the wellington college year book 2010/2011
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Tom Garvey [S], Head of College
Winner of the Queen’s Medal
leadership
T
he Wellington Leadership
Institute was started in
September 2010 and has
delivered a number of projects this year. Its mission
is to develop leaders with the passion, values
and skills to serve and make a positive difference to the lives of others.
Within Wellington, we have developed a
core leadership training programme which,
from September 2011, all pupils and staff will
follow. Our pupils will participate in at least
ten hours of leadership training per year and
will also have specialist training for specific
leadership roles, such as prefecting and ccf.
We are fortunate to have been helped to
develop these leadership programmes by
our pupils and staff, Cambridge University,
McKinsey and Company, the National College
and our other partners, including a wide range
of schools, the military and a variety of both
public and private businesses. The Wellington
Academy and other state and independent
schools will use parts of our programme and
we hope that the feedback from these will help
us to improve this further. Emphasis is placed
on practical experience of leading, and we
have found that our service projects, such as
the Social Apprentice, have been particularly
good at developing leadership in our pupils.
Our student and adult boards helped
ensure that our external programmes this
year have been a success and below is a
summary of them:
Head Boy/Girl Conference (1st October
2010): attended by 185 Sixth Form pupils
who came from a wide range of schools,
located between Edinburgh and Exeter.
Wellington Festival of Leadership (11th
March 2011). A pupil-led festival which
challenged participants to stretch their skills
through various student-run leadership-focused
activities. This was attended by 179 pupils.
Independent-State School Partnership
Summer Residential for Gifted and
Talented Students (4th?–7th July 2011).
McKinsey and Company Leadership
Residential Course for 100 pupils drawn
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