the wellington college year book 2010/2011
the wellington college year book 2010/2011
If you ever need
cheering up
—pop into
The Orange !
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The new Orange Assembly Hall.
Nabukenya Primary School,
Uganda
be spending some time at Wellington Tianjin
during her gap year and Laura Dyer is off to
an internship at Rag and Bone in New York.
Creativity and Music: The House has
continued its intensely creative tradition,
winning the Inter house Art Cup for the
second year in a row. We have some great
dance talent too, with Katie Wells, Imogen
Halsey and Sophie Roberts winning the small
group category in the first ever Inter House
Dance competition.
Katie also starred as the leading role
Adelaide in Guys and Dolls in the Lent term
with a host of Orange girls in supporting
singing and dancing roles. Molly Gray starred
in the challenging The last 5 years. Molly
Critchley starred in No one sees the video in
the Michaelmas term and in the summer term
she played a fabulous Nancy in Oliver ! India
Flanagan was the first Wellington girl to play
The Last Post at Remembrance.
Full Arts colours were awarded to
Molly Gray (head of choir), Molly Critchley,
Imogen Halsey and to Laura Dyer. Lucinda
Patrick-Patel performed amazingly on the
flute in the prestigious Montgomery Recital
competition. Many others in the House
took lamda or music exams: Imogen Halsey
Grade 8 singing with distinction and grade
8 cello merit,
Martha Gray — Grade 8
singing, Katie Wells — Grade 8 lamda with
distinction. Chloe Stuart — Grade 7 lamda,
Emily Beard — grade 6 Rockskool singing, with
Distinction, and many, many others too.
Leadership: The Orange Upper Sixth have
been an amazing group of individuals — the
original pioneers of co-education when they
arrived in The Orange in September 2006
as Third Formers. Their pioneering spirit
has carried them through Wellington over
the last five years. Their leadership qualities
have shone throughout their time here and in
particular we are very proud that Elizabeth
Mallet and Molly Critchley were elected to
serve and lead the school as College Prefects.
Katie Wells has been chosen to lead the
school as joint Head of College. This is an
enormous privilege and we are hugely proud
of her. She is Wellington’s first female Head
of College and she will be working with Jack
Stileman, her counterpart from the Lynedoch.
Sport: On the sporting front The Orange
girls have participated with their usual joyful
and spirited enthusiasm. In the Summer Term
the seniors won the inter house tennis plate
competition. Harriette Johnson came second
girl in the famous Kinsley’s race in the Lent term.
Full school colours were awarded for the
following achievements. Hockey colours to
Olivia Marshall. Netball colours to Molly
Gray who captained the College first team
and half colours to Molly Critchley and Sophie
Robertson. Half colours for Cross Country
went to Harriette Johnson. Harriette (Lower
Sixth) qualified for the Triathlon in the World
Championships in Beijing this summer. She is
also completed a fundraising Channel swim
with a team of Wellington students at the
beginning of July, for the Mityana charity. We
are so proud of her.
Service and Giving: Service and a sense of
responsibility to the world beyond Wellington
lie at the heart of life in The Orange. Elizabeth
Mallet in the Upper Sixth has been the
Wellington College Round Square chair this
year. Biz has led Round Square with initiative
and dedication and under her leadership it has
become has an ever more thriving activity at
the school. Katie Wells and Tara Henderson
from the Lower Sixth went to the Thailand
Round Square conference in October 2010.
Caroline Dreesmann in the Fourth Form
climbed Kilimanjaro and raised £1,000 for the
Wellington Academy, India Ayles in the Fifth
Form will climb Kilimanjaro in July for Teenage
Cancer Trust and Tash Carolides will trek
to Matchu pichu for the same charity in the
October half-term.
This year The Orange girls and parents have
raised over £11,000 (following over £14,000
last year) to help build an Assembly Hall at
the Nabukenya Primary School in Uganda.
Together with The Blucher we have built three
classroom blocks (nine classrooms in all) and
accommodation for 8 teachers and now we
have the money for this final Assembly Hall. In
October 2010 a group of Orange and Blucher
pupils and parents went to Uganda to work at
the school and to encourage the children and
staff. It was a fabulous, if busy week and we all
came away with a gratitude of heart for all we
have and with a desire to share more of that
with our Ugandan friends who have so much
less in material terms but who have a joy and
pride that often we lack. The next trip will be
in February 2012.
Final words: It’s been a great year in a
wonderful House. If you ever need cheering
up — pop into the Orange !
t h e p i c to n
Rick Clarke, Head of English at St
John’s College in Johannesburg,
joined the House in January
2011 and he has quickly settled in as the new
housemaster. His wife Natalie and both his
daughter Olivia and his dog Dexter love the
House and the boys seemed to have taken
them to their hearts.
The Lent term saw the House tackling the
House song competition with gusto. The
choice of Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon was
an inspired one and the House quickly settled
into a routine of practice. George Turley
led the musical side of things superbly, with
Robbie Offer and his prefects directing dance
moves and acting as motivators. The decision
to appoint Chas Cerveny as conductor was
a wise one: his boundless enthusiasm and
madcap conducting kept the House going
through late night practices. On the night of
the competition I was particularly proud of
what the boys achieved: if there was a prize
for enthusiasm, we would have won it ! Chas’s
energetic conducting certainly won the crowd
over and the boys really enjoyed themselves.
On the sports field The Picton once again
competed at all levels. The bims hockey
team punched above their weight, winning a
few games and competing strongly against all
teams that beat them. Our junior and senior
inter-house hockey teams also competed very
strongly, with notable performances from
James Burnett and Hamish Richardson in the
juniors and Angus Boobbyer in the seniors
nearly seeing us through. However, it was on
the football field that The Picton very nearly
tasted real glory. Excellent performances
from our senior team, ably led by 1st xi
captain Robbie Offer, got us through to the
semi-finals, and we were unlucky to lose to
the Talbot in a close semi-final. Few of us will
forget Nick Baron’s Brazilian-like skills on the
day, with Luke Cervino’s bustling performance
up front also earning the admiration of the
crowds. Our junior team, ably led by Fedor
Bulin-Sokolov, also managed to get to the
semi-finals, beating some of the favourites
along the way.
A notable performance by the House was
also achieved in the Kingsley’s race this year.
A top-ten finish for Angus Boobbyer and topthirty finishes for Barnaby Walker, Patrick
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