ACADEMIC NEWS

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

Congratulations to four Year 9 pupils, whose poems were commended in the Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Competition 2019.Highly commended: Freya and EmilyCommended:  Alix and Emily BoThe... Read More

As part of the school’s unique sixth form medieval history syllabus, the history department has produced a European companion to the English history text. Written... Read More

On Monday a director from the Bristol Tobacco Factory Theatre came to Wells to run workshops on A View from the Bridge with Year 11... Read More

Between 23-27th October 32 pupils and four staff led by Jeremy Boot explored the geography and antiquities of southern Italy. On the first day the... Read More

The Forward/emagazine Young Critics Competition 2018 offered students and teachers the opportunity to respond to their choice of poem from the Best Collection and Best... Read More

In early November, Wells Head of English, Neil Bowen, gave a lecture, Defining tragedy, the tragic genre and tragic sub-genres to A-level students from across... Read More

On Thursday 11th October, the English Department had the great pleasure of welcoming local author Emma Craigie to Wells. She came to talk about her... Read More

Deborah Searle, one of the new maths teachers has introduced an after school chess club for the community. Coached by Chris Strong, the Somerset county... Read More

This year, the Languages Faculty took part, for the second year running, in the Routes Into Languages National Languages Spelling Bee competition. Over 5,000 students... Read More

On Thursday afternoon, comedy physicist Steve Mould brought his unique mix of experiments and comedy to students in Years 9 and 10, in the Eavis... Read More

On Thursday afternoon, Somerset-born particle physicist, cypher expert and TV science guru, Simon Singh gave an inspiring lecture The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets to... Read More

Year 12 Student Lydia has just completed a prestigious work experience with law firm Burges Salmon in Bristol. Lydia was chosen to take part in... Read More

Congratulations to three lower school students: Year 8 pupil Harry, who came second in this year’s national University of Southampton Junior Maths Challenge; Year 7... Read More

Congratulations to five pupils from Years 7 and 8, who all achieved a gold award in this year’s UK Junior Maths Challenge: Louis in Year... Read More

Congratulations to our team of Year 12 and 13 geologists, who won the Presentation Prize and were runners up in the Geologists’ Association National Schools... Read More