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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...
The following editorial appeared in the Waynflete Flyer, the Upper School student newspaper. I find this time of year to be particularly difficult. Fall means my birthday, sweater weather, and the collection of firewood, but it also means dark afternoons,...
The following editorial appeared in the Waynflete Flyer, the Upper School student newspaper. As most people probably noticed, there was a photographer on campus on Wednesday. Presumably her pictures of class discussions, frisbee in Waynhenge, and students walking into...
I have been thinking a lot about the value of teamwork and how that applies to a broad spectrum of experiences. The genesis of these thoughts was the glorious day I spent riding the Kennebec waves with the senior class...
With a one goal lead just into the second half of a recent game against Class B Gray-New Gloucester, the Flyers needed to take advantage of a free kick from inside the offensive zone. The two teams had battled evenly...
A traditional honoring, Twilight in the Park is an event sponsored by Hospice of Southern Maine that occurs every year in which people "celebrate life" by lighting a candle for a loved one who has died. The candle is placed inside a...
“It’s not how smart you are that matters; what really counts is HOW you are smart.” Howard Gardner Waynflete is offering a new program for Upper School students which will make academic coaching accessible to anyone wants or needs it....
