Summer Term Issue : 5

Sports

Newsletter St John’s Prep School

Tel: 01707 657294

St. John’s Prep School The Ridgeway

Potters Bar Hertfordshire EN6 5QT

Swimming Gala Contents:

Pg 1 Swimming Gala

Results

Pg 2 Swimming Gala

continued

Netball

Pg 3

Football

Cricket

What we have

been working on

Pg 4

Skiing Trip

Pg 5 Sainsbury

Voucher Collec-

tion Date to Re-

member Sports Pupil of

the Month

Award End of Term

Sports Awards

Pg 4 Extra Curricular

Clubs

Fencing

Ballet

Yoga

Tennis

Pg 5

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

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hkhfvkj won the relay. Well done to everyone who competed.

Results Upper Transitus

F1

F2

F3

Race 1st 2nd 3rd

Front crawl

Back stroke

Breast stroke

Butterfly

Small pool front

Small pool back

Race 1st 2nd 3rd

Front crawl

Back stroke

Breast stroke

Butterfly

Small pool front

Small pool back

Race 1st 2nd 3rd

Front crawl

Back stroke

Breast stroke

Butterfly

Race 1st 2nd 3rd

Front crawl

Back stroke

Breast stroke

Butterfly

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 1 Star Award 2 Star Award 3 Star Award Special Gold Award

Nicholas Agathangelou Benino De Campi Gianni Boggia-Vincent Millie Abraham Zac Richter

Despina Artemiou Millie George Adem Dervish Max Dean

Nina Jansen Ted Pini Tom Eisenberg Tyler McKillop

Rachel Judt Elle Whayman

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.

All the pupils receiving their awards with their teachers and

skiing instructors.

Gianni Boggia-Vincent and Nicholas Agathangelou

enjoying the snow with their skis. Rachel Judt showing off her skiing skills

Sports

Sport Pupil of the Month and End of Term Awards

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 Alicia Ajibade Prep 1

Prep 2 Freya Lavery Prep 2

Oluwasheni Agbede

Lower Transitus Marios Josif Lower Transitus

Harry Higgins

Upper Transitus Jed Dhillon Upper Transitus

Jayden Jabaru

Form 1 Metehan Ali Form 1

Holly White

Form 2 Rebecca Odeyemi Form 2

Form 3 Zac Richter Form 3

Sainsbury's Vouchers

Date to Remember

Sports Day: Friday 22nd June

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.

January Milie George February Ted Pini March Takumi Satoh

Extra Curricular Clubs

Ballet Club

St. John’s Prep Extra Curricular

Timetable

Monday

Girls (F1 and F2) Netball – Prep

School-

Miss Cullen 3.20 p.m.—4.20 p.m.

Tuesday Mixed (UT, F1, F2) Athletics -

Prep School -

Miss Cullen 3.20 p.m.– 4.20 p.m.

Boys (F1, F2 and F3) Cricket -

Senior School-

Mr 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.

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

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.

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.

Ballet is a fun and exciting opportunity for the

pupils at St John’s to be creative and enjoy

themselves within a dance environment.

YogaNastics 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.

Price: £35.00

Number of sessions: 7 Payment: cheques made payable to YogaNastics, a limited

spacing of 15 pupils.

Equipment: yoga mat

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.

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 at-

tached reply slip by the first day of

the new term to Miss Cullen.

Tennis Munchkins

Fencing 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: £49.00 (£7 a session)

Number of sessions: 7

Payment; cheques made to Mr. G. Hadalin,.

Clothing: Greens

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 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)

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 pic-

tures 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

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 tour-

nament, 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 unfortu-

nately as Honilands scored more goals than we did they went through. The girls were disap-

pointed 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 hope-

fully 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

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

Front crawl with

a woggle

Front crawl

Back stroke with

a woggle

Back stroke

Bubble race

Race 1st 2nd 3rd

Front crawl 25

meters

Front crawl

Back stroke 25

meters

Back stroke

Bubble race

Football

What we have been working on

Cricket

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.