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Hope McSherry '21 was selected to perform in a staged reading of a new play, Callie Kimball's Dreams of The Penny Gods, at the Maine Playwright's Festival last week. The reading was directed by Daniel Burson. Hope gave a sensitive, funny,...
The Community Service Award is given to a junior or senior who completes over 50 hours of community service. The citation reads as follows: Caring participation in the community is a core value at Waynflete. We believe such engagement promotes...
Seniors (pictured above): Callie Banksmith Claire Dubois Sophie Good Nick Hagler Leeza Kopaeva Shuhao Liu Molly McNutt Dorothea Pinchbeck Charlotte Rhoads Luna Soley Sara Wasdahl Genevieve Welch Nicholas Wagg (more…)
Dana Hirschhorn ’18 was presented with an appointment certificate to the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Upper School assembly this week. She will begin a four-year course of study at the Annapolis, Maryland-based institution in the fall. Dana was...
Both of Waynflete's ExMASS research groups—lunar and asteroid—have made it through to the national finals! The students will present online to a panel of scientist judges on Friday, May 4. Winning teams earn an all-expenses-paid trip to the NASA Ames...
“What is one step that schools can take to prevent bullying?” “Awareness.” This question and our corresponding answer set into action of chain of events last year in the championship game of the Maine State LifeSmarts Competition that were unfortunate...
After winning the state event, Waynflete represented Maine at the national LifeSmarts competition in San Diego last week. Lydia Giguere, Nick Jenkins (captain), Leeza Kopaeva, Ben Lualdi, and Nick Wagg finished in an impressive 7th place. LifeSmarts is a consumer...
Congratulations to Tabarak Al-Musawi, who placed third at the Lion's Club state Speak Out competition! Click here to read Tabarak’s speech
Middle and Upper School Latin teacher Phuc Tran weighs in on MPBN's "Maine Calling!" Listen to the Maine Calling segment Watch Phuc's TEDxDirigo talk: Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive Top photo credit: http://bit.ly/2r0kfCf
Waynflete encourages high schoolers from across Maine to join with students from seven Maine schools as they engage candidates for governor in dialogue about bringing their vision for a better Maine and a better nation into reality. Topics will range...
After a weekend of pure energy from the Summit, the vibe this past Monday around school was a mix of the usual exhaustion with a hint of something else—something rooted in perspective. The main goal of this year’s Summit was...
The Waynflete Writers’ Guild has been around for a number of years as a place for students to meet, have fun, and share their writings. This year’s guild has taken on the ambitious goal of publishing student written and visual...
On March 23, I was honored to receive the Rotary Youth Service Award from the Portland Rotary Club. I was instructed to be at the Holiday Inn by the Bay with my parents at 12:00pm. I did not know what...
This is a guest post by Waynflete parent ('20, '22, and '25) Jonathan R. Werner. Jonathan is a library and instructional technology specialist at Cape Elizabeth Middle School. Let me be clear. I am no technophobe. In fact, I spend my days surrounded by...
The lights dimmed on the theater stage as the actors from The Defamation Play entered and took their places on the set. As I sat amongst the students of the Upper School, I felt the anticipation in the room. We...
Last night three Waynflete students participated in the Lion's Club Speak Out competition against Cheverus at USM. For the third year in a row Waynflete won first prize! (more…)
Congratulations to Luna Soley ’18, winner of a 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing National Medal! Luna was recognized with silver medals for her entries in the “personal essay and memoir” and “memoir poetry” categories. Creative professionals reviewed nearly 350,000 works...
Congratulations to Shuhao Liu ’18, Molly McNutt ’18, Tabarak Al Musawi ’19, Carter Dexter ’19, Adelaide Lyall ’19, Abby Aleshire ’20, Thys Geldenhuys ’20, Haoming Ma ’20, Selina He ’21, and John Moon-Black ’21 on for their third place finish...
The energy for this show is fantastic, and I certainly have grown to love this play tremendously from when I first read it. The ensemble plays a very important role in setting the stage for wherever the Antrobuses find themselves...
Paul Okot ’07 visited recently with students in Sarah Macdonald’s “Literature of Maine” English class. The class is reading the novel The Good Braider by Terry Farish about a teen who leaves Sudan with her family and eventually settles in...
