Students are nominated to receive a Head’s Praise for exceptional achievements and contribution to school life.
Headmaster’s Praise – 16 March 2018
16 March 2018
Today 18 boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- John Allen for assisting with the ATOM Festival Science Market, especially making signage for exhibitors.
- George Carver for consistently displaying excellent attitude and personal charactersitics in his rowing/coxing. George has been a sterling member of the Boat Club this term: he has been patient and always incredibly helpful and supportive to his squad and coaches. At times it has been diffciult for George to get out on the water but his patience and resilient and postive attitude has been rewarded by coxing an excellent 3rd place in the J16 B event at the Schools’ Head of the River.
- Win Cheevadhanarak for being part of the U18 Bath & Otter Cup squad that finished 9th in the country in both the 4 x 100m Freestyle Rleay and 4 x 50m Medley Relay.
- Simon Chester for being part of the U18 Bath & Otter Cup squad that finished 9th in the country in both the 4 x 100m Freestyle Rleay and 4 x 50m Medley Relay.
- Silas Gill for being part of the U18 Bath & Otter Cup squad that finished 9th in the country in both the 4 x 100m Freestyle Rleay and 4 x 50m Medley Relay.
- Philip Grotjahn for being part of the winning team in the UKMT Maths Challenge Regional Final, now going on to the National Final in London in June. The team dropped very few marks, working excellently as a team.
- James Hogge for helping set up stalls for the ATOM Science Market on Saturday morning.
- Martin Man for spending several hours on Saturday setting up and taking down stalls for the ATOM Science Market.
- Patrick McCubbin for reaching the final 16 for the Biology Olympiad (a team selection event for the final 16 candidates takes place in April) and also the last 31 in the Chemistry Olympiad, which is a fantastic achievement.
- Kai Miles for being part of the U18 Bath & Otter Cup squad that finished 9th in the country in both the 4 x 100m Freestyle Rleay and 4 x 50m Medley Relay.
- Sinclair Pearce for consistently displaying excellent attitude and personal characteristics in his rowing/coxing. Sinclair has become the glue that knits together the J16 B crew and keeps it progressing so that it can provide a superb learning tool for the boys in enjoying striving for and meeting some of their goals. He always has and remains phenomenally positive, an excellent communicator whose energy and positivity really motivates and energises those around him. He is also very modest. Sinclair's most positive trait is also his sense of personal responsibility and the question I most often hear him ask coaches is “what can I do to improve?”. Sinclair was also part of the crew which finished 3rd in J16 B at the Schools’ Head of the River.
- Toby Rowles for assisting with selling tickets and giving information to visitors at the ATOM Science Market.
- Nicholas Skelton for being part of the U18 Bath & Otter Cup squad that finished 9th in the country in both the 4 x 100m Freestyle Rleay and 4 x 50m Medley Relay.
- Jasper Trilk for stepping up from the U15 C's to the U15A's and having a great game in goal for the School hockey team. Jasper made three outstanding saves to keep a clean sheet. This keeps up the hopes of the A's winning the league.
- Tom Walters for being part of the winning team in the UKMT Maths Challenge Regional Final, now going on to the National Final in London in June. The team dropped very few marks, working excellently as a team.
- Edmond Wang for being part of the winning team in the UKMT Maths Challenge Regional Final, now going on to the National Final in London in June. The team dropped very few marks, working excellently as a team.
- Adam Wentworth for helping when a boy had a seizure during a Business Studies lesson, putting his lifeguard training into practice and acting calmly and professionally.
- Scott Yap for being part of the U18 Bath & Otter Cup squad that finished 9th in the country in both the 4 x 100m Freestyle Rleay and 4 x 50m Medley Relay.
Headmaster’s Praise – 9 March 2018
9 March 2018
Today four boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- Fergus Mitchell for umpiring the 1st XI hockey fixtures this term. Fergus has gone above and beyond, turning up to away fixtures and gaining many plaudits from the sideline. He umpires in a professional and calm manner.
- Ben Shaw for helping to organise and run the English vs Germany football match on the German exchange, as the teacher was away. Ben also wrote an article about the German exchange for the Abingdonian.
- Alvin Tam for gaining his second performing diploma, this time as a violinist.
- Isaac Tan for consistently excellent effort and quality of work in Art throughout the year so far.
Headmaster’s Praise – 23 February 2018
23 February 2018
Today ten boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- Benjamin Broadbent for effectively leading a group of 4th years to create a new edition of the house magazine Green Pages.
- Howard Hawkes for winning the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire Law prize: a hugely prestigious prize and the result of a great deal of dedicated work.
- Sean Kao for competing in the national final of the Senior Team Maths Challenge, and coming an impressive 17th out of 86 final teams (1300 in the total competition)
- Jonathan Lee for competing in the national final of the Senior Team Maths Challenge, and coming an impressive 17th out of 86 final teams (1300 in the total competition)
- Harris Ma for competing in the national final of the Senior Team Maths Challenge, and coming an impressive 17th out of 86 final teams (1300 in the total competition)
- Oliver Muller for performing a French play at Chandlings French festival.
- Christopher Nikolaev for performing a French play at Chandlings French festival.
- Louis Trotter for performing a French play at Chandlings French festival.
- Harvey Vinton for performing a French play at Chandlings French festival.
- Oliver Williams for helping out with the MFL Fun with Languages Primary event.
Headmaster’s Praise – 9 February 2018
9 February 2018
Today nine boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- Eoin Chippendale for his excellent volunteering at Old Station House, where he ran a quiz with a group of residents single-handedly on his table.
- James Chung for helping expertly and confidently with the MFL Fun with Languages Primary event.
- William Haynes for his excellent volunteering at Old Station House, where he ran a quiz with a group of residents single-handedly on his table.
- Martin Man for helping expertly and confidently with the MFL Fun with Languages Primary event.
- Joseph Nash for competing in the national final of the Senior Team Maths Challenge, and coming an impressive 17th out of 86 final teams (1300 in the total competition).
- Yazan Odeh for helping expertly and confidently with the MFL Fun with Languages Primary event.
- George Simmons for helping expertly and confidently with the MFL Fun with Languages Primary event.
- Marc Tuazon for helping expertly and confidently with the MFL Fun with Languages Primary event.
- Seb Watkins for his excellent effort on homework, making a poster on the Electromagnetic Spectrum.
Headmaster’s Praise – 2 February 2018
2 February 2018
Today six boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- Rory Bishop for his exceptional effort with the Young Enterprise Stall at the Cowley Trade Fair on Saturday. They won best stall despite a reduced number of people in the team on the day.
- Rory Buchanan for planning, preparing and conducting a linguistics session for the whole group of Olympiad participants.
- Colm Lambert for leading the new Primary Science Club for local primary school children.
- Sam Miles for his exceptional effort with the Young Enterprise Stall at the Cowley Trade Fair on Saturday. They won best stall despite a reduced number of people in the team on the day.
- Sam Penrose for his exceptional effort with the Young Enterprise Stall at the Cowley Trade Fair on Saturday. They won best stall despite a reduced number of people in the team on the day.
- Nicholas Raptakis for his exceptional effort with the Young Enterprise Stall at the Cowley Trade Fair on Saturday. They won best stall despite a reduced number of people in the team on the day.
Headmaster’s Praise – 26 January 2018
26 January 2018
Today 3 boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- Harry Donoghue for winning the 6th form French debating competition held at Cheltenham College in November.
- Jakob Hobbs for scoring 99% in his Greek GCSE mock, while still in the 4th year.
- Joe O'Shea for spending an evening as a Science Ambassador at Woodstock Primary School.
Headmaster’s Praise – 12 January 2018
12 January 2018
Today 6 boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- Angus Alder for helping out with the maths mentoring of the Fitzharrys partnerships – helping teach year 8 key elements of the maths curriculum.
- Harry Butler for helping out with the maths mentoring of the Fitzharrys partnerships – helping teach year 8 key elements of the maths curriculum.
- Xavi Butler for his outstanding performance in Third Year drama production.
- Robin Collins for his outstanding performance in the Third Year drama production.
- Drew Farwell for achieving second place in the British Schools' Small-bore Rifle Association's Winter Open at Bisley.
- Aravind Prabhakaran for helping out with the maths mentoring of the Fitzharrys partnerships – helping teach year 8 key elements of the maths curriculum.
Headmaster’s Praise – 8 December 2017
8 December 2017
Today 19 boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- John Allen for helping out with the maths mentoring of the Fitzharrys partnerships which included helping teach Year 8 key elements of the maths curriculum.
- Mohsen Ansari for helping out with the maths mentoring of the Fitzharrys partnerships which included helping teach Year 8 key elements of the maths curriculum.
- Freddie Boyd-Gorst for compèring the Community Service tea party really well.
- David Bunn for helping out with the maths mentoring of the Fitzharrys partnerships which included helping teach Year 8 key elements of the maths curriculum.
- Sam Collins for helping out with the maths mentoring of the Fitzharrys partnerships which included helping teach Year 8 key elements of the maths curriculum.
- William Cope for helping out with the maths mentoring of the Fitzharrys partnerships which included helping teach Year 8 key elements of the maths curriculum.
- Alasdair Czaplewski for his outstanding commitment as a Senior Science Ambassador this term, organising teams of SAs for events and leading activities at Saturday Science Clubs.
- Saul French for his outstanding performance in Third Year drama production.
- James Hogge for being a member of the Princeton University Mathematics team who came third of all overseas entries.
- Tor Hormbrey for his outstanding performance in Third Year drama production.
- Suleman Irshad for helping out with the maths mentoring of the Fitzharrys partnerships which included helping teach Year 8 key elements of the maths curriculum.
- Philip Kimber for being best in school for the Junior Category of the UK Computational Thinking Challenge with 177/200.
- Aron Lavis for compèring the Community Service tea party really well.
- Timothy McConnachie-Kaye for his excellent piece of geography work on iphone supply chains by his geography teachers.
- Patrick McCubbin for winning the presigious Roentgenium award for the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge and delivering a fine presentation on Calcium to the other prizewinners and challenge committee in London recently.
- Edward Saunders for being best in school for the Intermediate Category (Years 8,9) for the UK Computational Thinking Challenge.
- Ted Smethurst for his outstanding performance in Third Year drama production.
- Jack Tilley for his outstanding performance in Third Year drama production.
- Ben Wilson for his superb leadership of the Princeton University Mathematics team who came third of all overseas entries.
Headmaster’s Praise – 1 December 2017
1 December 2017
Today 8 boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- Didier Delgorge for his outstanding performance on Saturday of the entire Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor with the Wantage Orchestra.
- Charlie Harden-Sweetnam for winning the 6th form French debating competition held at Cheltenham College.
- Sean Kao for being a member of the Princeton University Mathematics team, who came third of all overseas entries.
- William Lam for winning the Senior Solo Instrumental Competition 2017, playing Cécile Chaminade's Flute Concertino.
- Daniel Ooi for creating a lovely invitation and programme for the Community Service tea party.
Headmaster’s Praise – 24 November 2017
24 November 2017
Today 8 boys came for Headmaster's praise:
- Brooklyn Han for singing the bass solos in Mozart's Coronation Mass at the JCS Concert on 19 November.
- Reuben Havelock for singing the tenor solos in Mozart's Coronation Mass at the JCS Concert on 19 November.
- Rory King for being placed 8th in the Country at the ESSA Secondary Relays national finals.
- Hugo Leedham for his stunning sketchbook, consistently working beyond what is required.
- Sam Penrose for his stunning sketchbook work and dedication to Art, including a very professional series of digital photographs, taken in Morrocco over half term.
- Josh Roche for being placed 8th in the Country at the ESSA Secondary Relays national finals.
- Leo Sinclair for showing an excellent attitude to learning and taking feedback on board. Leo got top marks in a recent class exam. He is an enthusiastic learner, and always has a huge smile.
- Nick Skelton for being placed 8th in the Country at the ESSA Secondary Relays national finals.
