Head's Newsletter 14 July 2017

team building skills. The students’ completion of all tasks was rewarded with the John Muir Discovery Award.

LOWER SCHOOL PRODUCTION Early in July 20 students performed Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest. These boys had spent a month working tirelessly and were able to fit a busy rehearsal schedule into their already packed lives and were able to convey confidently the nuances of Wilde’s humorous narrative. Two casts rehearsed concurrently and worked together with enthusiasm under the direction of Miss O’Connell to produce a 1920s themed evening. Each cast had one night to entertain a sold-out audience. Both productions were a great success. For some of these boys it was their first time performing in a Tiffin School production and hopefully they have caught the performing bug. We may be seeing these faces on the stage soon! John Muir 2017 For this year’s excursion into the wilderness as part of the John Muir Discovery award, 39 boys left the safety of SW London and ventured into deepest, darkest East Sussex. Two groups of intrepid explorers took the opportunity to engage with life outside the confines of the busy city by engaging with the natural world in a variety of ways. The boys went on a day woodland trip learning the basic skills, followed up by a weekend camp trip where these skills were used in a practical basis. Both groups leant how to build fires, shelters, carve items safely out of wood and built on their communication and

STEM Challenge day 12 Y9 students took part in the SW London STEM Challenge day on Monday 10 th July, where they engaged in four different challenges competing with, and against, other schools in the area. There was a robotics challenge where students had to program a robot around a course using a colour and a proximity sensor, a model car building challenge, a medical diagnostics challenge and an e-fit challenge, recreating a suspect using police software. The boys were split into pairs, and then each pair joined up with a pair from another school to work as a team. There were prizes for the best team at each individual challenge and the Tiffin pair of Chin-Wei Tang and Geethaartha Vagga won the e-fit challenge (pictured) . Well done to all those who took part, they were all excellent representations for the School and thoroughly enjoyed the day.