Head's Newsletter - 18 January 2019

Best Actor, and Scott Smith (photo top left). The humorous piece with a well- developed yet concise story was a worthy winner. Best Writer went to Elvy McCrudden for A Matter of Moors and Maulings performed by Scott house (photo bottom left).

On Thursday 13 th December five houses (Scott, Kingsley-Montgomery, Churchill- Gordon, Raleigh and Turing-Nightingale) competed in the annual House Drama event. Judged by school alumnus and Game of Thrones star, Gethin Anthony, and recent school leaver and previous Best Actor winner, Ben Willows, the evening was a brilliant showcase of the acting prowess that Tiffinians throughout all year groups possess.

Tickets are now on sale for this year’s main school production ‘ Oliver! ’. In this adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist falls in with a group of street-urchin pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and masterminded by the criminal Fagin. When Oliver's intended mark, Mr Brownlow, takes pity on the lad and offers him a home, Fagin's henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy to keep him from talking. We are putting on a total of five performances; each night from 11-14 February at 19:00 and an extra matinée at 13:30 on Wednesday 13 February. Tickets are available to purchase at www.ticketsource.co.uk/tiffinschool or direct at the Drama Office, and range from £3 - £15. The cast performance schedule is now finalised and to help you decide when to come you can view it here http:// bit.ly/2FBZ2GN . The School production is one of the best adverts for the school and its talents, so do Book a Ticket or Two and come to see Oliver!

The overall winner was Raleigh House with a play called "Aladdin and the Beast" written by Aaron Thakar, who also won