Head's Newsletter 9 December 2016

Our Tiffin group came joint 4 th with two other groups. The well-deserving winners were 2 young girls from North London Collegiate, who produced a mosquito repelling coil that the people of Africa could make themselves. All the finalists enjoyed the whole event, especially the hour spent in the Wonderlab. Well done to our Tiffin competitors, you all did a fantastic job! VISIT TO FISHBOURNE PALACE On Thursday 24 th November the 180 strong Year 8 cohort embarked on a trip to Fishbourne Roman Palace in Chicester. This was the home of King Cogidubnus, to whom the boys have recently been introduced during their Latin studies this year. During an activity-filled day our Latinists learnt about the construction of Roman villas, took on the role of Roman school children, and saw the well- preserved mosaics which the palace has to offer. All the information which they gathered during the trip is being used for their 'Fishbourne Palace: Grand Designs' CAT, for which they are assuming the roles of property developers and attempting to 'sell' the palace to its next lucky owners. The boys had a very productive day and took much from their experience at this valuable heritage site.

GSK SCHOOLS’ CHALLENGE On Tuesday 29 th November, four Year 9 students: Fin Isaacs, Jazvir Kapoor, Chin- Wei Tang and Varun Tiwari, took their fantastic idea to the finals of the GSK Schools’ Challenge: Fight Malaria 2016. This was held in the “Engineering Our Future” exhibition of the Science Museum. Their mission was to come up with a SWAT team that must form a task force to devise ways to help free the world from Malaria. The ‘RCG Tiffinians’ decided that Education over Medication would provide a long term solution to the malarial epidemic, and came up with a fantastic mini-education programme to test their hypothesis.

Our students were up against some serious competition, from schools such as Lady Eleanor Holles and North London Collegiate. Ultimately, our Tiffin team was one of six finalists out of 137 entries in a national competition. Quite an outstanding achievement. The competition was judged by Kelly O’Callaghan, VP of global brand communications at GSK, Andy Wright, VP of global health programmes at GSK, Adam Askew, Head of funding partnerships of Comic Relief, and Roxanne El-Hardy – the UK Young Scientist of the Year.