Local Community

 

The Tiffin Girls' School has a long tradition of community outreach focusing on developing and coordinating our strong links in the community.

 

Aspirations and Ambitions Project

The Aspirations and Ambitions project was launched in 2014 and was repeated each summer term before the Covid pandemic. The project aims to raise the aspirations and ambitions of the young pupils taking part and to develop the mentoring skills, professionalism and leadership of the participating Year 9 students.  
 

PSHE Programme

Year 10 girls are involved in a community outreach project in the spring and summer terms as part of their PSHE programme, helping local primary school children with their reading and mathematics for four weeks consecutively, on rotation.
 

Community Party

In the autumn term, we are proud to welcome residents from our local care homes to our annual Christmas Party for the elderly.

 

Maths Masterclasses

Maths masterclasses ran at The Tiffin Girls' School for 9 years until 2015, welcoming pupils from six local Kingston primary schools St Luke's, Latchmere, St Agatha's, Fern Hill, The Russell School and Meadlands. Supported by Sixth Form students, the Masterclasses incorporated fun quizes and games to develop the pupils' mathematical and reasoning skills, with a challenge to take home each week.. 
 

Charity Support

  

United World Schools

In 2014 United World Schools was chosen as the whole school charity. United World Schools aims to 'teach the unreached' by building schools in areas of the world where children have no access to primary education. The Tiffin Girls' School has been partnered with Chewaa school in the Sankhuwasabha region of Nepal. All of the money we raise provides the children with teachers, learning materials and a safe environment to learn. Tiffin girls' fundraising efforts through RAG week and Sports Day aim to maintain the school year-on-year. To find out more about the charity, please visit unitedworldschools.org.
 

House Charities

Each academic year, the school's six houses raise money for a charity of their choosing. In 2022-23, the chosen charities are:

 

Bebbington	Action Against Hunger
Flavell	Medecins Sans Frontieres
Nicolle	Dreams Come True
Orford	Children International
Schofield	Save The Children
Watson	Middle East Children's Alliance

Bepoke Appeals

In 2019-20, the students raised £1,160 for the NSPCC (Christmas Jumper Day) and through their Mini Enterprise project, Year 9 donated £925 to their chosen charities. In LGBTQ week, £216 was raised for the Bisi Alimi Foundation. In addition, Mental Health Week raised £178 which was donated to BEAT and the £252 raised in ECO Week was sent to World Land Trust. Black History Week raised £600 in total.. 

As part of the pastoral curriculum, Year 9 also collects appropriate items for our local homelessness charity, Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness, and collects food supplies for Kingston Food Bank in our annual Homelessness Awareness Week in December. Each October, Year 11 girls lead the school in fundraising in support of Breast Cancer Awareness on 'Pink Day' and in 2019, this event raised £3,400.