{"id":10219,"date":"2013-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abingdon.prod.twkmedia.eu\/prep\/2014\/12\/09\/carol-service\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T11:58:44","slug":"carol-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/carol-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tOnce again our Carol Service this year was held in the beautiful church of St. Helen’s, Abingdon, which was full to the rafters, with around 600 people in attendance.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe programme was rich and varied and included our usual combination of congregational carols, readings, year group carols, soloists and instrumental ensembles. Our wonderful Once in Royal David’s City<\/em> soloist this year was Rory Baker (Year 7) who began the service in the traditional way. Years 3 and 4 sang Walking in the Air<\/em> in 2-part harmony and Jingle Bells<\/em> with much vigour; Years 5 and 6 sang Rutter’s The Colours of Christmas<\/em> with very clear harmony and Torches<\/em>, which was stunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 10 December 2013 Once again our Carol Service this year was held in the beautiful church of St. Helen’s, Abingdon, which was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-categories","category-performing-arts-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n