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Exploring Science
Science is very popular at Abingdon
Prep and it has been a busy and
productive year culminating in our Year
8 boys, Jonah Walker, John Corran,
Oliver Beaumont and Toby Collins,
winning the University Prize at the
Salters’ Institute Festival of Chemistry
at Oxford University. Boys have also
been involved in the BSA Crest Awards
studying the amount of vitamin C in
drinks, the mental effects of playing
video games and the impact of
music on hamster activity. In Science
Club, Year 5 investigated many fun
things from the CO2 action in making
cinder toffee and air expansion in
popcorn, to the streamlining effects
of different shaped boats and seeing
what’s beneath a woodland footprint.
They also built Wallace and Gromit’s
Cracking Contraptions (motorised
vehicle kits). n
Common Entrance
Congratulations
Our Year 8 boys are to be warmly
congratulated on an outstanding set
of Common Entrance results which
included nine boys securing five
or more A grades. Joseph Curtis
deserves a special mention for his 8 A
and 2 B grades which he has achieved
ahead of joining Abingdon School this
September. The boys and staff can be
very proud of this excellent academic
performance. n
Jubilee
Celebrations
The Jubilee assembly got celebrations
underway with the national anthem by
the school orchestra. All the boys and
staff made Union Jack kites which made
quite a spectacle flying in the skies above
our playing fields. There were four Jubilee
cakes, one for each house, displaying the
house flag. Lessons took on a Jubilee
theme for the day and the boys left school
with a special edition mug to mark the
occasion. n
Pre-prep visit
London’s
attractions
28 boys had their work selected for ‘Young Art Oxford’ and their pieces
were exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum. Charlie Chick and Henry Morris
were prize winners gaining highly commended in their age groups. The
Prep School’s Summer Art Show was the highlight of the school year with
Year 8 art scholarship boys showing off their talent alongside our future
scholars in Years 6 and 7. n
Art Success