Abingdon News No.55

www.abingdon.org.uk 13 Congratulations to the following prize winners: Lower School - 1st prize: Remember to get the shopping by Pranit Narain (2nd Year) Highly Commended: The Day of the Pandemic by Fynn Ratcliffe (1st Year) Middle School - 1st Prize: The Square by Oliver Clark (3rd Year) Highly Commended: Thankful by Callum Aiken (4th Year), Vixen by Alasdair Emmett (5th Year) Upper School - 1st Prize: Coronavirus, Teenagers and Mental Health by Patrick Heath (U6) Highly Commended: COVID by Sam King (L6) Adopting a Panda Lower school boys have been earning lots of Other Half and academic ‘Praises’ this term but have not had the chance to collect their usual edible rewards in assemblies. As an alternative, they were given the option for a 25p donation to be made to the World Wide Fund for Nature for every Praise they were given. So many of the boys were keen to do this that over £60 has been raised since the start of lockdown, enough to adopt an animal. All the boys have voted and decided to support a Giant Panda with their donation. Gardening Delights Third year gardeners have been developing both their horticultural and photography skills this term, with some beautiful results. Ta-da! The seventh lower school taskmaster challenge was to camouflage and then reveal yourself. Congratulations to Tom Saunders for his ironing board- based winning entry. Take a look at the short but entertaining video . Abingdon School Online Open Morning Saturday 3 October 10.30am-11.30am Sixth Form Online Open Evening Tuesday 13 October 6.30pm Abingdon News