Category: Prep News
On Thursday, 23 April 2015 Year 5 became journalists for an afternoon and interviewed Noel Hunt and Zeki Fryers from ITFC. Year 5 actually called themselves The Abbey Press! The Abbey Press asked them what they did when they weren’t training for their big matches. The reply from them both was the electronic game, ‘Fifa!’ They said it was weird to see themselves on the computer game.
Here is a scoop you wouldn’t find in The Sunday Times, The Sun or even The Daily Mail – neither of them thought of football as a sport they would be playing professionally. It turns out Hunt wanted to be a vet and Fryers had a dream of being an athlete running against Usain Bolt!
We asked them many questions, but here is one more: we asked them who was the hardest player they had come across? Fryers replied that for him it was Falcao and the old Italian Captain Callivaro.
To be up close to players we usually see from a distance was a privilege. We were also lucky enough at the end of the interviews to be able to get their autographs. We would like to thank Noel Hunt and Zeki Fryers for coming to visit us at The Abbey and ITFC for allowing them to come.
By James Holliday, Harvey Garrard and Samuel Bolus
Welcome to the East Anglian Prep Schools Cross Country Championships 2015.
Congratulations to Isabelle Jervis, Alice Sharratt and Erica Walkling who have been Highly Commended for their pictures on the theme of ‘Animal Magic’ submitted for this year’s competition in aid of Cancer Research UK. As well as attending a special prize-giving, their work will be exhibited in the Peter Pears Gallery in Aldbrugh on Friday 13th March, 1-5pm, 14th March, 12-5pm and on Sunday 15th March 10-4.30pm. Seven other Abbey pupils, Aidan Holliday, Clara Melrose, Joe Virr, Katie Bellhouse, Jo Dunmore, Ella Reynard and Alexander Sharratt have also been chosen to have their work exhibited. All are welcome to attend to see their work and that of pupils from other schools in East Anglia and the designs will be available to purchase along with specially printed postcards of their art work. Really well done to these pupils and to all who took part in the competition. I was really impressed by the high standard of work and how imaginative and different all the pictures were!
On Tuesday year 5 were lucky enough to be joined by staff from BT to take part in a day long computing challenge. Throughout the day the pupils were introduced to new programming ideas that went together to create a programme to control the movement of a virtual robot. This required the pupils to think logically in order to create and debug algorithms.
The day culminated in a year group competition with teams pitting their robots against each other on order to collect coloured mines. After 16 hard fought duels it was Tom Martin and Sukey Ridge who were the eventual winners on the day. Well done to everyone involved.
Congratulations to all the Woodbridge School competitors at the Suffolk County Athletics Championships (Clubs) at Ickworth House last week. Great to see so many runners from The Abbey and Woodbridge competing on a difficult course in tough conditions. With a team silver (U13 girls) and an individual bronze (Henry Dinwiddy) as well as 14 top 10 finishes, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are just one school and fantastic to see us all working together. Well done all!
Good luck to all competing at the Suffolk Schools on Thursday!
Year 3 have been busy making Reindeer Cupcakes, Year 6 have been making jars of mincemeat, and the Seckford Scheme boarders have been enjoying afternoon complete with mince pies for that proper introduction to a British Christmas. A very busy afternoon in The Abbey kitchen!!
Thursday 4th December was a day of great excitement amongst Abbey Musicians as our term’s work and dedication culminated in the Gala Concert that evening. Nearly the entire school was involved in the thirteen choirs and ensembles that participated, and all styles of music were covered from Renaissance consort music to Abba and from Holst to film music. Many thanks to all the pupils and staff – it was a fantastic evening.