www.abingdon.org.uk 9 Abingdon News Boarders litter pick for their DofE As part of their service activity for their Duke of Edinburgh award, a group of 4th Year boarders have been litter picking around Abingdon. Throughout the course of the next academic year, the students will go out on most Saturday mornings to tidy the environment in an activity that supports Abingdon’s mission to act as a One Planet School. Visit to the Royal Geographical Society In November, 38 of our upper sixth geographers travelled to the Royal Geographical Society for an A Level study day. Over 600 students in total were in attendance to listen to a series of lectures covering a wide range of the content covered in the A Level course. It was a valuable day and a great experience for our Geographers. Young Enterprise Christmas Fair On 25 November, our Young Enterprise team “Vividify” attended the Christmas Fair at St Helen and St Katharine. The fair was well-attended and the team had considerable sales success selling out of their coffee coasters (made using upcycled plastic sheets and manufactured in the DT workshop) and most of their passive amplifiers (made from upcycled pallet material). The team received very positive feedback for their products, display stands and sales pitches and are now busy collecting more bottle caps and lids to feed into the process. Charity pool tournament Over the last few weeks of term, the annual Lower School charity pool doubles tournament took place to raise funds for the school’s Moldova Project. Mixed 1st and 2nd Year teams took each other on in the pool stage, aiming to win as many games as possible, before the semi-finals and grand final in the last week of term. The final was a very close affair with all 4 players potting some great shots, but the trophy went to Angus and Euan.
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