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Last Spring, when I was deciding what classes to take my Senior year, I came up with the idea to do an independent study with Jona Rice, an Art teacher at Waynflete. I wanted to do something that would allow...
As students and faculty are consumed by exams at the semester’s end, production of stories for USNOW has dropped precipitously to this reflection on the first four months of its existence. Here are some highlights: The idea for the...
"Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.... The best way to make decisions is go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows."...
Click here to read the Forcaster article about Senior, Sophie Raffel.
On the evening of Tuesday, November 12, Waynflete held its fall sports awards ceremony for all varsity athletes. The sports represented were Golf, Girls and Boys Soccer, Field Hockey, and Girls and Boys Cross Country. The ceremony began with Ross...
An ally is not just a straight person defending someone in the LGBTQI community. An ally is a person, gay, straight, trans, asexual, pansexual or bisexual, who supports another person in our high school. An ally is a student committed...
Taffy entered the Waynflete community as a parent in 1992. Both of her children are now alums. Six years after she arrived and after a stint as a Waynflete Trustee, she began teaching part time in the English Department and...
Friday discussions in the RAaW (Racial Awareness at Waynflete) activity group are built on establishing a deep level of trust, so each year for the past several years, we have been given the opportunity to take an afternoon to do some...
I think that we can all relate to that feeling of annoyance when a parent or family member asks how your day was - and they genuinely want to know. You get home, hoping to relax or get a start on...
Freshman students have been creating Life Maps for over 10 years now, and they have all turned out quite exceptional. Eidann Thompson-Brown, a current seminar student, worked on her Life Map for three weeks. “It took a lot of time and...
Many teachers across the country are experimenting with “flipping” their classes. In simplest form, in a traditionally structured class, a teacher presents the course material in the classroom, and then students practice what has been presented at home. In a...
At the beginning of August, I got a package in the mail from school, detailing my schedule and the available activities for the coming year. Being the semi control freak that I am, I made a list of everything I'd...
We request that all Upper School parents read this article and then complete the survey that is linked here. When we meet people and they find out that we are high school educators, they will sometimes ask about today’s youth...
It's that time of year again and I don't just mean pumpkins, turkeys, apples, or the opening time of the Maine Mall on November 28th. I am talking about the intense Upper School fall ritual known as the Stock Market...
Global Perspectives is an activity in the Upper School that started five years ago. Modeled from a national community service organization The Empty Bowl Project, students joined the mission for this activity which is centered around the core values of...
It is amazing to learn what people carry with them every day, hidden from view. In fact, you might never really know until you ask them. Generally speaking, when the topic of teenagers and risk is raised, it has a...
Lorry has been teaching English in the Middle and Upper School at Waynflete since 1987, inspiring her students to love literature, training them to read and write and helping them to discover their own voices. After a move to a...
Given the temptations and dangers of texting and driving to everyone, including young drivers, we decided to show the entire Upper School student body a segment of the documentary on the subject, From One Second to the Next, created by the famous...
Last Thursday, the Girls Leadership Group celebrated a significant turnout for the screening and discussion of the film Girl Rising- a new film highlighting the tragic fact that 66 million school age girls are out of school worldwide. Many girls,...
One of the largest and most pressing issues inMaine is the problem of over-incarceration. I believe the solution is criminal justice reform and the reduction of recidivism. Most people interested in such things have heard of “the revolving door,” symbolizing the...
