The Week Ahead 13 May 2020
19 May 2020

From the Master 来自校长 마스터
Dear parents Since the turn of the year, headlines have been dominated by really only one thing: the pandemic caused by the coronavirus and the impact of Covid-19. Every good school has learnt some important lessons about the nature of teaching, communication in a virtual world and keeping a community that has been glued to a computer screen for three months engaged and positive. Valid questions remain around impact on the mental wellbeing of both pupil and teacher. Great schools, and those which aspire to greatness, will use these lessons and improve the education they offer their communities in the months and years to come. We spend a great deal of time at Wellington trying to foster a shared sense of our identity, through our values and the way we conduct ourselves around other people. Our pupils are taught that collaboration, cooperation, and respect for others are central to their lives as effective learners. As an international school with over 30 different nationalities and languages represented within our walls, we are an embodiment of toleration. Our communal lives here in the school are marked by an unspoken willingness to help one another, to offer service to those who need it and to seek help in times of distress. I have been lucky enough this week to spend some time with the staff of a school for children with very serious learning difficulties, close to the school in Hongqiao district. We were able to launch what I hope will be a long and fruitful collaboration with the school, donating 10 iPads with money raised during a recent charity event. I want our pupils to be able to spend time with their peers in the school, working with these disadvantaged young people and helping them to lead more fulfilling lives. If all we taught here was that our pupils were the lucky few, I think we would be doing them, and the world they will come to live and work in, a grave disservice. Julian Jeffrey MASTER



Year 5 Joanne and Sarah
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