On Thursday 16 May we travelled away to Portsmouth Grammar School for our first ever girls’ cricket match.   

A new format for the House Hockey was introduced for this term. The concept was for each House to select a team with a minimum of two players from each team group: Under-12, Under-13, Under-14, Under-15 & 1st XI.  Each team then played against every other team in a league system, with the top team being crowned House Hockey champions 2013.

A group of our Sixth Form students have just launched their own website in preparation for their 300km charity cycle ride from Southsea to Reims, the birthplace of our founder: Saint John Baptist De La Salle.

In the last week of the Easter holidays, 24 pupils from Years 10 and 11 and five staff went skiing in the Aosta valley in the Italian Alps.

Our Under 11 rugby team finished undefeated after four challenging matches at the St John's College Festival this week.

A new format for the House Hockey was introduced for this term. The concept was for each House to select a team with a minimum of two players from each team group: Under-12, Under-13, Under-14, Under-15 & 1st XI.  Each team then played against every other team in a league system, with the top team being crowned House Hockey champions 2013.

On Sunday 20 January, after much anticipation about the icy weather conditions, 42 girls and four staff travelled by coach up to Bath University to watch the England netball team take on Australia, the World Champions.

This was the last weekend of competitive fixtures of the term, with next weekend seeing a new format for the House Hockey competition that will involve pupils from all year groups.

All teams were against Lord Wandsworth College this week, a school with a very strong reputation for Hockey, and a valuable addition to our fixture list.

Our Junior School hosted the 11th Independent Schools’ Netball Tournament on Saturday.  This tournament attracted a good number of netball playing schools including Mayville; Stroud School; Ryde School, the winners for the last four years; and a visiting team from Edgbaston in the Midlands.

The first Hockey fixtures against Portsmouth Grammar School saw St John's College finishing with a return of played five, won three and lost two. That it was against PGS 'B" teams was not important, Hockey is an established sport at the Grammar School and to get these results shows the improvement of all Hockey players at St John's.

The First Team travelled to Christ Hospital on Wednesday 13 February and came home victorious!

Watch our students skiing in Pila, Italy...

 No Under-12 or Under-13 match this week meant that they played against each other in a valuable training match this weekend, that should see great benefit for both teams in future weeks.  The other teams all travelled to Milton Abbey; a fair journey, but always an excellent school to visit.

Success for our Hockey and Netball teams over the weekend, and also for our 1^st XV Rugby team, who played earlier in the week.

The Hockey season finally got under-way on Saturday, after weather had halted the attempts of the previous two weekends.