20 Abingdon Prep • January 2023 AbingdonPrep News is the newsletter of Abingdon Preparatory School, Josca’s House, Kingston Road, Oxford OX13 5NX Tel: 01865 391570 www.abingdon.org.uk/prep Editor: Annabel Gaskell Abingdon School is a company limited by guarantee Registered in England and Wales Company No. 3625063. Registered Office: Abingdon School, Park Road, Abingdon, OX14 1DE Registered Charity No. 1071298 CHARITIES & JPA JPA NEWS Joscas Parents Association Chair, Sally reports: It’s been a busy year for the core JPA team of Nicky, Nigel, Yuvani, Cathy and Rob. In the Autumn, we ran Firestorm, and Nicky worked wonders on Gifts for Grown Ups. The JPA is hugely reliant on our amazing Class Representatives, and I am sure you will join me in thanking them all for what they do for our year groups, and us as parents, they truly are a source of wonder and a go to for information. I would like to formally thank Phoebe in particular, for all her work on SHUS (second hand uniform sales) over the last few years. You’ll have noticed we have been slowly taking over the old Drama studio as a parents hub and we can’t wait to show you in what we have been up to! A reminder that Classlist is our method of communicating. Please do join, ask your Class Rep to add you on, as it makes everything easy for us to run events and more! We have much planned for 2023, but we are also starting to look for parents to join the core team to shadow the Exec, whose boys mostly leave at the end of the 2023-24 school year. If you’re interested please do contact us: [email protected] DATES FOR 2023 SHUS Sale - Friday 6 Jan from 9-12 (in the new Parents Hub!) Big School Quiz - Wed 8 February Scalextric Night - Fri 3 March New Year Raffle in January, details to be launched soon This term, your support has paid for gifts for Pre-Prep, the pantomime trip, farm visit, gingerbread men, and more! A huge thank you to everyone. This term we held several very successful fundraising activities. First was Pre-Prep’s Scarecrow Festival, the children generously donated food to The Oxford Food Hub, one of our main charities this year. More recently we saw the return of our popular silver coin fundraiser. Pupils scoured their homes to find silver coins donate through the decoration of two giant banners, one for each of the two charities we were fundraising for. The first was The Oxford Food Hub which featured outlines of different foods and the charity name; the second was Soundabout which featured a giant music stave a dnd notes. Each class came to decorate the giant banners with their silver coins. Huge thanks to all those who contributed to this fun way of fundraising. After a lot of coin counting, the total amount raised was £557.50. CHARITIES NEWS GIFTS FOR GROWN UPS Wearing Christmas jumpers, pupils enjoyed their visit to the Gifts for GrownUps stalls organised by our chief elf Nicky and her team of parent personal shoppers, who were on hand to advise on the perfect present for a discerning relative or other special adult. We offer our thanks to all the JPA elves who worked so hard over the year to make the event such a magical occasion. In the run up to Christmas, our Year 7 Tycoons organised their own mini Christmas Market. The event, held in the school hall was hugely successful. Our teams of entrepreneurs sold with great enthusiasm and together returned a profit of over £350.
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