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Congratulations Upper School Science Bowl Teams!
[caption id="attachment_3343" align="alignleft" width="300"] Brandon Woo, Jacob Hagler, Ali Ghorashi, Dana Peirce[/caption] Two Waynflete teams competed in the Maine Science Bowl on Saturday at USM in Gorham. The quiz game format used questions in six subject areas: biology, chemistry, physics,...
The Jazz Combo is off the State Festival!
For the third straight year the Waynflete Upper School Jazz Combo’s strong performance at the Maine Music Educators Association District II Jazz Festival has earned them a slot in the Maine State High School Instrumental Jazz Festival. Ali Ghorashi ’15 (piano) and...
Financial Literacy Happenings
#1 Titan Challenge 12 Waynflete students recently competed in the TITAN Challenge, a business simulation competition developed by Junior Achievement. This is the 3rd year that Waynflete has participated. The 12 students were organized into four teams and each team...
Winter Season Sports Update
While most of the Waynflete student body was on vacation during February break, a number of student athletes were busy competing. Following is the round up of the action. Boys basketball fell to the #2 seed Dirigo Cougars on Friday to end...
Winter Break?
In preparation for Henry V, Tech Director Chris Fitz tries out the fog machine on assistant stage manager Lily Reiner and stage manager Caroline Kyros (mostly obscured). The show opens on Friday, February 27, at 7:00 in Franklin Theater.
Pi-Day Celebration Announced for 3-14-15
I don't remember the first time we celebrated “Pi Day” in one of my Geometry or PreCalculus classes. But it has been a long time. The Greek letter “Pi” – used to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle...
Become WFA-Certified at Waynflete
Wilderness First Aid Certification @ Waynflete, February 28th and March 1st Would you like to know how to respond to an emergency in the wilderness? Would you like to build your resume of outdoor leadership skills? If so, please consider attending...
Henry I/V Performances February 27 & 28
Henry I/V, an abridged version of William Shakespeare's Henry V, is in rehearsal now. The show will go up in Franklin Theater on February 27 and 28 at 7:00 p.m., pitting “two mighty monarchies” in pitched battle. On March 7,...
Report from the Model UN Competition at Harvard
Over 3500 high school students from 36 different countries and 28 states, representing over 200 schools in all, attended the Harvard Model United Nations Conference for four days last week. Eight of them were from Waynflete. Payton Sullivan ’18; Isabel...
In the Classroom: Reflections on Teaching as Learning
Even after many years of teaching at Waynflete, I am still grateful for the privilege of entering into dialog with my students about important matters. This year, with the inundation of disturbing global and local events, the discussion about the...
Well, that didn’t work….
On Saturday, January 10th, eight students from the Waynflete Robotics Activity traveled to Greely Middle School in Cumberland to take part in a Maine VEX Robotics competition, placing 10th out of 28 teams. This is the third full year of...
Misha Linnehan ’14 Writes Home from History Class
Sometimes a Waynflete education comes in handy in unexpected ways. Such was the case recently for Misha Linnehan '14. Hi Debba, Today in my American Politics lecture, we were discussing the Constitution. Since the State of the Union was last...
Report from the 2015 Berklee Jazz Festival
On Saturday, January 31, 2015 Berklee’s 47th annual High School Jazz Festival, the largest of its kind in the U.S., hosted more than 200 ensembles featuring 3,000 students from 13 states and Puerto Rico. Members of theWaynflete Upper School Jazz...
Upper School Spring Play Announced: Shakes-year Continues
Some of the students who participated in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern preproduction process: Sarah Heath; Elliot Nye, James Jujareon, Jonas Maines, Caroline Kyros, Mike Rodway The Waynflete Drama Program is proud to announce the spring show, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are...
Nikki Maines ’15 to be Honored by the Maine Women’s Fund.
The Maine Woman's Fund (MWF) has chosen Waynflete senior Nikki Maines as its recipient of the 2015 Samantha Smith award. The MWF announced the award this way: "The Samantha Smith Award recognizes a young woman from Maine who works to promote...
A Waynflete Approach to College Admisions
"Happily, embracing the present turns out to be the best preparation for the future." John Thurston, Director of College Counseling
Waynflete Flyers Camp Counselor Opportunities
Upper School students are encouraged to apply to be a counselor with our many summer camp programs. Visit the Flyers Camp website and click on the “Browse our Camp” button to find the Employment Opportunity tab. Here you will find...
Report from Cambridge on a Snowy Saturday
Gold medalists in the Entomology event Brandon Woo and Elly Shivel While most of us enjoyed a snowy January Saturday in Maine, a contingent from the Upper School traveled south through the storm to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to represent Waynflete at...
