Our special Junior and Senior School assemblies in celebration of the Chinese New Year were a tremendous showcase of our pupils’ musical, artistic and dramatic talents, congratulations to all the participants involved. Special thanks also to all our Mandarin staff for their coordination of the past week’s events. With so many parents and guests also able to attend our assemblies, presentations and cultural activities, this has been an excellent week for our extended Wellington community.
Community values, such as our Wellington values, are of course very much to the fore of traditional family celebrations of the Chinese New Year. Our staff encourage our students to remember and represent these values through all their family interactions and commitments in approaching the year ahead. The qualities associated with the Rooster include honesty and a hardworking spirit, so are also aptly encouraged.
As we enter the holiday I will add a reminder from last week that we would very much like to hear your feedback on the College’s progress through this year, so we do hope you will be able to help us with our current 2017 parent survey; please see the notice about this. We will share the results of our surveys with the Wellington College Annual Review Team, as well as with our parent body.
Finally this week it was a pleasure to welcome so many Year 11 parents to Tuesday’s A Level Options' evening. Subject staff presented our most extensive range of subject combinations ever, and our students’ and parents’ enthusiastic engagement with the presentations made for a very positive evening.
With very best wishes to all our Wellington families for an excellent holiday break.
过年好！
Michael Higgins,
Master
Kindness
I wrote last week about our eye-catching Respect board. It is an embodiment of our commitment not just to the values of our community, but also as a bold statement of our determination to let every individual thrive and grow in our school. I was struck this week by another living value across our school; kindness. In my role, I often meet young people who have made mistakes and exhibited unkindness towards their peers, so it has been refreshing to witness the opposite in action in classes across the school. Wellbeing is a core of our ethos, and to be able to sit in lessons over the past ten days to see children from Year 9 supporting learners from Year 7, and those from Year 8 working with pupils from the Junior School in Year 6, has been a privilege. Older children showed real empathy and understanding towards their younger schoolmates, fostering a strong sense of companionship as Wellingtonians. It is through such acts of unprompted compassion, in helping one another, and in particular aiding those weaker than ourselves, that makes kindness such a core value.
On a broader theme, working collaboratively and successfully can
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