Articles Categorized: News

A Cry of Players: Upper School Fall Play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC_X2jdSwVo#t=13

Production Workshop

(Production Team: Molly McNutt, Randall Seder, Ellis Heminway, Almu Canales, and Elsie Parrot) Each season Upper School performing arts classes end with a sharing session, in which each group performs  or presents a sample of its work.  Click here to...

Fall Performing Arts Sharing: Steel Band video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlFo2eh8EAo&feature=youtu.be  

Great Schools

Good schools are staffed by faculty who routinely use the best technologies to challenge students. But truly great schools ignite learning by using the science behind how the brain works best. Great schools: Promote relationships between adults and students. Many...

Sue Stein, Lydia Maier, Nasra Hassan (’09), and Nhi Nguyen (’07) at the Brodie Family Lecture: “Race, Income, and the Reduction of Inequality in American Education.”

Waynflete’s Own One Man Band

http://youtu.be/B4YE9JutAG4

Expressing The Waynflete Brand

Waynflete has been described as a school and community that you need to experience in order to truly understand. Last year Waynflete began a "branding" process intended to increase understanding of the School beyond the immediate Waynflete community.  Our brand is,...

District II Music Festival

Photo: Willson Moore, Leah Israel, Sam Harbison, Dorrie Pinchbeck, and Sarah Heath; with Nick MacDonald, Choral Director Congratulations to our Upper School musicians accepted into the Maine District II Music Festival! James Bigbee, Sam Harbison, Sarah Heath, Leah Israel, Willson...

Updated information about the fall season in Athletics, PE, PA, and Visual Arts

Important note to parents of ninth and tenth graders:  In the fall, all ninth and tenth graders were required to enroll in a performing arts class, which met from 2:00-2:50 on Mondays and Thursdays.  In the winter season, they are...

Mock Election in the Upper School

Waynflete Upper School voted today as part of the National Student/Parent Mock Election program.  It was administered here in Maine by the Secretary of State’s office, and our votes were sent to Augusta to be tallied with other schools across...

A Waynflete First: Adult Education

At every Open House, many parents comment, “I wish I could go to school at Waynflete.”  Upon visits home, many alums hearken back to their days as Waynflete students and wish that they would return. Well, if you have ever...

Waynflete’s MEST-Up Team Advances

After defeating the team from Baxter Academy earlier this fall, Waynflete's MEST-Up team of Julianna Harwood ('15) and Stephen Epstein ('15) took on Westbrook High School in the Quarterfinal round and emerged victorious. MEST-Up is a television game show that...

A Cry of Players

Waynflete Drama will present William Gibson's A Cry of Players on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 6–8, at 7:00 p.m. in Franklin Theater.  It is suitable for audiences over the age of 13. The play is a fictional account of the...

Twin Day in the Upper School?

Sue Stein and Dr. Josephine Ojiambo of the United Nations Population Fund.

Fall Season Athletic Update

Halloween was not such a treat for the Waynflete soccer teams as both the boys and girls fell in the Class C West Semi-finals.  The girls dropped a 1-0 hard fought battle to the Sacopee Valley Hawks and finished an...

The Water Station of Dreams

It’s only been a month and we've already given 64 cumulative hours of service towards helping to grant chronically ill children’s dreams. A few weeks ago, the Waynflete and Gorham dream factory clubs teamed up and ran a water station...

Asante Sana

Last school year, Sue Stein, who works with Waynflete's EAL students, spent the semester traveling in Africa.  In her trip blog, she described the purpose of her trip this way. For years I have listened to students tell stories of...

Dream Factory Bake Sale

Waynflete Faculty Contingent at the Global Forum in Colorado

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