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S C H O O L N E W S
Results
A Level Results 2017
Once again Teddies pupils
achieved a very strong set of
A Level results. Continuing the
upward trend of recent years,
nearly half of all grades were
A*/A and 77% were A*-B.
Congratulations to the
following on their exceptionally
good results:
Noah Phipps, A*A*A*A*
Physics at Manchester
Immy Higgins, A*A*A*
English Literature at Durham
University
Robert Asatryan, A*A*AA
Biochemistry at Somerville
College, Oxford
James Parsonage, A*A*A
Destination to be confirmed
Eva Cottingham-Mayall,
A*AAA Classics at Trinity
College, Cambridge
Joe Zietman, A*AAA
Durham
Ceci Sutcliffe, A*AAB
Middle Eastern Studies at
Edinburgh
Em Catchpole, A*AA
Destination to be confirmed
Lachlan Douglas Ferguson ,
A*AA Philosophy and Theology,
at Bristol
Scarlet Eadie, A*AA
History of Art at Bristol
Rohan Pandya, A*AA
International Relations at Exeter
Theo Ross, A*AA
Destination to be confirmed
Coco Vulliamy Taylor, A*AA
Destination to be confirmed
Jeffrey Zhao, A*AA Chemistry
at University College London
Angus Atkinson, Jamie
Fabian-Hunt, Toby Gerrard-
Anderson, Spencer Gomes,
Jane Lai, Hugh Macer, Chern
Wei Mah and George Moore
all achieved AAA.
IB Results 2017
Aaron Gruen was awarded
the highest possible score of
45 points, a feat achieved by
less than 1% of IB candidates
worldwide. Aaron received
three offers from Ivy League
universities in the US – Cornell,
Columbia and Brown – and has
taken up his place at Brown
to pursue a dual degree in
Chemistry and Music.
Ten further pupils achieved
40 points or more, equating to
a string of A*/A at A Level:
James Moore-Stanley,
42, Medicine at Manchester
Nicola Roberts,
42, Philosophy at Bristol
Carolina Rimoldi,
41, French and Russian
at Christ Church, Oxford
Anamika Pillai,
41, History at University College,
London
Eleanore Wood,
41, Geography at Edinburgh
Konstantinos Doxiadis,
41, Philosophy at Trinity College,
Cambridge
Paul Beckers,
40, Engineering at a university
in Germany
Fergus Cameron Watt,
40, Economic and Politics at
Exeter
Will Deasy,
40, Economics and Geography
at Leeds
Izzy Barrand,
40, Management Sciences
at Loughborough
Elsewhere, Vera Gorlacheva,
39, New York University;
Carlos Duran de Prado,
38, Accounting and Finance
at the London School of
Economics ; Minna Howorth,
38, Psychology at Durham; and
Jess Lee, 37, Philosophy at
King’s College London.
The average point score
overall was 35; 56% of Higher
Level grades were at 6 or 7.
History of the Arms of St Edward’s School
(continued from front cover)
The arms unofficially used by St Edward’s
School were originally designed by Hugh
Barrington Simeon, who combined the
arms traditionally attributed to Edward the
Martyr (who of course lived long before the
emergence of heraldry) and those of the
Simeon family. His brother, the Revd. A.B.
Simeon was the first Warden of the School.
The Simeon family had been using arms
confirmed to a family of the same name at
the herald’s visitation of Oxfordshire in 1634,
but without proof of any connection, so, just
as their School would later do. The School
came to the College of Arms to obtain an
official grant of a slightly altered design upon
Sir John Simeon’s creation as a baronet
in 1814. It may be that these arms were
only intended to be used during Simeon’s
Wardenship, but they have continued to
be used until the present day, and have
only been lightly altered with the present
official grant. The College of Arms added a
gold border to indicate this is a single design
representing the School itself and its history.
A crest and badge, both a cup and dagger
as currently used by the School, have also
been granted; remarkably, no other family
or institution had been granted this design,
allowing them to be granted to the School
unaltered. A heraldic standard (a long tapering
flag once used by knights on the battle and
tournament field) has also been exemplified
for the School; while this currently exists only
on vellum, perhaps one day a real version will
be made and used by the School.
3 ST EDWARD’S r hubarb
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Coat of Arms Ceremony
Arms: Azure a Cross flory between four
Ancient Crowns impaling Per fess Sable and
Or a Pale counterchanged in the Or an Ermine
Spot Sable and in the Sable a Trefoil slipped
Orthe whole within a Bordure also Or.
Crest: Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and
Azure Issuant from a Cup Or a Dagger erect
point downwards Argent hilt and pommel Or.
Badge: Issuant from a Cup Or a Dagger erect
downwards Argent hilt and pommel Or.