Peer Support Lead training
2023-01-17 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Abingdon School
Current Peer Support leads are invited to join other PSLs from across the partnership at a shared training event.
This event is invite only.

History Lecture
2023-01-19 15:45 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Abingdon School
A Level History Students are invited to attend a lecture with eminent public historian https://www.helenhcarr.com/ at Abingdon School.

Her recent book https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-History-Now-Suzannah-Lipscomb/dp/1474622453 is very well reviewed and modern in its approach. It’s a great opportunity for those interested in exploring the theory of history in more detail.

Spaces are limited, please email ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk to register your interest.

Academic Coaching Training 2
2023-01-19 16:20 - 17:10 (Europe/London) | Online
Students from across the partnership have been invited to take part in the Academic Coaching Programme. Students will take part in training sessions before working with younger students on their goals.
The online link will be emailed to applicants.

Gap Year Advice Evening
2023-01-19 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Come and find out about taking a Gap Year and whether it is right for you. This online talk is open to students and their parents from all partner schools in Year 11 and Sixth form. Registration is via the link here http://bit.ly/GapYearAdvice2023

Gap Year Advice Evening 2023 poster (1)

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism Launch
2023-01-23 13:00 - 15:15 (Europe/London) | Larkmead School, Faringdon road, Abingdon, OX14 1RF, United Kingdom
An introductory taster session to find out more about the OABJ. The OABJ is a programme designed to inspire students across a range of broadcasting methods including presenting, blogging and creating a podcast. Open to students in Y8-10. Sign up via your Partnership Champion.

What is an Art Foundation Course?
2023-01-23 16:10 - 17:30 (Europe/London) | St Helen and St Katharine’s, St Helen and St Katharine Faringdon Road Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 1BE, OX14 1BE, United Kingdom
Come and find out everything you’ve ever wanted to
know about studying an Art Foundation course!
What do you do while on the course? What are the
benefits? What is the application process and fees?
How do art foundation diploma courses differ
between institutions and which is best for you?
Sign up here
Art Foundation Flyer

Student Forum Meeting
2023-01-24 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | St Helen and St Katharine’s, St Helen and St Katharine Faringdon Road Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 1BE, OX14 1BE, United Kingdom
Elected Student Forum Committee members will meet to discuss upcoming events and ideas.

Oxbridge Club - Group 2 (Invite only)
2023-01-24 16:00 - 17:10 (Europe/London) | St Helen and St Katharine’s, St Helen and St Katharine Faringdon Road Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 1BE, OX14 1BE, United Kingdom
Students in Year 11 are invited to attend termly sessions to find out more about applying and going to Oxford or Cambridge University. These sessions will be an opportunity to meet with other interested students from across our partner schools and find out more about the processes and expectations. Please talk to your Partnership Champion for more information.

Arrival from 4pm with the session starting around 4.20

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism: Writing 1
2023-01-26 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Open to OABJ Members
Join this online session to find out more about writing as the foundation of all broadcasting work. We will be discussing how blogging could be a potential first step towards a career in broadcast journalism.

Academic coaching sessions with Coachees
2023-01-26 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Abingdon School

Descartes Philosophy Lecture
2023-01-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Abingdon School
Sixth form students in partner schools are invited to a lecture by Dr John Cottingham (the leading, living world expert on Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy) delivering a lecture on Descartes. This will be held in the CMR. Dr Cottingham has spoken here a few times, and given how prominently Descartes features on A-level specifications, there is no better person to deliver a session on him. Dr Cottingham is famous for a number of reasons, but notably introducing the term ‘trialism’, as a development of Cartasian dualism. Even if Descartes doesn’t feature overtly on an A-level’s programme of study, given how important Descartes is in the history of modern thought, this lecture comes highly recommended either way.

Teachers please contact @ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk to bring a group.

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism: Talking 1
2023-01-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Open to OABJ Members
Join this online session to find out more about the art of podcasting and radio broadcasting.

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism: Presenting 1
2023-02-02 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Open to OABJ Members
Join this online session to find out more about presenting skills including writing, talking, improvising and performing.

Academic Coaching - Safeguarding Training
2023-02-02 16:15 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Academic Coaches are invited to join this online training session on the important topic of Safeguarding. This session is an essential part of the course before working with younger students. A zoom link will be sent separately.

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism: Writing session 2
2023-02-06 04:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Open to OABJ Members
Join this online session to prepare your first piece of writing in the form of a blog, print or script.

Careers at the Intersection of Art & Design and Computing - FULLY BOOKED
2023-02-06 16:10 - 17:05 (Europe/London) | Abingdon School
Career Insight Talk – Art & Design and Computer Technologies – Slide

Careers at the Intersection of Art & Design and Computing
Monday, 6 February 2023, 4:10 to 5:05 (please arrive at Faringdon Lodge Reception, OX14 1BQ, no later than 4:00 in order to be escorted to event venue)
Sports Centre Hospitality Suite, Abingdon School

Open to all GCSE and A-Level students from OX14 schools.

Are you interested in a career that marries art & design with computing? If so, this careers event is for you! “Careers at the Intersection of Art & Design and Computing” will show students how art & design and computer programming and software knowledge and skills are combined in three different professions: video game design & development, film animation & special effects, and architecture & interior design.

Please arrive at Faringdon Lodge Reception (OX14 1BQ) no later than 4:00 in order to be escorted to event venue. Regrettably, late arrivals cannot be accommodated.

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism: Research & Information Gathering
2023-02-09 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Open to new and old OABJ Members
Join this online session to find out more gathering the information you need for your work.

Introduction to Academic Coaching (Coachees)
2023-02-09 16:20 - 17:10 (Europe/London) | Abingdon School
Students in Years 8/9/10 who are interested in getting some coaching from older students are invited to attend this introductory session. (See separate letter.)

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism: Talking session 2
2023-02-23 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Open to OABJ Members
Join this online session to learn how to prepare your first podcast or radio piece.

The Road to Recovery: Finding Treatments for a pandemic (A talk by Prof Sir Martin Landray)
2023-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Amey Theatre, Abingdon School Park Road Abingdon OX14 1DE Email: ase.info@abingdon.org.uk
Martin Landray (OA 1987), Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology at Oxford Population Health and Deputy Director of the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute, will give a fascinating talk on his pivotal role in the RECOVERY trial (the world’s largest trial of potential treatments for COVID-19 and the discovery that dexamethasone reduces mortality for the sickest patients) for which he received a knighthood for services to public health and science.
Students from the OX14 LP are invited to book their free ticket. Book here

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism: Presenting session 2
2023-02-27 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Open to OABJ Members
Join this online session to prepare your first ‘to camera’ piece.

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism: Media law and ethics
2023-03-02 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Open to OABJ Members
Join this online session to find out more about media law and ethics. This session will focus on how to stay safe, legal and decent as a broadcaster.

Professor Aviva Burnstock, The Courtauld Institute: Art meets Science for the technical study of paintings
2023-03-02 17:30 - 18:30 (Europe/London) | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Join students from across the partnership at this fascinating lecture with Professor Aviva Burnstock, The Courtauld Institute.
This talk will take place in the Science Lecture Theatre at Radley College.
Please register here

Is Oxbridge for me?
2023-03-02 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | St Helen and St Katharine’s, St Helen and St Katharine Faringdon Road Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 1BE, OX14 1BE, United Kingdom
Members of the Oxbridge Club are invited to attend this event.
Come and meet:
-Alumnae who have recently graduated from Oxford/Cambridge talking about their experiences at university and how they think they have contributed to the path they are now on
-An Access Officer from Oxford University talking about the admissions process (there in person)
-An Access Office from Cambridge University (virtual) talking about Cambridge-specific parts of the application process
-Alumnae who are currently at Oxford talking about their experiences of applying and what is like to be an Oxford student.

Students may be unaccompanied at this event.

Entrepreneurship Panel Event
2023-03-02 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Abingdon School
Want to become an entrepreneur?
Do you have what it takes?
Merlin Dunlop and Stephen Pavlovich (both 1997) will be in discussion with Tony Gray,
Abingdon’s Head of Economics at this evening event.
Merlin is a medical doctor and co-founder of Ardens, who provide clinical decision support software to over 85% of English GP surgeries. Ardens also provides Primary Care IT consultancy services for Research Groups and private clients. Ardens Manager, Ardens’ data analytics platform launched in 2019, is rapidly becoming one of the most popular Primary Care data analytics products for GPs, Primary Care Networks and Integrated Care Boards across the NHS.

Stephen is the founder and UK managing director at Conversion, the world’s largest CRO and experimentation agency, where he works with clients like Meta, Microsoft, Deliveroo and Tesco. Since selling Conversion in 2020, Stephen is also chief strategy officer at parent company Sideshow Group and managing director at sister company Bunnyfoot, a UX and service design agency.

Duro is currently studying business management at Bristol. At Abingdon he always had a passion for producing and mixing music; this passion has carried over to his time in Bristol where he is now helping to manage multiple events as well as performing at them.

The event will end with a Q&A session.

1830 : hospitality suite, Sports Centre. Abingdon School. Thursday 2 March.
To attend please register via the form here
Or follow the link here

Oxfordshire Academy of Broadcast Journalism: Audio and Film editing for Journalists POSTPONED
2023-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
Open to OABJ Members
Join this online session to find out more about editing using a mobile phone.

'This isn't going to hurt' - Medic day
2023-03-07 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Come and spend the day taking part in medical scenarios and activities with other aspiring medics across the partnership. This event will be a chance for Year 12 students wishing to study medicine to hear from experts and take part in workshops. More info to come.

Othello NT Screening
2023-03-08 09:30 - 12:00 UTC | Amey Theatre, Abingdon School Park Road Abingdon OX14 1DE Email: ase.info@abingdon.org.uk
A special screening for students and teachers in OX14 LP Schools . Teachers please email ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk to reserve tickets for your students.

Visit to Diamond Light Source (Invite only) 9 - 1 - PLEASE NOTE THIS HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED
2023-03-14 09:00 - 12:00 UTC
This free event aims to offer an insight into Diamond Light Source and explore the breadth of career journeys that staff have undertaken to get there. The visit involves an ‘Introduction to Diamond’ talk covering how the particle accelerator works and what kind of research happens. Following the talk students will receive a tour of the facility and participate in a Careers Carousel. Diamond Light Source

Peer Support Lead Training
2023-03-14 16:15 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Radley College, OX14 2HR
PSL students are invited to attend this training session as part of the Peer Support Lead training programme. More details to come.
