Articles Categorized: Upper School

Student Applications for next year’s Afterschool Enrichment Programming.

Online applications are available through the following links and due by May 23. Please contact Rachael Thrash, Director of Enrichment, at  with any questions. Lower School Afterschool Mentor Application https://thriva.activenetwork.com/Reg4/Form.aspx?IDTD=8107568&RF=11410297 Middle School Hive Mentor Application https://thriva.activenetwork.com/Reg4/Form.aspx?IDTD=8107568&RF=11410298 Workshop Mentor Application https://thriva.activenetwork.com/Reg4/Form.aspx?IDTD=8107568&RF=11410299

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Life$marts Team Finishes 10th in the Nation

A year ago Waynflete entered the LifeSmarts competition for the first time and surprised itself by winning the State tournament and moving on to the national competition in Atlanta, finishing 20th. According to its website, LifeSmarts "prepares students to enter the...

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Blended Coursework in the Humanities: Student Perspectives

The Language of Social Class is a new English elective offered to juniors and seniors first introduced in an USNOW article that appeared in the fall. The course mission is twofold: to explore through critical analysis of literature and contemporary...

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“Museum Epiphanies”

Now in April, 2014, we are confident that we are living in a modern, innovative, and enterprising age. However, the term “Modernism” was first coined in France in the 1840s. Baudelaire’s “Heroism of Modern Life” was essentially a rallying cry...

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Community Service Day, Senior Exams, and Senior Projects

Monday, May 5, is Community Service Day for all Upper School grades.  Regular classes are suspended so that advising groups spend from 8:00 until 2:00 together doing service and bonding.  Performing Arts classes happen at the usual time at 2:00...

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MEST-Up Team Advances to the Finals

Waynflete's MEST-Up Team of Sophie Benson '14 and Al Ghorashi '15 defeated the Cape Elizabeth High School team in the quarter finals and Camden High School in the semi-finals to advance to the final round of the Math, Engineering, Science, and...

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Microplastics in the Ocean Presentation

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Addie Arrives

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Ocean Microplastics

[caption id="attachment_1601" align="alignleft" width="300"] The miniscule size of plastic particles[/caption] This past Tuesday evening a wonderful Ocean Conservationist came to Waynflete, by the name of Dr. Kara Lavender Law, to discuss ocean plastics. The main point of her argument was...

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Incognito Revisited: A Student’s Perspective

The following review first appeared several weeks ago in The Flyer, the Upper School student newspaper.  Here is the link to the story on Incognito that was previously posted on USNOW. The one man show by Michael Fosberg titled, Incognito,...

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MEST-Up Back in Action

Waynflete's Mest-Up science game show team of Ali Ghorashi '15 and Sophie Benson '14 will be back in action this Thursday, April 17.  The show airs at 7 PM on WXPT (channel 12).   Here is a link to the past...

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Spirit Week Countdown

A Spirit Week Log Through the Eyes of a Ninth Grader Two Weeks Before: I don't really know what spirit week is going to be all about, but I heard it's going to be really fun! They are going to...

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The Math Team: Year in Retrospect

On Tuesday, April 8th, the ten “mathletes” of the Waynflete Math Team made an early morning trek to Bangor to check out the new Cross Insurance Center as well as to participate in the 2014 State Math Meet .  Despite...

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Sylvan St. John Arrives

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A Private School, A Public Purpose

As stated in the School's mission, Waynflete intends to encourage in our students "responsible and caring participation in the world." On Tuesday evening, April 8, a key method of doing so was on display: Institutional Modeling. You might be wondering...

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Three Students’ Artwork on Display

Three upper school students artists - Quinn Shivel, Sarah Avery and Maeve Donnelly - are currently represented in a gallery exhibit of Maine High School Ceramics Art students at the Gannet Gallery, 331 Water Street, in downtown Augusta, from April 9-26....

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Mock Admissions Committee Event for Junior Parents

The College Counseling Office invites Junior Parents to participate in Waynflete’s third annual Mock Admissions Committee program on Tuesday, April 29, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Franklin Theater. Parents will simulate the committee process by reviewing and discussing several case study applications before making...

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Nyirikamba and Harvey Named Forecaster Winter Athletes

 

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On to the Science Olympiad Nationals!

“I’m more nervous right now than I am before a basketball game!” said varsity starter Julianna Harwood as she waited to test the boomilever she had built for the recent State Science Olympiad Tournament at the University of Maine in...

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Not quite on the water yet

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