abingdon.org.uk/prep 9 AROUND SCHOOL PARENT CAREERS AFTERNOON In late June our annual Parents’ Careers Afternoon took place at Abingdon Prep. Twelve parents from a broad range of careers very kindly gave up their afternoon working commitments to present to pupils in Year 8 and to answer questions about their professions. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed it and had the experience of moving tables to talk to all the parents about their working lives. CREST AWARDS The British Science Association Bronze CREST Award is aimed at 11+ years. Participants devise a project, which they research, experiment, write-up and present to attain their award, typically spending 10 hours on the work. 8R take part after their exams and as the culmination of their projects, the pupils put on an exhibition of their work, to which parents were invited, who asked them some suitably tricky questions! Making an electronically controlled car go faster The best crisp! Keeping your pizza hot Year 6 enjoyed learning first aid from our nurse, Debbie, with a focus on cuts and burns. They practised bandaging an imaginary cut and tying a sling before learning how to treat a burn, gaining excellent life skills. YEAR 6 - FIRST AID One of our parents, Dan, a vascular surgeon, really brought Year 5’s topic on the circulatory system to life. The pupils learned about the conditions that would result in surgery being needed and were in awe at the equipment that would be used and level of precision required. The children got to ‘see’ their pulse rates useing a portable ultra sound unit. Thank you so much to Dan for giving up his time to talk to Year 5 - we may have a few future medics among our ranks! SURGEON TALK YEAR 7 OWL PELLET DISSECTION Year 7 enjoyed getting stuck into their owl pellet dissection in June. We found a record number of skulls along with many other bones, most belonging to voles and shrews. Years 3 and 4 were treated to a session on French playground games run by a team of talented L6 linguists from Abingdon School. The older students taught the younger ones how to play ‘canard, canard, oie’ (duck, duck, goose) and ‘un, deux, trois, soleil’ which is the equivalent to grandmother’s footsteps along with other team games. A great deal of fun was had by pupils old and young who then enjoyed lunch together. Merci beaucoup to Madame Cottrell and her team of students for such a fantastic session and a great way to bring together the French departments of both schools. FRENCH PLAYGROUND GAMES
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