Head's Newsletter - 17 January 2020

KNOLE RUN—10KM

Last Saturday, Tiffin students took on the infa- mous Knole Run, facing the likes of St Albans, The Judd, Sevenoaks, RGS and other schools from across the country. The Knole Run gains its fame from its notoriously hilly and lengthy course - 10km featuring 6 major hills. Notable performances include: Jack Hartrey (a year 11 veteran of the course), who paced his race to perfection, coming in in the early 40 minutes; Jonny Schafer (year 10), who smashed his previous year’s time by a good 8 minutes; and Alistair Brendon (year 11) who finished just behind Jack having also rowed 10km that morning! The other members of the team include: Charlie Krammer (year 12) leading the Tiffinians and Euan Sinclair (year 11) a newcomer to the course, who graced his way to the finish. In the end, despite the trials and tribulations, Tiffin came through to rank 17th School overall Nationally . Afterwards we were met by a fabulous tea prepared by Sevenoaks, which Tiffin took full advantage of. Euan leading the way with 11 flapjacks and brownies, followed up by Charlie and Alistair tying for second with 8 each. A special Thank You to Mr Shaw for giving up his Saturday to drive us there and supporting us along the way, and to Sevenoaks for that delicious tea! Charlie Krammer

The Astronomy Club met to observe the sun and its sunspots a number of times using the solar telescope kindly on load from the Rich- mond Scientific Society. We tested the new solar finder for the telescope, which proved to be extremely useful to quickly locate the sun. This is the astronomy club with the solar tele- scope.

On rainy days, the club used the National School Observatory remote telescope in Ca- nary Islands to carry out observations of the Moon, planets and galaxies. In particular, Tom Nelson and Alfred Warne carried out most of the observations and image analysis. Below, Jupiter with three of its moons, as seen by the School National Observatory.