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The school is in direct competition with the other three of the 'four public schools' of [[Taunton]] (the nearby [[county town]] of Somerset); Queen's College, [[Taunton School]], and King's College, and currently gets the best results. |
The school is in direct competition with the other three of the 'four public schools' of [[Taunton]] (the nearby [[county town]] of Somerset); Queen's College, [[Taunton School]], and King's College, and currently gets the best results. |
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It has its own marching band, and trains its pupils in armed combat and killing tequniques through the Combined Cadet Force. It has its own priest, with extremly homophobic tendencies, and condems those of homosexual peruasion to hell openly in religious education lessons. |
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| ⚫ | It has appeared in the news for several scandls, such as in 2002, a maths teacher in at the time, Mr Crozier, was revealed to be sleeping with the head girl. Mr. Sarginson |
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| ⚫ | It has appeared in the news for several scandls, such as in 2002, a maths teacher in at the time, Mr Crozier, was revealed to be sleeping with the head girl. Mr. Sarginson. Another maths teacher, was recently convicted for indecent conduct, after it was revealed that he had inapropriate relations with a young male pupil several years previously. A more recent wellington school mishap was when a young maths female maths teacher had her job taken away as she was involved in a car accident while under the influence of alchohol and drugs. Miss Hawkswell is now in a re-hab centre. One of the cadet force trainers was also forsed to resighn recently after relations with a pupil. |
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The school has also had critisism for banning celebration of Red Nose Day 2005. |
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Wellington School is renowned for its extremely unreasonable rules and inaffective discapline. Pupils with long hair is the ultimate of crimes, and threats of assault are frequently dished out to wearers of these "long" hairstyles (long in the eyes of Wellington School is hair that touches the colar or ears). Another ridiculous rule is the "six inch rule" which means that pupils are forbidden to go closer than 6 inches to each other. During the cold months, coats are not allowed, since the cold is meant to toughen the pupils up. |
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As well as the school fees, pupils have to pay obligitary 'charity' donations, where the charity in question is none other than Wellington School itself, which has regersterd itself as an official charity. The school has also had critisism for banning celebration of Red Nose Day 2005. |
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==Alumni== |
==Alumni== |
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Revision as of 20:19, 13 December 2005
Wellington School, Somerset, is a co-educational public school catering for both boarders and day pupils. It should not to be confused with either Wellington School, Shropshire or Wellington College.
The school is the second largest employer in the town of Wellington, where it is situated near the centre of the town. It was founded in the 19th century.
The school opened a new junior school in 2000, having previously only catered for pupils 10 and over. In 2003 the Princess Margret opened the Princess Royal Sports Complex[1], a £2.6 million indoor sports facility. Now they are raising funds for a new performing arts centre.
The school is in direct competition with the other three of the 'four public schools' of Taunton (the nearby county town of Somerset); Queen's College, Taunton School, and King's College, and currently gets the best results.
It has its own marching band, and trains its pupils in armed combat and killing tequniques through the Combined Cadet Force. It has its own priest, with extremly homophobic tendencies, and condems those of homosexual peruasion to hell openly in religious education lessons.
It has appeared in the news for several scandls, such as in 2002, a maths teacher in at the time, Mr Crozier, was revealed to be sleeping with the head girl. Mr. Sarginson. Another maths teacher, was recently convicted for indecent conduct, after it was revealed that he had inapropriate relations with a young male pupil several years previously. A more recent wellington school mishap was when a young maths female maths teacher had her job taken away as she was involved in a car accident while under the influence of alchohol and drugs. Miss Hawkswell is now in a re-hab centre. One of the cadet force trainers was also forsed to resighn recently after relations with a pupil.
Wellington School is renowned for its extremely unreasonable rules and inaffective discapline. Pupils with long hair is the ultimate of crimes, and threats of assault are frequently dished out to wearers of these "long" hairstyles (long in the eyes of Wellington School is hair that touches the colar or ears). Another ridiculous rule is the "six inch rule" which means that pupils are forbidden to go closer than 6 inches to each other. During the cold months, coats are not allowed, since the cold is meant to toughen the pupils up. As well as the school fees, pupils have to pay obligitary 'charity' donations, where the charity in question is none other than Wellington School itself, which has regersterd itself as an official charity. The school has also had critisism for banning celebration of Red Nose Day 2005.
Alumni
Despite being a relatively minor public school, it has nevertheless produced several celebrity alumni, namely:
- Author, politician and convicted fraudster Jeffrey Archer, who, it is alleged, falsely claimed as a young man that he had attended the more prestigious Wellington College
- Food critic Keith Floyd
- Actor David Suchet, known for playing Hercule Poirot
- Science Author Simon Singh