Several Cricket fixtures in the past week have seen us finally agree that the Summer Term has indeed begun, just one week before half-term!

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.

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.

On Friday 16th March, a squad of U13/U14 netballers travelled to PGL Liddington for a weekend netball tour where they took part in the two-day netball tournament against other school from across the country.

The U16 team were on terrific form on Thursday as they joined the U13 and U15 victories earlier in the week.

Both our Under 13 and Under 15 teams played brilliantly again this week, winning both matches against Mayville High School.

Both our Under 13 and Under 15 teams played exceptionally well last week, winning both matches against Meoncross School

On Thursday 13 October our Under 9s team played Boundary Oak. The St John’s team started off strongly and scored in the 1^st quarter through Goal Attack Georgia Allport. Just before half time, and after a lot of pressure, Boundary Oak equalised.