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A few weekends ago, I went with my grandfather, dad, and older brother and stayed in a small hut for five hours to be able to say that I accomplished a smelting trip. Smelting is like ice fishing except you’re...
Update #7: Check out the awesome Winter Sports slideshow below, put together by Sophia Mayone '17! Final highlights from the Winter Season: Boy's Basketball made it to the semifinals; Girl's Basketball made it to the quarterfinals. Boys' and Girls' hockey both...
Senior Yai Deng has had a great run with the Boy's Basketball team in his four years as a member. Check out the wonderful piece by WCSH6 on this standout Waynflete student! Yai has now been inducted to the WCSH...
Congratulations to the Upper School Jazz Combo for achieving a I (One) Rating at tonight's Maine Music Educators Association District II Jazz Festival. The high ranking qualifies them for the State Jazz Festival coming up in two weeks! Recognized as...
Four members of Waynflete's Debate traveled to Brunswick High School on Saturday, January 29th to compete in the State Championship Tournament. Patricia Janick and Maddie Polkinghorn, two of the three senior co-captains, took part in the Varsity Public Forum Category...
Our trip to the annual jazz band festival in Berklee, Massachusetts, began on a little yellow school bus, overflowing with kids and instruments. We had not yet mastered our packing skills, with high school students spilling over the dingy seats,...
Next week is US Spirit Week! There all sorts of fun activities and theme days, check out the full rundown by Student Government Co-President Caroline Hastings '17 by clicking here.
Having heard about Waynflete’s reputation for excellence since I was a teenager in Portland, I was thrilled to be offered a job here teaching French. I knew that I would need to make some cognitive adjustments when I got here,...
Shortly before vacation the Upper School Jazz Ensemble & Combo made their annual trek to Boston in order to participate in the Berklee High School Jazz Festival. Although neither group placed, they played well and had a wonderful experience! Julian...
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John Hoy visits with Northrup Frye, Toronto Within his foundational essay "On Fairy-Stories" J.R.R. Tolkien isolates Faërie, the Perilous Realm or Shadowy Marches wherein fairies discover their being, and he describes three faces by which fairy-stories may be recognized: the...
The Current Events hosted a delicious bake sale this past Monday. Everyone seemed to be quite hungry, and after the baked good were devoured, Current Events had raised $350 for the Maine ACLU. Thanks everyone for pitching in!
Summer Jobs at Waynflete Flyers Camp! From February 1 through March 15, Waynflete Flyers Camp 2017 will accept applications for counselor positions at waynfletecamp.campbrainstaff.com. New and returning candidates must complete an applications. Counselor applicants should be 16 or older. 14...
Waynflete had three successful submissions to the annual Scholastic Writing Awards of Maine for 2017. Riley Mayes '18 was a Gold Key recipient, Sydney Sullivan '20 was a Gold Key and Silver Key recipient, Luna Soley '18 was awarded a...
The Winter Play is coming! Performances at Waynflete are scheduled for Friday, March 3rd and Saturday, March 4th at 7:00pm and please join us at the One Act Festival: March 11, 1:00 pm Morse High School, Bath, ME. For the...
Every year, the Upper School suspends classes for one day to focus on topics relevant to the grade. This year, Grade Advising Day for Upper School students will focus on building community and strengthening student health and well-being. In the...
In a show of support, the faculty and staff lined up behind Director Lowell Libby as he delivered the remarks below: Joined by a sizable contingent of your mentors, I am going to conclude today’s assembly by reflecting on the state...
Waynflete’s US Science Olympiad team was one of 71 teams from around the country to compete at MIT’s 4th annual Science Olympiad tournament on Saturday, January 21st in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The team worked in pairs to compete in 23 science...
The Upper School Theater Program will be producing a play this spring based on your stories, experiences, and feelings, with a particular focus on identity. View the letter that was recently sent to the Waynflete community.
Sitting in the auditorium for the Martin Luther King Jr. assembly, the students were all gathered as a community to join and listen to Abukar, who graduated from Waynflete in 2013 and is now a senior at Colby College. As the...
