Articles Categorized: Upper School

Waynflete Ultimate team has successful debut

Waynflete's Ultimate Frisbee team debuted this spring in the Maine High School Ultimate League. Ultimate is a fast-moving, 7-player game that is a little like soccer or football with a frisbee. Ultimate employs a "Spirit of the Game" ethos that...

Learning about lobstering

Junior Matt Beard ’19 recently visited with K-1 students to teach them all about lobstering. The kids had lots of questions: How do you make sure the lobsters don't get out of the top of the trap? How do you...

Upper Schoolers travel to National Science Olympiad Tournament in Colorado

After winning the state Science Olympiad competition, 15 students traveled to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, for the national tournament. Students competed in 23 science and engineering events against schools from all 50 states.  Waynflete's team is coached...

May 2018 Lit Mag from the Waynflete Writers’ Guild

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...

Upper Schoolers collaborate with MITA on island cleanup

Katrina St. John's homeroom collaborated with MITA (Maine Island Trail Association) and spent the school day collecting trash from the shoreline of Merritt Island located in the New Meadows. MITA has a handshake agreement with landowners up and down the...

Wooden spirit

Waynflete recently welcomed Mexican folk artists Efraín Fuentes and Silvia Gomez to campus. They spent the day demonstrating their craft and sharing their family story with students in Grades K-12, faculty, staff, and community members. It was a great opportunity to observe this...

Hope McSherry ’21 performs at Maine Playwright’s Festival

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,...

Congrats to recipients of 2018 Community Service Awards

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...

Congratulations to our 2018 cum laude seniors and juniors!

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 appointed to United States Naval Academy

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...

Waynflete ExMASS teams make it to national final four

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...

LifeSmarts: helping young people become intelligent consumers

“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...

Waynflete team captures 7th place at national LifeSmarts competition

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...

Tabarak Al-Musawi takes third place in Lion’s Club state Speak Out

Congratulations to Tabarak Al-Musawi, who placed third at the Lion's Club state Speak Out competition! Click here to read Tabarak’s speech  

Dead languages: do they really go extinct?

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 invites high school students to “Can We?” event on May 10 (video)

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...

Reflections on the 2018 New England Youth Identity Summit

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...

Spring 2018 issue of “Lit Mag” from the Waynflete Writers’ Guild

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...

Nick Jenkins ’18 recognized with Rotary Youth Service Award

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...

Resisting the irresistible: fighting back against the power of addictive technology

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...

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