Outreach
The Tiffin Girls’ School has a long tradition of outreach, focusing on developing and coordinating strong links in the community.
We have delivered the following projects over recent years:
- Providing use of our facilities to local schools.
- Literacy and Numeracy support for KS2, where our Year 10 students visit and work with small groups primary pupils to develop their literacy and numeracy skills.
- Primary readers programme, where our Year 12 students attend a local primary school and listen to children reading.
- Year 5 Aspirations and Ambitions project, where we invite children from local primary schools to take part in a ‘Dragon’s Den’-style day, working alongside our Year 9 students. They are set the task of creating a product in science and learning through a range of other subjects how to market and sell it, culminating in a presentation to parents and staff.
- Annual primary school Eco Conference is held with approximately 16 local primary schools in attendance each year.
- Annual medical conference run by our sixth form students for students in our local community interested in applying for Medicine at university.
- Annual UCAT workshop held for local sixth form students.
- Helping Year 6 primary school pupils and parents prepare for transition to secondary school – Year 7 students presented to local primary schools about life in secondary school; our Love of Learning representatives created a video for Year 6 pupils on life in secondary school, answering key questions on the transition between primary and secondary school; Miss Smith attended a local primary school and gave a talk to Year 6 parents about how they can support their child’s academic progress in Year 7 and beyond.
- Year 7 and 8 students visited a local primary school to deliver sessions to Year 6 pupils on how to revise effectively for exams.
- Year 9 students visited a local primary school to read their self-published story and deliver a presentation on enterprise skills.
- Year 10 PE students host students from local primary schools taking part in a range of sporting activities.
- Year 12 students run a Maths club in local primary schools to stretch and challenge Year 5/6 pupils.
- Year 12 students ran a debating club to support students in local primary schools.
- Annual science morning held during science week for Year 4 pupils, taking part in experiments in all three sciences.
- Students across year groups attend Dalemead and Hampton care homes.
- Students from Dance club performed to local day centres ‘Staywise’ in New Malden and Strathmore School.
- Year 10 students took part in a gardening project at Strathmore School, working alongside staff and pupils.
- Shaping Futures programme runs throughout the year where Year 5 pupils from local primary schools work alongside Year 12 mentors to develop their maths and English skills.
- Annual Digital and AI conference run by student leadership Digital Pioneers, inviting local secondary schools to hear from expert guest speakers and professionals.
- Year 9 students ran an F1 in schools talk and workshop on engineering at a local primary school
If you would like to work with Tiffin Girls’ on an outreach initiative for your school, then please contact Rachel Smith at [email protected]
