Headteacher's Newsletter - Monday 16th October 2023

Parent Feedback

‘Tell us at Tiffin’ is a new platform for parents to feed back positive comments and helpful suggestions across all areas of school life. Feedback will be reviewed regularly by the Senior Leadership Team and a collective response will be given via the Parent Newsletter. To submit your comments, please click the link below and log into Insight. You will find the ‘Tell us at Tiffin’ page under the ‘General’ tab.

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Tiffin Reaches No. 1!

A recording made by the Tiffin Boys’ Choir and Tiffin Children’s Chorus with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has reached number 1 in the Billboard Classical Chart, and the top 100 across all Billboard Charts (currently at 74, above recent albums by Miley Cyrus and Hozier). Choir members wrote of their experience of recording with Joe Hisaishi in 2022: ‘Members of the Tiffin Boys’ Choir and Tiffin Children’s Chorus have featured recently in a recording of the music of Joe Hisaishi, internationally renowned composer of over 100 film scores and solo albums, including Spirited Away (2001), Fireworks (1997) and The Wind Rises (2013). Joe Hisaishi himself directed the recording which took place at the church of St. Giles in the Barbican complex. Leading up to the recording, choir members attended rehearsals at weekends and after school to learn the challenging three and four part choral music, as well as develop their pronunciation of the Japanese text with the aid of the production company’s language coach. After three intense days of recording at St. Giles’ on 9th, 10th and 11th June, the engineers had the takes they needed. We now look forward to hearing the audio and video recordings which are due for release later this year.’

This year Tiffin students baked up a storm on Tuesday 10th October to raise money for the charity YoungMinds and support the #helloyellow campaign by wearing yellow accessories. The students raised a fantastic £97.00 through their ‘cake break’ and staff were encouraged to ‘tea and talk’. It was so positive to see some of the students trying to buy whole cakes for their form! The just giving page is still open for donations here.

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