Head's Newsletter 13 December 2019

Tiffin Piano Competition 2019 With over 40 entrants, the Piano Competition 2019 included many impressive performances given by pupils from every year group. The final, which took place on 5 th November, was adjudicated by Gramophone prize winning pianist Nigel Hutchison. It was a challenge for the adjudicators to select just fourteen performers to go through to this second round, in which all of the players performed confidently and expressively. Particularly impressive was the challenging repertoire prepared by the Senior finalists: Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise (James Y12), and Nocturnes Op.9 (Jacob Y8, Benjamin Y11), Rachmaninov’s Elegie (Zac Y13) and Prelude in C sharp minor (Zaheer Y12) and Raymond Yiu’s Lullaby (Daniel Y12). The winning performances were given by Gavin Y8 (Junior Category) performing Mike Cornick’s Film Noir and Alan Y9 (Senior Category) with an outstanding performance of Liszt’s Mazeppa. The evening was concluded with a second performance of Liszt: a transcendental etude performed by Nigel Hutchison. Congratulations to all participants, including all prize winners and those selected for the final.

House Public Speaking Finals

We so enjoyed the fine reading of Joshua Cruice, Lottie Shaw, Arjan Dhatt, Meet Thakkar, Arthur Pritchard and Seon Shanmugathasan, then marvelled at

ridiculously superb speeches from Pranav Sharma, Yashas Beludi, Amadeus Jeetla- Lang, Ben Luca Atassi Quinton, Pollyanna Roberts, Ewan O’Connor and, in a brilliant finale, Lottie Fry. Former Head Boy, Gethin Anthony, public speaking finalist himself and Game of Thrones actor again adjudicated adroitly and impartially to conclude an outstanding example of this discipline. Students at Tiffin School are helping beat leprosy by fundraising and collecting donations for Lepra. Over 180 students in Year 7 took part in a Fundraising Educational Project and were able to raise £4128.29 for the international charity. Leprosy is a curable disease that affects millions of people across the world, but is often misunderstood or ignored, along with those affected by it. Lepra work in India, Bangladesh and Mozambique to find, cure and treat those affected, along with educating their communities to help reduce prejudice and fear around leprosy. It takes just £25.00 to treat one person with Leprosy so Tiffin School have raised enough money to help 165 people. Year 7s raise over £4000 for international charity