Head's Newsletter 1 April 2022

CHEMISTRY

DOWNS LEAGUE SUCCESS

Success for Year 10 Chemists in RSC Chemistry Challenge

The Downs league Epsom was the latest back drop for the running club success. The strong intermediate team were first school in the Four Match series. Ever present Atharv Pruthi had a brilliant series smashing his personal best or the course. Andrew Tian also matched this feat with a decimating of his personal best. Athav was the 4th athlete of the whole series which was even more impressive as the opposition was mainly club athletes and this was his first full year of competition. Eric Matthew Sukandy also smashed his personal best winning the most improved athlete in his division. His efforts in the first and last race coupled with Tin Fung in the second and Seni Adeyinka, Edward Brown, Stefan Ioanou and Ishan Patel placed us as first school in their junior section.

Twenty six Year 10 students put their chemistry to the test in the Local Heats of the Royal Society of Chemistry ’ s annual Chemistry Challenge for Year 10 pupils across the country. The students worked in small teams to answer questions that covered a range of topics, from calculations to identifying unknown compounds. Excitingly, all of the teams received awards, achieving at least 50% in the challenge – an outstanding achievement. Most excitingly, one of the teams, “ Friends of Tiffin Chemistry ”, performed so well they are through to the local finals. Vincent Xue, Arnav Vacher, Kaizad Kapadia, and Eric Meng will represent Tiffin in the Downlands Local Section Finals which will be held in May at Kingston University. We wish them all the best!