the wellington college year book 2010/2011
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 Goodwin and
Josh Vicino leave at the end of the year. These
two boys, along with Head of House Sailesh
Lakhiani, were also instrumental in producing
some truly outstanding effort grades for the
Upper Sixth taking us to the summit of the
house league tables.
Next year promises to be even more
exciting. We will be celebrating the fifth year
of the House being open with the first group
who joined us as Third Formers reaching their
graduation. The House has been rebranded
and we launched our new symbol and colours
at Speech Day 2011. The red and silver
panther are echoes from the original Raglan
coat of arms and give us a clear identity with
which to take the house forward.
This enthusiasm
and determination
to do well for
their House
shines through
in all that they do
t h e s ta n l e y
This has been another hugely
successful year for The Stanley as
well as one in which the spirit of the
House has been further enhanced.
In September we welcomed twelve new
students into the Third Form, who quickly
contributed to the life of the House. They are
a talented and pleasant group and it has been
particularly heartening to see how well they
have bonded. They have some real characters
in the group but they have quickly understood
the ethos and inclusive nature of the House.
They have been well supported by Gareth
Carr, their tutor and it is with some sadness
that we wish him well for his new role as
assistant housemaster of The Hardinge. The
prefects have been brilliantly and tirelessly led
by William Ayrton, this year’s Head of House
and all of them have carried out their roles
with a supportive and caring approach. They
have been a truly wonderful group to have
in House for the past five years, achieving an
enormous amount along the way and with a
good sense of fun and enthusiasm. The House
wishes all the leavers every success in the
coming years. It was nice to have Tom Garvey
as Head of College this year and William Leith
as a College Prefect.
South Africa: An undoubted highlight of the
year was the second visit to Umzingisi, our
House charity in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Tom Norton and Neill Lunnon took fifteen
pupils from all year groups for ten varied and
extraordinary days. The trip included working
in a Township soup kitchen, refurbishing the
school kitchen where it feeds the scholars,
visiting and playing an impromptu football
match with the Khayalethu Street Kids Home,
painting two classrooms for an after-school
club as well as some fun and adventure on a
24-hour Wilderness Trail, some paintballing
in the bush and a game drive to witness a
cheetah on the kill. The highlight of the trip
was for the boys to be paired up with a South
African pupil and given the opportunity to
work with and get to know them well. The
boys were magnificent ambassadors for the
House and all of them enjoyed an experience
which affected them in many different ways
and which will hopefully stay with them for
a long time to come. Many of the boys have
now visited our charity and a possible third
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