Head's Newsletter 29 September 2017

of that success was a third place by the B team again against first rate opposition. The next fixture is at John Fisher on Saturday 30th September. The 7 th October fixture is a home one and Miss Nava would welcome help with teas, marshalling and results. If you can help please email her at anava@tiffin.kingston.sch.uk .

CROSS COUNTRY

The School cross country team arrived at Oxted with several debutantes. The Year 7 surprised with great finds in the B team with Amadeus Lang, Dominic Virley, Thomas Latimer and Tom White competing well against Year 8s and finishing fourth.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY ESSAY PRIZE

The old guard of Jonny Schafer and Alex Duffy were joined by Kavin Ravishankar to ensure a great team performance. The inters and seniors combined and judicial juggling of teams by the Captain produced a phenomenal performance by all the athletes. Super-sub Eyoel Abebaw-Mesfin joined the A team to produce the season’s first sparkling highlight. A blistering 5min and 5 second leg obliterated a course record of 5.min 23 seconds set by international medal winner Martin Rooney (a star of many 4 x 400m GB relay team). The second highlight was shortly after when the team romped home against stellar Surrey opposition. Hot on the heels At Oxted, from left to right: Euan Sinclair, Kieran Desmond , Eric Williams, Eyoel Abebaw-Mesfin, George Neville White, Humphrey Allen, Jamie Krammer, Alex Duffy, Tom White, Jack Hartrey

Aden Biles in Year 13 was one of six winners in Corpus Christi College Oxford’s competitive Philosophy Essay Prize this year. The title of the essay, set by Oxford Philosophy tutors, was: “Philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge” Stephen Hawking (2010). Discuss. Very well done, Aden!