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* This Week's Sports Training & Fixtures & Match Reviews:f/Week_6-5_July_2010.pdf

• Junior Sports Day 2010 - Tues 6 July 
Congratulations to pupils in De la Salle House, who won this year's Junior Sports Day.  Please see below for more details.

• Success for Lucy Daly in Welsh Schools Championships pole vault competition - Sat 3 July
Congratulations to Lucy Daly (R15), who came second in the U17 girls' polevault competition overall.  She also jumped a personal best of 2.65m.  Lucy will shortly be informed whether she has also qualified for the SIAB track and field international competition in Glasgow.

• Congratulations to Kane Teear- Bourge in the Junior School who has been chosen to train with Bristol Rovers
Both Kane & Charles Williams have been chosen to play for Cardiff Schools next season. This is a great honour for the school and we wish the boys every success.

• Senior Sports Day 2010 - Fri 2 July 
Congratulations to pupils in Bute House, who won this year's Senior Sports Day with 466 points.  Please see below for more details.

• Inter-house Rounders Competition - Thurs 1 July

   
On Thursday evening, Mostyn House were the winners of the Inter-house Rounders Competition. The competition was a huge success with over 50 girls competing for their houses.

• UWIC talent Identification process for track & field athletics: Gareth Wiltshire 
The following pupils have been selected as a result of the UWIC talent Identification process for track & field athletics: Gareth Wiltshire.  The Talent Identification officer Wrote to each of the following pupils to take part in a six week training programme.  Congratulations to all of those involved.
 
Amy Worton
Charlie Halpin
Graham McCann
Harry Willicombe
Katie Payne
Michael Prentice

• Junior School Golf Competitions - June

Congratulations to Niamh Crean of R8 who won the putting competition.  R10 & 11 Golf Competition winners were Olivia Evans & Lily Morris in driving for show and putting for gold competitions.  Well done girls.

• The U/16 Girls' KO Athletics Cup Final - June

St John's College U/16 Girls' Athletics team have made the A Cup Final as a result of excellent performances by the team on Tuesday 8 June.  The top 4 schools in Cardiff & the Vale will now compete for the championship position. This is an excellent achievement for St John's. Our captain Lucy Daly is now preparing with the team for next Thursday afternoon's competition at Leckwith 1-6pm.

• R10 & R11 Rounders Match

Photographed here are the R10 & R11 rounders teams from St John's College and Years 5 & 6 from Howells. On Friday11 June, the girls had a very enjoyable game.  Howells took the win by 26-12. The squad played extreamly well with their first innings of 25 good balls.

R10                                  R11 
Rachel Evans                   Hope Tranter
Lily Morris                      Lucy Blyth
Eleanor Johnson              Gabrielle O’Sullivan
Claudia Ricketts              Andrea Mizzen                       
Jordan Olds

The R11 led by example, helping the R10 girls along with match play. Well done to all involved.

• Athletics – County Championships R15 & R16

A big congratulations to the girls who demonstrated some outstanding performances at this year’s athletics Championships:

Gabbi Martin - 7^th 100m Final

Lucy Daly – 1st the pole vault

Amy Worton - 2^nd place in the Discuss throw

A best ever return from our athletes in the Middle Championships. The boys scored 140 points and came 7^th out of all the schools in the Cardiff and the Vale (over 20 schools). Everyone gave 100% and the main results were as follows:

Michael Prentice – 100 m winner

Charilie Halpin – 800m 2^nd place

Grame Mccan – 800m 4^th place

Oliver Willy – 400m 7^th place

Harry Willicoombe – Long Jump 2^nd place

4x100 relay – 4^th place

This is an outstanding result and we would like to congratulate all the girls and boys for their achievements.

• Swimming Gala - Tuesday 9 February

Congratulations to our most improved swimmers who are below
 
R8 Girls: Kelly Yip                      R8 Boys: Charles Williams
R9 Girls: Isabella Howell             R9 Boys: Aron Amal-Calist
R10 Girls: Jordan Olds                 R10 Boys: Anthony Smith
R11 Girls: Gabriella O Sullivan   R11 Boys: Daniel Harding

• Welsh Schools Gymnastics Tumble and Vault Competition - Monday 25 January

The gymnastics squad has been working towards this competition since September. The pupils performed outstandingly, and for a few, it was their first ever gymnastics competition. Rachel Evans was our top finisher who was placed 3rd.  She received a medal and a pass to the regional finals.

Sam Rees finished in 4th place also with a pass to the next round.

The junior girls team finished 4th with outstanding performances from:

Rachel Evans                                Lily Morris
Eleanor Johnson                           Gabrielle O’Sullivan
Claudia Ricketts                           Andrea Mizzen
Lucy Blyth                                    Jordan Olds

The senior girls team worked very hard and managed to finish in 6th place out of 12 schools across Cardiff. The highest placed St John’s pupil was Lilly Element who displayed excellent work throughout the competition. Also competing for the senior team were Olivia Evans, Kelly Powling and Harriet Simons.  The girls all worked incredibly hard and produced some great scores for their team.  Congratulations to all the gymnasts!

• Gibraltar Netball Tour 2009

Tour diary:

Please see the tour diary below for a detailed day-by-day account of the tour and match results:
f/Gibraltar_Netball_Tour_Diary_2009.pdf

Tour itinerary:
f/Gibraltar_itinerary_final_itinerary.doc

All squad members were involved in fundraising activities, such as a car wash, cake sale & smarty tube fill, which has helped subsidise the costs of travel, training, playing kit, new bibs & balls.  Congratulations to the girls for their excellent hard work.

• The 2009 Sports Awards Assembly - Tuesday 20 October

Boys

Girls

Sports Days 2010

Parents who wish to view all photographs from the Infant, Junior & Senior Sports Days 2010 may do so by contacting Mr J Davies directly: jdavies@stjohnscollegecardiff.co.uk

Senior Sports Day

Junior Sports Day

Junior Sports Day on 6th July at UWIC was a great success enjoyed by pupils, parents and teachers. Well done all who took part.  De la Salle was the Champion House this year.  Kane Teear- Bourge (R11L) won the title of Champion Athlete for the boys. Rachel Evans (R10C) won the title of Girls' Champion Athlete.

Click on the following link for all results:
f/Junior_Sports_Day_2010.pdf

National & County Honours 2009-10

Congratulations to the following pupils for some outstanding sporting achievements this year.

St John's College Sports Curriculum

We support the government recommendation (in accordance with the latest National Curriculum revision) for pupils to develop their skills, knowledge and understanding of physical education through each of the following four areas of experience.

Programme of study:
 
• Health, fitness and well-being activities
• Creative activities
• Adventurous activities
• Competitive activities

Learning across the curriculum

The revised curriculum identifies three areas of learning:

1)  Knowledge and understanding of Wales,
2)  Personal & social development and well-being,
3)  Awareness of the world of work.

Pupils will also be given opportunities to develop and apply the following across the Sports & PE curriculum:

• Thinking
• Communication
• ICT
• Number
• Curriculum Cymreig (7-14) and Wales, Europe and the World (14-19)
• Personal & social education
• Careers and the world of work

Adventurous activities - newly introduced 2009/10!

This year, the Sport & PE department have teamed up with ACE Adventure (teambuilding & adventurous activities organisers), which will be an asset for our pupils to experience tailor made lessons which will fully support the National Curriculum guidelines for the section related to adventurous activities.  For example, pupils will be given an opportunity to develop a range of skills and techniques in at least one of the following three types of activities;

• Outdoor and adventurous activities (e.g. climbing, canoeing, orienteering)
• Problem-solving or initiative challenges (e.g. following or designing trails, rope courses)
• Outwardbound activities (e.g. hill walking and camping)

Our Sporting Ethos

We aim to raise the standards of achievement in physical education and sport for all our students across the ability range leading to whole school improvement.

We believe this can be achieved through clear targets and standards:

• high quality teaching

• high expectations of achievement levels and behaviour

• sound curriculum organisation and planning

• well-defined system of assessment, recording and reporting which is shared with the students

• an extensive extra-curricular programme giving equality of opportunity.

We support the Government’s aspiration for all young people to have two hours high quality P.E. per week within and outside the curriculum. We believe that every pupil at St John's College has an entitlement to a comprehensive grounding in sport. We aim to give pupils the access and opportunity to achieve this. Every student has the prospect to integrate with other students of varying levels of ability and aptitude. Within every sporting activity we endeavour to foster an appreciation of all abilities, achievements, individual contributions and personal experiences that each of the students brings to the learning process in Physical Education.

Sports & Activities

We offer a broad range of sporting activities at St John’s College, emphasising both team and individual sporting prowess, including:



Clubs & Teams

Sporting competition is encouraged at St John's College as a healthy way of allowing pupils to demonstrate their abilities whilst striving to do the best for themselves and for their school.  Each year group has its own teams and every pupil is encouraged to participate in teams and squad training sessions. We compete in both local state school leagues in the mainstream sports as well as playing against other independent schools from all over Wales and England.

Extra-curricular clubs and practices begin at 3.45 and end at 5pm; match times vary. Team sheets are given out prior to matches with exact times for parents to organise pick up times.

Every week a timetable of extra curricular events is displayed on the Sports webpage (see above) and on the P.E. Notice Board giving notice to pupils and parents of the sporting activities planned for the week ahead.

At St John's College, pupils are provided with the highest standard of sporting equipment and facilities and are expected to play to the best of their abilities. The school fosters an ethos of fair play both within sports practices and amongst teams and individuals representing the school in competitive external fixtures.

Meet the Department

The St John’s Sport & PE Department boasts six UWIC trained Sport & PE Staff as well as three Play Ball Specialists who work along side them.  Members of the department have specialisms within their own fields of sport & coaching (netball, football, rugby, gymnastics, trampolining, athletics & cricket) as well as other subject areas.  The department is in regular contact with sports coaches from Cardiff Sports Development, who deliver coaching sessions in a wide variety of sports (for example, Welsh volleyball, Cardiff Blues & Welsh Squash academy coaches).

Facilities

St John's College boasts a newly built multi-purpose sports hall comprising a netball court, four badminton / short tennis courts, a full size basketball court with retractable goals, two junior basketball courts, 2 trampolines with summersault rig and a five-a-side football court; we also have an outdoor netball court.

Our extensive sports grounds in nearby Began Road include a full size football, rugby, and cricket pitches with an artificial all-weather wicket. We also have plans to incorporate athletics equipment and a pavillion into the grounds in the near future.

Annual Events

Every year we have both a junior and senior sports day held at the National Indoor Arena at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC). All pupils compete for points for their House (be it Bute, St David's, Mostyn or De la Salle) in their preferred events and at levels appropriate to the abilities of each pupil.

Swimming is an essential part of the junior curriculum, and at the end of the swimming term in February we hold a swimming gala at Pentwyn Leisure Centre where pupils compete for house points.

Both of these events are well supported by pupils and parents and are great fun for those involved.

Sainsbury’s Active

St John's College is part of the Sainsbury’s Active Kids Scheme which was established to give young people the opportunity to try new and fun activities whilst learning life skills and a healthy active lifestyle. The wider community, parents, staff and pupils of St John’s College are all involved in supporting the scheme.

Dame Kelly Holmes is a great rôle model who began promoting Sainsbury’s Active Kids with the main purpose of promoting competition, being active and healthy whilst using good quality and safe equipment.  Sainsbury’s Vouchers can be obtained from any Sainsbury’s store and deposited in school.  At the end of the summer term the vouchers are exchanged for new Equipment.

This scheme has enabled us to introduce brand new sports to our curriculum, such as handball.  Active Kids vouchers have contributed to the purchase of all the necessary hardware for handball, which has proved to be highly popular this year.