My Wellington College Experience
A small group of thirty Year 10 students from various schools
across the UK, were recently given the opportunity to go on a week-long residential programme at Wellington College. After applications
were sent and meetings were held, it was narrowed down to two students from
Winston – myself and Imogen Gill. On the
21st to the 26th of June, Imogen and I stayed in one of
the boarding houses that the Wellington boarders would normally use.
We arrived on Sunday evening
to a welcome speech from Mr Ed Schneider and Mrs Arielle Jennings Heal, along
with each house leader to help us settle us in to our assigned house. Later that day we got into small groups to
help us to get to know each other.
Aside from Tuesday - where
we visited Oxford University- the rest of the week was spent helping us improve
our creative writing skills. Monday and
Wednesday were focused on mini-masterclasses such as Classics, Economics and
English. In classes such as Psychology
and Sociology, we had debates around a large round table; called the Harkness
method. Thursday and Friday were focused
on Write Club, which Chloe Combi (author of the newly published book:
‘Generation Z’) taught and created herself.
Tuesday was a very inspiring
visit to the college of Brasenose, part of Oxford University. We had a tour of the college, then a session in
analysing chemicals similar to forensic science. Afterwards we went to local museums.
Overall, the experience was very
positive, in which I made many new friends, learnt new skills and had an insight
into college and university life (and went swimming most mornings in a freezing
cold, outdoor pool at 6:30am).
The images below are of the group both at Wellington and at Oxford.
Zoe Dongray
Raising Funds for Winston
Taking part in a Colour Run allowed lauren to raise money for Winston. The £40 raised will go towards the new benches being purchased this summer. Well done and thank you Lauren for contributing to our community.
