SCHOOL HIGHLIGHT:

Greenpower Club At Tps

The Greenpower Club at TPS is a thriving extra-curricular club with students from Year 7 through to 11 which has gone from strength to strength over the past two years. There are now two kit car teams – TPS1 and TPS2 – and they qualified for the 20th anniversary International Greenpower Final 2019 at Silverstone where they competed in the F24 Kit Car category against other schools from the UK, Europe and even Singapore and China!

Although they didn’t win, coming 58th and 68th out of 100, we are still incredibly proud of the students involved as so much hard work and commitment has gone into competing.

Year 8 John explained:

“I had been picked to drive for the last half an hour of the race and I was very excited; after all this was my chance to drive around Silverstone at the international final and cross the finishing line – hopefully - if the batteries didn’t run out! It was so much fun trying to work out the fastest racing line, whilst also trying to overtake all the other cars on the track and I never had a chance to just cruise along. In the last few minutes the car moved worryingly slowly to just over walking pace and I feared each slope may be the end. The race finished and I had managed to cross the line (coasting some of the way!) Just one more lap and I wouldn’t have made it. What an amazing day!”

Year 10 Ella concluded:

“It has been an exceptional 3 years with the team, racing at

Dunsfold, Goodwood and now Silverstone. Throughout my time in the Greenpower Team I have developed STEM skills, made friends across the school, become a team player and, as a result of the things I have learned, I am considering a potential career choice in engineering.”