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Upper School Assembly: Africa is More Than One Story

In mid-November, ELL teacher Sue Stein and Hibo Abdi '16 presented an Upper School assembly program on their journeys to Africa that started in February and June respectively.  Here is a link to Sue's African Blog.  Here is a link to...

Winter Sports Preview

Basketball. Swimming, Nordic, Girls' Hockey

Waynflete Team Advances in MEST Up Competition

Watch Waynflete's MEST-Up team of Julianna Harwood '15 and Stephen Epstein '15 defeated Greely High School in the MEST Up competition, advancing to the finals against Kennebunk High School.  If you missed it, you can watch the semi-final match when...

Further Honors for Fall Athletes

Waynflete field hockey players Dana Peirce and Chloe Williams were chosen to the All-State team by the Maine FH Coaches Association.  Peirce was also selected to the Academic All-State team.  Both players pose here with head coach Kelly Hoffman. Harry...

Breathe

To any Waynflete US people - students and faculty alike - who are feeling like a pause would be helpful to keep clear headed and open hearted through the busyness of life stresses.  Come sit and practice a simple breathing...

Spare Time with Dyer Rhoads Episode 2 – Promo

Exam Week Schedule

Mid-Term Exams (Monday, December 15 through Friday, December 19): Students are required to be in school during their exam periods only.  They may be on campus when they do not have exams if they choose.  Please make plans with your...

Girls’ Hockey

GIRLS' HOCKEY COACH: Bob Mills (third year, 15-20-3 overall record) 2013-14 record: 11-9 (Lost, 11-1, to eventual state champion Scarborough in West Region semifinals) TOP RETURNING PLAYERS: Kathryn Clark (Senior), Katie Ewald (Senior), Julia Ginder (Senior), Lily Jordan (Senior), Allison...

Katie Rutherford, the Development Director at the Frannie Peabody Center, Speaks at US Assembly on World AIDS Day

Emily Talpey ’17 Plays for Upper School Assembly

Baker Connick and Harwood Named Flyer Forecaster Fall Athletes

 

Faculty Profile: John Thurston

On July 1, John Thurston began work as Waynflete School’s first full-time Director of College Counseling. He comes to Waynflete with 21 years of experience on both sides of the college admissions process, or as John puts it, "in shipping and...

When a Full Semester of Learning Just Isn’t Enough: Splash! at MIT

Every year on the weekend before Thanksgiving, thousands of high school students from around the country flock to the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to attend a program called Splash. Splash is an incredible opportunity to learn about countless subjects,...

MEST-Up Final Round – TONIGHT!

Watch Waynflete's MEST-Up team of Julianna Harwood '15 and Stephen Epstein '15 take the FINAL step in defending Waynflete's championship. Tune in TONIGHT (Thursday, December 18) for the final episode of MEST-UP at 7:00pm. Wish them luck! MEST-Up is a television...

Adult Education Course Registration is Now Closed.

Registration for Waynflete's first ever adult education course, The Language of Social Class, has closed as the class is now full.  We will consider offering other courses in the future. Stay tuned.

Course Description: The Language of Social Class; Language as Unifier, Laguage as Divider

Whether we speak with careful word choice or speak in our casual register, our speech immediately connects us to specifics groups – those we call home, those we aspire to, those we eschew, those we’re grappled into by others. This course is...

What’s Wrong with This Picture?

What’s wrong with this picture?  To the uninitiated, quite a bit.  A teacher, David Neilan, is handing a rubber duck to a student, Dyer Rhoads.  That seems weird.  On top of that, there is another student in the background who...

Hannah Finegold ’07 Writes Home from Hollywood

Since graduating Waynflete in 2007, I have definitely been on a journey. I originally was accepted to my first choice college at the University of Vermont where I studied Jazz Performance for two years. In the midst of those years...

Will MacNeil ’89 Writes Home

I graduated from Waynflete in 1989. At the time, my favourite subject was English. Classes like Creative Writing with Elizabeth Maiman and Essay with Ellie Dwight were where I discovered a talent for telling stories, and a way to explain...

Faculty Profile: Steve Withers

Steve is in his first year at Waynflete, coming from Wilson High School in West Lawn, Pennsylvania.  He earned an M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction  and a B.S. in Secondary Education and a B.A. in Mathematics from Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.  At Wilson HS,...

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