Articles Categorized: Upper School

Maddie Berrang ’09 Writes Home from Ecuador

Life can take you on unexpectedly wonderful adventures, to places you had never expected, and on journeys you had never even dreamt about. You can find yourself looking back at the path that has led you to your current job,...

The Language of Social Class; Language as Unifier, Language as Divider

Whether we speak with careful word choice or speak in our casual register, our speech immediately connects us to specifics groups - those we call home, those we aspire to, those we eschew, those we're grappled into by others. This course is...

Fall Performing Arts Sharing: Vocal Ensemble

Fall Performing Arts Sharing: Poetry in Performance

Coming Soon to USNOW: The Spare Time Show With Dyer Rhoads

https://vimeo.com/111796569

Waynflete Mock Trial 2014

Thirty Waynflete Upper School students have been working since September to prepare for the Maine State Bar Association’s annual Mock Trial competition, which begins this weekend.  Participating schools from all over the state are sent a packet of information, containing a...

First Ever Waynflete Amazing Race!

(Production Team: Molly McNutt, Randall Seder, Ellis Heminway, Almu Canales, and Elsie Parrot) This fall, the PA Production Workshop class came together to create the first organized scavenger hunt photo challenge in Waynflete history. This class gave the students the...

First Ever Adult Education: Course Description and Registration Materials

After every Open House, many parents comment, “I wish I could go to school at Waynflete.”  During visits home, many alums hearken back to their days as Waynflete students and wish they could return.  Here is a chance for a...

A Cry of Players: Upper School Fall Play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC_X2jdSwVo#t=13

Production Workshop

(Production Team: Molly McNutt, Randall Seder, Ellis Heminway, Almu Canales, and Elsie Parrot) Each season Upper School performing arts classes end with a sharing session, in which each group performs  or presents a sample of its work.  Click here to...

Fall Performing Arts Sharing: Steel Band video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlFo2eh8EAo&feature=youtu.be  

Great Schools

Good schools are staffed by faculty who routinely use the best technologies to challenge students. But truly great schools ignite learning by using the science behind how the brain works best. Great schools: Promote relationships between adults and students. Many...

Sue Stein, Lydia Maier, Nasra Hassan (’09), and Nhi Nguyen (’07) at the Brodie Family Lecture: “Race, Income, and the Reduction of Inequality in American Education.”

Waynflete’s Own One Man Band

http://youtu.be/B4YE9JutAG4

Expressing The Waynflete Brand

Waynflete has been described as a school and community that you need to experience in order to truly understand. Last year Waynflete began a "branding" process intended to increase understanding of the School beyond the immediate Waynflete community.  Our brand is,...

District II Music Festival

Photo: Willson Moore, Leah Israel, Sam Harbison, Dorrie Pinchbeck, and Sarah Heath; with Nick MacDonald, Choral Director Congratulations to our Upper School musicians accepted into the Maine District II Music Festival! James Bigbee, Sam Harbison, Sarah Heath, Leah Israel, Willson...

Updated information about the fall season in Athletics, PE, PA, and Visual Arts

Important note to parents of ninth and tenth graders:  In the fall, all ninth and tenth graders were required to enroll in a performing arts class, which met from 2:00-2:50 on Mondays and Thursdays.  In the winter season, they are...

Mock Election in the Upper School

Waynflete Upper School voted today as part of the National Student/Parent Mock Election program.  It was administered here in Maine by the Secretary of State’s office, and our votes were sent to Augusta to be tallied with other schools across...

A Waynflete First: Adult Education

At every Open House, many parents comment, “I wish I could go to school at Waynflete.”  Upon visits home, many alums hearken back to their days as Waynflete students and wish that they would return. Well, if you have ever...

Waynflete’s MEST-Up Team Advances

After defeating the team from Baxter Academy earlier this fall, Waynflete's MEST-Up team of Julianna Harwood ('15) and Stephen Epstein ('15) took on Westbrook High School in the Quarterfinal round and emerged victorious. MEST-Up is a television game show that...

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