St Edward's Rhubarb - 2018

ST EDWARD’S r h u b a r b

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History of the Arms of St Edward’s School (continued from front cover)

S C H O O L N E W S

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.

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.

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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

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

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.

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.