Assemblies And The Winning House Is...

By Clareko andMira

The past year has been full of inspiring assemblies Throughout the year, our assemblies have covered many things, including music and meditation, thoughtprovoking thoughts, cultural assemblies and assemblies presented by Houses.

Music and Meditation assemblies are a chance for our Wellington music scholars to play for the Senior school, showing off their talent and hard work they have put in; throughout this year, we have had many stellar performances The Wellington senior school has also had the privilege of having professional musicians play for us during our music and meditation assemblies

The assemblies presented by Houses were equally impressive; the Houses dedicated time and hard work into producing them and it definitely showed. Many assemblies were thoughtprovoking talks presented by many different people These types of assemblies, although very different from the other ones, are still interesting and great These assemblies require the audience to think, reflect, and learn

Many assemblies over the course of the year have been about the many cultural events that take place

Assemblies have played a major role in making our school what it is.

By: Clareko, Mira andSainahm

We started off the year with a House basketball tournament, as part of the Senior School games afternoon At the end of the whole SportEd unit, and House basketball afternoon, it was a draw between Orange and Anglesey, and it went down to a shoot off, but finally, Orange House won – congratulations!

As we neared the end of the Michaelmas term, we had a Senior School House swimming competition, and although not everyone wanted to, the whole school participated in a mix of relays, individual races and fun races At the end of the day, it was Hopetoun who won!

On the last week of the Michaelmas term, the senior school Houses merged with the junior school Houses for the House singing competition, in the spirit of Christmas. Decided by the wheel of fate, each House got one song to perform, with Wellesley singing I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, Apsley singing Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, Benson singing Jingle Bell Rock, and Stanley singing Run Run Rudolf After only 2 days of practising, and everyone giving it their all by making props, singing and dancing, it was Apsley House who won!

competition to win the Wellington Senior Sports Day Trophy It was a day packed with exciting events, including track, javelin, long jump, tug of war, whole House relays and individual sprints After everyone gave it their all, it was Hill who won – well done!

At the end of Lent term, we had a House football competition There were four pitches and eight Houses, each racing to score the most goals. After four incredible matches, it came to a draw between Hopetoun and Picton. It was incredibly close, as it came down to penalties, but in the end, however, it was Picton who took the trophy!

Ending this academic year, House singing was the final House competition Each house picks a song, and the whole house has to participate in singing, dancing, playing instruments and prop making