Articles Categorized: Upper School

The 2017 New England Youth Identity Summit [caption id="attachment_6020" align="alignleft" width="300"] Poet Richard Blanco sporting Waynflete swag[/caption] After an eloquent introduction on a snowy April morning by long-serving Waynflete English teacher Lorry Stillman, Richard Blanco, the 2012 presidential inaugural poet,...

Eugene Butler is a senior counselor for Seeds of Peace. He was the emcee and a workshop presenter at the second annual New England Youth Identity Summit, held on March 31 and April 1, 2017. He opened the Summit on...

Following is the text of Atia Werah's winning speech at the Lions Club Speak Out: When someone is diagnosed with cancer, the doctor will say things like “I’m afraid there is bad news”, or they will tell you that this...

The artist and author Barry Lopez says, “If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why...

Ethical Leadership and Service students at Furniture Friends delivering donated furniture to people in need.

Students had to do a mini research project on different types of chromosomal disorders to teach each other about them. They could do a song, a google slides presentation, digital poster, Tellegami avatar etc. The information had to include the...

The MS Health Club and the US GLTR Activity joined up and headed to the Hardy Girls Healthy Women conference in Westbrook.

On April 1, despite a snowstorm, 30 Upper School science students traveled to USM Gorham for the State Science Olympiad Tournament. Students competed on two teams of fifteen students each in 23 different science and engineering events ranging from building...

This year’s spirit week was full of liveliness and enthusiasm in the competition for the most points between grades. As our first year as highschoolers, freshmen were oblivious to the flow of spirit week. At the end of the week,...

Performers from Waynflete and NYA warm-up before the Help Haiti! Benefit concert

Lindsay Kaplan sent along some great updates from the Montreal trip that took place over the long weekend. Read her words below, and check out pictures from the trip. Today in Montreal, everyone had a great time on the walking/bus...

Every year a senior is selected by the English department to be Waynflete’s Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate reads poetry for the upper school assemblies and at graduation. Chloe Melchiskey was named this year's Poet Laureate for the Class of...

The Entrepreneur Club was founded out of desire for an outlet to talk about business at Waynflete. Jacob and I, the co-founders enjoyed talking to each other about the latest episode of Shark Tank and legendary entrepreneurs like Elon Musk....

Update #4: You can now view the play in its entirety on Youtube! Scroll to the bottom of this post for the video, or click here. Update #3: Henry Wasserman, The Stage Manger of THE GREAT BANK ROBBERY (a working title)...

We are fresh off Spirit Week in the Upper School! Students dressed up all week and enjoyed competitions between the grades. Seniors took the top prize in musical chairs, sophmores won the limbo. Dodgeball and the Dance-Off were hard-fought battles,...

Ella Hannaford, Waynflete's representative at the State Poetry Out Loud competition