The Wellington Academy draws its inspiration from the ethos of its sponsor Wellington College.
It will create an environment where all aspects of young peoples’ development are nurtured within a learning community where there is a sense of personal value, belonging and pride.
The Wellington Academy will foster a culture where students will support each other and work together so that they contribute to the life of the school community and wider world.
It will provide the highest level of achievement based on the nurture of the eight aptitudes or abilities that all pupils have. The aim is to achieve the full potential of all pupils.
The
The Wellington Academy will aim to nurture and develop eight (identifiable) aptitudes that lie within each child and all areas of the school will look to assessment, cultivation and encouragement of these aptitudes. The eight aptitudes are in pairs as follows:
- Linguistic and Logical
- Social and Personal
- Cultural and Physical
- Moral and Spiritual
The eight aptitude model will be embedded in the culture of the school providing an overaching structure for the development of faculties based on these aptitudes and providing suitable groupings for subject focused teams.
Learning approaches will take into consideration the stage that each student has reached on each aptitude with a particular emphasis on developing each student as an individual learner; in this way the whole child will be considered and nurtured.
This aptitude model will incorporate the new framework for personalised learning and thinking skills and will ensure that pupils are able to 'manage relationships with others, and manage their own learning, performance and work' (QCA new framework of personal learning and thinking skills 2007).
