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Raft building, tackling a climbing wall and broadcasting live on DukeBox radio were just some of the highlights enjoyed by students on the first day of their Wheeler Programme residential this week.
Lessons in Arabic and Mandarin, politics, geography and Classics were also on the timetable in the first two days.
Two groups of students are at Wellington College for a four-night residential course.
Head of the Wheeler Programme Sue Parker said: “It is wonderful to welcome our Year 9 students for their first residential at Wellington College.
“Our Year 10 group have also came back and they are embracing all the challenges we are throwing at them.”
Established in 2017, the Wheeler Programme is a fully-funded educational programme for around 100 selected state school pupils.
Twenty-four students are selected in Year 9 and the college helps support them until their graduation from the programme at the end of Year 13.
They start the programme with a five-day residential course at Wellington, where they experience life in a boarding school, and then take part in three or four study days a year, tailored to their age.
