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Congratulations to Max Polsky '23 and Oscar Twining '23, who last weekend participated in the Maine All State Jazz Band! Max and Oscar traveled to Bangor High School for three days of rehearsal and performance. While rehearsing the band on...
6–12 science faculty member Stephanie Dolan was awarded a grant through the National Science Foundation, in collaboration with the Juneau Icefield Research Program and the University of Maine, to attend a nine-day expeditionary conference in Alaska this summer. The classroom...
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Waynflete boys varsity soccer coach Brandon Salway has been named the 2021 Fall New England Boys High School Coach of the Year by United Soccer Coaches. This is a major accomplishment for Brandon and the entire boys soccer program. The...
Congratulations to the 45 brave, talented, and gracious students from five local high schools (Waynflete, Bonny Eagle, Scarborough, Greely, and Morse) who participated in Saturday's 24-Hour Theater Fest! This is the seventh year that Waynflete has hosted the event, which...
Congrats to sisters Keegan '23 and Fiona '25 for a fantastic mountain biking season that saw both on the podium multiple times! Read the Press Herald article
Waynflete Athletics is thrilled to announce that the installation of artificial turf on Hall Field has begun at the Fore River Campus! The problem of games being cancelled in the spring and fall due to drainage issues and grubs will...
Congrats to our boys varsity soccer team for their 2-1 Class C state championship win over Fort Kent in Presque Isle last weekend! This is the third consecutive state championship for the team and the seventh for coach Brandon Salway....
As the first Nor'easter of the season rained down upon us, a cohort of Upper School students braved the limits of busy lives to connect with peers from across the nation for the Empower Youth Voices: Deliberative Democracy workshop facilitated...
Girls cross-country had a great day at Twinbrook, capturing the Class C south runner-up plaque. Boys cross-country exceeded expectations, coming in fifth in Class C out of 15 teams. Both cross-country teams qualified for the state meet Saturday at Troy Howard Middle School...
Read Head of School Geoff Wagg's Convocation remarks below, or watch a video of the event. Welcome to our opening Convocation for the 2021-2022 school year. I would like to begin with acknowledging that we are gathered today on the...
The Perspective Project—an Upper School student-led organization formed to bring new perspectives to the Waynflete campus—recently welcomed its first guest speaker of the season. James French is the inaugural chair of the Montpelier Descendants Committee, an organization formed by the...
Participating in local service trips for Outdoor Experience (OE) is an annual opportunity that many Upper School students select, but this year our usual community partners weren’t able to schedule groups. With that obstacle in mind, OE Director Nikki Dresser...
After missing the spring 2020 season due to COVID-19, Waynflete teams took full advantage of a return to sports in 2021. All our MPA teams won at least one postseason contest and Waynflete track athletes impressed on the track. (more…)
Waynflete's 123rd Commencement was held the afternoon of Thursday, June 10 at Thompson's Point—a beautiful early summer day accompanied by the cooling breeze that we've come to appreciate about this venue! View/download Commencement photos Photos can be downloaded from SmugMug...
Waynflete’s Class of 2021 is a group of accomplished young adults with an impressive list of colleges and universities that they will be attending! Below is the list of where our 73 graduates will/may matriculate this fall. Some students may...
On behalf of the Upper School faculty and administration, it is my pleasure to announce the 2021 recipients of departmental awards, inductees into the Cum Laude Society, and recipients of other awards (descriptions of the awards are linked here): (more…)
By Lowell Libby (Upper School Director) There is little doubt that extreme political division in America is paralyzing the nation’s ability to meet the many challenges we face and has left our democracy floundering. When encountering people with different viewpoints...
For the past year, as part of the Exploration of the Moon and Asteroids by Secondary Students (ExMASS) initiative run by the Lunar Planetary Institute, five Upper School students have been conducting a research project of their own design, in...
Longtime visual arts teacher Judy Novey discusses a project that started with "super humble little stamps" and kept multiplying, both literally and educationally... The hybrid learning environment presented a challenge: how could I teach a printmaking class when kids weren't...
