WELLINGTON School celebrated the end of the year in spectacular style at Commemoration Day.

The event started with the leavers’ service in chapel, the choir singing arias and rousing anthems.

A school spokeswoman said: “There was not a dry eye in the house as the opening bars of Jerusalem sounded forth, complete with trumpet fanfares.”

A corps of drums display on the quad heralded the prize-giving and headmaster Henry Price took the salute.

Mr Price, chair of governors Anna Govey, and head boy and girl Ollie Rowe and Darcy Anderson gave speeches before the presentation of prizes across the school.

Norman captain Samuel Smith announced the winners of the inter-house competition and parents enjoyed a reception on the quad before school finished for summer.

Sixth-form students, lots of staff and parents returned for the Havana Nights-themed ball and danced to the music of school band the Yellow Wednesdays, followed by Filta.

A school spokesperson said “It was a splendid day from start to finish.”

For more pictures see this week’s Wellington Weekly News.