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2 April 2013
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Academic Challenges
In a range of academic competitions last term, Abingdon boys showed that they were equal to the best.
Richard Matousek will be one of the four
members of the UK team competing against
34 other countries at the International
Geography Olympiad to be held in Kyoto,
Japan this summer. Richard will spend
a week in Japan where the aim of the
Olympiad is to encourage participation in a
range of geographical activities and share
cultures and friendship.
A team of Abingdon sixth-formers have
won the regional round of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants business game,
BASE, and a place in the national final to be
held in Birmingham in June. The competition
requires students to use a range of business
skills to analyse and evaluate a business case
study and then present their findings to a
board of chartered accountants.
The BASE Finalists
Henrik Cox, Jamie Sandall and
Harry Sandford
In the PolyU Global Student Challenge, a
team of Abingdon economists – Henrik
Cox, Jamie Sandall and Harry Sandford
– is among the 30 teams shortlisted from
schools around the world to take part in
the semi-finals and finals of this prestigious
business competition, which will be held in
Hong Kong in June.
Richard Matousek
Three of Abingdon’s top linguists – Omri
Faraggi, Philip Zealley and Oliver Sayeed
– have won through to the second round
of the UK Linguistics Olympiad. There
were 1,200 entries to the competition
and of the 18 who won through to the
second round three were Abingdonians.
Omri won a bronze medal at the
international final last year.
A cross-number puzzle and a complicated
relay round, where speed was all
important, were just two of the tricky
challenges the eight teams of Lower
School mathematicians found themselves
tackling during the first round of the
National Team Maths Challenge. Members
of the two winning teams will now compete
for places in the School team, which will go
on to compete in the national competition. Lower School Maths Challenge
Visiting the Past
Stories in the Cambridge Latin course
came to life for the 2nd Year when
they went to the Roman city of Bath,
Aquae Sulis, on 14 March and saw
for themselves the evidence for the
existence of the soothsayer Memor,
read the Vilbia curse tablet and drank
the waters of the sacred spring. n