ACADEMIC NEWS

On Friday 17th January, pupils in Year 11 were joined by some of our Upper Sixth Business and Economics pupils for a 90 minute seminar... Read More

This week, Wells proudly hosted the IET Faraday Engineering Challenge, welcoming teams from Kingswood, Leweston, and Badminton schools. This national, hands-on competition, run by the Institute... Read More

Earlier this year, Mrs Alabiso established a pen pal program for her Year 8 and 9 German classes. Before breaking up for Christmas, pupils sent their pen... Read More

Three of our Lower Sixth pupils recently sat the Mathematical Olympiad for Girls and all performed excellently. This competition is run annually by the UK... Read More

Mrs Alabiso has been setting up a cultural exchange project with Year 8 and 9 pupils learning German: a pen pal project with a class... Read More

Pupils in Year 10 conducted a beach study on Durdle Door beach before walking to Lulworth Cove, recently affected by a major landslide. The study... Read More

In an otherwise autumnal September the Geography Department struck gold taking pupils to Dartmoor on a rare sunny day. Pupils investigated weathering processes on Cox... Read More

Our annual Heads of School Conference took place on Friday 20th September. Aidan O’D (Upper Sixth) writes the below report:On Friday the 20th of September,... Read More

Urban fieldwork in Temple Quarter saw Year 10 Geographers collect data on the changing face of this former industrial zone of Bristol. Originally the area... Read More

On Friday 14th June, pupils in Year 9 ventured forth to Bristol and went back in time to the 19th Century. There they explored both... Read More

The Year 8 Specialist Mathematicians had a guest teacher! Yannick (Upper Sixth) has just finished his A levels, Maths and Further Maths alongside Physics and... Read More

Lower Sixth pupils studying A level Geography spent a day exploring Bristol’s urban Geography. They visited locations including the Floating Harbour, Temple Quarter, St. Paul’s... Read More

Before returning to School to start the Trinity Term, Zino (Year 8) took part in the Delancey UK Junior Chess Challenge, successfully qualifying for this... Read More

In 909s, a handful of Year 7 pupils learnt about Forensic Toxicology during their ‘CSI Wells’ activity. They conducted flame tests on various substances to... Read More

In March, pupils from Year 9 travelled to Cardiff to investigate themes related to retail developments in the Central Business District. They conducted a retail... Read More

In March, pupils from Lower and Upper Sixth German classes enjoyed their first Stammtisch, an informal gathering with the aim of connecting pupils studying German... Read More

A big thank you to the families and Houseparents who hosted Swiss pupils from our partner school, Institut Florimont in Geneva.The visitors took part in... Read More

On Wednesday 13th March, Lower Sixth pupils had the opportunity to visit the UCAS Discovery Fair in Exeter. This event is the first stage in... Read More

On Tuesday 5th March, the Geography Department took 48 Year 7 pupils to Glastonbury. They conducted a town centre survey and headed up Glastonbury Tor... Read More

Upper and Lower Sixth Geologists were on their field trip to Devon and Cornwall in March. As well as valuable learning opportunities in the outdoor classroom they... Read More

On the last day of the Epiphany Term, Mrs Alabiso’s Year 8 German class had a rather different lesson than usual – the group went... Read More

On Monday 29th January, pupils in the Lower Sixth had the opportunity to take part in mock interviews in Cedars Hall. Presented with a job... Read More

Many congratulations to the 15 Year 11 Specialist Mathematicians who have just received some fantastic IGCSE results; fourteen were awarded grade 9 and one achieved... Read More

This year we entered a record number of 227 pupils and for the first time the Prep School also participated in the Bebras Computing Challenge.... Read More

Speaker Ben Sparks visited Wells on Monday 27th November to deliver two talks to Specialist Mathematicians. Ben, a former secondary school Maths teacher, is a mathematician and musician who... Read More

After last year’s success, the Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) trip to the Frankfurt Christmas Market in Birmingham run by Mrs Alabiso was repeated this year.... Read More

On Monday 20th November we welcomed representatives from a range of overseas universities including McGill (Canada), University of British Columbia (Canada), Glion and Les Roches... Read More

During the Michaelmas Term some of the Year 7s have been taking part in ‘CSI Wells’ as part of the 909 Activity Programme. They have... Read More

Mrs Alabiso has announced the winners of the European Day of Languages competition.Alice Beattie and Amelie-Rose Wakeford (Year 8) won the Baking Category for their... Read More

Year 10 GCSE pupils spent the day at the Jurassic Coast on Tuesday 26th September, investigating the coastal processes at Durdle Door beach before walking... Read More

On Thursday 21st September pupils from the Lower Sixth spent the day at Dartmoor National Park, Devon.The trip included a visit to Hay Tor, a... Read More

Meg Curl (Upper Sixth) reached the top 60 of the BBC Young Writer competition, which was narrowed down from over 600 entries to a top... Read More

Bristol once again hosted our Geographers and this time it was the Lower Sixth who witnessed the variety of landuse to be found in the... Read More

Year 10 Geographers headed to Bristol in the middle of June for an urban study in a heat wave. They began by taking a boat... Read More

On a particularly hot day in June, Year 8 Geographers, accompanied by Mr Boot, Mr Rowley, Mrs Murdoch and Mr Dosanjh, headed to Cheddar for... Read More

In a thrilling exploration of species interdependence, Year 7 pupils embarked on a fascinating pond-dipping adventure. With wide-eyed wonder, our curious young scientists identified an array... Read More

Year 9 Geographers recently visited the Somerset Earth Science Centre at Moon’s Hill Quarry. Their studies focused on the workings of an active quarry in... Read More

A group of 60 pupils in Year 9 travelled to Bristol to visit the SS Great Britain on Tuesday 16th May. They went on a... Read More

On Friday 28th April our Senior School Chess Club received a visit from Oleksandr Matlak, a professional chess coach who has recently moved to Wells... Read More

Selected pupils in KS3 visited the Somerscience festival in Castle Cary on Monday 1st May. The pupils had a fantastic time listening to inspiring talks... Read More

Congratulations to Emily Moores (Upper Sixth) who submitted a poem to the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition which the judges selected for inclusion on the longlist.... Read More

On Tuesday 14th March, Year 7 Geographers headed to Glastonbury to measure slope angles on the Tor, find out about why Glastonbury is located where... Read More