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April 2012
Abingdon in Europe
Paris – Home from Home
Abingdon boys must be beginning to feel at home in Paris with three school groups visiting
the city within the past four months. A third-year group went in December, straight after the
end of the Christmas term; their main destination was
Disneyland
but there was more than
enough time during their three day visit for Christmas shopping and sight-seeing. In early
February a group of Economists attended the
Your Future in Europe
conference, where
they heard a range of talks on the European Union and on the crisis in the Eurozone, and
engaged in some energetic sight-seeing too. Later in February a group of French linguists
spent five days in the city, taking in a mass of cultural and historical experiences and
thoroughly enjoying themselves along the way.
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Abingdon to Aix
Fourth-form linguists travelled to Aix-en-Provence by way of
Eurostar
to Lille and then
onwards to Aix at the end of last term. Their destination was the Lycée la Nativité for
Abingdon’s seventh annual exchange visit to this school. Whilst practising their French,
pupils were also able to visit some of the spectacular sites in this part of the world – the
Pont du Gard, the arena at Nîmes and the town of Les Baux the spectacular ruined cliff-top
town where many of the houses are carved out of the rock.
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Bielefeld
It’s over 40 years since the first
exchange visit was arranged between
Abingdon and the Ratsgymnasium
in Bielefeld, a school with a history
as long as Abingdon’s own. For
the fourth-formers who visited the
town in February, trips to cultural and
commercial sites were mixed with
ice skating and football – Abingdon
winning the annual England /
Germany match for the second year
in succession – all of it in sub-zero
temperatures.
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... and nearer home
Bath Water
Washing, worshiping, living, dying,
second-form Latinists got a glimpse of
life in Roman times when they visited
Bath on the Ides of March. Some of
the boys were even brave enough to
sample the water – and lived to tell
the tale.
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