Wellington College International Lagos officially opens its Welcome Centre in Victoria Island on Thursday, just days after opening applications for the 2027–2028 academic session.
The Welcome Centre marks the moment the college opens its doors more fully to the community, creating a place where prospective families and partners can meet the leadership team, ask questions and engage directly with the vision for education Wellington is bringing to Lagos.
According to Peter Antigha, the communications manager at Wellington College International Lagos, the college brings 173 years of educational heritage to Nigeria, alongside the perspective and connections of a global network of schools.
“In Lagos, that heritage is being brought into dialogue with the energy, ambition and identity of Nigeria, with an ambition to develop young people who are internationally minded and future-ready, while remaining grounded in who they are and where they come from.
With applications now open, the Welcome Centre provides a direct point of engagement for families beginning or progressing their admissions journey.”
Antigha, in a statement, emphasised that the Welcome Centre will also serve as an important space for the college to build its community and relationships with partners as the permanent campus takes shape in Alaro City, ahead of its planned opening in September 2027.
He explained that though the Welcome Centre will open on Thursday, the college will resume at its permanent campus in September 2027.
Wellington College International Lagos School will follow a British-based curriculum through to A Levels, with provision spanning early years, junior school, senior school and sixth form.
Besides, the college offers pastoral care and wellbeing, sport, arts, service, leadership, entrepreneurship, digital literacy, and creative economy, among others.
Wellington College International Lagos is being developed as a co-educational day and boarding school for up to 1,500 students aged three to18.
He explained that the permanent campus is being designed by MICA and will include teaching and learning facilities, a performing arts centre, extensive sports amenities and a 50-metre indoor swimming pool.
Recall that the college was formally launched in Nigeria earlier in 2026. It has now moved into the next stage of its development: engaging directly with the families and partners who will form its founding community.
Moreover, Antigha revealed that applications for the 2027–2028 academic session were recently opened. “The Welcome Centre provides a physical setting for prospective families to move from initial interest and enquiry to a more personal understanding of the college and its admissions process,” he said.
Wellington College International Lagos is part of Wellington College Education (WCE), he explained is the global education network established by Wellington College.
“WCE’s international schools share the values, ethos and ambition of Wellington College while being developed to reflect and respond to their own communities.
“WCE explicitly describes its international schools as not being clones of Wellington College UK, but as schools that bring Wellington’s shared ethos into dialogue with different cultures and educational contexts,” he noted.
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In addition, he stressed that the question is not simply how a British school model is being transplanted to Nigeria, but Wellington proposes to combine the experience, values and global connectivity of the college’s network with an education that is rooted in the Nigerian (and African) context and relevant to the young people who will attend the school.
Christine Haslett, the college’s founding headmaster, is expected to bring experience from schools in the UK, China and Indonesia, including a key leadership role in establishing Wellington College Independent School Jakarta.
“The permanent Wellington College International Lagos campus is being developed in Alaro City, Lagos, in partnership with Rendeavour. The campus is scheduled to open in September 2027.
“The Alaro City partnership also places the college within a broader development focused on education, enterprise and community-building,” he explained.
Wellington College Education, in the statement, describes the partnership with Rendeavour as part of a wider vision in which schools serve as important anchors within developing communities.
