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Junior School
- w/c 9 Sept – KS1 Enrichment begins
- Mon 9 Sept – WEx programme begins
- Tues 10 Sept – Read Write Inc – Our Phonics Programme Parent Workshop
(for Reception to Year 2) (Theatre)
- Weds 11 Sept – Welly Walk
- Fri 13 Sept – Students to wear House Tops
- w/c 16 Sept – Years 1 to 6 and Pre-Nursery Settling in Parent Teacher Meetings
- w/c 23 Sept – FOBISIA Code Breaking competition all week
- w/c 23 Sept – Individual Photos (timetable to be released nearer the time)
- w/c 30 Sept – Nursery and Reception Parent Teacher Meetings
- Fri 27 Sept – Students to wear House Tops
- w/c 7 Oct – Open Classrooms for Reception to Year 6
- Fri 11 Oct – Students to wear House Tops
- Fri 11 Oct – End of first Half Term
- Mon 21 Oct – Back to School
- Fri 25 Oct – Busking Friday
- Thurs 31 Oct – Halloween Dress Up
- Fri 1 Nov – Poppy Appeal begins
- Fri 1 Nov – Curriculum Leaflets to Parents
- Thurs 7 Nov – Year 2 Show
- Mon 11 Nov – Remembrance Day
- Fri 15 Nov – Loy Krathong Dress Up
- Tues 26 Nov – Reception and Y1 Christmas Concert
- Thurs 28 Nov – Year 3 and 4 Christmas Concert
- Fri 29 Nov – Early Years Reports to Parents
- Tues 3 Dec – Year 5 and 6 Christmas Concert
- Wed 4 Dec – Nursery Sing Christmas Along
- Thurs 5 Dec – School Closed – Public Holiday
- Fri 6 Dec – Pre-Nursery Christmas Songs
- Fri 6 Dec – Year 1 to 6 reports to parents
- Sat 7 Dec – Christmas Fayre
- w/c 9 Dec – Years 1 to 6 Parent Teacher Meetings
- Fri 13 Dec – Santa Dash
- Fri 13 Dec – Last Day of Term
Senior School
- Mon 9 Sept – WEx programme begins
- Wed 11 Sept - Welly Walk
- Weds 11 Sept – Parent Workshop - The Wellington Sixth Form: Introduction to Curriculum
- Thurs 12 & Fri 13 Sept - Artist in Residence
- Weds 18 Sept – Parent Workshop - Online Safety
- w/c 23 Sept - Individual School Photos
- Weds 25 Sept – Parent Workshop – Year 10 Options and Careers – Introduction to our Careers Programme
- Thurs 26 or Fri 27 Sept - SEEMO Maths Challenge
- Weds 9 Oct – Parent Workshop – Year 9 IGCSE Launch - Introduction to IGCSE Programme/ Careers Programme
- Thurs 10 Oct - Visiting Musician Workshops
- Fri 11 Oct – End of first Half Term
- Mon 21 Oct – Back to School
- Weds 23 Oct – Parent Workshop – Jump Residentials!
- Weds 30 Oct – Parent Workshop - Global Citizenship
- Fri 1 Nov – Poppy Appeal begins
- Mon 11 Nov – Remembrance Day
- Weds 13 November – Parent Workshop - Reporting in Senior School
- Weds 20 November – Parent Workshop - IGCSE & AS Preparation - Mocks and Exams
- Thurs 5 Dec – School Closed – Public Holiday
- Sat 7 Dec – Christmas Fayre
- Fri 13 Dec – Last Day of Term
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Dear Parents
On Monday, we will open the new tennis courts (next to the Skylight Building and South Field). With professional-level surface, floodlighting, and covered bleacher seating, this is a really exciting development. You may have noticed that the roof is not yet in place. After last year’s difficulties with construction, we had to redesign the structure and change contractors. This caused a delay. As soon as I have a confirmed date for roof installation, I will let you know.
Thank you for your thoughtfulness regarding traffic during these busy first couple of weeks of the school year. Whilst we worked on smoothing the flow of cars in the car parks, the public road is a different matter. You may have noticed the excellent professional assistance now being given to us on the road at the Junior School entrance every morning, which really helps.
Somebody asked me this week if our school values are only for the students, or for adults as well. Strange question – of course they are for everyone. I believe strongly in the importance of following your values honestly and sincerely. So I hope you (along with your children) have a great weekend, full of respect, integrity, courage, kindness and responsibility!
With best wishes
Chris
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Meet our EAL Team
Here at Wellington, we are immensely proud of the value that the whole community puts on the English language. English is the language of the classroom, the corridor and the playground. And it works! Our IGCSE results this year were the envy of most schools in the UK. We aim for every child to speak native level English by the time they sit their external exams (or long before!) Children join us at every stage in their language development and a few may need extra support along the way. We are very lucky to have an excellent EAL Support team, directed by Head of EAL, Andrew McCarthy who work with our students as they progress through school. We got them all together at the start of term! What a talented and friendly team they are!
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Meet our Chinese Teaching Team
Our Mandarin lessons begin early here at Wellington, with even our tiny Nursery students enjoying their lessons! Many of our students go on to study Mandarin at IGCSE and now A-Level and all students above Year 5 have the option to choose Mandarin – whatever their previous experience of the language. We are grateful to Ms Chunzi (Tina) Tian and her team for their hard work, commitment and inspirational teaching. Get in touch to find out more.
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Libraries
If you’ve got a few hours to spare, why not spend them reading! Take a look at what’s going on in our Senior School libraries this week. We have loads of new books in! |
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Welly Walk
Please see an update from Ms McCraw for next week’s Welly Walk. Don’t miss out! Join our Sunrise Session and set the pace for the day!
On Wednesday 11 September the annual Welly Walk will take place. On this day your child must wear PE kit. The event is aimed at raising money for our chosen charities. Your child will be bringing home a sponsorship form, please help them find sponsors by asking family, friends and neighbours to donate. All money raised must be returned to the class teacher/form tutor by Wednesday 18 September.
The day will start with a sunrise session from 06.00 - 06.45, which everyone is welcome to attend. If you do wish to attend please fill in this form https://forms.office.com/r/Kgs7fCa0Tm before 10pm tonight to make sure breakfast is provided for your child.
If it is raining on the day we will sadly have to postpone. Any questions, please contact Ms McCraw - T.McCraw@wellingtoncollege.ac.th
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Trash Lucky
Please join us in an important recycling initiative spearheaded by Ms Beth Upton, Head of Junior School Science – and the Green Team! See below for details.
We are thrilled to announce that we now have our very own Wellington College Trash Lucky recycling bins installed in the Senior School car park. Trash Lucky is a Thailand-based recycling programme which accepts plastic, glass, paper and metal. Bring in your recycling, and every month there are prizes to be won! To get started, add Trash Lucky on LINE: @trashlucky and click “Register”.
Select your “Community Group” as Wellington College and you are ready to go! Please go to this link to find out more about how to package your recyclables before bringing them into school: Growing Green Starter Kit - School Recycling Program - Trash Lucky.
Note: Trash Lucky will not accept any items that are not packaged correctly, so please read the information carefully. A big thank you to last year’s Eco-Committee for their hard work to set this up.
Please do reach out to Ms Beth Upton or Mr Joel Holliday if you have any questions. Happy Recycling!
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Notice From Marketing
We are excited to have our very talented friends from Christian Photography working with us in school next week. As part of these sessions, we will be taking lots of pictures and some film of children from Pre-Nursery to Sixth Form with a focus on our Year 12 students. These will be used in a variety of marketing platforms including our website, publications, newsletters, ads and social media.
We will be mixing both staged and candid photography and we hope to feature as many of our students as possible. If you would prefer your child NOT to be part of these sessions then please let me know (J.forster@wellingtoncollege.ac.th)
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Our Swimming team had a very exciting delivery this week! We want to make sure that all our students are confident in water and that they are proficient in all the age appropriate skills and strokes.
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Monday saw the first of this academic year's Lunchtime Lectures in our Senior School. Organised by Ms Rosalind Scourti, these are designed to provoke, inspire and stimulate discussion amongst our community.
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This academic year has already seen a lot of positive changes for our Senior School including a fantastic new Head - Ms Jane Sharp. Ms Sharp joined us in August and on the first day of term, she delivered an assembly to a packed theatre of students,
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Games afternoons are an important part of our Senior School schedules. They allow students to come together, let off some steam and hone their skills as they take a break from our academic timetable.
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Our weekly assembly is one of the highlights of the week - whatever year group you are in. This is a wonderful opportunity to come together and hear about events which concern us, school initiatives and our values and ethos.
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Our Year 6 students have a very important year ahead. This is their final year of Junior School and before we know it they will be getting ready to leave Junior School and move into Senior School - complete with the brand new Crowthorne Building, opening in August 2025.
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Ahoy there, Year 2!! We had a wonderful Pirate Dress Up Day on Friday to celebrate our new learning unit. What a fabulous day we had as we completed a series of pirate challenges. Our students were swindled by Captain Redcoat (who could that be?)
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Meet Our Sports Team
Bigger, better and more fabulous than ever – our PE department is off to a wonderful start this year. We introduce them to you here so you can say hello when you see them racing around campus. They do all that they can on our sports fields, in the pool and across all the specialized areas to inspire our students to be their best. They all believe that Every Student is a Champion!
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Check Ins
Thank you to everyone who last week took part in all our Check Ins for many different sports. We have now selected squads and teams and look forward to a wonderful sporting year ahead. Places in squads are always limited and we know that means some disappointed children. We aim to support and grow each child’s talent or passion, whatever their starting point. There are loads of opportunities to play, to enjoy and to improve. Good luck to you all this year!
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Galaxy Football
Don’t forget that there are even more Football opportunities with our providers, Galaxy. Students can play after WEx in the evenings and on Sundays here at Wellington. Contact Galaxy to find out more.
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FOBISIA
We are delighted to be a FOBISIA member school and to benefit from their support, inspiration and organization. We are proud to be hosting not one but two FOBISIA sports competitions this year. We’ll also be entering many more in all areas from sports to arts to academics. See below for a little snapshot of FOBISIA’s September news.
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Junior School Parent Handbooks –
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It’s been another wonderful week for all our Wellington Stars! We love hearing all the news and we share many of the stories here each week
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