the wellington college year book 2010/2011
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the wellington college year book 2010/2011
Year ?s getting ready to welcome
Wellington College sta?
to the Academy
on launch day
T
he Wellington Academy
opened its doors in
September 2009 and the
message from the Principal,
Andy Schofield was ‘We’re
Changing Lives’. This mark-one Academy came
into being through the generosity of sponsors
Tim and Sarah Bunting, Wellington College
parents. The setting up of Academies was
part of a strategy of government investment
in failing schools by providing a £30 million
new building after a sponsor had been found.
The Wellington Academy is in Ludgershall,
Wiltshire, opposite the Tidworth garrison.
Its iconic new building, which stands out like
a beacon, was opened on 26th April 2011
by Lord Andrew Adonis when the staff of
the wellington
academy
Wellington College and The Wellington
Academy came together for their second
joint inset day. Lord Adonis challenged the
College to sustain its partnership with the
Academy via its support for boarding, the ccf,
student collaboration and joint learning.
This year, in addition to the whole-staff
inset, 45 individual members of Common
Room have visited the Academy. Some have
completed the Graduate Training Programme
there, others have visited their counterparts
for consultation on a variety of issues or
lesson observation. Still more have completed
teacher exchanges. Staff have accompanied
College students on visits to the Academy: a
Politics question time session with a local mp;
leading activities on European Languages Day;
attending the school musical and much more.
Academy students have visited us for Year 11
Maths workshops, Sixth Form lectures and
seminars, our University Fair, as speakers in
the Festival of Education, to the Leadership
Conference, our Panto in December and a 1st
xi football fixture to name just a few of our
joint activities.
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