Abingdonian 2018

11 www.abingdon.org.uk Michaelmas Term Community Service Twenty musicians, fifteen prizes, eighteen quiz questions, two big boxes of chocolates, ten bouquets of flowers, eighty mince pies, eighty slices of fruit cake and two hundred and forty finger sandwiches equals a Community Service tea party. Each term the Community Service volunteers host a tea party in the school dining hall. This is a much anticipated event by both boys and Abingdon residents and it provides a lovely focus and culmination to the wide programme of visiting that goes on during the term. The boys enjoy inviting the ladies and gentlemen, who they have visited, back to their school. Two students have great fun as Masters of Ceremonies introducing the eclectic range of raffle prizes from jigsaw puzzles to scented candles and hoping that they will pronounce the names of the flowers correctly in the gardening round of the quiz. We have been hosting three tea parties a year for at least 18 years and they have become a regular diary entry for the local residents. Victoria Middleton