Head's Newsletter 9 July 2021

INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY ESSAY COMPETITION

We are pleased to announce that Mujaahid Arian (12HB) has recently been awarded second place in an international philosophy essay competition. The competition was run by Minds Underground with the explicit task of stretching students beyond the confines of the A Level curriculum. Mujaahid's entry was on the philosophical problem of personal identity and where is such to be found (in a part or totality of the body?). His answer made reference to cotemporary ideas in the philosophy of mind and neuroscience. Mujaahid's essay extended what he was taught in his ancient Greek philosophy lessons at Tiffin and was composed to support his application to read undergraduate

philosophy, theology and jurisprudence, ideally at Oxford.

HISTORY ESSAY COMPETITION

On 24 June, two Tiffin historians attended the Polish Embassy where they were recognised for writing outstanding essays on Polish WW2 hero Witold Pilecki. The essay competition was organised by the Foundation for the History of Totalitarianism a new education charity aimed at promoting understanding of the nature of totalitarianism. Its main donor is Lord Vinson and it has the historian Roger Moorhouse among its trustees. Below is a photo of the award winners with Ambassador Rzegocki. Ben Luca Quinton Atassi (Y10) is on the far left and Austin Taylor (Y12) is immediately to the right of the ambassador.