Head's Newsletter 14 July 2017

RARE DISEASE DAY AT ROYAL HOLLOWAY On 24 th February, 13 Year 12 students attended an immersion day at Royal Holloway University of London in celebration of Rare Disease Day.

Last weekend a group of eight Tiffin students were selected to be the UK’s delegation to the next European Youth Parliament (EYP). Since 1987, the European Youth Parliament has supported the development of young people into politically aware and responsible citizens by involving them in European political thinking and promoting intercultural understanding. After winning a regional heat in March, they spent four days at Liverpool Hope University engaging in discussion and debate with finalists from 11 schools across the UK. They were placed first by the jury and have now been invited to the 83 rd International Session of the EYP which will be held later this year. Many congratulations to the team of Ujjaval Dhingra, Andrew Conder, Sulaiman Amin, Nathan Langford, Adam Fereday, Haaris Malik, Aditya Deshpande and Oscar Duffy (see photo below).

The day is used to bring awareness to the number of rare genetic diseases that have been discovered to date, but also to those that have not yet been discovered. We have now received the official video of the day. We feature at 51 seconds in! https://youtu.be/R68bvRlYzic

Matt Stevenson 12MO, Ed Hubner 13LL, Will Sharp 12CR and Jamie Glancy 12MO