Wellington Students Help Care4Calais

In the third week of September thirty members of Wellington College’s Sixth Form volunteered for a very different sort of weekend. The group, who were all members of WCPCI, the College’s Peace and Conflict Institute, travelled to Calais to spend two days supporting the work of Care4Calais in the refugee camps. The WCPCI, part of Wellington’s Global Citizenship programme, allows students to learn about worldwide conflict and pathways to peace. The initiative has seen pupils travel to Rwanda and Northern Ireland in the past and is never short of young Wellingtonians anxious to serve and help shape a better world.

Gold DofE Success

In July an elite group of Lower Sixth DofE students travelled to Dartmoor to complete their Gold Award assessed expedition. Ahead of them lay three nights camping out in the wild, as well as four days trekking across the bleak moorland, all the while carrying their own survival kit. Having missed most of their Silver programme due to the pandemic, they were justifiably nervous as to what lay ahead, but demonstrating great grit, resilience and determination they completed their expedition with aplomb. Day time conditions ranged from perfect to scorching, although the evenings were decidedly on the chilly side – campcraft was at a premium if morale was to stay high. The students conducted themselves brilliantly throughout the expedition and can look back with great satisfaction on all they achieved. Many congratulations to them all.