Head's Newsletter 15 November 2019

GYMNASTICS

Thomas Powell in Year 7 competed in the South East England Regional championships in the Elite 3 division for Men’s Artistic Gymnastics and finished in 2 nd place, earning him a place in the National finals in Birmingham which have just been held. Competing against teams from the whole of the UK and Northern Ireland, the South East team won the gold medal and Thomas achieved an overall 9 th position nationally. Due to his performance at the Elite national finals, Thomas has also been selected to trial for the national squad in Manchester. BADMINTON The School Under 19 badminton team has now despatched all of its local rivals having beaten Reed’s, Hampton and KCS, all by a considerable margin. Indeed the U19 B team has not lost a single game through the 3 matches. Congratulations to Aarav Bhati and his U14 team. 12 Tiffin players took on King’s Wimbledon, winning the A team match by 8 games to 1 and the B team by 11 to 4. CRICKET Tiffin School has been adjudicated as one of the Top 100 cricket schools in the country. It is a great achievement to make it into The Cricketer Schools Guide 2020. We will be included in a prestigious supplement accompanying the December issue of The Cricketer (newsstand November 22). Furthermore, the guide will be published and available to view online throughout the year. TENNIS The Year 9 and 10 tennis team were entered into the LTA Schools Team Tennis competition for the first time. After winning the group stage matches, the team progressed to the knockout stages. A bye in the quarters saw Tiffin face Hinchley Wood, the winners of the event for the past 2 years. Beating them in some horrible weather saw the team progress to the finals. Here they faced KGS, and winning our matches with relative ease (5-1), meant we were the winners of the Surrey event, an incredible achievement. It did not

end there though, as we went off to represent Surrey in the Division 2 regional finals, facing the winners from Kent, Sussex and Middlesex. At times we played some amazing tennis, and after saving 2 match points in one of the doubles matches, the team beat a very strong Haydon School side (representing Middlesex) in the semi finals, to take Tiffin through to the finals. Here the Sussex team, Lancing College, were clear favourites with some unbelievable players and, although we eventually lost, the Tiffin team played amazingly well. Huge thank you to Mr Taylor and Mr Brown for organising it, and to everyone who played during the competition: Tristan Scurr, Lucas Murtagh, Matthew O’Donovan, Joseph Parkinson, Ben Couzens, Joshua Cruice, Georgiy Lesyuk, and Ashan Asghar . PUBLIC SPEAKING Please join us on Tuesday 26 th November at 7.30 pm in the JLT for the House Public Speaking Finals—quality entertainment and a star adjudicator. All welcome. FREE!