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Avalanche Foundation Youth Course

Waynflete's Blake Keogh and Beth Swartz of the White Mountain Avalanche Education Foundation led an avalanche awareness course for teenagers over February break. Waynflete students Keegan (seventh grade) and Alex (eighth grade) took part. The course was offered in partnership with Synnott Mountain...

Winter 2018 Varsity Sports Wrap-Up

It was another exciting winter season for Flyers teams. Every Waynflete team qualified for post-season play. The Falmouth/Waynflete alpine ski team won the SMAA championship on February 9. Flyer Ben Adey '21 placed fifth in Giant Slalom and in Slalom....

Upper School Jazz Combo to Compete at the 2018 State Festival

Congratulations to the Waynflete Upper School Jazz Combo for achieving a I (One) Rating last night at the Maine Music Educators Association 2018 District II Jazz Festival!  The high ranking qualifies them for the State Jazz Festival coming up on March 16th.  Julian Abbott '18, Tafari Makinen-Hall '20 and Julian Ray...

Kids’ Choice in 2-3

"Kids' Choice" in Waynflete's 2-3 program is a thematic study that emerges from students' suggestions about subjects they would like to explore in greater depth. Medieval Times There were several highlights! One of the students' favorite classes was when we...

Josh Lodish ’17 takes his gap year by the horns

Dear Waynflete, I am writing from Tel Aviv, Israel. This year I am on a gap year before I begin college at Davidson College in the fall. This year I have gone from the tips of the Himalayas to floating...

Upper School spring play auditions!

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH by Thornton Wilder Guest Director: Robbie Harrison; Production support: Tiki Fuhro; Tech director: Chris Fitze; Costumes: Barbara Kelly Auditions and crew sign up days: Monday, Feb. 26 (the day we return from break!) and Tuesday,...

Vendredi Gras

Today in French 7 and 8 we celebrated Vendredi Gras, our slightly-late Mardi Gras fête that is the culminating event of a week of hard work. Students researched the history and practice of Mardi Gras and French and Cajun history...

Random Acts of Kindness Day

Saturday is Random Acts of Kindness Day! To encourage participation, The Kindness Project (a Middle School activity group with eight students) prepared bags of treats for each homeroom, which they delivered at the beginning of advising lunch today. The bags contained two...

Upper School Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo perform at the 50th Annual Berklee High School Jazz Festival

Waynflete's Upper School Jazz Ensemble and Upper School Jazz Combo recently performed at the 50th Annual Berklee High School Jazz Festival in Boston. The Combo received no fewer than four perfect scores and landed right in the middle of an extremely competitive Combo division! The Jazz Ensemble...

McKinsey video: “the digital future of work: what skills will be needed?”

From McKinsey & Company: For an 18-year-old today, figuring out what kind of education and skills to acquire is an increasingly difficult undertaking. Machines are already conducting data mining for lawyers and writing basic press releases and news stories. In coming...

Middle School Chinese language students celebrate the Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year—or Spring Festival—is China's most important holiday. We spend a good amount of time studying the traditions of this holiday in our middle school Chinese classes. This year, the Chinese New Year falls on Friday, February 16. This...

Congrats to the cast and crew of “The Drowsy Chaperone!”

A huge round of applause for a job well done to everyone involved with "The Drowsy Chaperone." Whether it was courageously rollerskating blindfolded, getting folded into a Murphy bed, singing and dancing your heart out, calling perfect cues, meticulously creating...

Lower School construction project – update #6

Winter athletics update

Capeflete girls ice hockey (head coach Bob Mills and Flyer Laura Baginski '18) defeated Falmouth tonight 4-3 to advance to the semifinals Saturday at 8:30 pm at Troubh Ice Arena vs Portland/Deering. Come cheer on Laura and Bob! Boys ice...

The Forecaster: “Portland school asks ‘Can We’ reach across the political divide?”

Click here to read a Forecaster article about Waynflete's recently announced "Can We?" project, an initiative aimed at strengthening democratic institutions so that we can meet pressing challenges thoughtfully, effectively, and fairly for the benefit of all.

Co-ed sixth-grade basketball team advances to championship round in boys league

Waynflete's co-ed sixth-grade basketball team competed in the Boys and Girls Club Boys League this winter.  Coached by Technology Director Page Lennig and Waynflete parent Bill Frappier, the group began practicing together in November and finished up their season this...

Lower School artist contributes work to PMA show

First-grader Aggie (artwork shown above) will represent Waynflete's Lower School at the Portland Museum of Art's "Youth Art Month" in March!

Alumna lends a hand to The Drowsy Chaperone

Charlotte Brooks '11—pictured here with costume designer Barbara Kelly—recently pitched in to help the The Drowsy Chaperone's costume crew . With a cast of 29 and multiple costume changes, a few extra hands are needed! Charlotte has been working in costume...

Waynflete student artwork on display around Portland

Senior Lydia Giguere and junior Henry Spritz both have work on display through February 10 at Maine College of Art as part of the 2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. They received the two highest honors, a silver and a gold key, respectively. (more…)

Also opening in September 2018: Lower School playgrounds!

Last Wednesday, during our afternoon faculty meetings, Lower School teachers developed some guiding principles for refurbishing the outdoor playscapes that will be open for business next September: Our outdoor playscapes should reflect our Lower School values and support the development...

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