Sixth Form student Katherine Bement is celebrating after she auditioned against 4,600 other hopefuls and won a place on the National Youth Theatre’s Summer Programme.

Katherine auditioned against 4,600 other young people in the February half-term, and in April received the news that her monologue had impressed judges enough for a place on the National Youth Theatre’s (NYT) Summer Programme. The programme is a two-week acting course at Bruford College of Theatre Performance, near London, from 14– 26 August.

Sixth Form student John Hui has had his art work printed and displayed on Billboard’s across the area as part of a national art competition.

John was crowned one of ten winners of the ‘Who Are You?’ national design competition run by the Arts University College at Bournemouth (AUCB) and JCDecaux, beating entrants from all over the UK, Europe and even America.

The best musicians of St John’s College put on an incredible and varied show of talent and skill at the school’s third annual Musicians Have Talent competition on Wednesday 28 March. The standard this year was incredibly high, but it was a piano performance of ‘Danza Espanola’ that won Sixth Form student Fernando Rosety the Musicians Have Talent 2012 award.

John Hui, a Sixth Former at St John’s, has been crowned one of ten winners of the ‘Who Are You?’ national design competition run by the Arts University College at Bournemouth (AUCB) and JCDecaux, beating entrants from all over the UK, Europe and even America.

On the 21 March Drama students enjoyed a Masterclass which drew lessons from the career of noted actor and director, Steven Berkoff.

On Friday 23^rd March we celebrated the annual festival of French-Speaking countries with a performance event in the New Benildus Hall in front of an audience of all the students who study French from Years 7 to 12.

Members of the highly acclaimed St John’s Chapel Choir are celebrating after they were awarded the Bertram Bradshaw Trophy for the most outstanding choral performance at the 2012 Portsmouth Music Festival - for the second successive year!

On Thursday 1 March a group of St John’s College Senior School pupils took to the stage at Southampton Guildhall for their first ever Be Your Best Rock Challenge performance. Nine schools performed on the night to give the audience an evening of entertainment and energetic dance.

The St John’s piece was titled ‘The Rise and Fall’ and through dance the team told a story of a young girl (Rhiain Tempest) who dreams of the stardom and glamour of Hollywood. The team comprised 65 members, some of whom performed on stage while others assisted back stage with props, hair and make-up. The performance really was an excellent display of team effort.

Family and friends of pupils in the Junior and Senior School attended the school’s first whole-school Art Exhibition on Thursday 23 February to help raise money for children’s charity Soham for Kids. Over £300 was raised for the charity, which provides free schooling to children living in the deprived area of Hyderabad, India.

Junior and Senior pupils of St John’s College are busy preparing for the School’s first whole-school exhibition in aid of children’s charity Soham for Kids.   Works of art will go on display for one-day only on Thursday 23 February in the New Benildus Hall.

A selection of Year 9 pupils passed a very productive few hours before half term when they spent the day in the textiles room designing and making their own textile product.

They have been performing for less than three years, but already reached such acclaim that the 42 choristers of the St John’s Chapel Choir are to lead the Pontifical High Mass at the Vatican this summer.

The award-winning choir will depart on Monday 20 August. The choir will then head to Rome where they will lead the Pontifical High Mass in the Vatican on Sunday 26 August.

A large number of parents, friends and family joined our Junior School pupils for our annual Carol Service at St John’s RC Cathedral on Thursday 8 December.

On Wednesday 7 December our four Houses (Alan, Damian, Edwin and Leo) battled it out on the stage to take the House prize for the Best Performance. This year’s theme was ‘New beginnings’, and each house produced an entertaining short play.