Articles Categorized: Upper School

The Upper School will honor the spirit of Dr. King by exploring his legacy and that of the civil rights movement he led in a variety of ways during the second semester. Waynflete's Diversity and Equity Faculty Committee has invited students to...

Shuhao Liu is a new sophomore at Waynflete. He came from China through a program working with students who want to attend school in a different country.  He intends to graduate from Waynflete in 2018. USNOW staffers Kiera Macwhinnie and Chase Warner...

The students below are among a select group of musicians chosen by audition to participate in the prestigious All-State Music Festival at the University of Maine at Orono on May 19, 20, and 21, 2016.  See the links below for...

Join students and educators from schools across New England for a conference designed to spark meaningful conversations about identity, diversity, and community. NEYIS kicks off on Friday evening at the Portland Public Library with a poetry, music, and theater performance by NYC-based Dialogue...

During the week of exams (Monday, December 14 - Friday, December 18), students are only required to be in school during their exam periods.  They may be on campus when they do not have exams if they choose.  Please make...

Hello Everyone! As many of you probably know, Waynflete has an amazing partnership with Students Shoulder to Shoulder and they have just announced their courses and course dates for the summer of 2016!  Here is a link to the SStS website....

This fall’s Upper School production of Legally Blonde celebrated and deepened the natural intersection of education and community at Waynflete. Staging a musical always creates a myriad of choices, and this year, a particularly difficult one arose at nearly the...

During the week before Thanksgiving break, 9th graders completed the first round of the Poetry Out Loud program classroom competition. Poetry Out Loud is a nationwide competition that celebrates poetry in its original form: recitation. Students across the country read...

This past week the Waynflete Dream Factory activity sent 17 members to help make gingerbread houses as raffle items for the annual Haven’s candy fundraiser. This fundraiser is put together by all of the Southern Maine Dream Factory chapters each...

The following write up appeared in the Preble Street Resource Center Fall Newsletter: Meet Julia Hansen (standing center), a sophomore at Waynflete High School who started volunteering at the Resource Center Soup Kitchen with her mom, Suzanne Fox, a little over a year...

Waynflete alum Abukar Adan '13 has never shied away from a chance to speak his mind.  As a student at Waynflete, he could always be found in animated conversation with his peers and teachers alike about the issues of the day.  He...

At assembly on Tuesday, November 3rd, the Upper School students had the privilege to hear from a veteran, Sergeant Helaina Lake of Livermore Falls, Maine, who had fought in the Afghanistan. She told us her story from growing up in...

For Alex Bonnin ’07, there was no escaping a musical life. From marimba quartets in central Maine to barbershop quartets in Massachusetts, both sides of his family had filled their lives with song for generations. “It was often a Von...

My involvement in theater most likely started because of my father, who worked for years at Waynflete as an English teacher and theater director. In fact, there is no way I would have started in theater without him. In addition...

Waynflete students write.  A lot.  Lab reports, personal essays, journals, and analytical term papers are only a few among the various pieces that students produce during their time here.  They edit themselves, they edit their peers, they are edited by...