From the Editor

What makes a Wellington Year? What makes a Wellingtonian? Two questions – both easy and both impossible to answer, as each year – and each pupil – are simultaneously the same and different. Schrodinger’s Wellington, if you like! The set piece events are always there: Matriculation, Lessons, Remembrance Week, School Plays, Matches, Concerts, Dance Shows, Christmas Dinners, Christmas Carols, Mock Exams, the Kingsley’s, Real Exams, Speech Day, Graduation. But each year brings new iterations on the theme, just as each and every Wellingtonian builds their own special Wellington, becoming as they do their own unique self. The DNA is always there, but the song never remains the same. Let this Speech Day act as a celebration of all that is Wellington today – it’s wonderful traditions and its even more glorious variations and precious memories.