Sports Newsletter - St John`s Prep and Senior School News

Sports
Newsletter
Summer Term
St John’s Prep School
Swimming Gala
Contents:
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Swimming Gala
Results
Swimming Gala
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Netball
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Football
Cricket
What we have
been working on
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On Saturday 17th March St. John’s held their annual Swimming Gala at Furzefield Leisure Centre in Potters
Bar. This year was he first year that a long distance event was held for the first form pupils, with great
success. All pupil were entered into two events with the option of swimming in the butterfly race. Pupils
had been practicing hard during their swimming lessons and it looks like the practice had paid off.
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hkhfvkj won the relay. Well done to everyone who competed.
Results
Upper Transitus
Race
Front crawl
1st
2nd
3rd
1st
2nd
3rd
Back stroke
Breast stroke
Pg 4
Skiing Trip
Butterfly
Small pool front
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Sainsbury
Voucher Collection
Date to Remember
Sports Pupil of
the Month
Award
End of Term
Sports Awards
Extra Curricular
Clubs
Fencing
Ballet
Yoga
Tennis
Pg 5
Small pool back
F1
Race
Front crawl
Back stroke
Breast stroke
Butterfly
Small pool front
Small pool back
F2
Race
Tel: 01707 657294
1st
2nd
3rd
Front crawl
Back stroke
Breast stroke
Butterfly
F3
Race
St. John’s Prep School
The Ridgeway
Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 5QT
Issue : 5
Front crawl
Back stroke
Breast stroke
Butterfly
1st
2nd
3rd
Sports
Skiing Trip
Back in January 27 F3 and 1st Form boys and girls accompanied Mrs Tardios, Mr Tardios Junior, Mrs Farringdon, Mrs Wright, Miss Cullen and Miss
Foley to Morzine in the French Alps. We went for seven days, flying into Geneva airport and travelling by coach to the hotel, set in a picturesque
village, covered in winter snow. All pupils skied with great control with only a few falls and no injuries. Even Miss Cullen fell over!
Each pupils at the end of the skiing trip achieved a skiing award, a badge and a booklet which can be updated as they develop their skiing
ability. Special mention must go to Zac Richter for achieving a special gold award as he had already be awarded with all the rest.
As well as practicing their skiing, the pupils had a opportunity to watch the ski instructors showing why they are instructions with their
amazing skiing skills and looking at how skiing has developed throughout the ages. The pupils also got to try a variety of different food and swim in
the indoor/outdoor pool. Overall the trip was a great success, with all pupils and teachers enjoying the experience..
Awarded received
Snowflake Award
Nicholas Agathangelou
Despina Artemiou
Nina Jansen
Rachel Judt
1 Star Award
Benino De Campi
Millie George
Ted Pini
2 Star Award
Gianni Boggia-Vincent
Adem Dervish
Tom Eisenberg
3 Star Award
Millie Abraham
Max Dean
Tyler McKillop
Elle Whayman
Special Gold Award
Zac Richter
Miss Cullen and Miss Foley also received awards for there skiing efforts. Miss Foley received a 2 Star Award and Miss Cullen, who's first time it was
skiing, was awarded with a 1 star, which both teachers proudly wear on their P.E. uniform.
Rachel Judt showing off her skiing skills
Gianni Boggia-Vincent and Nicholas Agathangelou
enjoying the snow with their skis.
All the pupils receiving their awards with their teachers and
skiing instructors.
Sports
Sainsbury's Vouchers
We are collecting Sainsbury’s vouchers again this year, so far we have collected 2302 vouchers but to get all the equipment that we would like
to get for P.E lessons and summer break time and lunchtime games we need to collect just over 18,000. So please, please collect our vouchers
and send them into the school.
Last year we collected enough vouchers for 20 tennis rackets and balls, rounders bats, netball bibs, jump sacks, for the sack race on
sports day, standing long jump mat plus many more.
Date to Remember
Sports Day: Friday 22nd June
Sport Pupil of the Month and End of Term Awards
January Milie George
February Ted Pini
March Takumi Satoh
At the end of each half term, Sports Awards are handed out to pupils from each year group. The awards are handed out
during the End of Term Assembly and pupils achieve the awards for different aspects within sport and to celebrate their
sporting ability, attitude and behaviour in their lessons.
Christmas until February half term
February half term until Easter
Prep 1
Prep 2
Prep 1
Prep 2
Lower Transitus
Upper Transitus
Form 1
Form 2
Form 3
Alicia Ajibade
Freya Lavery
Oluwasheni Agbede
Marios Josif
Harry Higgins
Jed Dhillon
Jayden Jabaru
Metehan Ali
Holly White
Rebecca Odeyemi
Zac Richter
Lower Transitus
Upper Transitus
Form 1
Form 2
Form 3
St. John’s Prep Extra Curricular
Timetable
Extra Curricular Clubs
Monday
Ballet Club
Girls (F1 and F2) Netball – Prep
SchoolMiss Cullen 3.20 p.m.—4.20 p.m.
Ballet
Ballet takes place on a Monday.
Lower School - 3.00 p.m. till 3.45 p.m.
Upper School - 3.45 p.m. till 4.30 p.m.
Tuesday
Mixed (UT, F1, F2) Athletics Prep School Miss Cullen 3.20 p.m.– 4.20 p.m.
Price: £40.00
Number of sessions: 8
Payment: cheque made payable to Mrs. A.
Boden
Clothing: pink ballet shoes for the girls pink
dress and cardigan and black leather ballet
shoes for the boys.
Boys (F1, F2 and F3) Cricket Senior SchoolMr Russell 3.20 p.m.— 4.20 p.m.
Wednesday
Girls (F1, F2, F3) Rounders Prep School Miss Cullen - 3.20 p.m. - 4.20 p.m.
Ballet is a fun and exciting opportunity for the
pupils at St John’s to be creative and enjoy
themselves within a dance environment.
Thursday
Mixed (UT and F1) Football Skill’s
Club - Prep School Mr Hodgson and Mr Russell - 3.20
p.m.— 4.20 p.m.
St. John’s 21 – 18 Southgate
YogaNastics
Fencing
YogaNastics
YogaNastics takes place on a Tuesday.
Prep 2 - 3.20 p.m. till 4.00 p.m.
Upper School - 4.00 p.m. till 4.40 p.m.
Fencing
Fencing takes place on a Friday.
Lower School - 2.30 p.m. till 3.30 p.m.
Upper School - 3.30 p.m. till 4.30 p.m.
Price: £35.00
Number of sessions: 7
Payment: cheques made payable to YogaNastics, a limited
spacing of 15 pupils.
Equipment: yoga mat
Price: £49.00 (£7 a session)
Number of sessions: 7
Payment; cheques made to Mr. G. Hadalin,.
Clothing: Greens
YogaNastics is very controlled and skilful, concentrating on
fun postures for flexibility and balance, with an element of
story telling. It is designed to improve sleep, concentration
balance and co-ordination.
Fencing is a very popular extra-circular sport at St. John’s. It involves
learning the skills and control it takes to play and beat an opponent.
Ideal for both beginners and pupils with experience in Fencing.
Tennis Munchkins
Tennis Munchkins
Tennis Munchkins takes place on a Friday.
Prep 1 - 2.00 p.m. till 2.30 p.m.
Prep 2 - 2.40 p.m. till 3.25 p.m.
Price: £47.00
Number of sessions: 7
Payment: cheques made payable to Paul Rock, a limited spacing of 16 pupils
Equipment: Greens and a tennis racket (if they own one)
If you are interested in any of the
extra curricular Sports Clubs
please look out for a letter that
will be handed to your child by the
end of term and return the attached reply slip by the first day of
the new term to Miss Cullen.
The sessions are not only a great introduction to tennis for children, but also teach them fundamental hand-eye coordination, flexibility,
balance, and ball skills. Basic technical training and footwork will also be developed through fun games, which vary weekly to maximise
every child’s improvement.
We are holding a colouring competition. The competition will be separated in to upper school (UT, F1, F2 and F3) and lower school
(Prep 1, Prep 2 and LT). Pupils have to colour in the picture and hand it back to Miss Cullen on the first day of term. The winning pictures will receive a bag of sporting goodies.
Make sure you fill in your name and form in and hand it back to Miss Cullen.
Name:
Form:
Sports
Lower School Swimming Gala
We had our Lower School Swimming Gala on Monday 21st March, held at Furzefield Leisure Centre, there were over 70 pupils competing in 7
different races.
The races ranged from 25meters in the large pool to races in the smaller pool with and without the aid of a float. To finish off the gala the pupils
were divided into 2 different relays, the woggle relay and treasure island
More to add
Well done to all competitors.
Results
Race
1st
2nd
3rd
Race
Front crawl with
a woggle
Front crawl
Front crawl 25
meters
Back stroke with
a woggle
Back stroke
Back stroke 25
meters
Bubble race
Bubble race
1st
2nd
3rd
Front crawl
Back stroke
Netball
This term the Netball girls have been working extremely hard at Netball practice. They have been training twice a week getting ready for two
tournaments and two netball matches. This training as paid off as the girls have performed brilliantly.
Their first game back after the Christmas holidays was against Salcombe. This match was held at Salcombe School, the team played four
five minutes. All girls played very well as a team and put into practice what they had learnt. St. John’s won the match 9 - 3. Particular mention must
go to Millie George for her amazing shooting skills, getting goals in from near the edge of the shooting circle.
After this high we went on the play the senior school girls in a friendly match. We played very well again but the senior school team
piped us to the winning position, beating us by 7 goals to 5. We went away from the game with a few areas to work on.
We were entered into our first of two tournaments, tournaments which we had never entered before. The first was the High 5’s tournament, it is different from normal netball as there are 5 players on court instead of 7. The girls had to work harder, moving around the court and
playing in different positions. There were 22 teams entered into the tournament which were spilt into seven leagues. St. John’s pupils were put
into league three and played two games. Our first game was against Lavender School, we beat them 2 - 0. Our second game was against Honilands
which we drew against 1 - 1. To make it through to the next round we needed Lavender to beat Honilands or Honilands to win by only 2 goals.
All the girls, parents and Miss Cullen and Mr Russell watched match with great
anticipation. Honilands beat Lavender 5 - 3! We still had a chance to go through but unfortunately as Honilands scored more goals than we did they went through. The girls were disappointed but were more determined than ever to win again. It was only a week away until out
next tournament.
We went to the tournament, we played 4 games, winning 3, beating Lyonsdown 4 1, Sacred Heart 3 - 1 and Salcombe 4 - 2, we lost one game but we were through to the
finals. All girls played their best but where beaten 5 - 2 to Vita et Pax.
As well as the F3 and F2 team, Miss Cullen also runs a F2 and F1 club. This is to
develop the younger girls coming up through the years, ready for the further
team. They have been working hard on all the different netball skills. Some hopefully their face will be smiling in further newsletters.
Top Olivia George, Haley Danso, Rachel Hill, Holly White
Below Eleanor Hall-McAteer, Lily Harbron, Theodora Thomas, Melissa Ourris
Football
Cricket
What we have been working on
This term Prep. 1 have been working on their target practise, which involved a lot of rolling and throwing objects at a specific area
and also hitting the ball with a racket. After the half term the pupils have been working on their balance, balancing on different widths and
moving over equipment without falling over or knocking the equipment..
Prep 2 have been working on different types of movement within sport, introducing group performance and imagination building
and in addition, they have also been working on their gymnastics. Pupils have learnt the basic shapes and a variety of rolls. The pupils are also
introduced to performing in front of their peers and explaining ways to improve performances.
The rest of the school have been working on fitness from Christmas up until the half term,, working on improving their fitness
through a variety of different tests, such as the bleep test, Illinois agility test and even their flexibility and balance. After the half term until
Easter everyone has been working on Tennis, practising their movement around the court and developing their forehand and back hand
shots, working both with and against a partner.