On Wednesday 8th February, Riley H, Nadia B and Amber N represented TIFS in Youth Speaks; a public speaking competition held by the Isle of Wight Rotary Club. They presented an articulate and eloquent speech on ‘The Inequality of the Education of Girls’. They achieved a highly respectable 2nd place, and Miss Barnes was extremely…
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On Tuesday, 40 pupils from Years 7 and 8 were chosen to represent TIFS at the Island Cross Country Finals at Christ The King College. Despite the clear, sunny weather, our runners faced a very muddy terrain! Everyone put in a fantastic amount of effort, and at the end of the afternoon, 9 TIFS runners…
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On Tuesday, two teams of Year 7 girls competed in their first ever netball fixture. Both teams played friendly matches against mixed teams of Year 8 and 9s from Medina College. Both teams made a tentative start but made substantial improvements in performance by the end of the fixture. The pupils grew in confidence, focused…
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TIFS A 1-0 Ryde A TIFS B 0-2 Ryde B Last Saturday, the Under 13 boys’ hockey teams took on Ryde School at a sunny and relatively warm Smallbrook Stadium. The A team’s match was most definitely a game of two halves. TIFS boys started promisingly, with slick passing and movement forcing Ryde onto the…
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‘Yesterday, the Year 9 Geology pupils went on the first of many field trips as part of their GCSE studies. Initially, we visited Compton Bay in glorious sunshine to look at the floodplain deposits of the Wealden Beds of the Lower Cretaceous, and the Iguanodon footprint casts on the foreshore. Our second location was Whitecliff…
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On Friday 13th January, our GCSE Dance pupils (A.K.A “MoTIFS Dance Company”) and 12 other keen dancers from years 7 and 8 took part in an all-day dance performance workshop. The workshop was lead by Luke Brown, who is a choreographer, performer and associate artist at Swindon Dance and The Point, Eastleigh. These dancers were…
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