Head's Newsletter 13 November 2020

DR FROST TOP 10 FINALIST FOR GLOBAL TEACHER PRIZE

CHESS CLUB

Maths Teacher Dr Frost has been nominated for the Global Teachers Award and is in the top ten Finalists. Dr Frost has his own website where his passion is to inspire and engage all maths learners across the ability spectrum regardless of financial background. Both his resources and online platform continue to be completely free to all. His teaching resources have been downloaded over 7 million times with in excess of 1 million page views on his site per day, and students have answered nearly 100 million questions online on his online platform, DrFrostMaths. We wish him every luck to win.

The board position in Senior House Chess in the Match between Darshan (Senior Captain, KM) and Oscar (Senior Vice Captain, Raleigh). Darshan (Black) can execute Checkmate on the next move – can you spot it? Since lockdown the Tiffin Chess club has gone online. While the social aspect is much missed the competition and new opportunities have provided a fresh impetus to all things chess. Over 20 students represented the school competing in four different inter school tournaments against other top schools from all over the country. The team has always come in the top three but is yet to take home a trophy. Within Tiffin more than 250 students have signed up to Tiffin School’s online chess club which is currently hosting the house competitions using a Swiss format on Lichess. Record participation in senior chess saw 70 girls and boys from the sixth form compete in a fierce tournament. Year 8 and 11 competitions have also been well attended and Livingstone currently lead the houses by a narrow margins from Churchill Gordon. The Year 7 competition takes place on Monday.

You can view his extensive media coverage here.