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Inspirational Speaker for Lower School Benefits: Lower School and wider school community Cost: £1500 Kicking off the next Lower School student enrichment course with a day with inspirational guest speaker James Ketchell who has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, reached the summit of Mount Everest, and cycled 18,000 miles around the world. Developing Resilience and Wellbeing Through Sport Benefits: Entire school community Cost: £3000 A bespoke lecture programme promoting a healthy balanced lifestyle covering diet and nutrition, physical activity and sports psychology. Specific topics will include how boys can apply ‘match fit’ psychology to their academic lives and use growth mindset strategies to achieve their potential. Mobile Soundproof Booths Benefits: Podcasting Club Cost: £4810 Podcasting Club is popular with boys from Second Year to Upper Sixth. These mobile soundproof tents will enable the Club’s podcasts to reach new levels of recording clarity and quality. Merlyn Bowling Machine (as used by England and international players) Benefits: School cricket Cost: £6000 This ground-breaking training machine helps young players develop their batting skills and confidence in playing spin bowlers. It will deliver immediate improvements to player development. Formlabs SLA Technology 3D Printer Benefits: Design & Technology students Cost: £3500 This new style, industrial quality 3D printer allows students to realise their CAD models in 3D quickly and with a commercial level of finish, and will be a timely addition to the D&T department facilities. Tensile Testing Rigs Benefits: Physics A Level students and partnership schools Cost: £624 each (£3744 total) These testing rigs will allow students to undertake deeper analysis of aspects of the A Level curriculum, advancing up to university standard investigations into materials properties. Race / Result Timing System Benefits: Multiple school sport groups and events Cost: £4000 This state-of-the-art electronic timing system will be available for use by cross country running, cycling, triathlon and athletics groups across the Foundation, including timing the 600+ participants in the annual Abingdon School Road Relay. Three Analog Film Enlargers Benefits: Art Department & Photography Club Cost: £1250 each (£3750 total) This equipment will be based in the School’s new darkroom allowing students to develop film and create high quality black and white prints using experimental techniques. Virtual Reality ‘Open Casket’ Computer Benefits: GCSE Computing students, Computing Club and D&T activity groups (at build stage) Cost: £3500 Building a Computer Science centrepiece for the Yang Science Centre, the end result will be a glass-topped ‘Open Casket’ computer with cross-curricular virtual reality applications in Art, Biology, Geography and more. Abingdon Development Abingdon School Annual Fund Projects 2018 Now in its 11th year, the latest Annual Fund projects have been revealed and are now open for donations! We are working on raising funds for these exciting school-wide projects enhancing the academic, extra- curricular and pastoral activities and opportunities for students. Full details of the projects can be​found at: www.abingdon.org.uk/annual_fund where you can also ​choose to support one or more of the projects. If you are a current parent, your donation can be placed on your termly school bill, too. If you would like to discuss different ways of supporting Abingdon School please contact Alexa Broad, Director of Development & Alumni Relations on 01235 849117 or via email at [email protected] www.abingdon.org.uk/donation Don’t forget to Gift Aid your donation, which makes it worth 25% more at no cost to you. 22 January 2018