The document is a newsletter from St. John's Prep School providing updates on various sports and extracurricular activities. It discusses the results of the school's annual swimming gala where the overall winners were the bhdfgvlxdfhgld house. It also outlines the skiing trip to France that several classes took in January and the awards received by students. Additionally, it shares information on upcoming sports day, the collection of Sainsbury's vouchers to purchase new equipment, and extracurricular clubs offered in ballet, yoga, fencing, and tennis.

1. Summer Term Issue : 5
Sports
Newsletter
St John’s Prep School
Tel: 01707 657294
St. John’s Prep School
The Ridgeway
Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 5QT
Swimming GalaContents:
Pg 1
 Swimming Gala
Results
Pg 2
 Swimming Gala
continued
 Netball
Pg 3
 Football
 Cricket
 What we have
been working on
Pg 4
 Skiing Trip
Pg 5
 Sainsbury
Voucher Collec-
tion
 Date to Re-
member
 Sports Pupil of
the Month
Award
 End of Term
Sports Awards
Pg 4
 Extra Curricular
Clubs
Fencing
Ballet
Yoga
Tennis
Pg 5
On Saturday 17th March St. John’s held their annual Swimming Gala at Furzefield Leisure Centre in Potters
Bar. This year was he first year that a long distance event was held for the first form pupils, with great
success. All pupil were entered into two events with the option of swimming in the butterfly race. Pupils
had been practicing hard during their swimming lessons and it looks like the practice had paid off.
The overall winners were the bhdfgvlxdfhgld with jhf points, followed by hcgkjxgj with hgdkdgf
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Results
Upper Transitus
F1
F2
F3
Race 1st
2nd
3rd
Front crawl
Back stroke
Breast stroke
Butterfly
Small pool front
Small pool back
Race 1st
2nd
3rd
Front crawl
Back stroke
Breast stroke
Butterfly
Small pool front
Small pool back
Race 1st
2nd
3rd
Front crawl
Back stroke
Breast stroke
Butterfly
Race 1st
2nd
3rd
Front crawl
Back stroke
Breast stroke
Butterfly

2. Sports
Skiing Trip
Back in January 27 F3 and 1st Form boys and girls accompanied Mrs Tardios, Mr Tardios Junior, Mrs Farringdon, Mrs Wright, Miss Cullen and Miss
Foley to Morzine in the French Alps. We went for seven days, flying into Geneva airport and travelling by coach to the hotel, set in a picturesque
village, covered in winter snow. All pupils skied with great control with only a few falls and no injuries. Even Miss Cullen fell over!
Each pupils at the end of the skiing trip achieved a skiing award, a badge and a booklet which can be updated as they develop their skiing
ability. Special mention must go to Zac Richter for achieving a special gold award as he had already be awarded with all the rest.
As well as practicing their skiing, the pupils had a opportunity to watch the ski instructors showing why they are instructions with their
amazing skiing skills and looking at how skiing has developed throughout the ages. The pupils also got to try a variety of different food and swim in
the indoor/outdoor pool. Overall the trip was a great success, with all pupils and teachers enjoying the experience..
Awarded received
Snowflake Award 1 Star Award 2 Star Award 3 Star Award Special Gold Award
Nicholas Agathangelou Benino De Campi Gianni Boggia-Vincent Millie Abraham Zac Richter
Despina Artemiou Millie George Adem Dervish Max Dean
Nina Jansen Ted Pini Tom Eisenberg Tyler McKillop
Rachel Judt Elle Whayman
Miss Cullen and Miss Foley also received awards for there skiing efforts. Miss Foley received a 2 Star Award and Miss Cullen, who's first time it was
skiing, was awarded with a 1 star, which both teachers proudly wear on their P.E. uniform.
All the pupils receiving their awards with their teachers and
skiing instructors.
Gianni Boggia-Vincent and Nicholas Agathangelou
enjoying the snow with their skis.
Rachel Judt showing off her skiing skills

3. Sports
Sport Pupil of the Month and End of Term Awards
At the end of each half term, Sports Awards are handed out to pupils from each year group. The awards are handed out
during the End of Term Assembly and pupils achieve the awards for different aspects within sport and to celebrate their
sporting ability, attitude and behaviour in their lessons.
Christmas until February half term February half term until Easter
Prep 1 Alicia Ajibade Prep 1
Prep 2 Freya Lavery Prep 2
Oluwasheni Agbede
Lower Transitus Marios Josif Lower Transitus
Harry Higgins
Upper Transitus Jed Dhillon Upper Transitus
Jayden Jabaru
Form 1 Metehan Ali Form 1
Holly White
Form 2 Rebecca Odeyemi Form 2
Form 3 Zac Richter Form 3
Sainsbury's Vouchers
Date to Remember
Sports Day: Friday 22nd June
We are collecting Sainsbury’s vouchers again this year, so far we have collected 2302 vouchers but to get all the equipment that we would like
to get for P.E lessons and summer break time and lunchtime games we need to collect just over 18,000. So please, please collect our vouchers
and send them into the school.
Last year we collected enough vouchers for 20 tennis rackets and balls, rounders bats, netball bibs, jump sacks, for the sack race on
sports day, standing long jump mat plus many more.
January Milie George February Ted Pini March Takumi Satoh

4. Extra Curricular Clubs
Ballet Club
St. John’s Prep Extra Curricular
Timetable
Monday
Girls (F1 and F2) Netball – Prep
School-
Miss Cullen 3.20 p.m.—4.20 p.m.
Tuesday
Mixed (UT, F1, F2) Athletics -
Prep School -
Miss Cullen 3.20 p.m.– 4.20 p.m.
Boys (F1, F2 and F3) Cricket -
Senior School-
Mr Russell 3.20 p.m.— 4.20 p.m.
Wednesday
Girls (F1, F2, F3) Rounders -
Prep School -
Miss Cullen - 3.20 p.m. - 4.20 p.m.
Thursday
Mixed (UT and F1) Football Skill’s
Club - Prep School -
Mr Hodgson and Mr Russell - 3.20
p.m.— 4.20 p.m.
St. John’s 21 – 18 Southgate
Ballet
Ballet takes place on a Monday.
Lower School - 3.00 p.m. till 3.45 p.m.
Upper School - 3.45 p.m. till 4.30 p.m.
Price: £40.00
Number of sessions: 8
Payment: cheque made payable to Mrs. A.
Boden
Clothing: pink ballet shoes for the girls pink
dress and cardigan and black leather ballet
shoes for the boys.
Ballet is a fun and exciting opportunity for the
pupils at St John’s to be creative and enjoy
themselves within a dance environment.
YogaNastics
YogaNastics
YogaNastics takes place on a Tuesday.
Prep 2 - 3.20 p.m. till 4.00 p.m.
Upper School - 4.00 p.m. till 4.40 p.m.
Price: £35.00
Number of sessions: 7
Payment: cheques made payable to YogaNastics, a limited
spacing of 15 pupils.
Equipment: yoga mat
YogaNastics is very controlled and skilful, concentrating on
fun postures for flexibility and balance, with an element of
story telling. It is designed to improve sleep, concentration
balance and co-ordination.
If you are interested in any of the
extra curricular Sports Clubs
please look out for a letter that
will be handed to your child by the
end of term and return the at-
tached reply slip by the first day of
the new term to Miss Cullen.
Tennis Munchkins
Fencing
Fencing
Fencing takes place on a Friday.
Lower School - 2.30 p.m. till 3.30 p.m.
Upper School - 3.30 p.m. till 4.30 p.m.
Price: £49.00 (£7 a session)
Number of sessions: 7
Payment; cheques made to Mr. G. Hadalin,.
Clothing: Greens
Fencing is a very popular extra-circular sport at St. John’s. It involves
learning the skills and control it takes to play and beat an opponent.
Ideal for both beginners and pupils with experience in Fencing.
Tennis Munchkins
Tennis Munchkins takes place on a Friday.
Prep 1 - 2.00 p.m. till 2.30 p.m.
Prep 2 - 2.40 p.m. till 3.25 p.m.
Price: £47.00
Number of sessions: 7
Payment: cheques made payable to Paul Rock, a limited spacing of 16 pupils
Equipment: Greens and a tennis racket (if they own one)
The sessions are not only a great introduction to tennis for children, but also teach them fundamental hand-eye coordination, flexibility,
balance, and ball skills. Basic technical training and footwork will also be developed through fun games, which vary weekly to maximise
every child’s improvement.

5. We are holding a colouring competition. The competition will be separated in to upper school (UT, F1, F2 and F3) and lower school
(Prep 1, Prep 2 and LT). Pupils have to colour in the picture and hand it back to Miss Cullen on the first day of term. The winning pic-
tures will receive a bag of sporting goodies.
Make sure you fill in your name and form in and hand it back to Miss Cullen.
Name:
Form:

8. Sports
Netball
This term the Netball girls have been working extremely hard at Netball practice. They have been training twice a week getting ready for two
tournaments and two netball matches. This training as paid off as the girls have performed brilliantly.
Their first game back after the Christmas holidays was against Salcombe. This match was held at Salcombe School, the team played four
five minutes. All girls played very well as a team and put into practice what they had learnt. St. John’s won the match 9 - 3. Particular mention must
go to Millie George for her amazing shooting skills, getting goals in from near the edge of the shooting circle.
After this high we went on the play the senior school girls in a friendly match. We played very well again but the senior school team
piped us to the winning position, beating us by 7 goals to 5. We went away from the game with a few areas to work on.
We were entered into our first of two tournaments, tournaments which we had never entered before. The first was the High 5’s tour-
nament, it is different from normal netball as there are 5 players on court instead of 7. The girls had to work harder, moving around the court and
playing in different positions. There were 22 teams entered into the tournament which were spilt into seven leagues. St. John’s pupils were put
into league three and played two games. Our first game was against Lavender School, we beat them 2 - 0. Our second game was against Honilands
which we drew against 1 - 1. To make it through to the next round we needed Lavender to beat Honilands or Honilands to win by only 2 goals.
All the girls, parents and Miss Cullen and Mr Russell watched match with great
anticipation. Honilands beat Lavender 5 - 3! We still had a chance to go through but unfortu-
nately as Honilands scored more goals than we did they went through. The girls were disap-
pointed but were more determined than ever to win again. It was only a week away until out
next tournament.
We went to the tournament, we played 4 games, winning 3, beating Lyonsdown 4 -
1, Sacred Heart 3 - 1 and Salcombe 4 - 2, we lost one game but we were through to the
finals. All girls played their best but where beaten 5 - 2 to Vita et Pax.
As well as the F3 and F2 team, Miss Cullen also runs a F2 and F1 club. This is to
develop the younger girls coming up through the years, ready for the further
team. They have been working hard on all the different netball skills. Some hope-
fully their face will be smiling in further newsletters.
Top Olivia George, Haley Danso, Rachel Hill, Holly White
Below Eleanor Hall-McAteer, Lily Harbron, Theodora Thomas, Melissa Ourris
Lower School Swimming Gala
We had our Lower School Swimming Gala on Monday 21st March, held at Furzefield Leisure Centre, there were over 70 pupils competing in 7
different races.
The races ranged from 25meters in the large pool to races in the smaller pool with and without the aid of a float. To finish off the gala the pupils
were divided into 2 different relays, the woggle relay and treasure island
More to add
Well done to all competitors.
Results
Race 1st
2nd
3rd
Front crawl with
a woggle
Front crawl
Back stroke with
a woggle
Back stroke
Bubble race
Race 1st
2nd
3rd
Front crawl 25
meters
Front crawl
Back stroke 25
meters
Back stroke
Bubble race

9. Football
What we have been working on
Cricket
This term Prep. 1 have been working on their target practise, which involved a lot of rolling and throwing objects at a specific area
and also hitting the ball with a racket. After the half term the pupils have been working on their balance, balancing on different widths and
moving over equipment without falling over or knocking the equipment..
Prep 2 have been working on different types of movement within sport, introducing group performance and imagination building
and in addition, they have also been working on their gymnastics. Pupils have learnt the basic shapes and a variety of rolls. The pupils are also
introduced to performing in front of their peers and explaining ways to improve performances.
The rest of the school have been working on fitness from Christmas up until the half term,, working on improving their fitness
through a variety of different tests, such as the bleep test, Illinois agility test and even their flexibility and balance. After the half term until
Easter everyone has been working on Tennis, practising their movement around the court and developing their forehand and back hand
shots, working both with and against a partner.