Wellington College has been highly commended in the Boarding School category of the Independent Schools of the Year Awards
The measure of a great boarding school is surely the extent to which students are nurtured and challenged beyond the classroom. All schools have excellent indoor facilities, all schools have excellent teachers, and all schools have robust pastoral systems.
An excellent boarding school, therefore, should be one that capitalises creatively on the additional time and space available to staff and students and, at Wellington, we believe we have the answer: by finding unique ways to enjoy our outdoor space, and by offering over 70 different clubs and activities, we give our students the chance to explore, to grow ? or as one parent put it recently ?the chance to enjoy their youth.? For the purposes of this pitch, therefore, we have focused on how we foster a spirit of adventure by building a relationship with the great outdoors, most of which of course, as boarding school, is on our doorstep.
As a pioneering school, with a focus on service, leadership and character education, Wellington College epitomises the spirit of adventure; and integral to this is a belief in the educative powers of the great outdoors.
Outdoor education brings opportunities for collaboration and for leadership; it offers students the chance to take risks, the chance to fail, to survive, to learn about themselves ? all essential ingredients for success in the classroom and, more impo...