Head's Newsletter 26 November 2021

Particular credit to Amadeus Jeetla - Lang and Sanmay Parkhi who both delivered superb performances (in a competition that required significant preparation) despite being in the middle of their mock exams. Our Juniors had their online fixture against Putney High School, as well as attending a training workshop, which will be good preparation for their first in - person fixture next Friday when three Tiffin teams will compete against Tiffin Girls School in a Mace fixture.

DEBATING SOCIETY

NETBALL

The Tiffin Debating Society have had a busy and successful start to the 21/22 season. Two of this Year ’ s Debating Society Presidents, Ibrahim Ejaz and Bulcsu Diossi, secured Tiffin ’ s first tournament victory of the season in the ‘ Debating for Everyone ’ Online debating competition earlier this month. It was a fabulous evening as Tiffin ’ s second team, comprising year 12s Jess Devonald and Sammy El - Masri, also secured second place beating teams from a number of other top schools. A week later, two other Sixth Form pairs travelled to Francis Holland, Regent's Park to compete against 10 other teams in the in - person Sixth Form Debating Shield, the first in - person competition since the pandemic. Ibrahim and Elvis Addai came away having secured joint 3rd place, with Harrow, with Will Tilotson and Yva Baker doing remarkably well also. Our Intermediate teams had great success in the English Speaking Union ’ s (ESU) Public Speaking competition this week. The competition has been running since 1960 but this was the first time in more than a decade that a Tiffin Team has qualified for regional finals. Like busses, all our successes seem to be coming at once because, on the night, both Tiffin teams qualified for the regional finals.

The Tiffin Netball girls continue to strive in numerous matches played all away from Tiffin. A fixture against Grey Court 3 weeks ago saw the girls draw 7 - 7 despite the wet and slippery conditions. At Nonsuch Girls school a week later, two teams were played. The 1st team lost 15 - 7 but the 2nd team won narrowly 11 - 10. Finally this week, the girls played a tough and vigorous match against Coombe Girls School. With biting cold conditions and a slippery on court surface the result fluctuated throughout each quarter. Testament to TIiffin though, they brought the score back up to win 18 - 11. With an extremely busy fixture schedule, the girls are showing huge progress and really working well as a team.