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PREPARATORY SCHOOL
10
April 2012
Senior Choir
Sing Out
The senior choir, which is open to
everyone at Abingdon Prep and is
very popular, was in fine voice this
term with two big events. On 5 March
the 26 members of the choir, aged
between 10 and 13, took part in the
Young Voices concert at the O2 which
involved 8000 children performing to a
packed audience of 30000. The boys
then went on tour at the beginning of
April to the Rhine and Moselle valleys
where they sang Mass at Cologne
Cathedral and performed at a concert
at Christuskirche in Koblenz.
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25 football squads, ranging from the 1st XI
to the U8 D VI played over 120 fixtures this
term. Added to this were the cross-country
competitions, National Schools’ Rugby 7s,
hockey matches and tournaments and
the traditionally hard-fought inter-house
football, basketball and badminton
competitions.
Although success on the pitch for the
senior football teams has been limited,
their progress has been marked under the
coaching staff of Stefan Gerrard, Ben Tew
and Ben Sadler (Oxford United – Youth
Coach). The U8s and U9s had the most
success this season winning the majority
of their matches which bodes well for the
future at Abingdon Prep.
The highlight of the hockey season was the
U9s winning the Magdalen College School
Tournament and the selection of both John
Corran (U14s) and Harry Venables (U13s)
for the Oxfordshire County squads.
Our cross-country performance has been
outstanding this term. The U11s and
U13’s won the team competition at Oratory
Prep and Henry Insley (1st) and Joseph
Richardson (3rd) ran exceptionally well
at the Chandlings event and at the IAPS
National Championships where the U8
team also came an impressive second.
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Sporting Round-up
Dinosaur Day Out
The Pre-prep enjoyed meeting the dinosaurs and other exotic creatures at Oxford’s Natural History Museum in February.
It took some convincing to assure some of the boys, aged between 4 and 7, that there are really no more dinosaurs on
earth, let alone Oxford - especially as they discovered ‘real’ footprints in the grass on the way into the museum!
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