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Continuing on from the success of this year’s A-level results, Wells Cathedral School is thrilled to announce another excellent year of GCSE achievements across a wide range of subjects. Impressively, just under half our pupils secured the top grades 7-9, with an equally impressive 12% attaining the very top grade of 9, and nearly 30% achieving grades 8 to 9.Our pupils have been celebrating their remarkable success across the whole range of subjects studied at Wells from the Sciences to... Read More

Many congratulations to Florence (Upper Sixth) on her receipt of HMC’s Bulkeley-Evans Scholarship. The Scholarship will enable Florence to spend a gap year in Sierra Leone, about which she will ​​come back to talk to our Sixth Form and write a report for HMC. Mrs Rowley, Head of Sixth Form, comments, “I’m thrilled that Florence has been successful in her application to the Bulkeley-Evans HMC Scholarship fund. These grants are highly sought after and recipients of the awards report on... Read More

Each year over 1000 pupils enter the University of Southampton Mathematics Challenge in which pupils work on a series of problems in their own time, having to produce full written solutions to each problem without guidance from their teachers. The amount of time pupils need to spend on this is significant and should not be underestimated! This year the theme for the problems was Zodiac signs. We are pleased to share that in the Senior Challenge, Lucille (Year 10) was... Read More

Ferdy (Year 10) wrote the following account of the Geography and Classics trip to Italy:The Geography and Classics trip to Italy was something we were all looking forward to in the months leading up to our departure. Despite travelling through the late night and early morning, we were all ready for the first day in Pozzuoli, in which we got to see the Temple of Serapis and sample some of the area’s food. As we had hoped, authentic Italian pizza... Read More

At March’s TED-Talk event, our Lower Sixth speakers delved into a wide array of thought-provoking topics, offering unique insights and perspectives.Magdalena discussed “The Variety of Friendship,” exploring the multifaceted nature of human connections and the importance of diverse relationships in our lives. Sam intrigued audiences with “Is Time Dilation the Key to Time Travel?” diving into the complex realm of physics and the possibility of time travel through the lens of time dilation. Oli & Charlie shared their experiences and... Read More

On Monday 26th February, a select group of Lower and Upper Sixth Form pupils travelled to London to visit the Palace of Westminster and then the Supreme Court building.They were able to follow the route of the Sovereign during the State opening of Parliament and visit the floors of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords (and it is quite rare to be able to do both!). The pupils then took part in a workshop that followed... Read More

Pupils in the Upper Sixth have been thrilled to receive and confirm offers from universities and music colleges across the UK this winter. Given how increasingly competitive it is, we are delighted that once again a number of Wells pupils have been successful in their applications to Oxford and Cambridge and have received offers to study History, Music and Physics. In addition, pupils have so far received over 120 offers from other Russell Group and other top UK universities –... Read More

Eleven Sixth Form Historians visited Northumberland and Durham over the half Term break to study sites linked to their A level course on the Early Anglo-Saxons. Wells is the only School in the country to study this period at A level and as such the group had a particularly warm welcome from the curators of the museums they visited. Highlights included Bamburgh Castle, the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, visits to the 7th century crypt at Hexham and... Read More

A remarkable biodiversity research expedition to Madagascar was undertaken by twelve pupils from Year 11 and the Sixth Form over the summer holidays, accompanied by Dr Mitchell and Mr Barnard, in collaboration with Operation Wallacea.The two-week expedition was a unique opportunity to study and contribute to conservation efforts on this extraordinary island. The expedition’s itinerary included a week dedicated to conducting biodiversity surveys in the dry Northern forests, focusing on lemurs, birds, butterflies, spiders, reptiles and amphibians. The second week... Read More

Wells pupils have been celebrating another year of excellent GCSE results.More than 50% of all awards were grades 7 to 9 (equivalent to A or A* grade), and as with our recent A Level results, there were tremendous performances across a wide range of subjects, from Latin to Photography to Mathematics.Results across the sciences were particularly impressive, with 100% of all pupils in Biology, Chemistry and Physics receiving a grade 6 and above, and two thirds receiving the highest possible... Read More

Once again, Wells pupils have been celebrating some outstanding A Level results.Across England, A Level results have returned to pre-pandemic levels. However despite the significant disruptions caused by Covid, the Wells class of 2023 have outperformed the 2019 cohort, continuing the School’s upward trajectory for academic results.Pupils enjoyed success across a range of subjects, from sciences to languages to humanities to the creative arts. Among many highlights were 91% of RPE (Religion, Philosophy and Ethics) pupils gaining an A or... Read More