Alumni Spotlight – Summer Saunders
Our Alumni Spotlight page celebrates the huge variety of careers, achievements and stories within our Former Pupil community, and provides a space for Former Pupils to look back on their experiences at Wellington.
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Summer Saunders – Class of 2023
Nickname at School: Sum
Boarder or Day Pupil: Day pupil
Position of Office: Business Captain
What house were you in? Nightingale
When did you attend Wellington? 2009-2023
Further Education: Real Estate at Royal Agricultural University
Occupation: Going into my final year at University
Earliest memory of Wellington: School trips with Mrs McKenzie and Mrs Bowyer in P1
3 favourite memories of your time at Wellington: Speech Day, Amsterdam Hockey tour and making the Poppy Dress.
Name of Headmaster/Headmistress: Mr Parlour then Mr Johnson
Favourite Subject: Business
How would your teachers describe you? Participating, hardworking and probably too chatty!
Favourite School Trip: Dortmund Christmas Market
Favourite School Lunch: Wednesday – Chicken wraps!
Favourite Sports Activity at School: Hockey
What is your proudest achievement? Meeting The Princess Royal, through the Poppy Dress project at the Royal opening of the Lady Haig Poppy factory.
Tell us about your life since leaving Wellington: I am going into my final year of my degree in Real Estate at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, with the view to sitting the APC exam to become a Chartered Surveyor. Leaving sixth year at 17 years old, I travelled to Bali, Indonesia to teach English as a foreign language at a number of schools and universities, the following year I completed the same program in Thailand. I also worked at an international summer school at a prep school in Sussex, organising daily activities and trips to central London.
Do you have a message for current pupils? Work hard, play hard.
Have you been back at Wellington since Speech Day in S6? I gained further work experience with the Marketing department and went to my brothers final Speech Day.