Articles Categorized: Upper School

Congratulations to Performing Arts jazz instructor Ray Morrow for leading the Upper School's Jazz Ensemble and Combo group at the Berklee Jazz Festival for 30 consecutive years! Ray's contributions were recognized with a ceremony at this year's event. (more…)

At the most recent meeting of the Upper School team, I asked each advisor to tell a brief story that illustrates their happiest moment at work over the past two weeks since the start of the new year. When it...

Chloë Rowse '12 spoke with Upper School students this week about her experiences hiking the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail in 2018. Chloë counseled students to "never underestimate what you are capable of doing." Here's full story: (more…)

“Clever use of language, insightful perspective, and engaging commentary.” These are some of the qualities that New York Times Learning Network staff considered when judging almost 2,000 submissions to the newspaper’s fourth annual Student Review Contest. Students in Laura Lennig’s...

On January 12, fifteen Waynflete students competed in 23 different science and engineering events at the MIT Science Olympiad Invitational Tournament in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Notable finishes include a 12th place finish (against 76 teams from across the country, representing some of the top Science Olympiad schools) in...

“Real World Performing Arts” was piloted as a new class in Upper School this past semester. Mary Jane Pagenstecher and Tiki Fuhro co-taught this hands-on journey through performing arts for social change. Students explored dramatic literature through the ages, became...

The “Poetry Out Loud” national recitation contest was created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. The contest is administered in partnership with arts agencies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin...

The December 2018 issue of the Upper School Lit Mag is out! View/download here

Students from Waynflete, Kennebunk High School, Scarborough High School, Morse High School, Portland High School, and Deering High School spent Sunday in Franklin Theater writing and staging plays during the 24-Hour Theater Fest. Thirty participants and eleven playwrights!

Waynflete has received a $4,990 STEM grant from the Toshiba America Foundation (TAF). These funds will support the initial costs to set up a molecular genetics laboratory at Waynflete, which will enable students to sequence DNA. (more…)

A horde of pirates and mermaids invaded Franklin Theater this past weekend as the Upper School theater program brought a triumphant production of Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher to the stage. Audiences were treated to an imaginative, funny, sweet, and...