Boarding House
Interested in Weekly Boarding at your Senior School?
If so do come to our Boarding Taster.
The taster programme will include activities such as a history mystery, an engineering challenge and our maths roadshow. In the evening there will be a barbeque and recreational sport.
* For more details please contact admissions@abingdon.org.uk or Douglas Aitken, Head of Boarding.
The programme will be similar in format to last year's as shown below.
| Monday | |
| 2.00pm | Arrival reception. Meeting with Mr Aitken, Head of Boarding, Housemaster of School House and Housemaster of School House - boys to be shown rooms by House prefects. |
| 2.15 - 3.15pm | Cooking and crepes in French in School House kitchen. |
| 3.20 - 3.40pm | Computers and the Divine Being in the Greening Wing. |
| 3.40 - 4.00pm | Tea in School House Games Room. |
| 4.00 - 7.00pm | Sailing - Parental consent form required. |
| 7.15 - 7.45pm | Supper in Dining Hall. |
| 8.00 - 8.45pm | Football or ultimate Frisbee (sports assistants). |
| 9.15 - 9.30pm |
Lights out. |
| Tuesday | |
| 7.30am | Breakfast in Dining Hall. |
| 9.00 - 9.35am | Music compositions and ICT in Music School. |
| 9.40 - 10.15am | Geography of Football in Geography Department. |
| 10.20-10.55am | English “How to write badly!” in English Department. |
| 10.55 - 11.20am | Break in School House Games room. |
| 11.20 - 12.30pm | Crazy Chemistry in S19. |
| 12 noon | Question and answer session for parents in School House Games Room with the Boarding Housemasters. |
| 12.30pm | Buffet lunch in Avernus. |
| 1.15pm | End of Taster Day. |