It has been very pleasing for me and my colleagues to welcome so many of you to Junior School Parents Meetings this week. The home-school partnership is greatly valued throughout the Wellington family of schools and we see it as essential to work together with you in the best interests of maximizing your child’s progress and the development of their all-round potential.
Mr Jeffrey also amplifies this theme in his column today, encouraging careful consideration and consultation during the upcoming Years 9 and 11 Option Choice Evenings, for both students and parents, with our subject specialist staff.
This has been a special week of collaboration and cooperation between the Wellington family of schools. Yesterday we celebrated the ceremonial launch event of the eighth member of the Wellington family, Wellington College Bilingual Hangzhou, which will open to pupils in 2018. Please do see our Website post and ‘WeChat’ mailings for further details of the Hangzhou launch event. Moreover, this week and last, we have seen exchanges of over twenty teachers from Wellington College International Tianjin and Wellington College International Shanghai, for the purpose of working together on several training courses, including preparing for our respective Wellington Annual Review visits in March, and also extending the leadership skills of our colleagues in middle leadership positions across both our schools. Sharing best educational practice is a key characteristic of outstanding schools, this happens regularly across the Wellington group, and we now look forward to extending this to include our colleagues in Hangzhou.
We also look forward to welcoming all those of you able to attend our next School Development Parent Briefing, again in collaboration with Wellington China colleagues, on Monday evening in the Seldon Theatre, further details below.
With best wishes to all our Wellington families.
Michael Higgins,
Master
Making The Right Option Choices
January is a key month for many of our Senior School pupils as they face up to the next stage of their journey through the school by making option choices that will frame their learning over the next two years. Pupils in Years 9 and 11 face just such a prospect this month, and for many of them, the decisions will be hard ones. Choosing the right subjects for an individual is rarely easy, but it is vital that the choices they make are the right ones for their lives and their academic interests. Tutors, Housemasters and mistresses obviously play a key role in ensuring that a sound balance is achieved, but parents too play a very influential part in shaping the future education of their children. The key to getting it right is to focus on the needs of the individual child; for those going from Year 11 into Year 12, the decisions made this month can shape university courses and even entire careers, not just the next 24 months of schooling. Year 9 pupils should understand that un
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