Head's Newsletter -7 July 2023

SCIENCE AT TIFFIN

Continued Success for Tiffin in the National Scientific Thinking Challenge!

During Periods 5 and 6 on Wednesday 26th April 2023, Year 10 pupils took part in the National Scientific Thinking Challenge.

The National Scientific Thinking Challenge was founded in 2021 during the pandemic as a joint venture by staff at Warwick, Southampton, Bristol, Newcastle, Manchester and Oxford Universities, and was designed to test students ’ ability to solve scientific problems, as opposed to recall of taught material.

Awards are issued for performance against the rest of the country - Bronze for the top 40 % of entries, Silver for the top 25 % of entries, and Gold for the top 10% of entries.

In our second outing, we scored a phenomenal 118 awards - 33 Bronze, 25 Silver and 60 Gold. This is an improvement on our already impressive results from last year, with nearly 50 % more Gold awards than last year! A special mention goes to Joshua A, Tom N and Alfred W for each achieving 97%!

A huge well done to all of Year 10 - you ’ ve done well to push up our level of Golds, and maintain the enviable number of awards that we have enjoyed with the challenge so far!

SIXTH FORM LEAVERS BBQ

It was lovely to see so many of our departing year 13 students at our annual Leaver's BBQ on Thursday 29 th June. The year 13's enjoyed food and conversation with teaching staff and legends such as Miss Galvin. Most significantly it was Mr Gascoigne who had his last hurrah with the students who were happy to share the

latest gossip and news about their upcoming holidays after an intense A Level exam season. In my first year as Head of Sixth Form it was so fantastic to see the students relaxed and happy and enjoying catching up with their classmates and teachers and to appreciate what a wonderful group of young people they are. I also want to thank Sharan Uthayakumar for his fantastic photography and the amazing sixth form team including my predecessor Patrick Rennie and the fantastic Assistant Head of Years.