Sunday 17th June until Sunday 24th June

General Events

The Wellington College Summer Proms (formerly know as the Summer Music and Fireworks Spectacular) will take place in college on Saturday 16th June. A flyer with details of the evening was sent to all parents at the end of last term - tickets are now on sale. Please support this as we hope to raise a large sum of money for both local and national charities. Further details available by phoning 01344 751751, visiting www.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/events or directly from Eddy Heddon.

On Sunday 17th June, there is a full School Service of the Word at which the preacher is Mark Boobbyer, the Housemaster of the Blucher. Parents of the Blucher and the Combermere (as it is their last chapel service as a boys' house) are warmly invited.

The Junior Concert will be at 6:15 p.m. on Monday 18th June. This will be a chance to enjoy the talents of the younger musicians in College so please try to come along - an appreciative audience will undoubtedly encourage them to continue in their musical pursuits. There will be solo items from Katie Booth, Leesu Kim, Illias Thoms and Keshan Vaikunthanathan and also many ensembles - string quartet, string trios, sax quartet, percussion ensemble and the 3F1 class ensemble. If the sun shines on Monday we hope to start the concert outside the Music School with items from Junior Brass and the Woodwind Ensemble before moving in to the Concert Room. We look forward to seeing many of you there.

Tuesday 19th June sees the start of the Third Form exams and then many are off to France on the Sunday.

The musical week will finish with two recitals by celebrated and inspirational organists - on Thursday 21st June Timothy Byram Wigfield, Director of Music at St George's Chapel Windsor will play works by Hollins, Bovet and Bach and on Friday 22nd June Kerry Beaumont, who is Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral, will play Bach and Langlais and his own improvisations. Both recitals begin at 8 p.m. in Chapel. On Friday Kerry Beaumont will also adjudicate the Haldane Organ Competition at 4.30 p.m. He will choose the winner from 4 organ pupils, Tom Lowe, Harry Willis, Illias Thoms and Jamie White.

Although not a Wellington event, Sunday 24th June sees the fourth AXLR8 Wellington Triathlon. It is run by Wellington parents and uses the Wellington campus and indeed there have been a number of parents at the pre-event trainings. More details of the event can be found here whilst entry and sponsorship forms can be found  here.  £24,077 has been raised for  Cancer Research and Naomi House to date and the target this year  is £15,000.

Can I put in a plea from the Librarian to help her find and return some library books? If you see any of the books stamped with Wellington College Library around your house, please return them to her via your son or daughter.

In trying to improve communication between home and school, you can now access the school intranet from outside school. Its address is https://intranet.wellingtoncollege.org.uk/. Note the S in https ! This is a SECURE website, because you may be logging on or filling in forms. To begin with, you will only see 'public' pages. You should see a LOGIN link near the top of the screen. By clicking it, the computer will check who you are and will try to give you access to more pages -ones which are password protected. Because you are at home, the computer cannot check who you are, therefore it will ask you for your details. Staff and pupils at Wellington should use their own college username and password. We have supplied a username and password for parents. The username is Victoria and the password is the name of the person on the plaque outside the RITS. You have to type this name in CAPITALS. Your son or daughter will be able to find out this name if they don't know but if we gave it out in this newsletter, then it would not be secure! When you click on the login button, you will be challenged for a username and password. If you see two boxes, please type COLLEGE and a back slash prior to your user name. If you see three boxes, please type COLLEGE into the third (Domain) box instead. This information will go on the intranet as a reminder, on this page. One of the pages just put up that you will need to log on to is a page of letters home. In the future, letters home should be posted there so if you have lost one it gives you the chance of easily getting a copy.

The Medical Centre require 'drivers' to drive pupils to and from appointments. The Medical Centre regularly organises referrals for specialist appointments including orthodontic appointments. We also on occasions send pupils to A&E with sports related injuries. We have a system whereby parents, and partners of academic staff who work in the school, drive pupils to and from appointments. This is to accommodate those parents who live too far away to take their children to appointments. The driver is paid for their efforts. Should anybody be interested in joining our driving team, please contact the Personnel Department on 01344 444042 for an application form.

The Wellingtonian aims to carry a limited amount of advertising in its end of year Review. This will provide a forum for members of the Wellingtonian community to advertise goods and services such as holiday lets to each other and will help us to meet printing costs. Please support this initiative by the pupil magazine. For further details, contact  Denise Cook .

For many of you, your son's or daughter's time at Wellington is drawing to a close. We hope that you won't think of that as the end of your connection with Wellington and indeed would hope that you continue to visit us. If you would like to continue to receive the Week Ahead to help you keep abreast of what is going on, please just click here and send me a message.

Sport

Saturday 16th June is dominated by a big cricket fixture with Charterhouse whilst the athletes also compete at Charterhouse, the girls' tennis teams take on Pangbourne, the boys take on Eton and the shooting team competes with the O.W. team.

On Tuesday 19th June, W.C.C.C. play the M.C.C. and the polo team take on Marlborough whilst  there is also the Barnard Cup Final - house sailing competition final. The teams involved are the Apsley, the Picton, the Talbot, the Murray, The Stanley, the Beresford and the Hill. Parents are welcome to support. Thursday 21st June sees the Lords' Taverners U14 Cricket final on New Ground.

Saturday 23rd June is the big block cricket fixture with Radley, the athletes compete in the Marlborough Shield Match, the girls' tennis play Cranleigh and the boys' tennis take on Epsom.

This link will take you to the Wellington intranet where details of cricket sports' fixtures (team lists, pitch details, etc) can be found. For other sports click here and select sports from the menu at the top of the page. This then offers you the choice of sports available. To keep overall track on how the teams are doing click here for cricket.

Further Ahead

On Friday 29th June, for the Upper Sixth form parents and pupils, we are holding a Graduation event that comprises a service, a graduation ceremony, a champagne reception with HMs, a dinner and a ball. The event will start at 2:00 p.m. and will end at midnight. All Upper Sixth Form parents have received full details; if you want another copy, click here for the file. If you have not yet purchased a ticket, please make your booking as soon as possible to guarantee a ticket. Some clarification - you will need to buy a ticket for the champagne reception, dinner and ball for your son or daughter and there is a maximum of three tickets per family. Also I would remind you that a nominated adult has to accompany any leaver who wishes to attend the dinner and ball should parents or guardians not be able to attend.

On Monday 3rd September at 6:30 p.m. the Garden Opera Company will present Puccini's La Boheme, sung in English, in the Common Room Garden. It promises to be a fantastic evening. Whether or not you are a traditional opera lover you will enjoy Garden Opera's entertaining, intimate and approachable production of one of the most popular operas. Tickets will be £55 a head and this includes drinks served at 6:00 p.m. and a buffet supper served during the first interval. September 3rd is the day that boys and girls return to school, so it is a perfect opportunity to combine attending an event at College with dropping children off. Please contact the Campaign Office on 01344 444023 to reserve tickets.

Following the success of the W.C.A. Trenches Trips in 2006 and May 2007, the W.C.A. announces another visit to the Verdun Battlefields of The First World War from Friday 6th to Sunday 9th September. This trip will involve visiting the greatest French battlefield of the last 200 years, the scene of the events that shaped French history from the middle of the First World War up to and beyond the Second World War. Highlights to name a few will include: the opening of the battle and the infantry battle, the greatest fortress in France, Douaumont - given up without a struggle, 100,000 casualties in its recapture; the Fort de Vaux - the gateway to Verdun; the Villages Detruits - nine villages never rebuilt after the war; the National War Memorial and Ossuary; the French and German trench system and fortifications; the American victory at St Mihiel and the US National Memorial and the trenches system at St Mihiel and the Tranchée de Soif. The party will stay at: Chateau des Monthairons, about 12 miles south of Verdun . Costs are indicated to be about £345 per person plus £200 per room, single or double occupancy. This will include all main expenses apart from wines at dinner in the hotel. The trip will be led by Philip Stevens, Wellington parent. Interested parties should e-mail in the first instance to innings@aol.com with the title "W.C.A .Verdun Booking" or fax to 0207567 8455 marked for Philip Stevens attention. Any queries please telephone Tarla Woolhouse on 01344 444085:

On Saturday 15th September, Rory Bremner (Hn 74-79) will be hosting the Bigside Ball on Turf. This is to raise funds for the construction of the new Bigside Rugby Pavilion. It promises to be a great occasion and we are hoping you will support it. To reserve your ticket or table, please contact the Campaign Office on 01344 444023.

We are taking bookings now for a ski trip which will take place 14th-19th December. This involves race training followed by competitions against other schools covering slalom, grand slalom and parallel slalom. There will be a separate programme for boarders. Further information can be found on the skiing pages. Parents can fill in the paperwork provided on that page, and send in a deposit of £200 to secure a place, the balance being paid in September.