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Chenming Wang: CIFE Award for Sciences Chenming achieved A star grades in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.   He is currently studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge. At CTC as well as his A levels Chenming found time to take the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge in 2017 and 2018 achieving the Gold Award the highest possible...

The AS Physics Challenge is one of the British Physics Olympiad competitions run by Oxford University. It consists of a very demanding one-hour paper comprising questions that stretch lateral thinking skills and require candidates to apply fundamental physical principles to novel situations. This year four students took part, three of them members of the Physics...

Presentation of Award certificates & Photoshoot: March 22nd 2019 Senior Maths Challenge Results Nov 2018 The SMC is run by the UK Mathematics Trust and is taken by over 82, 000 students nationally Total entrants from CTC: 30 Gold Awards: 11 (37% of entrants compared to 10% nationally). Silver Awards: 10 (33%) Bronze Awards: 7 (23%) 93%...

On Thursday after college the annual CTC quiz took place with Mr Coombes taking on the dual role of question setter and quiz master. There were some very good questions and all the students and staff had a great time. A popular round involved matching the Disney animation to the picture provided, perhaps an indication...

It was, as usual, a very tough competition with 11 CIFE Colleges competing this year. The venue was a new setting for the CIFE Quiz, this year held at Imperial College London, in the student union building in Prince Consort Street,  just behind the beautiful Albert Hall in Kensington. The room, not easy to find,...

Held at the London School of Economics, YouthMUN is an annual model United Nations conference serving secondary students of all experience levels. During the course of the three-day conference, delegates were tasked with debating and solving some of the most challenging issues confronting the international community today. CTC students represented the following countries on the...

CTC Art students visited the excellent exhibition of contemporary video artist Bill Viola’s work with Michaelangelo’s drawings at the Royal Academy of Art. Students also went on to see further exhibitions at the White Cube gallery and the National Portrait Gallery.

The British Physics Olympiad is a prestigious annual competition run by Oxford University. It consists of very demanding questions that require students to think beyond the constraints of A-level Physics specifications, thus it is aimed at the most able students. It is an excellent preparation for those applying to the top universities for Physics or...

In recognition of the achievements of students who left in June 2018, CTC hold an Annual Awards Ceremony to mark this very special occasion and this year’s ceremony took place on 24 November 2018. All students and staff were invited to attend this very important event. June 2018 leavers were presented their A-Level certificates and...