We received results for the latest round of Trinity Instrumental and Vocal exams, and we’re delighted to say that 100% of Wells pupils gained a... Read More
As Wells pupils returned to remote learning, staff provided two new fun challenges to keep everyone busy and healthy in mind and body. Librarian Carole Estall... Read More
As Wells pupils return to School for online lessons this week following the Christmas break, we are delighted that so many of our Upper Sixth... Read More
In the run up to the Christmas break, Old Wellensian geologist Guy Hatcher gave an online lecture to Upper Sixth geologists.After finishing at Wells in... Read More
This term, Wells Specialist Mathematicians in Years 7 to 11 have been taking part in weekly problem solving activities set by popular science author, theoretical... Read More
Junior School pupils have worked incredibly hard in their Art classes over the Michaelmas and Advent terms and we wanted to share their achievements with... Read More
Congratulations to four Senior Wells pupils who have achieved Gold Awards in this year’s Senior UK Mathematics Challenge: Jason Kong in Year 11, Joshua Ng... Read More
Year 9 pupil Harry Jordan came away with a richly-deserved prize of £50 after being placed 3rd in the country for the University of Greenwich’s... Read More
On Monday, Wells Head of English, Neil Bowen presented at the online English in Action Aspects of Tragedy seminar for A level pupils.Joined by three... Read More
Congratulations to 11 year old aspiring writer Heidi Ashton in Year 6, whose story ‘No Longer Hidden’ has been chosen from thousands of entries as... Read More
Only a month after the first UCAS deadline of 15th October, Upper Sixth pupils, who applied early to University, have received more than 50 offers... Read More
Congratulations to Heidi Ashton and Maisie Warner, both budding young writers in Year 6, who have been shortlisted from thousands of entries for the Top... Read More
Wells Head of English, Neil Bowen, will be presenting at the English in Action Love Through the Ages online conference for pupils studying English A... Read More
In our virtual Whole School Assembly last week, Head of History, Chris Eldridge, gave this Reflection on Remembrance, a fitting tribute, in this 102nd year... Read More
As part of their Skills Foundation Course for GCSE and A Level Art, Year 10 and Lower Sixth artists participated in an advanced drawing masterclass... Read More
Huge congratulations to Upper Sixth pupils François Cloete and June Rippon, who have both been awarded organ scholarships and offers to read Music at Merton... Read More
It was great to see the Upper Sixth geologists able to continue their mandatory fieldwork exercises in Portishead last week. Socially distanced sedimentary logging and... Read More
Year 10 pupils studying Art have already completed some high quality drawings this term as part of the Personal Portfolio component of their Art GCSE.... Read More
Congratulations to Upper Sixth pupil Oisin Moriarty, who has been awarded one of the prizes in the annual Peterhouse Kelvin Science Competition for his essay,... Read More
Congratulations to Year 8 pupil Elizabeth Hanley, who has won the 11 to 13 age category of the Antarctica Creative Writing Competition.The competition, run by... Read More
Congratulations to Wells Upper Sixth pupils, Max Li and Henry Leung, who were awarded first and highly commended prizes, respectively, in this year’s Lucy Cavendish... Read More
Year 11 pupils at Wells Cathedral School celebrated an extraordinary set of GCSE results on Thursday, despite an unsettling and anxious wait amidst Department for... Read More
Despite the complexity surrounding this year’s A level results day, pupils at Wells Cathedral School had much to celebrate, with an excellent set of A... Read More
Congratulations to the following pupils in the Lower Sixth, who sat the British Intermediate Biology Olympiad at the start of June. This competition is run... Read More
A number of pupils in the Senior School have recently taken the opportunity to be part of a pen pal arrangement with pupils from Toowoomba... Read More
A letter written to The Times by Head Master Alastair Tighe about the continual flourishing of Wells Cathedral School during times of crisis throughout its... Read More
Congratulations to Year 10 pupil Alexei James-Cudworth, who was the Somerset winner in the Key Stage 4 section of this year’s Poetry By Heart competition.Feedback... Read More
Current Upper Sixth pupil, Frances Fraser, has been awarded a significant Bulkeley Evans HMC Scholarship to help fund her unpaid volunteering work in Northern Cambodia... Read More
Saturday’s Higher Education Morning for the Lower Sixth, run by the Sixth Form Leadership Team of Sally Rowley, Rebecca Murdoch and Julia Bird, provided pupils... Read More
Assistant Head of Sixth Form (Upper Sixth and Ritchie House), Julia Bird, and colleagues have put together a fantastic Webinar Series for Upper Sixth pupils... Read More
Pupils in Year 8 have been learning about rocks as part of their science syllabus this term.This week they went on walks to discover different... Read More
Sixth form pupils studying Politics benefited from a fascinating question and answer session via remote video link with Richard Bacon MP this morning, set up... Read More
Pupils in Year 6 have been taking part in science and technology challenges as part of their academic lessons. This week the challenges involved weight... Read More
Upper Sixth composer, Thomas Nettle, has had one of his songs from last year’s Senior School Production of Private Peaceful, used to top and tail... Read More
For the fourth week of remote learning, modern languages students went ‘off-piste’ with a very creative teaching and learning challenge. This week centred around taste... Read More
Year 7 scientists have been conducting experiments at home as part of their Coral Oceans project. In their latest experiment they used Secchi disks to... Read More
Congratulations to the Wells Geology team who have been awarded the winner’s prize for their presentation on ‘Cryovolcanoes and Ice tectonics on Europa’ in the... Read More
Year 10 pupils have found interesting and creative ways to explore the phenomena of circular motion at home, whilst working on their GCSE Physics syllabus.... Read More
Senior Wells pupils have worked hard on their exam preparation Artwork over the course of the last few months. Year 11 pupils designed a variety... Read More
Year 6 pupils have just started their new unit of chemistry, as part of this term’s science syllabus. Part of the topic involves dissolving different... Read More
Year 4 pupils have been learning about the Tudors in their history syllabus this week, creating menus and invitations to a Tudor Feast inspired by... Read More
Congratulations to three Lower Sixth pupils, Francois Cloete, Timothy Ho and Leo Li, who have achieved Gold Awards in the recent Physics Olympiad, Senior Challenge... Read More
Year 7 pupils made a French Easter card as part of their remote learning this week, following instructions online to make a pop out beak. ... Read More
Upper Sixth Geology pupils were joined on Google Meet by aspiring volcanologist and Old Wellensian, Emily Bell, for their remote Geology lesson on Wednesday. Emily,... Read More
Upper Sixth pupils at Wells Cathedral School have been receiving and confirming offers from universities and music colleges across the UK since the start of... Read More
The team of Wells geologists were again due to represent the West of England in the National Final of the Geological Society’s competition in London... Read More
Year 7 geographers battled a brisk breeze on their recent field trip to Glastonbury. They completed a data collection exercise about environmental quality in the... Read More
On Thursday evening a four-person mathematics team consisting of Jason Kong and Ethan Turnbull in Year 10 and Rocket Brooks and Joel Sergeant in Year... Read More
In mid-March Sixth Form pupils studying English Literature attended a conference on Hamlet at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon-Avon. The conference included lectures from... Read More
Senior School pupils from Years 10 to the Upper Sixth recently returned from the School’s first four day trip to Paris, where they enjoyed a... Read More
On Friday, pupils in the Lower School took part in a First Aid and Careers themed Assembly. Upper Sixth pupil, Polly Palmer, explained about her... Read More
Science pupils in Year 7 perfected their construction skills whilst learning about Forces on Thursday, when they designed 30x30cm square tinfoil boats to carry large... Read More
The Great Wells Cathedral School Write Off was a great success this year, with a high standard of entries from across all Senior School year... Read More
Year 9 pupils who study Italian celebrated the Italian carnival season before the half term break by baking delicious “Frittelle di Carnevale”, in the shape... Read More
Wells A level Geology and Geography pupils attended a Geohazards Students Conference at the University of Plymouth on Monday as part of their academic enrichment.Lectures... Read More
On Friday afternoon, 116 Lower Sixth pupils took part in 20 minute enrichment interviews aimed at providing key life experience and preparing them for the... Read More
Many of the School’s Upper Sixth pupils have been receiving offers from universities from across the UK over the last few weeks. Meanwhile, many of... Read More
On Tuesday pupils in Year 9 were visited by electricity company EDF, which supplies electricity and power across the UK. Following a talk about power stations... Read More
17 Senior Wells pupils have achieved an award in this year’s Senior UKMT Maths Challenge.The Challenge is a 90-minute, multiple-choice competition aimed at pupils across... Read More
Congratulations to the Wells A level Geology Team who have qualified for the National Final of the Geological Society Schools Challenge, after competing against teams... Read More
A packed Cedars Hall was thoroughly entertained by a range of stimulating presentations at our annual Inter-House Public Speaking Competition on Friday evening. As a fitting... Read More
On Friday Wells was delighted to co-host the inaugural Oxbridge development day alongside Millfield School. This invigorating event saw 80 pupils from local state and independent... Read More
The first of this year’s film nights, run by the Department of Modern Languages, featured the award-winning Canadian French-language drama Monsieur Lazhar, a moving tale... Read More
On Monday Wells Sixth Form pupils were invited to attend a Climate Change Conference hosted by Wells Cathedral, benefiting from a morning of inspiring speeches,... Read More
On Thursday, Wells Cathedral School hosted Stand Up! A Schools Human Rights Conference, run by Amnesty International for senior pupils at schools and colleges across... Read More
Congratulations to Wells Head of English, Neil Bowen, who has recently published three new books in his Peripeteia Press series.The Art of Drama Volume 2:... Read More
Wells Cathedral School is proud to be part of the Wells Festival of Literature. This year we sponsored two events: Adam Rutherford who discussed his book... Read More
On Thursday 10th October Year 10 artists attended the ‘Big Draw’ event at Hauser and Wirth, Bruton. An informative and interactive talk was given to... Read More
On Friday 27th September, 16 Wells pupils attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, STEM Careers Fair. The group took part in a panel discussion with... Read More
On Wednesday morning, many senior and Sixth Form pupils attended a Study Abroad Roadshow, held in the foyer of Cedars Hall. This provided pupils with... Read More
Following on from last year’s successful conference, 44 pupils from Independent Schools across the South West arrived at Wells Cathedral School on Wednesday to engage... Read More
As part of their induction into the Sixth Form Lower Sixth pupils enjoyed a challenging and diverse critical thinking day hosted by Wiser Words. Pupils... Read More
Starting at a new school, or making the transition from Junior to Senior School is never easy. Wells places a significant emphasis on teams and... Read More
Congratulations to Upper Sixth pupil Beulah Adeleke, who entered two of the competitions run by the Creative Multiculturalism programme at the University of Oxford over... Read More
Congratulations to Lower Sixth pupil Elaina Charalambous, who is one of 20 pupils within the Wessex Water region who have been selected to take part... Read More
Upper Sixth pupils were recently challenged to think outside the box at the School’s Oxbridge training day. They learnt how to lay out arguments logically,... Read More
Pupils at Wells Cathedral School celebrated excellent GCSE results on Thursday, with the vast majority of subjects assessed against the reformed, more rigorous, GCSE examination... Read More
Upper Sixth pupils at Wells Cathedral School have received another strong set of A level results; 99 per cent of pupils passed, and over a... Read More
Just before the half term break, Year 7 history pupils spent a day visiting Tintern Abbey and Chepstow Castle, where activities included dressing in chainmail,... Read More
Lower Sixth geographers recently spent the day studying the extraordinary landscape of Dartmoor National Park, including a visit to Hay Tor and a river study... Read More
Lower and Upper Sixth geographers visited Bristol in stunning weather at the end of March. They took a boat tour around the historic floating harbour,... Read More
Congratulations to Upper Sixth pupil Thomas, who has recently been awarded Eton College’s prestigious Malcolm Arnold Essay Prize 2019 in the under 19s category. This... Read More
Last week, 80 Lower Sixth pupils from Wells attended the annual Higher Education Exhibition held at the Westpoint Centre in Exeter, accompanied by Wells Head of... Read More
Wells English A-level students recently took part in two online A-level English Literature seminars with university academics. The first was a seminar on ‘Hamlet’ with... Read More
In February, 82 pupils from Years 9, 10 and 11 sat this year’s Intermediate Mathematics Challenge.11 Wells pupils achieved a Gold Certificate: Year 9 pupils... Read More
At the end of February, seven Lower Sixth pupils gave interesting and inspiring TedEd-style talks to a fascinated audience in Cedars Hall. Wells done to... Read More
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