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Welcome to the St John's College Website
St John’s is a thriving co-educational day and boarding school, for ages 2 to 18 (boarding from Year 5), located in the heart of Southsea. Since its foundation by Brothers of the Lasallian Order, the school’s mission has been to provide for its pupils a well-rounded academic, social and personal education – based securely on clear Christian principles and values; and we will be celebrating the first hundred years of this tradition in 2008.
If you would like to know more about the life and work of the school – come on in!
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Advance Notice
For parents of all girls in Year 8
On Wednesday 1st October school nurses from the local health authority will visit the school to talk to girls in Year 8 about the nationwide HPV vaccination programme – an extremely significant health promotion/disease prevention campaign about which you will no doubt have heard. The College plans to offer this course of three vaccination injections to all girls in Year 8 over the next few months. At the talk further information and consent forms will be issued for the girls to take home. Subject to demand, it may then be possible to arrange a short evening information session for parents. If you do not wish your daughter to attend the talk on the 1st October, please contact the school office as soon as possible.
On Wednesday 1st October school nurses from the local health authority will visit the school to talk to girls in Year 8 about the nationwide HPV vaccination programme – an extremely significant health promotion/disease prevention campaign about which you will no doubt have heard. The College plans to offer this course of three vaccination injections to all girls in Year 8 over the next few months. At the talk further information and consent forms will be issued for the girls to take home. Subject to demand, it may then be possible to arrange a short evening information session for parents. If you do not wish your daughter to attend the talk on the 1st October, please contact the school office as soon as possible.
St John's is 100 years old this year, and we have many events planned to celebrate. Further are available on the 'Centenary Celebrations' page. Keep visiting for updates.
Ticket application forms are now available for all centenary events scheduled for the 4th November. Copies are being mailed to all families of current pupils, to all members of the OJ Association and to all those who have contacted the College directly to register their interest.
Outstanding examination results.
Once again, students at St John’s are celebrating outstanding examination results at both GCSE and A-level.
This summer, the College’s GCSE students set school records in two respects. Firstly, more than ever before were awarded at least nine passes at A* and A grades. We offer our warmest congratulations to Sam Jones, Megan Penney, Claire Thomas, Alfred Chiang, Edward Durkin, Tristan Hayward, Tom Icke, Arjun Patel. They are a credit to themselves and to the school. And particular congratualtions to Liam O’Shaughnessy (pictured below centre with Tristan and Claire) on his achievement of eleven A* grades. A truly excellent performance.
Secondly, more students than ever before achieved the a minimum of 5 passes at A* to C grades. The overall percentage exceeded 90% - an excellent performance for an all-ability school, and a further demonstration of the real ‘value added’ by the College.
At A-level, almost 60% of all passes were at A or B grade – and over 80% at A-C. The overall pass rate was 98%. Particular mention must be made of Edward Baker, Natalie Cush, Johnson Ling and Jayson Wong – all achieved at least three straight A grades, an excellent performance. However, the College is delighted by the performance of Sixth Form students across the board. They have worked hard, and they have done well. What more could be asked of them? As a school, we seek excellence for each and every student, whatever their personal potential. By any criteria, these results are excellent. Well done all!
College launches St John's Timeline Project
As part of our centenary celebrations the College plans to inaugurate a 'timeline' archive'- to which all those who have been associated with the school as pupils or staff are invited to contribute. This will gradually develop into a comprehensive archive of life at St John's. Full details are available on the Centenary Celebrations page.