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63 Miles in 24 Hours
The challenge was both to mark the 450th anniversary of John Royse’s 1563 endowment
of Abingdon School by walking 63 miles in 24 hours, emulating the walk a group of sixth
formers completed 50 years ago to mark the 400th anniversary, and to raise £6,300 to be
divided between the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals’ Childhood Cancer Research Fund and the
Abingdon School Bursary Fund.
Beginning at Avebury the walkers followed the Ridgeway to Streatley. Here they were
joined by some of the original 1963 walkers, Miss Lusk and a number of parents for the
nine miles back to Abingdon where their arrival was greeted by the sound of the School
bell being rung 63 times. Both challenges were triumphantly met and the walkers,
exceeding their financial target, were able to give each cause a cheque for £3,605.63p.
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PolyU Global
Challenge
In the opinion of the judges at the
final of the
PolyU Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Global Student
Challenge
, held in Hong Kong in
June, the Abingdon team gave a
‘phenomenal’ presentation on their
app-controlled suitcase,
Lüg
, which
has a remote locking facility, in-built
scales, GPS locator, LCD screen
and a carbon footprint calculator.
Henrik Cox, Jamie Sandall and Harry
Sandford are to be congratulated both
on their innovative idea and on their
success in reaching the finals of the
competition.
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Academic
Olympiads
Omri Faraggi and Oliver Sayeed, were
members of the eight-strong UK team
at the International Linguistic Olympiad
held in Manchester in July where
Omri won a silver medal. Richard
Matousek, representing the UK at the
final of the International Geography
Olympiad in Kyoto also won a silver
medal. All three boys beat more
than a thousand other UK entrants
to win their places in the teams, an
impressive achievement and a tribute
to the quality of subject teaching at
the School.
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Be the Best You
Can Be
If you want to achieve your ambitions you
need focus and determination, this was
the message that Commonwealth gold
medallist Mark Hatton gave to Lower
School last September. He returned in July
to see presentations from each second-
year tutor group on how they had got on,
and to remind them that the message
wasn’t just for a year but for life.
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The whole group before setting out from School on Sunday
Arriving back at School on Monday
Mark Hatton
who twice won
a gold medal in
the luge at the
Commonwealth
Games
