The Abingdonian 2019

81 www.abingdon.org.uk House Reports has achieved. Rory Mitchell performed very well in the Cross-Country County Championships, and qualified to represent the Oxfordshire team at the National Schools Championships. Off the sports field, a Lower Sixth team including Crescent boys Perry Tsai, Ivan Chan and Brian Ho came first in the Blott Matthews Challenge, an engineering competition for schools across the country. Ethan Chen represented the school in the Royal Society of Chemistry Top of the Bench Challenge at Oxford University, finishing as runner up out of seven schools for the Thames Valley region. Sam Christie was awarded runner up in the Cambridge University Marshall Society economics essay competition, as well as coming second equal in the Royal Economics Society’s ‘Young Economist of the Year’ essay competition, out of a total of 1300 entries. Benjamin Adams and Callum Ravden gave excellent performances in the school’s production of Loserville in the Lent Term. A number of Crescent House boys achieved some excellent public examination results over the summer. Eric Zhong (2 A*s, 7 9s and 1 8), Nicholas Ko (3 A*s, 7 9s and 1 8), Timmy Chiu (3 A*s, 6 9s and 2 8s), Andrew Jin (3 A*s, 6 9s and 2 8s), Scott Yap (1 A*, 2 As and 7 9s) and Rory Mitchell (2 As, 7 9s and 1 8) all achieved over 8.5 average in their grades. At A-Level, Sam Christie and Ed Hayes achieved 3 A*s, while Ethan Webb achieved 1 A* and 2 D1s (the highest possible grade in the Pre-U qualification). Over the course of the year, the house was ably led by Heads of House Jate Jaturanpinyo and Henry Barlow, with Jate and Ed Hayes representing Crescent as school prefects, and Ethan Webb as Head of School. I thank them and the other senior boys for all of their support and hard work. We said goodbye to Mr Miller and Mr Cousins as tutors. Mr Taylor and Mrs McKend 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 Mrs Deaves-Small as Matron. The Heads of House for 2019/20 will be Perry Tsai and Oliver Botting, while Kai Li and Nathan Hudson will be school prefects. 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