 |
The Waynflete Wire |
Looks like we have a new Waynflete tradition! We held a touching “clap-in” today for our graduating class, who were cheered by the entire school on a walk through campus. Check out the full experience courtesy of a GoPro strapped...
The pressure was on as the boys varsity tennis team geared up for their championship match on Wednesday morning. The Orono Red Riots were the only obstacle left in their quest for a record-breaking fifteenth consecutive Maine State Championship win,...
Last Friday marked an important milestone for the Class of 2023 as they delivered their senior project presentations. After four weeks of exploration into topics of their own choosing, they presented their findings to their peers, teachers, and other members...
Working on your reading list for the summer? We’ve got some reviews for you to check out! Seniors in Native American History recently produced podcast episodes in which they reviewed books written by Indigenous authors from North America. Within these...
Congratulations to the Middle School and Upper School Latin students who participated in the Maine Junior Classical League Spring Convention last week! Students celebrated their love of Latin and made friends with other students from around the state while competing...
Tenth-grade students recently participated in a community service morning at Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth and Payson Park in Portland. Students continued the volunteer work started recently by their ninth-grade peers and contributed approximately 130 hours of invasive species removal...
On May 20, eleven Upper School students competed in the National Science Olympiad tournament at Wichita State University in Kansas. The team earned their spot at the tournament by winning the Maine State Science Olympiad tournament in April. Sixty teams...
Waynflete juniors recently spent the morning with Bowdoin librarian Barbara Levergood, who facilitated an activity for them to examine original documents from the Reconstruction Era. These primary sources were from the 1871–72 Congressional Hearings on the investigation into the Ku Klux Klan...
The entire ninth-grade class participated in community service yesterday as part of the school's annual Community Engagement Challenge. Two groups boarded buses in the morning to head to Fort Williams and Payson Park to remove invasive species for our longtime partners Friends of Fort Williams Park and Portland Parks Conservancy. The class donated approximately 100 hours...
Waynflete is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Drake Award and the 2023 Klingenstein Alumni Award. We will be celebrating these exceptional members of our community during Reunion Weekend on May 19. Elizabeth Barrett P’14, ’17 2023 Drake...
Congratulations to The Outliers robotics team for an impressive third place finish in their division at the FIRST Championship, an international robotics competition with more than 650 teams participating from 26 countries! The team also won the Innovation in Control...
K–1 students recently helped the Linear Algebra and Advanced Topics class complete an activity on fractals. The specific fractal pictured here is called a Sierpinski Carpet and is a repeating, decreasing pattern of empty central squares. The Linear Algebra students...
Congratulations to our Upper and Middle School teams on their impressive wins at the Maine Science Olympiad tournament this past weekend! Waynflete's two Upper School teams, captained by seniors Maren Cooper '23 and Reed Robinson '23, earned top three finishes...
Another incredible year for the New England Youth Identity Summit! About 300 participants from almost 50 schools/organizations (in seven states!) came together on Saturday for a full-day program that featured inspiring speakers, student-led workshops, dialogue sessions, and performances. Thank you...
Engineering teacher Jon Amory discussed the components of rockets and Artemis, NASA’s current mission to the moon, with K–1 students as part of their space study today. They are gearing up to create their own rockets and robots to explore...
Waynflete is pleased to announce our Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2023. The Hall of Fame selection committee has chosen three individuals and a team to receive this special honor: Drew Dubuque, Ed Flowerdew ’94, Lisa Lightbody ’98, and...
Ten Upper School students recently competed in the Maine Science Bowl—a quiz game-type competition sponsored by the Department of Energy. Question categories include physics, math, chemistry, biology, energy, and Earth and space science. Waynflete’s two teams performed well during the...
Art students in grades 4–5 recently went on a field trip to the Portland Museum of Art. Docents expertly guided our students in the "Seeing Through Sketching" tour. Our students received several compliments from museum staff on how well-mannered and...
The Waynflete community is enriched by cultural, religious, and spiritual diversity, as well as cross-age connections. To celebrate this, we held our first-ever Waynflete Community Celebration Night, an all-ages evening of offerings by local performers and food surrounding our different...
Congratulations to the Outliers Robotics team for their recent victory at the NE District Granite State Event. They partnered with teams from Windham, NH and Lewiston, ME, and went undefeated in the playoffs—finishing only five points away from the world...
