Head's Newsletter 17 June 2016

Great effort, enthusiasm and interesting ideas characterised the year 9 team participating in the Go4Set programme this year. Working closely with a BP engineer, they presented their research, solar still prototype and impressive report at the closing event of the programme in the Sunbury BP facility, and received a Silver Crest award in recognition of the quality of their work.

April saw the culmination of the 6 month Engineering Education Scheme (EES) projects for 2 teams of 6 Year 12 students, one working with Air Products and one with BP. Each team works on a real project of direct significance to the sponsoring company. The Air Products team were looking at measuring temperature profiles within firebrick insulation whilst the BP team were designing a process to separate oil from water on the oil platform. The independent assessors scrutinised the project reports and listened intently to their 10 minute presentation on the specifics of their project. The BP project was highly praised as being extremely thorough with feedback commenting that the team “Demonstrated detailed understanding of underlying principles” and were “Excellent to come up with a novel concept”. This is a double celebration for Tiffin as their mentor was a former Tiffin student, who is currently employed by BP as an engineer working on erecting a new platform in the North Sea field. An excellent effort by both teams which is rewarded with a Gold Crest award for each team member.

Forty-two 9 students’ ‘spine-chiller’ short stories were Year

recently selected for publication in the Young Writers’ South East Spooks book. Praised for their ‘imagination, perception, expression and creative use of language’, all the boys will shortly become published authors with their work placed in the British Library, providing a lasting record of their achievement. Some of the winning entries include Ross Muncie’s The Elders , Saomiyan Muthetharan’s Ouija Jitters , Harry Lambert’s White Walls , and Andrei Bachnak’s Five Steps . Once again, Tiffin students’ writing has proven to be first rate, and the boys are to be congratulated for this fantastic achievement.