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September 2012
PARENTS ASSOCIATION
Second-hand
Uniform Shop
Open during term time most
Saturdays, 11 am – 12 noon, and
Wednesdays, 12.15 pm – 1.15 pm
Michaelmas Term Dates include:
September
: Saturday 8th /
Wednesday 12th / Saturday 22th /
Wednesday 26th / Saturday 29th
October
: Wednesday 3rd /
Saturday 6th / Wednesday 10th /
Saturday 13th / Wednesday 17th
November
: Wednesday 7th /
Saturday 10th / Wednesday 14th /
Saturday 17th / Wednesday 21st /
Saturday 24th / Wednesday 28th
December
: Saturday 1st /
Wednesday 5th / Saturday 8th
ASPA
Forthcoming Events
2012
5 Oct
Sixth-form parents’ supper
– CMR
12 Oct
Third-year parents’ supper
– CMR
9 Nov
Race Night – parents and
friends – adults only
Sports Centre Hospitality Suite
23 Nov
Fourth-year parents’ supper
– CMR
2013
1 Feb
Fifth-year parents’ supper
– local restaurant (tbc)
8 Mar
Lower School parents’ supper
– CMR
17 May
Quiz Night – parents and
friends – adults only
Sports Centre Hospitality Suite
7 June
Dinner at Pembroke College
all parents welcome
Check website for details
www.abingdon.org.uk/aspa
ASPA Committee –
present and future
As we look forward to the new school year,
our thanks go to the ASPA committee
members who have done so much over
the years, especially Marilyn Moore for her
tireless efforts with SUS – the Second-
Hand Uniform Shop. It is perhaps
timely to remember that ASPA is run by
parents for parents, and provides useful
networking and social opportunities. We
are responsible for the running of SUS
and for the Car Share Scheme. As in
any organisation, it is important that new
members join in, and contribute their time,
as current members depart when their
children leave the school. If, you could
spare an occasional couple of hours to
help, please contact the ASPA secretary
at:
The next ASPA committee meeting is on
Monday 10 September at 7.30pm in the
Christ’s Hospital Room, 117 Mercers’ Court. If
anyone would like to attend please know you
would be very welcome.
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Supper at the
Cherwell Boathouse
In May, ASPA’s first whole school supper
was held at Cherwell Boathouse. Despite
the (customary) chilly weather, it was a
superb evening with live music provided
by the Abingdon School Jazz Trio – Tim
Davies, George Burrage and Henry
Binning – and a three course meal served
in the restaurant overlooking the river.
Generous donations allowed us to raise
over £700 in the raffle.
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ASPA Photograph
Competition
ASPA’s annual photo competition – closing
date first Friday of the Michaelmas term –
challenges people to take a photograph of
an item of Abingdon uniform in an unusual
location. The winners will be announced
soon after the beginning of this term - first
prize £50, £25 runners-up. Entries should
be sent to
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ASPA’s Donations to
School Projects
Money raised by ASPA in the course of the
year, allowed us to give £500 to Icons, an
Abingdon Dance Project performance by
senior pupils from St Helen’s and Abingdon in
the Amey Theatre on 29 April, to buy a £650
infra-red camera for the Physics Department
and to make a £5,000 donation to the new
Chapel windows (no gain, no pane).
We continue to hold discussions with the
School so that we can apply ASPA-raised
funds to the benefit of as many boys
as possible.
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And so, yet another school year drowns in the summer rains. Nonetheless, it is has been a very
successful year for ASPA both in the events we have held and the money we have raised.
