Conference where they wake up a subset of the students in attendance and present...
Saxophonist Julian Abbott '18 represented Waynflete School at the Maine Music Educators Association Jazz All-State Festival this past Thursday through Saturday. He rehearsed with other top musicians in the All-State Jazz Combo and performed at the public concert on Saturday....
After a spirited competition, congratulations go to the winner of the Waynflete School finals for Poetry Out Loud, Ella Hannaford! Cheers also go to our runner-up, Sarah Acheson-Field! Both Ella and Sarah will now prepare for the Maine regional finals,...
Monday, January 9 11:00 - 12:00 - CIEE visit in the atrium These summer study abroad programs are offered by CIEE, a leader in international education. All programs feature top-notch academics and cultural immersion, combined with exciting activities and travel...
Having recently started our Upper School career, we noticed many changes in 9th grade compared to last year. We both started at Waynflete in seventh grade, so we got to experience two years of Middle School and the transition to Upper School,...
The College Process The anxiety and stress of the senior class starts to dwindle at the end of December due to the generous amount of Early Decision deadlines that colleges have given out. Many of Waynflete’s seniors have taken advantage...
In the Latin elective on Pliny’s letters, Latin students spent the fall semester reading a selection of letters from Pliny the Younger who, as the governor of Bithynia in the 1st century, maintained extensive correspondences with friends, fellow politicians, and even the...
It's a good time of year for giving, and Waynflete Students have been especially active! Furniture Friends, Preble Street, and the Rotary Club have all received hours of time from boisterous groups of students this December. Check out some of...
On Saturday, December 10th, five playwrights and twelve actors spent the day playfully rehearsing five brand new ten minute plays. The afternoon culminated in an informal performance for family and friends. There were lights, sound effects, props and few improvised...
It was a chilly and festive First Friday on December 2nd when the Waynflete Upper School Chorus, together with Portland's poet laureate, Gibson Fay-Leblanc, presented a performance of seasonal songs and poetry in the Joan B. Burns Garden at the...
