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.

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.

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.

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.

Sixth Form student James Raven is a keen racing driver who aspires to follow in the footsteps of Formula 1 drivers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton. Find out more, and follow his success on James’ website.

We all arrived on Saturday 15th December at school with massive bags. We were very excited and also slightly nervous about the long journey ahead. We all loaded on to the coach, waved goodbye and tried to get comfortable...

Year 8 pupil Elliott travelled to Malta to represent Great Britain in the EuroMed 2012 regatta during the Christmas holidays.

The St John’s College Under 11 ‘A’ 5-a-side football team ended the year on a high when they defeated last year’s winners, St John’s R.C. School, at the U11 Catholic School’s Tournament on Saturday 1 December. The host team beat St John’s RC School in a closely contested final by 1 – 0.