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Having spent their entire year “attending” school during a pandemic, our senior class is closing in on their final weeks at school, preparing to begin the next stage of their lives equipped with the values of optimism, curiosity, responsibility, and...
Last Saturday was a record-breaking day: Cathie Connors become the first coach of a Maine girl's lacrosse team to cross the 300-win threshold. To add to the wonders of the day, it was Cathie’s daughter, Jess, who scored the winning...
Waynflete Upper School teams took both first and second place at this year’s Maine State Science Olympiad tournament, which was held virtually over two weeks in April. The events include tests of content knowledge, the scientific process, and engineering build...
Several Upper School students recently completed a four-week Climate (EX)Change with peers from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in South Paris, Maine, and Friends Seminary School in New York City. This collaborative storytelling project resulted from community engagement programming at...
On February 4, Boni Kabongo '14 welcomed the first of thirteen guests to "Lunch with Boni," a speaker series running over the spring semester. These events give Upper School students the opportunity to chat with college seniors and recent college...
It was a big week for Waynflete students in grades 7–12! After careful consideration, and in line with CDC guidelines, we increased the percentage of students attending classes in person from 50 to 75 percent. (Students in preschool–grade 6 have...
Waynflete hosted its third annual Chamber Music Festival on Sunday, March 7. This event was a big milestone for the school—the performance by the Upper School Chamber Ensemble was the the first live musical performance in Franklin Theater since January...
Barack Obama recently spent an hour online with students from The Telling Room in Portland. The former president discussed writing, storytelling, and his recently published memoir, "A Promised Land." Khalil Kilani '21 introduced the Telling Room program to President Obama....
With support from the Winter Break Community Engagement Fund (established by the McKeen Center for the Common Good), Bowdoin senior Mohamed Kilani has been interning at Waynflete over the past few weeks. Mo is pursuing a double major in Hispanic...
On February 11, Head of School Geoff Wagg gave a virtual State of the School address to the Waynflete community from the Klingenstein Library in the Lower School. Geoff reviewed the past year, outlined the elements that will help shape...
Student in Waynflete's Performing Arts program recently performed three student-written plays to a small live audience and via live stream. Read descriptions of the plays below, then click the links to watch! (more…)
Take a look at a special issue of LitMag, created in honor of the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Read the issue
Click here to check out the latest issue of LitMag! Artwork above: "Being a Child" by Selina He
By Carol Titterton (6-12 science chair) 1. Start with teachers who have real-world experience Teachers who have worked or earned degrees in scientific fields are more apt to be genuinely interested in their subject. Waynflete’s faculty, which includes former nuclear...
Waynflete's Ellie Simmons '21 and Liam Slocomb '22 recently competed in the 2020 Maine Chinese Speaking Contest. They each prepared a short (less than five minutes) speech, which they delivered to a panel of judges. Ellie took first place while...
Waynflete theater hosted the 5th annual 24 Hour Theater Fest—Virtual Edition. Nine schools attended, twelve plays were written overnight, and 27 students were present on Saturday to bring the plays to life on Zoom. The quality of the writing and...
Six Waynflete Upper Schools students will attend the National Association of Independent Schools's virtual Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) from December 1–4. The four-day event is a multiracial, multicultural gathering of high school student leaders from across the U.S. and...
Congrats to the cast and crew of Metamorphoses who, in the time of COVID, rose to the challenge of putting on a socially distanced play about love and relationships! While some family members were able to attend—a rare celebration of...
By John Thurston (director of college counseling) Every year, like clockwork, a host of publications tap into a particular vein of national anxiety: getting your child into college. From September through November, flurries of articles appear decrying the increasing selectivity...
