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We were thrilled to have our friends at Windham High School participate in our most recent Can We? Project retreat! The Can We? Project is an experiment in revitalizing democracy centered on developing the capacity of high school students to...
Charlie Horner '23 and Liam Anderson '23 recently hosted climate justice activists Anna Siegel '24 and Madison Sheppard as part of The Perspective Project's first youth-based event of the year. This discussion encouraged students to think critically about climate change,...
Members of Waynflete's student-driven Perspective Project recently led a panel at the sold-out annual Educate Maine Symposium, an event attended by nearly 400 leaders in education and business from across the state. The symposium examined the importance of empathy in...
Congratulations, Flyers! Waynflete took fifth place at the Maine Junior Classical League (MEJCL) this year. MEJCL is a friendly academic competition between schools in Maine that teach Latin. On December 2, Waynflete students competed Hampden Academy to participate for the...
Congratulations to Ben Pochurek '24! Ben was honored by the Portland Museum of Art back in April and was recently featured in the Portland Press Herald for his unique artwork. Ben uses his welding talent and materials he finds around his...
30 students from Waynflete and other local high schools gathered in Franklin Theater last weekend for the eighth annual 24-Hour Playwriting Festival. Students created twelve unique plays from the same initial prompt and came together as a theater community for...
Exciting changes are in progress at our crew's Fore River launch. The construction of Waynflete's boathouse is almost complete! Besides the great interior storage, the boathouse will also have a fresh water supply. The Crew seniors were lucky enough to...
The Outliers, a community robotics team that is open to Waynflete students, recently hosted a fun demo in Sills gym. Each year The Outliers design, build, and program a 150-pound robot to compete against other teams. The robots are designed...
The Perspective Project, an Upper School student-led organization committed to starting discussions and bringing new perspectives to Waynflete, recently welcomed newly reelected Portland City Councilor Pious Ali as its first guest speaker of the year. Mr. Ali was first elected...
Students in the senior history elective "The Great 20th Century Crisis: World War II" were recently joined by members of Waynflete's Jewish Education and Culture Club for a lively discussion with artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak. Mr. Bak shared...
On November 3, nine Waynflete students joined nearly 1,000 of their peers from across the state for the annual Maine Youth Leadership Day hosted by Hyde School in Bath. Grounded in “the importance of what it takes to be a...
Four years in a row, you say?! Boys varsity soccer takes the state championship, defeating Fort Kent 6–1! Way to go, Flyers! Congratulations to Myles Culley ’23, who scored an amazing five goals yesterday to help bring home the boys...
As a result of their collaboration with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (with NASA as a partner), Waynflete students have provisionally identified five new asteroids over the years! The latest to shift from preliminary to provisional status had been identified...
Congratulations to Jasmijn Janse '24, Miles Sims-Kastelein-Henry '24, and Aelia Russell '24 for representing Waynflete beautifully at the recent International Independent School Public Speaking Championships at Deerfield Academy! After participating in debates in six rounds of competition, Aelia placed 4th...
A force on the field, Myles Culley '23 has racked up 35 goals to break the Waynflete record for goals scored in a season, and he's well on his way to top the unofficial southern Maine record, too. Even more...
Join us in celebrating Ayla Michaud Stutzman '26 for becoming the first girl from Maine to qualify for the USA Surfing Championships in shortboard surfing. Ayla has been surfing since she was eight years old and has plans to continue...
Join us in celebrating Calla Ruff ’23! Calla is participating in The Telling Room's Young Emerging Authors program this year. Every fall, four student authors are selected for a yearlong fellowship where they will write, edit, and publish their own...
Congratulations to our National Merit Scholarship Program Semifinalists and Commended Students from the Class of 2023! From left to right: Maya Flores, Maren Cooper, Oscar Twining, Elliot Robinson, Matthew Adey
You never know what Outdoor Experience will bring! While working at Community Servings in Boston, our students met Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, who had come in to package and deliver the organization's 11 millionth meal. Ayanna shared some words of encouragement...
If you have concerns about your child finding joy after several years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you aren’t alone. At Waynflete, we want every child to love school and are committed to meeting every child where they are. We are...
