Workshops
Fall 2026 Enrichment Workshops
Registration will be open for Fall Enrichment workshops on Saturday, September 12 at 9:00 a.m. Fall workshops begin the week of September 21 unless otherwise noted.
Weekly workshops provide students in kindergarten through grade 8 specialized after-school learning opportunities with experienced instructors and passionate teaching artists, musicians, and professionals from the greater Portland area. Workshops offer in-depth exploration into the arts, dance, drama/acting, science, engineering, athletics, cooking, chess, Dungeons & Dragons, and more!
Enrichment workshops are open to the students in our Waynflete Community and students from the greater Portland area.
Enrichment Workshops and Athletic Clinics occur after the school day has concluded. If a program begins at dismissal time (3:30pm/12:15pm on Wednesdays) our instructors will transport students from their classroom to the workshop. If a workshop begins later in the day, families can choose to enroll in Extended Day or return to school for the workshop time.
Fall Enrichment workshops at a glance: REGISTER HERE
Applicable grades are noted for each workshop.
| MONDAYS | TUESDAYS | WEDNESDAYS | THURSDAYS | FRIDAYS |
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STEAM (Grades K–2, 3:15–4:15 p.m.) |
D&D Club – All Levels (Grades 4–5, 3:15–5:00 p.m.) |
STEAM (Grades 3–5, 1:45–2:45 p.m.) |
D&D Club (Grades 6–8, 3:30–5:00 p.m.) |
D&D Club – Intermediate (Grades 4–5, 3:15–5:00 p.m.) |
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Nature Lab (Grades 3–5, 3:15–5:30 p.m.) |
Dance Exploration I (Grades 2–3, 3:15–4:30 p.m.) |
Creative Movement (Grades K–1, 12:15–1:45 p.m.) |
Dance Exploration II (Grades 4–5, 3:15–4:30 p.m.) |
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Field Hockey Clinic (Grades 3–5, 3:45–4:45 p.m. at Fore River Campus) |
Theater Lab (Grades 6–8, 3:30–4:45 p.m.) |
Sketchbook Wanderings (Grades 4–5, 12:15–2:00 p.m.) |
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Fall Crafting Circle (Grades 1–3, 3:30–4:30 p.m.) |
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Fall 2026 Workshops Details
SCIENCE & STEAM WORKSHOPS
NATURE LAB: Science Outing Club
Join Nature Lab! Student scientists will go on weekly adventures to explore the unique ecosystems of Southern Maine. They will learn about the science that is used to study this environment and be given the tools to investigate the intricacies of each site for themselves. Nature Lab is open to any student that enjoys being outside, expressing curiosity, and working as a team to answer scientific questions. Bus transportation provided, and our weekly adventures are rain or shine!
Instructor: Zoë Kennedy, Educator at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Zoë Kennedy grew up in Massachusetts and received her B.S. in environmental studies at the University of Vermont. Her passion for teaching students about the environment has led her to work in a variety of places including Acadia National Park, where she completed a fellowship in environmental education in 2024. She started leading the Nature Lab workshop in the Fall of 2024 and is very excited to continue to offer the program again this spring!
Weekly locations and scientific explorations will be noted in welcome emails. This may include phonology, ornithology, dendrology, vernal pool exploration, intertidal ecology, fire safety and more!
3–5 Nature Lab: Science Outing Club
Mondays from 3:30–5:30 p.m.
September 28 to November 23 (No class on 10/12)
Session length: 8 weeks
Minimum – 5 students | Maximum – 10 students
$230 • REGISTER
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math)
Your child(ren) will love Susan’s exciting workshops that mix science, art, and creative play! Students will learn basic science ideas while building, designing, and experimenting together.
Past projects have included:
- Racing up-cycled cars in the Spaghetti Derby,
- Protecting eggs in a drop challenge,
- Building houses powered by wind,
- Creating cars that zoom with rubber bands,
- And much more!
These fun, hands-on activities will spark your student’s curiosity and help them build important science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) skills. It’s learning through doing—and your child(ren) will have a blast!
Instructor: Susan Weimer
Location: Lower School Art Studio
K–2 STEAM: Electromagnetic Mania
We will make toys and play games to help us understand the ways that electromagnetic force affects everything from subatomic structures to the outer reaches of our solar system.
Mondays from 3:15–4:15 p.m.
September 21 to December 7 (No class on 10/12)
Session length: 11 weeks
Minimum – 5 students | Maximum – 8 students
$315 • REGISTER
3–5 STEAM: Electromagnetic Mania
We will make toys and play games to help us understand the ways that electromagnetic force affects everything from subatomic structures to the outer reaches of our solar system.
Wednesdays from 1:45–2:45 p.m.
September 23 to December 16 (No class on 11/11 and 11/25)
Session length: 11 weeks
Minimum – 5 students | Maximum – 8 students
$315 • REGISTER
CREATIVE DRAMA WORKSHOPS
Middle School Theater Lab
This theatrical workshop will invite middle school actors to dive into working as an ensemble, making big choices onstage, and creating the world of a play through costumes and props. Through a series of acting exercises and improv activities, we will build confidence and comfort onstage. Though this is not a rehearsal process for a fully staged play, we will be exploring the world of the much-beloved Shakespearean comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Our work will culminate in a sharing of a short adaptation of this play for family and friends on the final class, December 8.
Instructor: Julia Jennings
Julia Jennings teaches drama in Lower School, grade 7 English and serves as the director for the Middle School play. She studied playwriting and acting at Bowdoin College and the National Theater Institute, and trained as a directing and dramaturgy apprentice at Portland Stage. Her work focuses on the intersection between acting and writing for the stage as well as ensemble-driven new play development.
Location: Lower Studio / Arts Center Gallery
Tuesdays from 3:30–4:45 p.m.
September 22 to December 8 (No class on 10/13 and 11/24)
Session length: 10 weeks
Minimum – 6 students | Maximum – 15 students
$300 • REGISTER
ENRICHMENT DANCE WORKSHOPS
In these classes, Lower School dancers learn to become strong, confident, creative, and expressive through movement exploration.
Instructor: Carly Kasle
Carly is a passionate and driven dance professional from the greater Portland area. She earned her MA in Ballet Pedagogy from New York University and her BFA in Dance Education from University of Tennessee. Her primary area of expertise is classical ballet, but she has been a student of, taught, and choreographed contemporary dance and jazz. Her teaching philosophy is student-centered, placing the student and cognitive development at the center of her curriculum design.
Location: Arts Center, Lower Studio
K–1 Creative Movement
A dance class for our youngest movers focusing on full body movement, storytelling, and creative dance making. This class is ideal for dancers who want to move their bodies in a fun and supportive environment while learning foundational movement for future dance classes.
Wednesdays from 12:15–1:45 p.m. (includes time for lunch)
September 23 to December 16 (No class on 11/11 and 11/25)
Session length: 11 weeks
Minimum – 6 students | Maximum – 12 students
$330 • REGISTER
2–3 Dance Exploration I
A dance class for Grades 2–3 dancers interested in exploring different dance modalities. We will explore jazz, modern, ballet, and improvisational dance in a fun and supportive environment while learning dance technique and choreography in each style.
Tuesdays from 3:30–4:30 p.m.
September 22 to December 8
Session length: 12 weeks
Minimum – 6 students | Maximum – 12 students
$360 • REGISTER
4–5 Dance Exploration II
A dance class for Grades 4–5 dancers interested in exploring a variety of dance modalities. Dancers will explore jazz, modern, ballet and improvisation learning dance technique and choreography in each foundational dance style.
Thursdays from 3:30–4:30 p.m.
September 24 to December 10 (No class 11/26)
Session length: 11 weeks
Minimum – 6 students | Maximum – 12 students
$330 • REGISTER
ART WORKSHOPS
Sketchbook Wanderings: Watercolors in Nature
Student-artists will meet once a week, take trips to local parks & gardens and explore different materials and prompts to provoke inspiration. Through working on our personal sketchbooks, learning about artists’ relationships to their own sketchbooks, and collaborative group projects, our artists will be challenged to think outside the box and deepen our relationship with our personal practices. We will work through guided prompts and have free time to unwind after a long day of school. Our Fall session will focus on watercolor painting and nature sketching and drawing!
Instructor: Mia Schaumburg
Mia is a local tattoo artist and former Extended Day teacher at Waynflete. Mia has a BA in Visual Media Arts from Emerson College where they concentrated in darkroom photography. They are very excited to bring their specialty as a multimedia artist to this weekly adventure workshop.
4–5 Sketchbook Wanderings
Wednesdays from 12:15–2:00 p.m. (includes time for lunch)
September 23 to November 18 (No class on 11/11)
Session length: 8 weeks
Maximum – 8 students
$230 • REGISTER
Fall Crafting Circle
Calling all crafty kiddos! Every Wednesday for eight weeks, your child will roll up their sleeves for a new creative adventure, think whimsical calendar wheels, colorful collage, and squishy, satisfying wet felting, plus a few surprises along the way. There’ll be music playing, plenty of giggles, and just the right amount of glitter-and-glue mischief as little hands learn new art-making tricks and make new friends. No experience needed, just a love of making fun art!
Instructor: Melanie Boone, K–1 Extended Day Teacher
Location: K–1 Kitchen Classroom
1–3 Fall Crafting Circle
Wednesdays from 3:30–4:30 p.m.
September 23 to November 18 (No class on 11/11)
Session length: 8 weeks
Maximum – 8 students
$230 • REGISTER
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS CLUBS
Have you ever wanted to go on an epic adventure with your friends? In Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), you’ll create your own unique character and team up with other players to explore a fantasy world filled with treasure, puzzles, and danger around every corner!
As you play, you’ll make choices that shape the story. Will you sneak past the sleeping dragon or try to befriend it? Will you solve the ancient riddle or search for a hidden passage? The decisions are yours to make! Our creative Game Masters will guide your journey and bring the world to life, but where you go and what you do is completely up to you! Get ready for challenges, epic battles, and unforgettable adventures.
Locations: CHM-15 (6–8), CHM-14 (4–5)
Instructor: Riss Bickford
4–5 D&D Club: All Levels
Tuesdays from 3:30–5:00 p.m.
October 6 to December 8
Session length: 10 weeks
Maximum – 5 students
$275 • REGISTER
4–5 D&D Club: Intermediate Level
Fridays from 3:30–5:00 p.m.
October 16 to December 11 (No class on 10/23, and 11/27)
Session length: 7 weeks
Maximum – 5 students
$195 • REGISTER
6–8 D&D Club
In Middle School D&D you get to be the Dungeon Master! Students will take turns DMing each other for short adventures to longer campaigns. Our instructor will teach students how to create cool NPCs and exciting combat, build better puzzles and tell great stories, handle conflicts at the table, and run awesome games for their friends. Come ready with campaign ideas and questions, character concepts, and an open mind! We’ve built the D&D club experience you want to play!
Thursdays from 3:30–5:00 p.m.
October 8 to December 10 (No class on 11/26)
Session length: 9 weeks
Maximum – 10 students
$250 • REGISTER
REGISTER NOW
Additional Information:
- Parent pickup location for all workshop attendees is the Lower School lobby unless otherwise noted.
- Workshop start and end dates are noted above.
- All students must be registered to attend an Enrichment workshop.
- Payment in full is required at the time of registration.
- Workshops are open to all students from the greater Portland area.
- Workshops are either offered in three seasons or half-year sessions.
- If a workshop is canceled due to low enrollment, families will be notified one week before the first class.
Discount codes:
- Full-time Waynflete Extended Day students receive a 25 percent discount on the price of Enrichment workshops. Use the code “FT_EW” at checkout.
- Tailor Your Week Waynflete Extended Day students receive a 10 percent discount on the price of Enrichment workshops. Use the code “TYW_EW” at checkout.
Questions? Suggestions for new workshops? Email the Auxiliary Programs office or call 207.774.7863, ext. 1379.
