Abingdonian 2018

79 www.abingdon.org.uk House Reports The 2017 Crescent House song, conducted by Tom Preston, was Some Nights by Fun. The boys put in a great deal of effort, but for the tenth year running failed to make the top three. Our luck must surely change at some point, and I am confident that there are blue skies ahead in 2018! A number of Crescent House boys achieved some excellent public examination results over the summer. With the introduction of the new grading system for GCSE in some subjects, they can’t quite be as snappily summarised as previously, but Jason Ng (8 A*s, 3 9s) and Harry Notley (8 A*s, 2 9s) achieved the highest possible grades. Perry Tsai (8 A*s, 1 A, 1 9) Tong Tong Sukamongkol (8 A*s, 1 A, 1 9), William Putt (8 A*s, 1 9, 1 8) and Nathan Hudson (7A*s, 2 9s, 1 A) also achieved close to the maximum. At A-Level, Jai Sidpra achieved 4 A*s and Sean Kao achieved 4 A*s and an A, winning his place at Cambridge. Over the course of the year, the house was ably led by Heads of House Justin Chow and Josh Washington, with Jai Sidpra, Fergus Mitchell and Anthony Yang all representing Crescent as school prefects. I thank them and the other senior boys for all of their support and hard work. We said goodbye to Rev. Moody, Mrs King and Miss McCutcheon as tutors. Mr Miller, Miss Widdern, Mr Knowland and Mr Cousins join the house in September. My thanks go to all the tutors for everything they do, as well as to Miss Poole in her role of Assistant Housemaster and Miss Deaves-Small as Matron. The Heads of House for 2018/19 will be Jate Jaturanpinyo and Henry Barlow, while Jate and Edward Hayes will be school prefects. Ethan Webb is one of the Heads of School. I am confident that they and the rest of the Upper Sixth will lead the house ably, in what I am sure will be another very successful year for Crescent House. Matthew Kendry