ACADEMIC NEWS

Our Lower Sixth physicists were challenged to design and build a bridge to an exacting specification in the space of three weeks. Using only balsa... Read More

Congratulations to En Xuan (Year 7) and Lucille (Year 8) who have each been awarded a winners certificate in the University of Southampton’s Junior Maths... Read More

English classes from the Upper and Lower Sixth joined together last week for a seminar with literary historian Mr Stuart Andrews on the subject of... 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

A group of Senior School pupils travelled to Westonbirt School to take part in WESTMUN, a Model United Nations conference.Model United Nations gives students the... Read More

Congratulations to our four Maths specialists who won the Millfield Team Maths Challenge this week.Samuel Chan (Year 9), Nathan Lam (Year 9), Chris Chan (Year... Read More

On Wednesday 23rd March, Upper Sixth Geographers took a field trip to the Somerset coastline in glorious sunshine. The pupils were studying different approaches to coastal... Read More

We’re delighted to announce the team of Harriet Carlill, Marco Yu, Hermione Christey-Clover, Will Peutherer and Louis Cronin have won the National Schools Geology Challenge,... Read More

Ten of our Year 10 pupils made the journey to Oxford on Monday for an Open Day hosted by Lady Margaret Hall, accompanied by Mr.... Read More

The Upper Sixth Biologists had a fabulous day in the laboratory at the We The Curious science centre in Bristol using one of the most... Read More

Our School’s Challenge Quiz Team, consisting of Lola Frisby Williams (Lower Sixth), Alexei James-Cudworth (Lower Sixth), Emily Williams (Year 9) and En Xuan Tan (Year... Read More

Tom Penhall (Old Wellensian, 2015) returned to Wells to speak to Sixth Form geologists about his degree in geology at Aberdeen University and his career... Read More

Congratulations to Lower Sixth pupil, Florrie Hutchison, who after working with Wessex Water Young People’s Panel, has won with her team! As part of the... Read More

Well done to our 13 pupils who finished in the top 10% of the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge, which qualified them to take part in... Read More

Wells Cathedral School pupils are celebrating after their hard work and resilience has ensured they have achieved a very strong set of GCSE results. Their... Read More

Pupils, parents and staff enjoyed a celebratory end to what has been an eventful and often complicated academic year at the School Speech Day on... Read More

Pupils from Year 7 ventured over to Glastonbury on Wednesday in glorious summer weather for the annual geography trip. They used clinometers to work out... Read More

Wells Lower School pupils took part in the Junior Mathematics Challenge, run by the UK Mathematics Trust in the first half of the Summer term... Read More

Last Thursday Lower Sixth geographers, along with teachers Jeremy Boot and Rebecca Murdoch, conducted a river study to analyse downstream changes in channel characteristics of... Read More

Despite Covid restrictions, Wells geologists have been able to participate in a number of field trips to enhance their studies this term, using covid-safe equipment.Visits... Read More

On Thursday evening, five members of the Lower Sixth gave a series of individual TEDEd Talks to an audience in Quilter Hall.Pupils put forward a... Read More

On Tuesday 35 pupils studying GCSE Geography, plus teachers Jeremy Boot, David Rowley and Rebecca Murdoch, headed for the Jurassic Coast for a field study... Read More

On Monday, Sixth Form pupils studying History enjoyed a day visiting the key local sites associated with Alfred the Great’s campaign against the Vikings of... Read More

Congratulations to Year 8 pupil Oscar Lovell-Clark, who has been Highly Commended in this year’s 11+ Category of the Poetry By Heart Competition.Oscar recited two... Read More

Last Wednesday, a representative from EDF Energy came to talk to Year 9 pupils about the future of energy production. Pupils learnt that EDF is... Read More

Pupils in classes 8L and 8K took part in a 5-lesson Faraday Engineering Challenge last week to design and build a prototype to help Network... Read More

Upper Sixth Geologists visited the De la Beche site at Vallis Vale, a nationally important location to complete their A level fieldwork at the end... Read More

Last week, Lower Sixth geologists undertook a field trip to Portishead to study the sediments and geological structures as part of their fieldwork and practical... Read More

Congratulations to the following talented mathematicians, who achieved Merits in the recent follow-on Kangaroo round of this year’s Intermediate Mathematics Challenge.Year 9 pupil Luca Ng;... Read More

The Geography department ran its first field trip for over a year on Thursday, with Upper Sixth pupils studying beach profiles and coastal management at... Read More

Congratulations to Upper Sixth pupil Oscar Purcell-Shirley, who has been awarded a Gold in this year’s UK Chemistry Olympiad, scoring in the top 2 percent... Read More

The Wells Geology team once again progressed to the National Final of the Geological Society of London’s National Schools Challenge, alongside nine other schools and... Read More

Over the Christmas holidays and into the January lockdown, Senior School pupils were invited to submit a short story of around 500 words for the... Read More

Lucky pupils in 8L had an exciting opportunity to visit the set of Becoming Elizabeth, the Tudor historical drama dealing with the years before Queen... Read More

39 pupils in Years 9 to 11 gained awards in this year’s Intermediate Mathematics Challenge.Five pupils achieved Gold Awards, ten pupils achieved Silver and 24... Read More

Congratulations to all seven Year 11 specialist mathematicians who were in the UK and able to physically sit their IGCSE Mathematics exams half a year... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well done to Year 9 pupil, Campbell Maddox, who was the Key Stage 3 Somerset winner in the county section of this year’s Poetry By... Read More