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Abingdon
News
New Facilities – Exciting Times at Abingdon
A new café for pupils opened at the beginning of term and has gone down a treat with
the boys. The School also took over the management of the all-weather football and
hockey pitches and the athletics track at the Tilsley Park Sports Centre and we have
plans to develop the site further. The Yang Science Centre is on track to be ready next
autumn and this term saw the topping out ceremony to mark the highest point.
The Amey Theatre is also undergoing refurbishment; the first phase was completed
over the summer.
David Mitchell
Entertains
Comedian, actor and writer, David Mitchell (OA1992) was in fine form on his return to
School in November. In conversation with Mark Thornton of
Mostly Books
, David spoke
about writing, broadcasting and ranting. He mentioned his youthful ambition, which
must have worried his parents: quiet, reclusive, swot – the words are David’s – decides
he wants to be a comedian. The capacity audience in the Amey Theatre warmed to his
genial, self-deprecating manner and his willingness to share his thoughts on the pleasures
and perils of this internet age. David was publicising his latest book,
Thinking About it
Only Makes it Worse.
Sarah Wearne:
School Archivist
Sarah Wearne edited the
Abingdon
News
from its creation in January
2003 until the 36th issue, Summer
2014. The School would like to thank
Sarah for her enormous contribution
to
Abingdon News
, it is very much
appreciated. It gave Sarah the feeling,
she says, that she was writing the first
draft of the School’s history. Abingdon’s
earliest records and artefacts date
from the sixteenth century and some of
them featured in the online ‘History of
Abingdon School in 63 Objects’
,
which Sarah worked on in 2013 to mark
the 450th anniversary of John Roysse’s
re-endowment.
Last year, to mark the centenary, she put
Abingdon’s First World War Archive on-
line
She remembers with pleasure a
member of staff’s comment that she has
reintroduced the School to its past.
She enjoys her work – holding the view
that an organisation that believes in
its future takes care of its past – and
particularly enjoys managing the small
groups of boys who regularly attach
themselves to the archives as assistants.
Sarah is married with four children, three
of them boys who came to Abingdon.
A graduate with a PGCE, she taught
history at a tutorial college in London
before moving to Oxfordshire.
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