Sports

Newsletter

St. John’s Senior School

Tel: 020 83660035

St. John’s Senior School North Lodge The Ridgeway

Enfield Middlesex EN2 8BE

Netball Champions! Contents:

Pg 1 Netball Champi-

ons Football Champi-

ons

Pg 2 Olympic torch

fact file

Inter-house

netball results Spring term

fixture results

Pg 3

Swimming gala

Swimming

Mini marathon

Pg 4

Ski trip

Pg 5

GCSE P.E.

Girls’ hockey

Girls’ football

Pg 6

Outdoor Pursuits

Pg 7

Notices

Mini Olympics

Sports performers

Clubs timetable

Ski trip page 4

Spring Term Issue : 7

Football Champions!

Pictured above: Charlotte Clements, Grace Firmin,

Adesuwa Akande, Kyria Constantinou, Miss Foley,

Niamh O’Leary, Lucy Harbron, Laura Bird and Aimee

The P.E. department has

achieved tremendous success in recent

sporting events. All of the staff mem-

bers of our Physical Education Depart-

ment deserve special credit and praise

for their outstanding success this year.

We would like to give a special men-

tion to the 1st Form boys football

team for winning the final of the Enfield

Borough All Schools 5-a-Side football

tournament therefore crowned as

Champions of all schools in Enfield.

Well done to the following play-

ers:

Hassan Aknar, Harry Young,

Anthony Crittenden, , Elijah-Guru

Stewart, Yiannis Constantinou

and Kennedy Dunn.

emotion which swept the field—players and spectators

alike. St. John’s P.E. teacher Miss Foley had excelled in

training and inspiring her girls and was justifiably proud of

them. At the end of the final Latymer was most gal-

lant in offering their congratulations as was St. John’s in

their response. A great day for sportsmanship!

This story was also featured recently in the

Enfield Independent newspaper.

Thursday, 14th March saw a truly

dramatic end to the Third Form borough’s end

of season tournament in which ten schools

took part in the hope of winning the coveted

title.

St. John’s won all its group stages and

went into the semi-finals to take on an equally

fine team - Bishops Stopford. At the final

whistle, the score was 3-3 and so they moved

into extra time. However, the dogged deter-

mination by both teams to win resulted in a

draw. Now, with unbearable tension in the air

the game entered the ‘golden goal’ stage. In-

stant victory to whoever scores the first goal -

and...the golden goal went to St. John’s.

A short break and into the finals: St.

John’s Vs Latymer School. At half time St.

John’s was losing to Latymer: 4 - 1. It certainly

looked as if Latymer had won and, understand-

ably, they and their supporters were full of excited anticipation. IN THE LAST MINUTE

of the second half St. John’s mustered all its

collective strength and scored...and then

scored yet again to take the winning title on a

score of 4 - 5 to St. John’s.

Both semi-finals and finals were

games to remember as was the level of

GIRLS FIXTURE RESULTS GIRLS NETBALL

RESULTS

1st/2nd Form Team

St. John’s Vs St Anne’s W 9 - 0

St. John’s Vs Southgate W 15 - 2

St. John’s Vs Southgate W 14 - 5

League semi final game

3rd Form Team

St. John’s Vs St Anne’s W 5 - 4

St. John’s Vs Southgate W 16 - 6 League semi final game

Senior Team

St. John’s Vs St Anne’s W 12 - 8

St. John’s Vs Kingsmead W 9 - 5

GIRLS HOCKEY

RESULTS

1st Form Team

St. John’s Vs Bishops Stopford W 2 - 0 Efe & Monjola

St. John’s Vs Kingsmead L 2 - 0

2nd/3rd Form Team

St. John’s Vs Kingsmead W 3 - 2

Dawn U & Laura x 2

GIRLS FOOTBALL

RESULTS

1st/2nd/3rd Form Team

St. John’s Vs St Anne’s D 1 - 1 Zenab

St. John’s Vs NLI L 5 - 2 Laura x 2

St. John’s Vs St Anne’s L 2 - 0

BOYS FIXTURE RESULTS BOYS FOOTBALL

RESULTS

Under 13’s

St. John’s Vs King Alfred W 6 - 0

Yiannis x 3, Daniel A x 2, & Ceykan

St. John’s Vs St. Aubyns W 6 - 0

Yiannis x 2, Daniel A x 2, & Ceykan x 2

St. John’s Vs Northbridge L 6 - 1

Ceykan

St. John’s Vs Kings W 8 - 1

Yiannis x 3, Alex J, Harry Y, Ceykan, Ahmed, & OG

St. John’s Vs King AlfredW15 - 0 Daniel A x 4, Yiannis x 4, Harry Y x 2, Ceykan x 2,

Alex J, Richard & Kennedy

6-a-side Tournament at St.

Aubyns (runners up)

Under 15’s

St. John’s Vs Northbridge W4 -1 Ismail x 2 & Ethan x 2

St. John’s Vs Kings W 4 - 0 Tomas B, Dennis, Thomas P & Ismail

St. John’s Vs King Alfred W4 - 0 Ismail, Bedros, Andrew & Oliver

Senior Team

St. John’s Vs King Alfred L 3 - 2 Ismail & Harry T

St. John’s Vs Kings W 2 - 0 Tamilore & Phillip

Sports Newsletter

Olympic Torch

Fact File

Did you know?

The Olympic Torch

Relay begins at Lands

End on the 19th May

and ends at the Olym-

pic Stadium on 27th

July, 2012.

The flame is extin-

guished on the final day

of the games during the

closing ceremony.

The 2012 Olympic

Torch features 8,000

small cut-out features

which represent the

8,000 inspirational peo-

ple who will carry it on

its journey around the

UK.

The Olympic Torch

will come within 10

miles of 95% of every-

one in the UK, Guern-

sey and Jersey. It will

allow local communi-

ties to shine a light on

the best their area has

to offer.

Inter-house

netball results

1st/2nd Form

1st Water Rats

2nd Toads

3rd Badgers

4th Moles

3rd/4th Form

1st Toads

2nd Moles

3rd Water Rats

4th Badgers

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3rd Form Netball

End of Season Enfield Borough

Tournament St. John’s were the overall winners, receiv-

ing the winning medals and trophy.

There were ten schools in the tournament.

Group stages

St. John’s Vs Lea Valley W 7 — 1

St. John’s Vs Oasis Academy Hadley

W 6 — 1

St. John’s Vs Latymer W 5 — 2

St. John’s Vs Enfield County W 3 — 1

Semi final

St. John’s Vs Bishops Stopford

Draw 3 — 3

Extra time 0 — 0

Golden goal — St. John’s won

Final

St. John’s Vs Latymer

Won 5 — 4

St. John’s Swimming Gala

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Overall gala positions House Relays

1st Water Rats (138 points) 1st Water Rats

2nd Toads (99 points) 2nd Toads

3rd Badgers (38 points) 3rd Badgers

4th Moles (23 points) 4th Moles

Front crawl (25m)

Boys Girls

Gold Harry Cox Megan Jones

Silver Hassan Aknar Charlotte Proffitt

Bronze Benjamin Pott Efeilomo Akande

Backstroke (25m)

Boys Girls

Gold Harry Cox Elizabeth Jonscher

Silver Ciaran Kelly Abbe Holoran

Bronze Dogukan Akarsu Elizabeth Lauchlan

Breaststroke (25m)

Boys Girls

Gold Hassan Aknar Megan Jones

Silver Benjamin Pott Charlotte Proffitt

Bronze Ryan Boroughs Tolani Ubhi-Mohideen

Butterfly (25m)

Boys Girls

Gold Harry Cox/Benjamin Pott Megan Jones

Silver N/A Charlotte Proffitt

Bronze Hassan Aknar Efeilomo Akande

Long distance (100m)

Boys Girls

Gold Harry Cox Megan Jones

Silver Benjamin Pott Charlotte Proffitt

Bronze Hassan Aknar Tolani Ubhi-Mohideen

Monday, 26th March saw various selected pupils represent

St. John’s in The Lea Valley Schools Swimming Gala. We entered as a

guest school kindly invited by John Warner School in Hertfordshire.

All pupils performed well with excellent results in some of the 50m

individual races, which included 1st to 3rd place positions by Harry

Cox, Bethany Jamieson, Megan Jones, Phoebe O’Beirne and Hassan

Aknar. Well done to all pupils who took part!

St. John’s recently entered trials for a mini marathon

competition. The trials were held at Lee Valley Athletics track on

Sunday 11th March. St. John’s pupils were selected for the trials

based on their cross county performances and their overall fitness.

The trial was 2.8 miles long, pupils should be commended for their

effort and for competing in a tough challenge as many Enfield and

Haringey athletics club runners attended.

Runners who are selected from the trials will be invited

to run in a children's marathon on the day of the London Mara-

thon.

Mini Marathon trial results

Minutes and seconds

Ben Turner 16.02

Samuel Leigh 17.37

Harry Cox 18.04

Anthony Crittenden 18.18

Dawn Fasanya 20.36

Ellis Hobbs 20.42

Laura Bird 21.06

Alexandra Behrouzi 22.43

(Mini Marathon runners pictured left)

Swimming Mini Marathon

Sports Newsletter

Skiing in Morzine In January, some 1st Form pupils along

with some of the Prep School pupils went to

Morzine to Ski in the French Alps.

The pupils had an excellent week skiing!

The week was filled with fun, laughter, falling over,

getting up, eating a variety of luxurious foods,

swimming, relaxing in the sauna and Jacuzzi, shop-

ping in the local village and watching the ski in-

structors evening ski show, which covered the

history of skiing and finished with a superb torch

light decent. As you can see it was a very busy

week.

The pupils worked hard throughout the

days during their skiing sessions, carrying out ac-

tivities including: snow ploughs, parallel stops and

turns, slaloms, skiing backwards, jumps, speed

skiing and off piste skiing. All pupils were working

towards different levels and at the end of the

week took part in an awards ceremony where the

ski instructors gave out the badges and booklets. Well done!

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RESULTS

Boys Girls

Hassan Aknar 2 Star Florence Georgiou 1 Star

Steven Dinh 2 Star Jodie Hall-McAteer 1 Star

Kennedy Dunn 2 Star Elizabeth Lauchlan Snow Flake

Gabriel Onoufriou 1 Star Elizabeth Jonscher 2 Star

Doloros Agathangelou 2 Star Felicity Van Der Stratten Snow Flake

Ben Pott 2 Star Tolani Ubhi-Mohideen 2 Star

Beginners group

Tolani

Doloros

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G.C.S.E P.E.

Girls Hockey Girls Football

This season the girls hockey squads have been training hard dur-

ing their weekly lunch training sessions to enable St. John’s to progress in a

variety of competitive girls sports, not just netball.

St. John’s has a 1st Form team and a mixed 2nd/3rd Form team,

both teams have been working on developing their passing and dribbling

skills, rules of the game, attack and defensive penalty short corners and

Zenab Ahsan and Kate Chan have been working on their goal keeping

skills.

Both teams won their first games of the season, convincingly

putting on a better performance than the opposition. The hockey season

has now come to an end, but will continue in September.

In G.C.S.E P.E. this year the 5th Form pupils have been assessed in a

variety of sports including: Gaelic football, karate, boxing, football, swimming, hill

walking, resistance training, personal survival, rounders, horse riding, netball,

dance and skiing. Our aim is to provide the opportunity for all pupils to maxim-

ise their potential and achieve as high a grade as possible in the overall course. I

am sure at times the pupils have not enjoyed the resistance training fitness cir-

cuits but every pupil has gained a high grade for their efforts. Well done and

good luck in your exam this year. Remember revision cuts out the need for

luck!

Rochea (dance)

Ravi (karate)

Harry (football)

St. John’s has a girls’ lunchtime football club, which is

for fun, to develop football skills and to help increase fitness.

The girls were keen to play some friendly fixtures against local

schools so we organised a team to play state and independent

teams. The girls are all very much beginners at football and they

do not cover football in lessons or play for clubs outside of

school, so being brave enough to take on the challenge of play-

ing other schools is an achievement in itself. The girls battled

hard during their games, with Laura Bird and Zenab Ahsan scor-

ing some excellent goals for St. John’s.

Katie (horse riding)

Pictured above: Elizabeth Jonscher, Emily Few, Laura Bird,

Louise Fligman, Zenab Ahsan, Charlotte Clements and Dawn

Fasanya.

Pictured above: Sophie Katsiavriades, Kate Chan, Megan

Jones, Efeilomo Akande, Monjolaoluwa Aduroja, Inez Awuley,

Elizabeth Jonscher and Jodie Hall-McAteer.

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Outdoor Pursuits

I have enjoyed mountain

biking this term as the instructors

have made it very enjoyable. They

have been patient, funny and made

it easy to pick up the basics

needed to carry the sport further.

I have has a lot of fun and been

motivated to take up biking! Ryan Boroughs (1 Green)

Various pupils have been going to Harlow Outdoor

Pursuits Centre during their Tuesday or Thursday games

afternoons this term, to take on the adventures of rock climb-

ing, canoeing and mountain biking.

For the first few weeks we did rock climbing, our

instructor taught us how to fit and work all or safety equip-

ment. We were all eager to climb up the wall after seeing the

excellent facilities. After the first person climbed up we real-

ised it was not as easy as we thought it would be, however,

eventually we did succeed better. Each week during rock

climbing we learnt new things and faced harder challenges; my

group found this a thrilling experience and would love to do it

again.

After climbing we moved onto canoeing; we worked

on how to move and navigate our way around the very cold

canal.

The last activity was mountain biking,. Thankfully it

was warmer weather now. During our biking we were taught

how to ride up and down hills and changing gears.

Over the term we have learnt new things and had new experiences, whilst having lots of fun. I would love to

have a thrilling experience like this again!

Aliraza Syed (2 Blue)

Sports clubs (March - July)

Daniel Akinbobola (January) Laura Bird (February)

Sports Performers of the Month

St. John’s Mini Olympics

Sports fixtures will take priority over sports clubs.

All pupils are welcome to attend lunchtime clubs, regardless whether they are in the school teams.

Girls tennis squad training will take place at various prep times with Miss Foley when there are no girls fixtures on.

We recommend pupils 1st—4th Form attend extra curricular athletics training for extra sports day preparation.

NOTICES

The next school cross

country will take place

on Friday 11th May in

the afternoon.

Senior School Sports

Day is Thursday 28th

June.

Olympic Park Tour on

Saturday 28th April

(story to follow in the

summer term sports

newsletter)

1st/2nd Form boys

cricket training will take

place throughout the

summer term at Potters

Bar Cricket Club, every

Wednesday prep time.

PE lessons and games

afternoon options next

term (April till July) are

as follows:

1st Form

PE - Athletics

Games (on site) - Athletics/

Striking and fielding

Games (off site) - Horse riding/

Tennis/Golf

2nd Form

PE - Athletics

Games (on site) - Athletics/

Striking and fielding

Games (off site) - Horse riding/

Tennis/Golf

3rd Form

PE - Athletics

Games (on site) - Athletics/

Striking and fielding

Games (off site) - Horse riding/

Tennis/Golf

4th Form

PE - Athletics

Games (on site) - Athletics/

Striking and fielding

Games (off site) - Horse riding/

Tennis/Golf

5th/6th Form

Multi-sports/cross country

Study leave

On the 27th & 29th March, every single pupil from 1st to 4th Form competed in the

St. John’s Mini Olympics.

All the events were individual challenges. The girls had a choice of swimming, rowing/cycling,

badminton or trampolining. The boys had a choice of squash, table tennis, rowing/cycling, or

badminton.

The pupils competed to earn their house points and, perhaps more importantly, a gold medal

and the bragging rights of being champion in their event!

Medals are to be awarded in assembly after the Easter break. Results will be in the summer

term P.E. Newsletter!

DAY

TIME

LOCATION

SPORT

YEAR

TEACHER

Mon 1:00PM Sports hall/

outside court

Girls

basketball

1/2/3 Miss Foley

1:00PM Sports field Boys

rounders

1/2 Mr. Russell

1:00PM Outside hut Boys resistance

training 4 Mr. Hodgson

3:30PM Sports hall Girls

cheerleading

1/2/3 Saracens Coach

Miss Foley

Tues 1:00PM Sports field Girls rounders 2/3/4/5 Miss Foley

3:30PM Prep School tennis

court

Boys tennis

squad training 1/2/3/4 Mr. Hodgson

Wed 1:00PM Sports field Girls athletics 1/2/3/4 Miss Foley

1:00PM Sports field Boys athletics 1/2/3/4 Mr. Russell

Mr. Hodgson

1:00PM Sports hall/

Outside court

Boys basketball 1/2/3/4 Mr. Petrou

Mr. Reece

3.30PM Potters Bar Cricket

Club Boys cricket 1/2 Mr. Russell

Thurs 1:00PM Sports field Girls rounders 1 Miss Foley

3:30PM Sports hall Boys & girls

fencing

1/2/3/4 Fencing coach

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