10 January 2023 Abingdon News During their Geography lesson in the first week of October, members of 1M completed sketch maps of Big School. A key geographical skill being developed ahead of the coastal topic later in the year. A Level physicists enjoyed a lecture at lunchtime given by Luke Scantlebury-Smead from Oxford University. Luke was talking about the LHCb detector at CERN and his time working on it in Switzerland which is related to the particle physics aspect of the A Level course. Just under 30 students enjoyed a sunny day at Hinksey Heights Golf Club, overlooking Oxford, for what has become an annual event of Foot Golf. Several of the students scored birdies or eagles on the challenging course, but the highlight was Mr Richardson scoring another hole-in-one. Best score was from School House’s Kammal Nwajiaku. Three Upper 6th pupils enjoyed a visit to the House of Lords for the annual All-Party Parliamentary Engineering Group lunch and discussion in November. Talks were on the theme of engineering for the food industry including from engineers at Bournville. The pupils learned about the science of tempering chocolate and the quest to create a chocolate-piping robotic hand. A fair way to go Physics lunchtime lecture Big plans House of Lords Science meets linguistics Having spent time learning about Chemistry, Physics and Biology in their German lessons, 1st Year pupils went to the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum and the Goethe Institute in November to further explore links between the two subjects. Over the course of the day, the pupils found out more about a huge range of topics, from dinosaurs to space travel; to the differences between London and Berlin.
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