Wellington College case studies (7)

Impact of partnership work done in 2023 (ISC annual Census 2024)

• 58 state schools involved
• 2001+ state school pupils involved
• 4000 staff hours given

Academies or free schools sponsored

• The Wellington Academy
• Welllington Primary Academy
• Wellington Eagles Primary Academy

Impact Statement

 Academies or free schools sponsored

The Wellington Academy

Wellington Primary Academy

Wellington Eagles Primary Academy

Schools with whom we work:

Archbishop McGrath

Blessed Hugh Faringdon School

Brighton Hill Community School

Bulmershe

Carwarden House Community School

Charters School

Collingwood

Court Moor School

Crowthorne CofE School

Edgbarrow School

Emmbrook School

Forest School

Gordon’s

The Holt

John Frost

Kennel Lane School

Kings International

Maiden Erlegh

New Scotland Hill School

Oakbank

Piggott School

Sandhurst School

St. Crispins

Tomlinscote

Uplands School

Waingels College

Wellington Academy

Wellington Primary Academy

Wellington Eagles Primary

Winston Churchill

Impact Statement

Wellington College works in partnership with 30 state schools, some as local as bordering the school grounds, and some as far afield as Wales.

362 teachers attended CPD courses provided by Wellington College Teaching School Partnership 2018-2019. More than 99% of feedback about the effectiveness and impact of these courses was "Excellent" or "Good".  The WCTSP provides 30 days of fully funded SLE deployments to partner schools each year.  The impact of these deployments for 2019-20 is not yet available, but initial feedback has been excellent.  Some of these SLEs are Wellington staff, and some are experts in partner schools.  WCTSP also partners with Forest Learning Alliance, a local primary Teaching School Alliance, to help deliver NPQH qualifications.  WCTSP provides this at approximately 25% of cost price.

Almost 2000 students from local state schools attended courses, talks, lectures and masterclasses in 2018-19 as part of the Independent State School Partnership. Wellington funds 88% of this venture, only requiring a small payment of £500 from each ISSP school to access all activities for all age groups for the whole year. The range of activities offered is extensive, from subject-specific masterclasses, through co-curricular extension, university advice, interview practice and careers guidance. 

The Wheeler Programme is an innovative fully-funded 5 year development programme to raise aspiration and attainment, and to open opportunities, for 100 state school children. We accept 20 students per year, and it runs from year 9 to 13, mirroring the Wellington age range. The programme began in 2017, and the initial cohort of year 9 pupils is now in year 12. 

The object is to work with each pupil, their family and their school, to augment and support their development over a 5 year period.  In short, to add some the “extra” that an expensive fee-paying school can provide beyond that of a good but less well-resourced state school.  Each group has 2-3 study days per year at Wellington, and a 5 day residential stay.  The content includes inspirational academic lessons; new co-curricular opportunities and expert teaching in existing interest areas; specific tutoring and guidance; career and university advice and contacts; individual coaching.

As part of our Global Citizenship Programme, approximately 50 pupils work with local state schools each week.  Three partnerships have been struck up of particular note:

1.      A collaborative Latin Teaching project at Edgbarrow School, in which teachers and senior students from Wellington deliver GCSE Latin classes to year 10 and 11 students at Edgbarrow, while also developing the capacity of languages teachers at Edgbarrow to teach Latin.

2.      An immersive partnership between students from one boarding house with Carwarden House School in Camberley.

3.      A similar partnership with Kennel Lane School in Bracknell.  

9 Wellington staff are governors or trustees at schools, academies or trusts locally.