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January 2012
Cricket in Kenya
During half term, two Abingdon Prep members of staff, Rob Shaw and Claire Delo, visited Jimba
Gede Primary School, our link school in Kenya. The Jimba Gede pupils, some of whom were
preparing for national examinations, were able to use Rob and Claire’s expertise during revision
sessions they ran in Religious Education and Science. Claire and Rob took some science
equipment with them and the pupils were able to use a microscope for the first time. The children
were also introduced to cricket which proved hugely popular, with over two hundred pupils turning
up to the first session! Good progress was also made on the construction of a permanent library
at the school, with the help of Rotary Clubs in Abingdon and Malindi in Kenya.
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Bushcraft Lessons
As part of a Bushcraft weekend at Cornbury
Park, a group of Year 6 pupils set up camp in
the Wychwood Forest, learnt to build shelters
and camp fires and put their newly-acquired
cooking skills to the test, including trout cooked
over the open fire.
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preparatory school