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The
Boarding
Houses
Clockwise
from
Top
Left:
School
House
(to
the
left
of
Big
School);
Crescent
House;
Austin
House
Each house aims to provide you with the opportunity, support and encouragement necessary for you to achieve academic success,
develop self-confidence and independence and become a concerned and responsible member of society. The house is a community
that will help you through the challenges you will face in your time at Abingdon School and that will celebrate your successes and
achievements. Crucially it is a place where you will form friendships and learn social skills that will last you for the rest of your life. The
house combines boarders and day pupils aged 13-18 years old. The house, therefore, offers opportunities for day pupils and boarders
to get to know one another, for day pupils to convert to boarding and for pupils to experience a range of cultures. You should make
sure you make the most of this. Day boys are very much part of each house and are expected to follow its rules. They are also
expected
to
recognise
that
the
house
is
the
boarders’
home,
and
to
treat
it
with
appropriate
respect.
You will benefit from all the recreational and academic facilities in the house. Boarders have study bedrooms, shared with between one
and three other students, many of which have en-suite facilities. There is also a TV room and kitchen for the boarders. Your
Housemaster heads up a highly experienced and enthusiastic team of Tutors, and is supported by the house matron. Between them
the house staff look after your academic and pastoral life at Abingdon. If you have any problems the house staff will always be willing
to
help.
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