Articles Categorized: Upper School

Empower Youth Voices: Deliberative Democracy

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...

A super Saturday for the Flyers

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...

Convocation 2021

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 hosts first guest of the 2021-22 season

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...

Upper School students participate in community service projects

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...

Press Herald’s Waynflete Flyers fall sports preview

Be sure to check out the Press Herald's Waynflete Flyers fall sports preview, featuring comments from all our coaches! Read the story

A magical conclusion to the spring 2021 athletic season

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…)

Commencement 2021

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...

Our Graduates are Going Places 2021!

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...

Upper School Awards 2021

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…)

Might adolescents possess the key to a revitalized democracy?

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...

Upper School students develop classification technique to research asteroids

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...

Upper School art students collaborate with alum Nate Dubuque ’07 on pattern design and printing

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...

Congratulations to the Class of 2021!

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...

Cathie Connors notches 300th win

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 takes first and second place at 2021 Maine State Science Olympiad

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...

Upper School students participate in Climate (EX)Change program

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...

Lunch with Boni

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...

Congratulations to our winter athletes/coach of the year!

Congrats to Sarah Morgan '23 (Nordic skiing) and Chris Saadé '21 (basketball) and for being named Waynflete's Athletes of the Year by The Forecaster. Read more about Sarah and Chris in this article. The Forecaster named Bob Mills its Southern...

LitMag – Spring 2021

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