Head's Newsletter 4 October 2019

from Eyoel Abebaw-Mesfin, Jack Hartrey, Euan Sinclair and Harshil Shah made sure the school closed out 4th in the South East; a very creditable performance.

RUNNING CLUB The first league fixture of the season was held at Grist’s on Saturday, with one of the highest turnouts of Tiffin students in recent years. It was also the inaugural running of the Year 7 inter-form competition, with 22 Year 7s representing both their form and their school. Oxted School dominated the top end of the junior race, securing 1st and 2nd place, but a brilliant run by Jesper Naisby on his first performance for Tiffin saw him come home in 3rd place after completing the 2.5 km course. Excellent packing by the rest of the Tiffin students saw Yannis, Hugo, Chadi and Cathal finish in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th respectively, which was enough to secure the overall race win for Tiffin, ahead of Oxted and John Fisher. Josh Clinton, Tom Nelson and Toby Nieva completed the Tiffin B team, and they were also the first B team on the day, comfortably finishing ahead of John Fisher.

In the Tiffin interform competition, the results were as follows: 6th place - MRL; 5th - RG; 4th - SM; 3rd - AH. But 1st place went to KB, with MMB finishing in 2nd place. Well done to KB, but also to AH, who had the most representatives competing for their form on the day with 6.

Tiffin returned to compete for the Kings Trophy with a fundamental difference: the newly mixed status of the Sixth Form. This ensured that we were competitive in both types of competition over the 4.75 mile Wimbledon Common course. With results still to be formalised due to some slight course variation, the provisional results show a great 7th for the men’s team. This was more than matched by a provisional 3rd place for the very strong and determined women’s team. Neve Husaini was 4th in her category and Eyoel Abebaw- Mesfin 22nd in a field of around 170 of the South East’s best athletes. Congratulations to all who have trained, run and coached the squad. It is great to have such success on our first fixture for all of our sporting Sixth Form.

The first meeting at Charterhouse saw Oscar Luck crossing the line in first place with an injury blighted-Connor Foley carrying his left leg over the line to an inspirational 3rd. The B team of Josh Clinton, Chadi Falla, Karam Bhandari and Yanis Falla were first against the other B teams; a great debut for all year 7s. The inters and seniors saw barn-storming debuts by Rishon Rajkumar in Year 11 and Charlie Krammer in Year 12 and the strong performance of the day from Bertie Panicucci in Year 13. Other performances