The annual ski trip headed off to Andolo, Italy

on Saturday 8th February with 30 students

and 3 members of staff ready to hit the slopes.

A very successful trip was had by all with all

beginners mastering the slopes in beautiful

sunshine.

The final evening was the traditional talent

contest with the students entertaining the staff

with a varied array of talents.

Information will be available soon for those

interested in booking next years trip.

Ski Trip 2020

The WCB Young Enterprise Team COPO were in Castle

Court Shopping Centre on 11th February for the Belfast

Trade Fair and area judging for the Belfast region. They

presented to the judges and were selling their products

to the public which were a range of biodegradable coffee

cups. The team picked up the Company Program

awards for Social Interaction, Learning and Develop-

ment and came runner up in Digital Presence. Congratu-

lations to Year 13 students Harvey, Jack, Adam, and

Kyle on their hard work and achievements.

#CopoMovement#YEtradefair #YoungEnterpriseNI

Wellington News Monthly Newsletter February 2020 Engage ~ Educate ~ Empower

Young Enterprise Team Upcoming March dates:

Year 12 Careers Week

2nd-6th March

Year 12 Parent Teachers Consultation

Wednesday 4th March

1.30-3.30pm

‘Take 5’ Mental Health Week

9th—13th March

School Council

Monday 9th March

‘The It’ Drama production

Monday 9th March 6pm Assembly Hall

Tickets: £3

Staff Development Day

Tuesday 17th March

Year 8 Parent Teachers Consultation

Friday 20th March

12.45—2.45pm

Spring Concert

Thursday 26th March 7.30pm Assembly Hall

Tickets on sale soon

Year 9 Parent Teachers Consultation

Monday 30th March

1.30 3.30pm

A group of 50 Year 10s visited Queen's University Belfast to have a Miniversity visit. Starting their day with a unique and exciting listening experience in the Sonic Arts Centre and moving on into a tour of QUBs state of the art Computer Science building and finishing the morning with two other tours of the Library and the Physical Education Centre.

Year 10 QUB Miniversity Visit

Each month in the College calendar has been assigned to one Year group who are then responsible for deciding which charity they would like to support. The Year group organise fund raising activities and in addi-tion the weekly tutor group charity collec-tions go towards the designated charity. So far this academic year the College community have raised £4700 with the fol-lowing charities being recipients of this generosity.

In September £600 was raised for Queen’s Centre for cancer Research and Cell Biology. In October Year 13 support-ed PIPs raising £655 and in November Year 12 took part in Concern’s FAST ap-peal and raised an amazing £1560, mak-ing Wellington College one of the top performing schools in the UK. This amount was also matched by the UK Government, making a total donation of £3120. In De-cember Year 14 organised several fund-raising events including a Christmas

Jumper Day and their annual Christmas Con-cert. They raised an impressive £1200 which was split between the Simon Community and Age NI and in addition the retiring offering at the Christingle Service raised over £500 for NI Hospice. In January Year 11 raised £700 for Pretty in Pink a breast cancer charity. The charity in February was Crohn’s and Colitis UK with final total still to be added up.

Wellington College—a charitable school

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Congratulations to Helen Parker (Yr12) who

has been selected to represent Northern Ire-

land in Women’s football at Under 17 level.

She will travel with the squad to Turkey to

compete in the International Mediterranean

pearls tournament from 2nd-11th March.

Pupil Sporting successes

Congratulations also to Sophie Mooney, Kathryn Smyth and Alex Rea in year 12 who flew out to Por-tugal on 14th February for a fully funded 10 day British kayak training camp returning 25th February.

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Year 10 STEM Careers Event hosted by Almac at W5

In early February group of 50 Year 10 students attended a STEM event hosted by Almac at

W5. The pupils had a fantastic time carrying out experiments and learning about opportunities

within this key area of employment.

Year 13 visit the Annual

UCAS Conference

On 26th February Year 13 continued

with their varied and thorough careers

programme with a visit to the annual

UCAS Conference at the Eikon Cen-

tre outside Lisburn.

6th form Art students vis-

it True Colours exhibition

6th form Art & Design students vis-

ited the True Colours exhibition in

the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Behind

them is past pupil Emily

Mathieson's GCSE project which

was selected for the exhibition.

REMEMBER Coming up March 9th—13th will be

‘Take 5’ Mental Health Week. There will be lots of

activities running over the course of the week for all

pupils to participate in to improve mental well being.