the wellington college year book 2010/2011
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The Orange Block
Assembly Hall
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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
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singing, Katie Wells? Grade 8 lamda with
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distinction. Chloe Stuart? Grade 7 lamda,
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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
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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