the wellington college year book 2010/2011
the wellington college year book 2010/2011
pantone colours
silver:
877 or cool grey 1
42
red:
200
Garratt and Robbie Offer placed us first
overall for the senior boys, and Jack Griggs
did superbly to win the junior boys event.
Unfortunately our other junior runners were
not quite as strong so the juniors did not
place overall.
The summer term saw the House tackling
House events with the same gusto. Our jko
cricket team manfully battled on against a
very strong Stanley team, and we progressed
to the plate after losing here. Once again
our runners came to the fore, with Jack
Griggs and Patrick Garratt doing superbly
in the Inter-House Triathlon. The Picton
was well represented at the Pink Pavilion
Dash, with Jack Griggs winning the juniors
and breaking the record by 4 seconds.
Angus Boobbyer ran a great race for the
seniors, coming in a creditable fourth overall.
Congratulations too to Barnaby Walker
for taking on the challenge of the Boughey
Run against some very strong opposition.
It was on the football ?eld
that The Picton very nearly
tasted real glory.
The Picton singing
Karma Chameleon
Speech Day 2011 took a different format
this year, with The Picton opting to get a
bigger marquee and providing catering. It
proved a huge success, with parents and boys
enjoying the opportunity to socialise together.
The day was a real highlight for The Picton,
with Robbie Offer, Tom Bateman and Michael
White all performing superbly during the
speeches, reading the moving poem written
by Old Pictonian Jack Girling who was killed in
World War I. At the end of the day, we were
all proud to hear that Patrick Garratt, Deputy
Head of House, had been awarded the Pupils’
Medal, a significant achievement.
Overall it has been a very successful year
for The Picton. I would like to thank the
boys for their determination, hard work and
good humour. It is never easy getting a new
housemaster, let alone in the middle of the
year, and they have been unfailingly positive and
accepting of the change. I am sure the House
will go from strength to strength next year.
the raglan
The Raglan is the day boys house
here at Wellington. We are now in
our fourth year and numbers have
risen to 63 boys this year and a projected
73 next year, which will make us the largest
house in College.
Although a relatively new house, The Raglan
is establishing itself as a force to be reckoned
with on the games field. The small numbers of
our seniors means that it is always a challenge
to produce a competitive team, although we
have some fine individuals. Chris James has
made himself a fixture in the 1st xi cricket
team and his gung-ho approach to batting
was exemplified in Senior Knock Out cricket
with him scoring 82 runs off 5 overs in one
game. James Baker forced himself into the 1st
xi football team, Patrick Blunt captained the
Colts a football and James Gray was athletics
captain in his Lower Sixth year. The senior
boys, Chris Hancock and Tom Huntington
have also now won the interhouse badminton
competition for the second year running and
will be hoping to make it a hat-trick in Tom’s
final year next time around.
Our juniors have had a huge amount of
success on the sporting front with a victory in
the junior leagues rugby competition, a hockey
jko semi-final and a defeat on penalties in the
final of the jko football competition. We are
looking forward to the jko cricket where we
hope having the Yearlings first team captain
will help us towards some success.
This year has certainly been an interesting
one for the House with boys involved in
a myriad of different activities. Our interdormitory quiz team defied the odds to end
the Talbot’s impressive run of victories in
the competition. The final went down to a
tie breaker and James Chapman’s inspired
answer of ‘Racecar’ won the day, despite a
member of our team thinking that Mr Waugh
had been working at the College since 1926 !
We have had a team running the Bracknell
Half Marathon, raising nearly £1,500 for our
House charity, Teenage Cancer Trust. Our
House Song entry was certainly memorable,
if not ever threatening the leader board and
the boys are still humming the theme to
Ghostbusters even now. I particularly enjoyed
the two weeks preparing our entry into
the House Art Competition, which saw us
photographing the entire house partaking
of their ‘passions and obsessions’ in venues
around the school — football in the chapel
with a running commentary by Chris James
will last long in the memory. On a similarly
artistic note, The Raglan Revue was a
tremendous success and we will be sad to see
our talented musicians, Alex