At the Community Free Space over the next three days there will be an Art & Technology Show put on by pupils from Fitzharrys School.
Fitzharrys School recently had an Ofsted inspection that found the school to be Good in all areas. Many congratulations to them on all their hard work.
Unicorn School pupil Millie-May is jogging the equivalent of a marathon to raise funds for The Unicorn School. Millie-Maye will be running a total of 26.2 miles in stages throughout the month of June 2016, and for Millie-Maye jogging is tricky so this challenge.
The Unicorn School celebrates its 25 year anniversary this year. In that time they have supported more than 500 pupils with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia. As they enter their second quarter-century the next exciting development is the introduction of a GCSE programme, commencing this September.
To support Millie-Maye’s fundraising campaign donate via her Just Giving Page: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Ann-Haggar5
Many thanks to Graham for a follow up to his article, “The Pit”, that generated so much interest. This time he sends something quite different – extracts from an Abingdon Rag Mag called Murk.
The first edition is from 1962 where the writers predict what The Rag Procession in 1968 will look like.
The third edition of Murk is from 1964.
The fourth edition is from 1965. Graham says a lot of the jokes would create offence in this politically correct era. Here are a few carefully selected …
Also of interest are the adverts …
I assume the Rag Mags are from the newly formed Abingdon College, but Culham College was still going strong in the 1960s so I could be wrong.
Thanks to James for this…
The local round of Youth Speaks, a national public speaking competition for schools, sponsored and organised by Abingdon Rotary Club, took place last Friday at Steventon Village Hall.
Four Abingdon schools took part, Abingdon, Larkmead, Our Lady’s and St Helen and St Katherine. Three of these schools fielded both an intermediate and a senior team, with Abingdon School fielding just a senior team.
Each team consisted of three speakers, an introducer, a main speaker and a summariser. Topics were varied, including the search for aliens, dementia, body building and the limits to our knowledge.
The winners of the intermediate category were Larkmead whose team gave a very amusing presentation on the subject of body language, with many demonstrations.
The senior category was won by the team from St Helen and St Katherine. They gave a most informative and moving presentation on the subject of female health issues in the third world.
Abingdon Rotary Club President, Chris Ronaldson, awarded the prizes, and the winning teams will take part in the next round which takes place in Witney on the 28th January.