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Abingdon
News
Third Year in
Hope and Chaos
Third year students thoroughly enjoyed their ‘cross-curricular’ day at the end of January.
The boys were ‘off-timetable’ and explored
Hope and Chaos
in an activity of their choice,
with eight disciplines including Drama, DT, Art and Music available. The hope was that
they would produce something exceptional, out of the chaos of the freedom to explore.
The results were at times humorous, engaging, challenging, thoughtful and vibrant.
The partnership, based at and supported by Abingdon School, aims to widen access to science and to broaden participation in science
for everybody across all stages of education. The partnership held its second GCSE masterclass with pupils from Fitzharrys, Larkmead,
Headington, St Helen’s and Abingdon synthesising and analysing aspirin. The new science centre offers exciting opportunities to further
the aims of this partnership.
The Abingdon Science Partnership
Writer in Residence
Author Jason Hewitt
will be working
with the English
Department over the
coming year as a
writer in residence.
Jason will be working
with boys to produce
an ‘Abingdon
Anthology’. Jason’s
first novel,
The Dynamite Room
, was long-
listed for the prestigious Desmond Elliott
Prize for New Writing 2014 and his second
novel,
Devastation Road
, will be out in the
summer.
Jason’s appointment was made possible
through the Annual Fund.
Debating Success
In
Les Joutes Oratoires
, a French debating
competition, Sasha Bond and Bruno Rogers
were very impressive winning through to the
final where they were narrowly defeated by
Radley. In the qualifying round of the Oxford
Union Schools Debating Competition, all five
boys who took part secured places in the final.
