the wellington college year book 2010/2011
In 2007 we had five
Oxbridge/Ivy League places,
2008 seven, 2009 ten, 2010 nine.
This year we achieved twenty-three,
made up of seventeen Oxbridge places
and six Ivy League. Our target
for 2015 is fifty.
Achievements
Our A Capella group nicely introduce some
comments about the achievements of the
school. All the richness of achievement would
be nothing if we weren’t doing the core things
well, by which I mean academic standards, as
seen in exam results.
Our a Level results in 2010 were the best
in our history, and show a spectacular increase
since 2005, as measured by percentages of a
and b grades.
These figures are meaningless unless you
factor in the ability intake for each school.
It is here that Wellington does spectacularly
well, coming in the top 0.7% of the country on
the government’s ‘added value’ tables.
Wellington is beaten by kcs Wimbledon,
which benefits from the preferential ucas
tariff of being an all ib school.
But what of scholarship, which I said in
earlier years we need to improve at??
In 2007 we had five Oxbridge/Ivy League
places in total, 2008 seven, 2009 ten, 2010
nine. This year we achieved twenty-three,
made up of seventeen Oxbridge places and six
Ivy League. Our target for 2015 is fifty.
Wellington will become much more scholarly, but without losing any of its excellence in
sports, the Arts or service.
What of the pupil achievements?
They are listed in your programme, as they
are every Friday in the Week Ahead. The girls
have had an outstanding year and are only
behind the boys in their filming technology, so
the extract we are going to see is going to
be only of boys’ sport, of our first team and
victorious 7s side at Rosslyn Park.
While we are looking at it, I would like the
following, who are among those who have
played for their country at sport this year, to
come up to the stage to shake the hand of the
Chairman of Governors. Let me also mention
Will Leith who scored a century last week in
the 1st X1 victory over Eton.
In the Great Britain u15 athletics team:
Morgan Lake. Scotland u17 rugby: Buchan
Richardson. England u16a rugby: Charlie
Wicks. England u16 rugby: Simon Sexton.
Alex Peters and Heidi Baek playing for
England at golf, the latter winning the us
Junior Masters. Nick Hopcroft in the England
u19 squash team. Harry Orpen-Smellie in the
gb cadet rifle team. Hannah Joseph in the
England u19 netball team. Madison Hughes
in the usa u20 rugby team. Kieran Ball in the
England u18 rugby club and schools team.
Jake Oldacre in the England u17 rugby.
The service achievement has been extraordinary this year from Wellington pupils, who
have embodied the values of courage, respect,
kindness, integrity and responsibility.
The Arts have been a real highlight this
year, and we are going to listen to Keshan
Vaikunthanathan play one of his pieces on Sax,
which made him one of the eight finalists of
the Montgomery Music Competition.
While he plays, we will see a medley of
images on screen representing the best of
dance, drama, music and visual art. The one
art form missing, creative writing, can be seen
in the magazine published this week, South
Front, and in the online Wellingtonian.
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