Head's Newsletter 17 June 2016

ORATORIO Tickets are now on sale for the annual Tiffin Oratorio concert taking place on Sunday 10 th July at 7.00 pm in the Sports Hall at Tiffin School. James Day, Director of Choral Music at Tiffin, conducts the 200- strong forces of the Tiffin Oratorio Choir and Tiffin Boys’ Choir, together with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, in Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat Mater , a meditation on the sorrows of Mary at the cross. The choir is joined by a professional line up of soloists including Sofia Troncoso (Soprano), Claire Barnett-Jones (Mezzo Soprano), Robert Burt (Tenor) and James Oldfield (Bass). Friends of Tiffin Music will be serving refreshments before the concert. The concert has been made possible by the kind support of Coombe Residential. Tickets are £15 and £10 available from TicketSource following the link https:// www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/263896 Our year 7 and 8 boys did very well in the UKMT Junior Maths Challenge earlier this term with record numbers being invited to take part in the follow on competitions. Only the top 2% of candidates, from a field of candidates already considered ‘gifted’, are invited to sit the Junior Maths Olympiad or the Junior Kangaroo. A staggering 56 Tiffin boys achieved this feat. 99 boys achieved gold certificates in the challenge.

Tiffin's annual Lower School Production will be performed on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th June, bringing to a close a superb year of drama, following the massive success of Les Misérables and What the Butler Saw . This year, the celebratory year of the 400 th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, you are invited to spend an enchanting evening among the magical beings, entwined lovers and forlorn players of his all time classic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, as our Key Stage 3 cast take you on a spellbinding journey through the woods. The production will be performed in the Drama Studio, starting at 7pm, with tickets available now from our online platform at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/tiffinschool. Please do come along and support our fantastic cast who have worked so hard on what is our first Shakespearean Lower School production. It promises to be a really wonderful evening.