Student Life

Kennebunk Art Walk: August 8

The New School at Kennebunk's Art Walk The New School is happy to be participating in the next Kennebunk Art Walk on Friday, August 8 from 5-7 pm. We'll be at the Waterhouse Center showcasing TNS student artwork. If you are a TNS student or alum and have art that you would like to sell (or display), please contact Jacqueline Tourville, New New School Committee member (and former TNS parent!), who is organizing this effort. She can pick up art if you're local, or you can drop it off at TNS and she will pick it up there. We are also [...]

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Introducing our Head of School, Will Tuttle

The New School in Kennebunk Announces Appointment of Will Tuttle as Head of School The New School is proud to announce the appointment of Will Tuttle as its next Head of School, effective July 1, 2025. A seasoned educator and leader in progressive education, Tuttle brings nearly two decades of experience in independent schools, where he has been widely recognized for his commitment to student-centered learning, ethical leadership, and innovative academic programming. Tuttle joins The New School at a time of momentum and renewed vision. With his leadership, the school will continue to deepen its mission of fostering intellectual [...]

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Join Us For Online Information Sessions

Join us for an online session Every other Thursday throughout the school year, we will be holding Virtual Information Sessions: February 5th, February 19th, March 5th, and March 19th starting at 7:00 pm (Eastern time zone). If you have questions about The New School, want to find out if our high school is right for you, or just want a quick glimpse at what makes our school special, please join us! Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/qkn-etbb-wvz Or dial: ‪(US) +1 530-777-5718‬ PIN: ‪940 257 780‬#

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May 9th and 30th: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament

Get ready to Smash! At 5pm on Friday, May 9th, and Friday, May 30th, The New School is holding Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournaments, open to the public! Your $5 Venmo entry fee to @thenewschoolme gets you in the bracket and makes you eligible for our prize pool: a $50 GameSpot gift card for first place, $25 card for second, and $10 for third. Doors will open at 4pm with the tournament starting at 5pm, ending when we have a winner! (Probably 8 o’clock.) Note: This is an event for middle and high school-aged students. Ready to Smash? Register for [...]

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Food and Culture Intensive

Between semesters, The New School takes three weeks to do a focused session on one topic. Last year at this time we broke the school up into three groups: a local study intensive about wildlife, a regional travel intensive to the Adirondacks, and a travel intensive down the eastern seaboard to explore the American space program. This year, our students were involved in senior projects, independent studies, and a local intensive about food and culture. For our first week, the Food and Culture Intensive cooked up a storm in the kitchen from potatoes to perogies to pizza. Students and [...]

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament

The New School’s eSports team is hosting a Smash Ultimate tournament the afternoon of February 19th, the Wednesday of our February break, right here at The New School. “This will be a free double elimination tournament where I will be providing refreshments,” said Coach Raizel. If you would like to join us for the afternoon, please join our discord at https://discord.gg/7EU2pVm2Yk and sign up in the #tournament channel. This after school program is free to join for high school aged teenagers from The New School and the local community! No costs are associated with the team — all materials needed to play are [...]

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Creativity One Ten 100 at TNS

Fritz Grobe recently conducted a workshop for students and teachers here at The New School. The event, designed to inspire creativity and highlight the importance of perseverance, was a resounding success, engaging our learners in improvisation exercises and a unique activity involving creative uses for tissues. Fritz, a co-founder of EepyBird, is renowned for his viral online videos featuring the explosive combination of Coke and Mentos that have been seen by over 150 million people, won four Webby Awards, and been nominated for two Emmys. They're one of the staff's favorite moments from the David Letterman show! He [...]

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Build a Robot!

We're looking for students to join our FIRST Robotics Competition team. If you are in grades 9-12 (and/or homeschooling) and are in the ages of 14-18, you are invited to join us! In the sport, teams of students build and program industrial-sized robots to play a difficult field game against other teams. It's as close to real-world engineering as a student can get! We'll be building a robot in January and February, getting it ready for our competitions in March. There is no fee for participants. Practices will be at the Maine Mall on [...]

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Raising Salmon

Students in the Watershed and Ecology class ventured north to release their Atlantic salmon fry.  Out of 200 eggs, 193 hated and developed into fry.  That's an amazing success rate!  Students involved in raising the Atlantic salmon named all of the eggs when they arrived at the school.  They read all 200 names of the fish before releasing them.  As part of their senior project,  Alex Morin created a companion website to educate people about Atlantic Salmon. Click here to learn more about their great work!

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