Wellington - the week ahead
Wednesday 1st November until Sunday 5th November
General Events
On Wednesday 1st November, the W.C.A. have organised "An Evening with John Mortimer QC". This is your chance to hear John Mortimer speak and to get your own copy of his latest book, "Rumpole and the Reign of Terror " which will be for sale (cash only - £18.99) on the evening.Numbers are limited for the event so it is important thatyou e-mail Tarla Woolhouse if youare hoping to come. Please request your pre-ordered signed bookat the same time iif you so wish.
On Thursday 2nd November and Thursday 3rd November, the Picton production of "Our Day Out" by Willy Russell takes place in the theatre. The performance begins at 8.00 p.m. and it is about one hour in length and has been adapted, in places, to appeal to Wellingtonians. If you would like tickets, please contactIan Copsey.
The Fireworks Spectacular will be held on Saturday 4th November in the College grounds from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00p.m. Food, drink and all manner of novelties will be on sale from 7:00 p.m. The bonfire will be lit at 7:30 p.m.and the fireworks display, supplied by Kimbolton Fireworks, will commence at 8:00 p.m. The aim of this Round Square eventis to raise money for the Starehe Boys Centre in Nairobi, Tiger Kloof School in South Africa, further education scholarships in Nepal and charities supported by the Rotary Club of Camberley. Security at this years event will be supplied by the same firm that covered so well at the Summer Music and Fireworks evening supplemented by both members of the local constabulary and 2 dog units. Pupil leave-outs will be granted once the festivities are over. Tickets are on sale from the Reception who can be contacted on 01344-444000.
The Chapel service on Sunday 5th November is a full schoolEucharist and parents of theHill are invited to attend.
We are hoping to restart a Young Enterprise company scheme this year for the LVIth and have three companies eager to go but Young Enterprise itself is having difficulty getting them a YE Advisor. A YE Advisor is someone who should have some experience in business and is there to guide and help the students as they set up their companies and start selling their goods and services. In terms of time commitment, it would entail about 45 minutes per company per week this term, decreasing to about 20 minutes per week next term and hardly anything in the summer term. It should be highly fulfilling for anyone who chooses to do it - these students are keen and have lots of ideas, some better than others! If there are any parents who might be willing to help, could they contact Adam Seldis who will be happy to give them more information?
House photographs are now available to buy online. Indeed they can only be purchased this way. Click here for the site. You must then click the word HERE in the red box. For all Houses other than the Combermere and the Hardinge, the username is R6827D and the password is WHEOLU. For the Combermere and the Hardinge, the username isRG8272D and the password is WHEOLU2. There did seem to be a problem last week with the Hardinge and Combermere passwords but I think that has now been resolved. If there is a problem please contact Noel Brett, who organises the photographs.
Sport
The girls' sport continuesto impress and as a result of strong performances in county competitions in the week before the Exeat there are extra fixtures this week and next. The U14 Hockey team won their section of the county tournament and now progress to the semi-finals on Thursday 2nd November. The U18 Hockey team,not to be outdone, won the semi-final of the county competition and now compete in the finals next week on Monday 6th November. Well done to both of them.
The Rugby 1st XV also have an extra fixture and will be playing in the 3rd Round of the Under 18 Daily Mail Cup on Thursday 2nd November on Bigside 1. The match is against Reading School and will kick off at 2.30pm. All supporters are welcome.
Otherwise in the sporting calendar this week, on Thursday 2nd November, our rackets team take on Winchester at home, the squash team play Charters at home, the fencing team travel to Harrow and the shooting team travel to take on Westminster School.
On Saturday 4th November, the Rugby teams play Radley andShiplake and the girls' hockey teams play Pangbourne and Marlborough and then to finish a busy day, our badminton team play Eton.
This link will take you to the Wellington intranet where details of rugby sports' fixtures (team lists, pitch details, etc) can be found. For girls' hockey click here. To keep overall track on how the teams are doing click herefor rugby and herefor girls' hockey.
Further Ahead
On Tuesday 7th November there is a conference being held at Wellington entitled "US University Admissons: Strategies for UK Students." If any parent is interested in attending the event which starts at 2:00 p.m. they should contactTarla Woolhouse for more details.
Further ahead on the second weekend of next term, Saturday 20th January, we plan to take all the Third Form to the Theatre in London. We did this with the Fourth Form this term and the event worked well. Therefore we would ask that you do not arrange anything for your sons and daughters in the Third Form for that Saturday night. The cost of the evening will be of the order of £40. If there are any problems with this trip on either issue, please contactJohn Arton-Powell as soon as possible as we need to get on and book tickets.
Contact us
This newsletter andpast editionsare on the Wellington College website as is a version of the school calendar with details of all activities going on at Wellington for the rest of this term