Articles Categorized: News

Waynflete’s First Ever Adult Course is a Go! Limited Space Still Available!

More than enough people have already registered to take The Language of Social Class to ensure that Waynflete's first ever adult course is sure to run.  The class, taught by Taffy Field and Phuc Tran, features a blended format, with both online...

Elise LeBihan Reports from Nashville, Tennessee

On Sunday, October 26, 2014, I walked from my hotel room to the NafME Honors Ensembles Registration with the help of the handy Gaylord Opryland Hotel map. After having walked past the indoor jungle, up two escalators, and past three...

Mock Trial Advances

Waynflete's Mock Trial squad won its first round of competition last Saturday in impressive fashion. For Coach Curtis, some of the highlights were: Seeing Tiki Furo and Margaret Austin rooting for her squad from the jury box. Watching Acadia Weinberg...

Lacrosse Gear Drive for Guatemalan Girls

The Upper School Ethical Leadership and Service Activity is sponsoring a donation drive for girls lacrosse gear that will be brought to Guatemala City as part of the Maya Lacrosse program, which organizes lacrosse programs for girls in six cities around Guatemala....

Maddie Berrang ’09 Writes Home from Ecuador

Life can take you on unexpectedly wonderful adventures, to places you had never expected, and on journeys you had never even dreamt about. You can find yourself looking back at the path that has led you to your current job,...

The Language of Social Class; Language as Unifier, Language 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...

Fall Performing Arts Sharing: Vocal Ensemble

Fall Performing Arts Sharing: Poetry in Performance

Coming Soon to USNOW: The Spare Time Show With Dyer Rhoads

https://vimeo.com/111796569

Waynflete Mock Trial 2014

Thirty Waynflete Upper School students have been working since September to prepare for the Maine State Bar Association’s annual Mock Trial competition, which begins this weekend.  Participating schools from all over the state are sent a packet of information, containing a...

First Ever Waynflete Amazing Race!

(Production Team: Molly McNutt, Randall Seder, Ellis Heminway, Almu Canales, and Elsie Parrot) This fall, the PA Production Workshop class came together to create the first organized scavenger hunt photo challenge in Waynflete history. This class gave the students the...

First Ever Adult Education: Course Description and Registration Materials

After every Open House, many parents comment, “I wish I could go to school at Waynflete.”  During visits home, many alums hearken back to their days as Waynflete students and wish they could return.  Here is a chance for a...

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...

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