About a month to go!
Lower School construction update #11 with Millard Nadeau
Upper School Gratitudes 2018
On the last day of school advisors asked their advisees to write down something they were grateful for over the past year. Answers varied from donuts to Breda White, and each advisor shared one or two at our closing assembly. The word cloud above highlights the most popular words in all their responses, and you can read all the wonderful things Waynflete students were thankful for by clicking here.
Happy Summer!
What kind of school thinks all children deserve a “gifted” education?
5 Hallmarks of Gifted Education for Young Learners
By Anne Hopkins (Lower School Director) and Heather Tanguay (Grade 2-3 Learning Specialist)
Like all children, gifted students deserve a curriculum that meets their special needs.
Gifted students thrive in an educational environment that supports them at their intellectual level, regardless of their age. They benefit from faculty who are comfortable teaching in their most advanced subjects and who are not surprised if there are other areas where they may need support. They thrive in schools with a flexible curriculum that expands to follow the gifted child’s interests into deeper study of increasingly complex material. They also benefit from a school environment that provides emotional support and strategies for asynchronous academic and social/emotional development in all grades, from preschool to high school. Most of all, gifted students benefit from being celebrated for their whole selves, for their giftedness and ordinariness alike.
At Waynflete, we think all children can benefit from and deserve a “gifted” education.
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Next stage in the construction project: farewall to the modulars!
Click below to watch a time-lapse video of the first modular removal!
Our Graduates Are Going Places!
Waynflete’s Class of 2018 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 56 graduates will matriculate this fall.