22 April 2023 Abingdon Prep Waste not, want not Inspired by an idea put forward by our pupil led Eco Committee, Abingdon Prep has introduced daily food waste monitoring, with the aim of reducing, and ultimately eliminating, food waste at school. School Houses and staff are pitted against each other to see who can waste least. The school will then use the data collected to make informed decisions which will help contribute to waste reduction. Brilliant initiative Abingdon Prep! French exchange Our Year 8 pupils have had the advantage this term of practising their French with Julia Aubréville, a nativespeaker from France who is also an ‘assistante’ in the Modern Languages department at the senior school. The pupils have been able to improve their speaking and listening skills, including refining their accents. We are very grateful to Mlle Aubréville for her help. Science week APS pupils got really involved in British Science week in March. Year 6 attended an interactive show on ‘forces’ delivered at school by Science Oxford. The children were shown that, whilst forces can slow us down and hinder our motion, they can also be a necessity in engineering bridges. Students in Years 7 and 8 gained an appreciation of the type of detailed science required in forensic work as they undertook a workshop led by former Home Office forensic scientist, John Bates. John took the pupils through some of the methods used to gather evidence in crime scenes such as dusting for fingerprints, looking at DNA profiles of the suspects and the importance of cyber security; as well as the ongoing process of taking evidence to court.
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