Head's Newsletter 14 July 2017

enthusiastic and confident and we manged to achieve second place in the first 2 rounds. The third round proved to be a challenge and unfortunately we slipped down the score board slightly. The boys were successful with the “Eggstra Challenge” managing to fire a rocket quite a distance with the egg still intact. Overall we achieved third place in the main competition. This is a great result as Tiffin School have not been awarded a medal before in this competition, congratulations to Joe Murphy, Asher Kapinos, Bulcsu Diossi, Narmeephan Arunthavarajah, Deep Shah, and Praveer Kumar.

We were very pleased to be informed that Year 11 boys, Tanveer Bhandari and Hemanth Veluru, have been awarded an Arkwright Scholarship. This is a highly coveted sponsorship within Engineering with only 200 scholarships being awarded annually. Tanveer and Hemanth were successful in submitting high quality concepts within a challenging design examination following a rigorous interview process. Congratulations to Sebastian Tyrrell in the Lower Sixth whose work on the sea in antiquity was highly commended in a recent Cambridge University Essay Competition run by Fitzwilliam College. Sebastian fully deserves this esteemed accolade. Very well done! Cambridge University Essay Competition

Water Rocket competition On the 21 st June a selected group of Year 8 students participated in the annual Water Rocket competition at NPL in Teddington. The group have worked with true dedication over the past few months manufacturing and testing their designs to achieve the ultimate rocket. On the hottest day of the year so far we competed against 29 other schools. The boys were