Abingdon and Witney College ‘outstanding’ for apprenticeships

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Half Term
Abingdon and Witney College is located at three main sites in Abingdon, Witney and Common Leys Farm near Hailey. The College also operates from 6 other permanent bases across Oxfordshire and up to 80 community-based venues each year.

The College recruits students from across Oxfordshire and has 2,000 full time and 10,000 part time adult students each year.

The College was inspected by Ofsted in 2017 and judged ‘outstanding’ for apprenticeships.

The College won the Training Provider of the Year category in 2017 at the Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards (OAA) , and are looking to repeat their success at the 2018 awards on Thursday 1 March at Blenheim Palace.

They are also nominated for three awards in the FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference (AAC) Awards, to be decided on Monday 5 March at the House of Commons.

(Thanks to them for the press release and good luck with the awards.)

Half Term at Abingdon Museum

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Half term is here again, and Abingdon County Hall museum has a craft workshop on Tuesday for children to explore the world of monsters and myths; and create masks, silhouettes and clay ‘Green Man’ models.
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The museum and Unicorn cinema will be good places to go if it is raining. The Unicorn is showing Coco, Early Man, and The Post.
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This dinasaur was created at a previous workshop. Each of the scales is a child’s work of art.
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The Friends of Abingdon Museum purchased a work of art, in 2017, for the museum showing ‘Early Spring near Abingdon’ by Davidson Knowles, a late Victorian artist. This detail from the fuller picture shows a River View and what could be Nags Head Island and Abingdon Bridge. There could have been some artistic license as I cannot see the Old Gaol.

EFES Second Branch

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EFES
The EFES Barbers has had a restyle. There is also a new notice in their window that says ‘Second Branch at 9 Market Place by the Museum’
EFES
Meanwhile Re Style has been re-named as EFES Barbers. There is a notice in their window that says ‘Second Branch at 17 High Street.’

They were always two branches of a close family business. 17 High Street came first, and 9 Market Place came soon after. The other two Turkish barbers trading in Abingdon are independent operators. Perhaps using the same name will make that point for anybody who was confused.

Insalubrious Dog Bin Spectacle

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Dog Bin Overflow
Geoff says ‘This is an all too typical sight in the Long Furlong area of North Abingdon. Complaining to Biffa, the Vale or local Councillors may or may not resolve the immediate problem but long term they all have proved themselves incapable of organising a schedule that prevents this insalubrious spectacle.’