Abingdon News No.55

4 July 2020 Abingdon News Remote bellringing The Bellringing Club is undaunted by lockdown, managing to ring remotely with technology coming to the rescue. Watch the video Lower School Superheroes Lower School’s Taskmaster Challenge 4 was to “become a superhero and demonstrate your powers”. Teleportation proved popular and it was good to see a jedi in impressive form, but the winner was William Lyon aka The Amazing Pigeon Man! Watch the video . Kitchen Chemistry As part of the Acids and Alkalis topic, first year chemistry classes took place in everyone’s kitchens as the boys made acid-base indicators from various plants including red cabbage, tulip petals, blueberry juice and red grape juice. The boys had fun finding out which indicator worked best whilst only mildly trashing their parents’ kitchens! Red cabbage proved to be the best indicator and many boys rose to the challenge of using various household substances of different pH values to create a rainbow of colours.