Oxbridge Club - Y13 Session 1
2023-09-26 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
A session for existing Oxbridge club students in Y13. Drop in session on Personal Statements.

Core training for Peer Support Leads
2023-10-03 14:00 - 17:00 | Fitzharrys School, Northcourt Rd, Abingdon OX14 1NP
PSLs are invited to attend this core training session covering safeguarding, listening skills and other aspects of the role.

Learning Lunch - For staff
2023-10-10 12:50 - 13:30 | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Colleagues in partner schools are invited to attend a learning lunch.
Come and share teaching ideas from within the classroom, meet other teachers and gain ideas to take away and use or adapt.

Email ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk to register

Global Negotiations - Cop 28 comes to Schools
2023-10-10 13:30 - 17:00 | Abingdon School
Members of Eco Clubs from our schools are invited to attend this afternoon event.
The aims of ICN’s conferences are to bring the critical ‘real world’ climate debate to life, enhance critical thinking for young participants and inspire student-led action. Teams of students from participating schools, will represent up to 16 nations as at COP28 in Dubai (30 Nov – 12 Dec 2023) before the conference turns to a local climate action focus.

Part 1 – Global Negotiations The Mock COP28 format is designed to engage with the themes of the UN Climate Conference of the Parties. Teams of students work together in advance to create a brief (1minute!) opening statement. They then present and debate progress towards pledged carbon reduction targets made in the Paris Agreement and try to agree more ambitious climate action. Methodologies ensure that all participants have the opportunity to contribute, and that the conference progresses from team planning and presentations, to joint collaborations and decision-making.

Part 2 – Climate Action The focus in the second part of the conference typically then turns to our own climate action and how students and schools can make a difference in support of Net Zero. This will be
used as an opportunity for:
One Planet Abingdon to show their work on positive action and answer questions
We would like to welcome up to 8 students from your Eco group if you have one or students who are passionate about the climate debate, plus a member of staff. This is open to all year groups.

Understanding the Teenage Brain - Year 7 Parent Webinar
2023-10-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
Parents of children in Year 7 across our partner schools are invited to attend a webinar on ‘Understanding the Teenage Brain.
This webinar from the OX14 Learning Partnership is for year 7 parents and families, to understand more about the teenage brain and how we can support positive mental health in our young teenagers. Natalie Hunt (Mental Health & Wellbeing Coordinator for the OX14 Learning Partnership) will be joined by Louise Aukland, researcher and author in brain science at the University of Oxford. They will discuss the transition to secondary school and how families can support their child’s brain development at this crucial time, followed by a Q&A session.’
To express an interest in attending, please fill in this google form.

Jeremy Hunter - Dictators, Despots and Tyrants
2023-11-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Students in Year 11 and above at partner schools are invited to attend this lecture at Radley College.
Please email ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk to register.

InspirED Conference
2023-11-07 09:00 - 12:30 | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Year 10 speaker event
More details to come

Business Language Challenge
2023-11-09 09:30 - 15:30 | Abingdon School
Business Language Challenge (3)Students are invited to join peers from across the town in this day long business challenge with a twist. Students will work in groups to market and sell a product using their chosen language. Open to students in Y10/11 who are studying German, French or Spanish. Teachers please sign up here to bring a group.

Peer Support Lead Training - Abingdon School
2023-11-09 16:00 - 17:00
Peer Support Lead students are invited to attend this training session.

Rachmaninov 150 Celebrity Recital: Piers Lane
2023-11-23 20:00 - 21:30 | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Students and parents from partner schools are invited to attend this free concert at Radley College.
London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane has a worldwide reputation as an engaging, searching and highly versatile performer, at home equally in solo, chamber and concerto repertoire. Five times soloist at the BBC Proms, Piers Lane’s wide-ranging concerto repertoire exceeds one hundred works and has led to engagements with many of the world’s great orchestras Please book a free ticket here.

History lecture - 'Hitler'
2023-11-24 19:30 - 20:30 | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. Simms demonstrates that Hitler’s main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of international capitalism and Anglo-America. These two fears drove both his antisemitism and his determination to secure the ‘living space’ necessary to survive in a world dominated by the British Empire and the United States.
Sixth form students are invited to attend this History Lecture with Prof Brendan Simms, Cambridge.
Please email ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk to register.

History Society: Professor Brendan Simms, University of Cambridge
2023-11-24 19:30 - 20:30 | Radley College, OX14 2HR

After School Careers Talk: Careers in Media
2023-11-27 16:10 - 17:05 | St Helen and St Katharine’s, St Helen and St Katharine Faringdon Road Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 1BE, OX14 1BE, United Kingdom
After School Careers Talk: Careers in Media
Students from across the OX14 Learning Partnership, in Years 10, 11 and Sixth Form, are warmly invited to attend this event co-hosted by Abingdon School and St Helen and St Katharine.
Come and gain an insight into a career in media:
– What is it like working as a journalist, radio/TV presenter, or director/producer/editor?
– What are key personal qualities and skills needed to succeed in a media career?
– What are the rewards and sacrifices of working in media?
– What are the different specialist occupations within media, and the different educational routes into each?
After School Careers Talks are especially useful to students interested in a profession, but unsure of what that would entail.
Location: Duffield Building Lecture Theatre, St Helen and St Katharine School
Sign up: bit.ly/OX14-MediaCareers

Superconductors and how we make them Super -Prof. Susannah Speller, Oxford University
2023-11-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Students from partner schools are invited to attend this lecture in the Radley College Science Lecture Theatre. Please register by emailing ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk

Oxbridge Club Y12
2023-11-28 16:00 - 17:00
More details to come

Andrew Feinstein, Shadow World Investigations
2023-12-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Radley College, OX14 2HR

Academic Coaching Training - Session 1 Leadership
2024-01-16 16:15 - 17:00 | Online
Students selected for the Academic Coaching programme will come together for the first in a series of online training sessions. A link will be sent separately.

Alternatives to University -Webinar
2024-01-16 20:00 - 20:40 | Online
Alternatives to university webinar
Tuesday 16 January, 8pm-8.40pm
A webinar introducing students to alternatives to going to university full time, including studying for vocational qualifications and undertaking work-based learning, such as apprenticeships and school leaver programmes.
Presented by Mr Michael Triff, Head of Career Guidance
Click here to register

Lord Vaizey: 'Cultural Policy in the UK'
2024-01-18 20:30 - 21:30 | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Lord Vaizey: Cultural Policy in the UK

(From Wikipedia) British politician, media columnist, political commentator, and barrister who was Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries from 2010 to 2016. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wantage from 2005 to 2019. It was announced on 31 July 2020 that Vaizey was to be raised to the peerage in the 2019 Dissolution Honours. He was created Baron Vaizey of Didcot, of Wantage in the County of Oxfordshire in the afternoon of 1 September.
Thursday 18 January, 2024

Radley College Theatre

8:30 pm

Please email ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk to attend.

Oxbridge Club - Y11 Session
2024-01-23 16:00 - 17:00

Academic Coaching - Training Session 2 The Coaching Conversation
2024-01-23 16:15 - 17:00 | Online
Students selected for the Academic Coaching programme will come together for the second in a series of online training sessions. A link will be sent separately.

Gap Year Advice Evening Webinar 2024
2024-01-23 19:00 - 20:15 | Online
Gap Year Advice Evening Webinar 2024
Tuesday 23 January 2024, 7:00-8:15pm – on Zoom
Co-hosted by Abingdon School and St Helen and St Katharine, this Gap Year Advice Evening Webinar is designed for students and their parents from Abingdon School, Fitzharrys, John Mason, Larkmead, Our Lady’s Abingdon, Radley College, and St Helen and St Katharine. The webinar starts with a brief presentation on electing, planning, and managing a Gap Year. This is following by a further presentation from Independent Gap Advice (https://independentgapadvice.org/) on travel abroad during a Gap Year. Then, a panel of school leavers from Abingdon School and SHSK will share their individual stories of what they did during their Gap Year and how they felt about the choices they made. This will be followed by a Q&A session for any of the speakers or panellists. The webinar will conclude at 8:15pm.
Link to register: bit.ly/GapYearAdvice2024

Gandhi Lecture - Prof Faisal Devji
2024-01-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Abingdon School
A lecture for those studying History A Level. Please email ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk to attend or bring a group of students.

Careers Leading from the study of Geography
2024-01-29 16:10 - 17:05 | St Helen and St Katharine’s, St Helen and St Katharine Faringdon Road Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 1BE, OX14 1BE, United Kingdom
Please scan the QR code or follow the link here to sign up.

Civil Engineering Challenge morning
2024-01-30 09:00 - 12:00 | Abingdon School
Year 9/ 10 students with an interest in Civil Engineering are invited to attend this team challenge day. Sign up to come

Academic Coaching - Training Session 3 Safeguarding
2024-01-30 16:15 - 17:00 | Online
Students selected for the Academic Coaching programme will come together for the last in a series of online training sessions. A link will be sent separately.

Introduction to Academic Coaching - Coaches and Coachees
2024-02-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Larkmead School, Faringdon road, Abingdon, OX14 1RF, United Kingdom
Students who have been selected to take part in this programme will be invited to come to an introductory session this week to find out more about the programme. This date is for students from Larkmead, John Mason, Abingdon and St Helens.

History Lecture: Professor Stephen Gunn, University of Oxford: The Later Tudors.
2024-02-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Abingdon School

Chemistry Lecture: Organometallic chemistry
2024-02-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Radley College, OX14 2HR
Students studying GCSE or A level Chemistry in OX14 LP schools are invited to attend this lecture at Radley College. Hear from Professor Ulrich Fekl, University of Toronto on Organometallic chemistry.
Monday, 19 February, 5-6pm in the Science Lecture Theatre.
Please email ox14lp@abingdon.org.uk to attend.

Academic Coaching session 2
2024-02-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Abingdon School
Students who are part of this programme will work in coaching pairs/ groups to support individual goals and targets.
