This week's mailing is:
Letters:
- To parents of all 2nd Year boys – Third Year Parents’ Social Evening
- To parents of all 3rd Year boys – Fourth Year Parents’ Social Evening
- To parents of all 3rd Year boys – DofE Award Bronze Canoeing Expeditions
- To parents of all 4th year boys – DofE Silver Award (Boys applying need to have completed Bronze level DofE)
Notices:
A Level & GCSE Results Day
A level Results Day is Thursday 15 August from 8am to 11.30am and GCSE Results Day is Thursday 22 August 8am to 11.30am. Both are in Beech Court Sixth Form Centre.
Music
Far East Tour concert on Friday 28 June at 7pm – Amey Theatre. If you don't yet have your tickets for our pre-tour concert next Friday, it is not too late to get them! Come and hear our Touring Orchestra and Big Band just 36 hours before we set off for Japan and Hong Kong. We will be playing almost all of the music that we are taking on our epic tour to the Far East, including Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto with a different boy soloist in each movement, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March, Vaughan Williams' English Folksong Suite and several others not so highbrow, including a medley by Burt Bacharach and the March from Thunderbirds. The Big Band, too, will be much in evidence in its slimmed down form. Click here for Box Office tickets and here to see a digital copy of our tour brochure.
Teenage Wellbeing presentation for parents – Tuesday 8 October 2019, 7pm Amey Theatre, Abingdon School (a presentation to parents by Natasha Devon MBE)
Natasha Devon MBE is a writer & activist. She tours schools and colleges throughout the UK, delivering talks as well as conducting research on mental health, body image, gender and social equality. Natasha regularly speaks at Parliament and gives evidence to the Education and Health Select Committees, representing the interests of teenagers and teachers. In 2015 she was awarded an MBE for her services to young people and in 2016 the Sunday Times and Debretts named her one of the 500 most influential people in Britain. This promises to be a truly excellent and informative talk. Please sign up to secure a free ticket as we anticipate this to be a very popular event.
Henley Royal Regatta – Friday 5 July 2019
Parents, OAs, current and former staff and governors, are invited to the OA Club's strawberries and Pimm's event at the Friends of Abingdon School Boat Club tent in Henley Cricket Club car park during the afternoon tea interval (usually between 4pm and 5pm) on Friday 5 July 2019. No RSVP required.
Keeping Everything in Perspective
Take a look at our latest school blog on Astronomy with Abingdon School Physics Teacher, Alice Perry.
Driving along Park Road and Park Crescent: 20mph
Parents are asked to adhere to the speed limit along these private roads.
Abingdon Box Office
Abingdon & SHSK present: The Real Inspector Hound – 7pm, 27 & 28 June (Studio 2)
NT Live: Small Island – 7pm, 27 June (Amey Theatre)
News from the week:
- Junior Solo Instrumental Competition
- CCF CTT Range Weekend
- Inspirational Talk for Lower School
- Athletics News
- One Day Film School
- Geography Field Trip
- Touch Rugby Tournament
- Cricket Week 8
- Lower School Languages Trip
- Abingdon Schools Joint Carnegie Forum
- Ogden Trust ‘Teach Physics’ Intern
- Lower School Inter-Tutor Group Athletics
- Tennis News
- Second years on the march
- 2C Fundraising
