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September 2011
Heading for the Mountain
Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa at 5,895m above sea level, was the challenge
for the party of boys who braved freezing cold nights, altitude sickness and extreme
exhaustion to reach the top at the end of a five-day ascent during the ten days they spent
in Tanzania in July.
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Community Service
in Moldova
Volleyball in the Carpathian mountains was
just one of the many activities laid on by the
nine Abingdon boys who accompanied a
party of twenty-four Moldovan children to
a summer camp in Lacu Rosu in Romania.
This is the ninth year of this annual trip,
which is organised in association with the
charity
Agape
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It was the Second World War, the Nazi
regime and the Cold War that were
the focus of the fourth-form historians
who visited Berlin in June. Visits
included the huge Soviet War Memorial
in Treptower Park, Sachsenhausen
concentration camp, the Stasi prison
and the Holocaust memorial.
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Remembering War
Fourth-formers at the Thiepval Memorial during their visit to the First World War
battlefields over the Easter holiday. The memorial commemorates the missing
of the Somme and among the 72,000 names are those of six Abingdonians.
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A trip to the Normandy battlefields was included among outings to the
Bayeaux tapestry, Mont St Michel, a fish market and a cheese factory
when members of Lower School visited the region in June.
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