www.abingdon.org.uk 13 Abingdon News Joint thinking supper Before half term, the Lower School academic award holders met pupils from St Helen and St Katharine for the final Joint Thinking Supper of the year. They were given a collection of ethical problems, logic puzzles and paradoxes to discuss in small groups and then presented their ideas about them at the end of the evening. Some rebus puzzles were fairly quickly solved, but Newcomb’s Problem proved particularly thought provoking and led to interesting debate about the nature of free will. Discovering ‘Jerusalem’ Jez Butterworth’s theatrical depiction of the rural life of an English waster took the Abingdon A Level students by storm in June when they went to see it at the Apollo Theatre, London. With a furiously comical display of drunkenness, illicit partying and swearing, Mark Rylance’s outstanding performance as Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron explores contemporary anti-establishment movements that are all too relevant in 2022 - thirteen years after the play’s first debut. The Abingdon consensus was that this is a phenomenal production which left the Lower Sixth’s top littérateurs pondering the true modern identity of England’s pastures green. An action packed week Fifty nine 1st Years travelled to PGL Liddington in the final week of the Easter break to enjoy a wide range of activities including abseiling, canoeing, climbing, problem solving and zip wire. Providing the perfect environment to develop teamwork and communication skills, the trip also presented plenty of opportunities for our students to strengthen existing friendships and build new ones. Thorpe Park Around 30 boarders had a thoroughly fun afternoon at Thorpe Park one sunny Sunday in May, as part of a series of regular trips and excursions.
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