McAvoy Partnership

Wellington College are delighted to have partnered with McAvoy Design through the Construction Industry Training Board’s ‘Adopt A School’ initiative. This partnership will be a great opportunity for staff and students to gain an insight to careers in the engineering and construction industry. McAvoy Design will work with Wellington College to provide: Our Year 11 […]
Junior Mathematical Challenge Success

50 of our year 8 and year 9 took part in the UK Mathematics Trust Junior Mathematical challenge. All pupils worked well and received certificates, but special mention must be made of those pictured who achieved either silver or gold certificates. Big congratulations to Faith G who achieved the highest in both year 8 and […]
Sentinus R&D Project

Since January Year 13 pupils Max, Lorenzo and Michael have been working on a Sentinus R&D project with engineering company eMS http://www.emsni.com Their project involved modelling voltage and measuring frequency. The panel of experts were very impressed by their project presentation and knowledge displayed during a tough round of interview questions.
AS Geography Magilligan Residential 2023

We arrived on Wednesday morning and were brought into the classroom with Natalie, our leader for the day, who introduced us to sand dune succession. After lunch, we travelled to Umbra Sand Dunes, which is one of our AS case studies and studied succession at seven different sites. Using quadrats to identify different plant species, […]
Year 14 Talks Programme – Kate Nicholl (Alliance)

On Friday 24th February 2023, as part of our series of invitations to our local South Belfast MLAs, Wellington College hosted Kate Nicholl from The Alliance party to present a talk for our Year 14 pupils and undertake a Question & Answer session. Ms Nicholl spoke about her early years in Zimbabwe and her subsequent […]
Year 14 Talks Programme – Matthew O’Toole (SDLP)

On Friday 10th February 2023, as part of our series of invitations to our local South Belfast MLAs, Wellington College hosted Matthew O’Toole MLA from the SDLP to present a talk for our Year 14 pupils and undertake a Question & Answer session. Mr O’Toole spoke about his upbringing in Northern Ireland and his working […]
Why does my hot chocolate sing? BT Young Scientist Competition

Three of our year 10 pupils, Maxwell, Jackson and Jack were invited to showcase their project on frequency of sound, entitled ‘Why does my hot chocolate sing?’ at the BT Young Scientist show at the RDS in Dublin. Accompanied by Mr Cardwell, Senior Leader, they heard from the Irish President, Michael D. Higgins, were interviewed […]
Oxbridge offer

Congratulations to Laoise Corrigan, Deputy Head Girl 2022, who has received an unconditional offer to read Music at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Laoise studied A Levels in Music, Performing Arts, History and English Literature, gaining 4 A* grades. Laoise is a past pupil of Loughview Integrated Primary School. We are very proud of Laoise’s […]
Year 14 Talks Programme – Action Mental Health

On Friday 25th November 2022, Mr Hugh Roarty from Action Mental Health visited the college to provide a talk on mental health for our Year 14 students. Hugh outlined key ways to help maintain mental well-being and noted the professional support available for anyone who needs help. The Year 14 agreed that the talk was […]
Year 14 Talks Programme – NI Blood Transfusion Service

The Year 14 Talks programme welcomed a presentation by Ms Sarah Sloan of the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service. Sarah spoke about the importance of giving blood and allowed our 6th Formers to reflect on the necessity of such a service. The talk was very informative and provided a clear focus for our pupils on […]