Celebrating Chinese New Year 5 abingdon.org.uk Students in Lower and Middle School celebrated Chinese New Year through a series of immersive workshops. From calligraphy and dumpling making to Kung Fu and artefact treasure hunts, there was plenty of opportunity for hands-on cultural discovery as well as using and honing their language skills. As we enter the Year of the Horse, we wish everyone a year of strength, ambition and academic success. On Monday 2 March, students were invited to a lecture by Dr Sonka Reimers, a Physics teacher at Abingdon, to hear her talk about her PhD research topic Antiferromagnetic Spintronics. Students from Fourth Year to Upper Sixth learned about the applications of magnetism in data storage and were keen to ask questions during the Q&A session at the end. Antiferromagnetic Spintronics News Abingdon To complement their IGCSE English Literature Shakespeare study, Fourth Year pupils experienced an immersive live performance of Macbeth. Pupil volunteers took to the stage to perform speaking roles, serve as extras in the banquet scene and participate in a live combat workshop! Something wicked A Level and GCSE astronomers were finally rewarded with clear skies in March, trading weather-watching for telescopetuning to capture stunning images of Jupiter and the Orion nebula. Star gazing
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