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The Newsletter of the Abingdon Foundation Schools
September 2012
| No. 30
Arts
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Sport
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a golden Summer
Annual Fund
13
News
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Abingdon’s golden summer began
in June when the 1st VIII won
the Princess Elizabeth Challenge
Cup at Henley Royal Regatta
and achieved rowing’s illustrious
Triple Crown (see page 8). In July,
four Abingdon oarsmen – James
Richards, Thomas Pagel, Joel
Cooper and Matthew Carter –
won gold medals in the GB VIII,
and bronze in the GB coxed IV, at
the Coupe de la Jeunesse, and
George Rossiter, OA, won bronze
in the GB VIII at the U23 World
Championships.
There was a bumper crop of exam
results later in the summer, 73% of
A level and 81% of GCSE results
being at grades A and A*.
For some boys, however, the
summer was crowned by their
visit to Moldova where they
accompanied a group of children
on a lakeside holiday and found it
more rewarding than anything else
they had ever done.
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