Head's Newsletter 25 November 2016

On Monday 21 st of November, Tiffin’s Jack Petchey Award winners were presented with their awards by the Mayor of Richmond and the Deputy Mayor of Kingston at the Richmond Theatre.

the Kangaroo, take place in a few weeks time. Special recognition should go to Navonil Neogi (Year 11) who achieved a perfect score of 125, Vincent Trieu (Year 11) and Hosouk Lee (Year 13) with scores of 121. Other students qualifying for the exclusive Maths Olympiad, representing the top 1000 students nationally, includes Jim Tse, Chris Rasmussen and Chris McDonald (all Year 13), Shovethan Murugathas (Year 12) and Kanishk Gandhi (Year 11). Four further students missed out by a single point. One of these, Year 7 student Ojas Gulati, achieved a score of 105 despite entering the competition 5 years early! We are delighted by the boys’ performance, and they should be immensely proud of what they have achieved. ROWINGNEWS Congratulations to Jake Lane & James Lawn who managed 3 rd in the Junior 18 doubles last weekend in a fiercely contested Hampton Small Boats Head. They also won the J18 category at Kingston Small Boats Head on the November 5 th . Adam Crowther and Henry Saywell also put in a really respectable 6 th place in the same doubles event at Hampton. BADMINTON Many congratulations to David Tam and his U19 A and B Badminton teams, both of whom dispatched a strong Charterhouse outfit on Thursday 17 th November. Both matches were won by Tiffin by a 6-3 margin.

These boys were nominated by their peers for these awards for their contributions to the Tiffin community. They were then chosen by the Jack Petchey committee of the School Council. Mr Williams was also given the prestigious Jack Petchey Leader Award for his phenomenal contribution to school badminton and cricket over the last 40 years. IT’SARECORD! On November 8 th 120 boys took part in the Senior Maths Challenge, a nationwide competition run by the UK Mathematics Trust, taken by over 100,000 Sixth Form students. The hour long paper consists of 25 multiple choice maths questions of increasing difficulty. This year Tiffin boys achieved a phenomenal 51 Gold medals (Gold representing the top 10% of entrants), smashing the previous school record of 32 Golds last year. 43 of these students were invited to follow on rounds, compared to 24 and 15 in the previous two years, nearly doubling the previous school record. These rounds, the British Maths Olympiad and