Articles Categorized: Upper School

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...

2015 was a great Fall season for the Waynflete teams.  We celebrated three Southern Maine Champions:  Boys and Girls Soccer and Girls Cross Country, and had many other strong team and individual performances.  The CMW Field Hockey Team became the...

Director Tiki Fuhro included this quote from Anne Bogart in the opening comments of the rehearsal, "The true function of art: to awaken what is asleep… The art experience is an intimate moment caught in the rush of time." And...

The Waynflete Upper School Chorus at the Portland Museum of Art’s Annual Copper Beech Tree Lighting 6:00 pm Friday 12/4/15 During the First Friday Art Walk on December 4th at 6:00 pm, Waynflete’s very own Upper School Chorus will join Portland’s...

At a recent alumni event in New York City, I found myself in a flock of former ‘Fleters that spanned my tenure at Waynflete.  After an hour or so of catching up, Geoff got everyone’s attention to thank them for...

Waynflete Drama Presents: THE RIMERS OF ELDRITCH by Lanford Wilson Production Stage Managers: Almudena Canales and Tim Clifford Director: Tiki Fuhro Technical Director: Chris Fitze Producer: James Carlisle Production Dates: February 4, 5, 6 The Cast: Role Actor Wilma Atkins Caroline...

The recording is linked here.  Have a listen!

As co-leaders of the Ethical Leadership and Service Group, an Upper School activity group, Julia Hansen and I wanted to start helping our community right from the start of the school year. One of our main goals is to focus on helping...