Autumn Term Issue : 3

Sports Newsletter

St John’s Senior School

Tel: 020 83660035

St. John’s Senior School North Lodge The Ridgeway

Enfield Middlesex EN2 8BE

Netball team undefeated

Since losing 4-3 to St.Aubyn’s

(conceding 2 goals in injury time) in our

opening league game of the season, St. John’s

has remained unbeaten in the North London

Independent Schools League. Within one week we beat King

Alfred’s twice and drew once and also

achieved a double victory. After James Dillon suffered an

unfortunate injury, Harry Reynolds made his

senior team debut this term. Harry has

performed superbly, pulling off some fantas-

tic saves. James is currently back in training

and is fighting to regain his position as goal-

keeper. We are extremely pleased with

the style of football that the boys are play-

ing, by trying their utmost to keep the ball

on the ground and play passing football. In

the new year these teams will be given fur-

ther development of their tackling and head-

ing skills.

Football

Contents:

Pg 1

Netball

Football

Pg 2

PE fact file

Cross country

Golf

Pg 3 Inter-house

competitions

Horse riding

Results

Pg 4

Notices

Swimming

Sports

performers

Clubs timetable

The Second Form netball team have

really excelled this term. They are currently

participating in the Borough Netball league

and have won every game this season. The

girls skills, team work and determination have

seen them beat schools including Latymer, Lea

Valley High School, Edmonton County, Oasis

Academy Hadley and St Anne's. The girls

now face Kingsmead in February and are aim-

ing for a victory to enable the team to go

through to the semi-finals and finals in March. The Second Form team will also be

entered for the end of season tournament

around Easter, to compete for the winning

position. Last season the girls reached the

finals in the tournament and came second

after losing to Southgate School. The girls are extremely dedicated in

their training and are keen to play in every

game possible, I am looking forward to seeing

them develop even further in the months to

come.

Second Form team members:

Kyria Constantinou (C)

Lucy Harbron Charlotte Clements

Grace Firmin Aimee Adesina

Adesuwa Akande Christine Fung

Laura Bird Niamh O’Leary

Top scorers so far this season are Ceykan Karago-

zlu (1st form), Michael Rubra (5th form) and Mat-

thew Mubiru (6th form). Well done so far boys,

keep up the hard work!

Cross country

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PE Fact File

Many factors influence

whether people partici-

pate in or watch sport.

Reasons people get in-

volved in sport include;

Benefits to health and

fitness.

Benefits to well being.

Relief from stress.

Learning new skills and

making progress.

Pleasure and satisfaction

through competition.

Meeting new people and

making friends.

To live longer.

To improve or maintain

an image.

As a hobby.

To please or to copy

parents/role models.

As a job or vocation.

To enjoy yourself!

Golf In my PE games afternoons

this term I have been learning golf. I

have been learning how to strike a golf

club and how to putt. Our coach has

allowed us to use the driving range to

enable us to swing freely and develop

powerful strikes. We have also been

learning about the right arm grip, ball

position, stance and posture. Once we

have mastered the fundamentals, we

will be ready to strike a golf ball. In putting we have been

taught how to accurately putt a golf

ball into a close hole on the green.

We have also learnt how to use the

proper motion and grip for putting. It

is very hard to get the exact swing, by

trying not to hit it too hard or too

soft, but to get it just right so the ball

goes into the hole and you get a hole

in one. I am looking forward to my

forthcoming lessons and excited about

what we are going to be learning next.

Reported by

Matthew Charalambous

2 Green

On the 15th October all First Form to Fifth Form participated in the annual school cross country

event. This event is run along a course of 3 miles. The event was very successful and the ideal cross

country weather conditions certainly made a great difference to the participants. We wish to thank

all teachers and sixth formers who helped to run the event on the day.

The results;

1st form girls — Georgia Newman 35:50

1st for boys — Ceykan Karagozlu 25:44

2nd form girls — Niamh O’Leary 31:18

2nd form boys—Samuel Leigh 24:20

3rd form girls — Isha Amin 32:56

3rd form boys—Andrew Connor 22:21

4th form girls — Katie Lodge 30:04

4th form boys—Tamilore Fayemi 21:22

5th form girls — Rebecca Metin 31:11

5th form boys—Andrew Ross 21:40

The next cross country

event will take place on

Friday 6th May, 2011.

Liam Baker, a GCSE PE student is a keen golfer. Here

we can see Liam in action.

The inter-house football

competition for the boys consisted

of an A and B team for each house,

with points awarded for wins, draws

and goal scoring loses. All the points

were then accumulated to produce

the overall house winners. The com-

petition was highly competitive and

extremely tight.

The results were as follows;

1st/2nd form winners—Toads

3rd/4th form winners— Water Rats

Inter-house competitions

BOYS FOOTBALL RESULTS

1st /2nd Form

St John’s Vs Kings W 4—3

St John’s Vs King Alfred D 2—2

St John’s Vs Northbridge ?

3rd/4th Form

St John’s Vs Kings W 5—0

St John’s Vs King Alfred W 4—2

St John’s Vs Northbridge ?

Seniors (5th/6th Form)

St John’s Vs North London International

W 5—0

St John’s Vs Kings W 5—1

St John’s Vs Kings W 4—3

GIRLS NETBALL RESULTS

2nd Form

St John’s Vs Lea Valley W 6—1

St John’s Vs St Annes W 11—3

St John’s Vs Oasis Hadley W 16—1

St John’s Vs Latymer W 10—4

St John’s Vs Edmonton County W 7—2

4th Form

St John’s Vs Lea Valley L 14—2

St John’s Vs St Annes L 12—10

St John’s Vs Kingsmead L 15—7

St John’s Vs Oasis Academy W 18—8

St John’s Vs Edmonton County L11—5

Seniors (5th/6th Form)

St John’s Vs Lea Valley L 26—11

St John’s Vs Oasis Hadley L 18—15

St John’s Vs Latymer D 22—22

For my PE games after-

noons this term I have been doing

horse riding at Kings Oak Stables.

It is a really exciting activity and is

one of my favourites out of the

wide range of activities on offer

for our PE lessons. The pony I

ride is called Zac, he is well be-

haved and I feel confident when on

him. In the lessons we have

been learning about smooth transi-

tions, going from a walk to a trot

(sitting, rising and standing) and

then up to a canter. The riding

instructors are very helpful and

friendly and they do not make us

do anything we are uneasy about

doing. I am hoping the school

continues to let us have privileges

like horse riding because it really

makes this a wonderful school.

Reported by Emily Few 2Blue

Horse riding

During the inter-house competi-

tion this term, the girls from First to Fourth

Form participated in a netball tournament

during their PE games afternoon. The girls

were divided into the four houses, Toads,

Moles, Water Rats and Badgers. All the

girls played well and were dedicated to

playing their best for their houses. The

games were all played in good spirit while

rival houses loudly cheered their oppo-nents.

The results were as follows;

1st/2nd form winner—Toads

3rd/4th form winners—Moles

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Sports clubs (January—April)

NOTICES We now have a new PE

teacher at St John’s.

Miss Cullen has joined

the PE team. Which

means that there are

four PE teachers

teaching across St

John’s Preparatory and

Senior School.

PE lessons and games

afternoon options next

term (Christmas till

Easter) are as follows;

1st form

PE—Swimming Games— Horse riding, Shokk

youth gym, cricket, rugby and

trampolining.

2nd form

PE—Fitness/athletics Games— Horse riding, Shokk

youth gym, cricket, rugby and

trampolining.

3rd form

PE—Fitness/athletics Games— Horse riding, Shokk

youth gym, badminton, table

tennis and trampolining.

4th Form

Games— Horse riding, Shokk

youth gym, badminton, table

tennis and trampolining.

5th/6th Form

Games— Horse riding,

Beaumonts gym, astro football

and a variety of sports hall

activities.

Swimming Every year the first form pupils have

swimming lessons as part of their Physical Educa-

tion curriculum. Currently all first formers go to

Furzefield Swimming pool on Monday mornings,

where swimming takes place from September

until Easter. The sessions are led by specialist

swimming instructors at the centre and pupils are

working on improving their stroke techniques,

their confidence in swimming, swimming deep to

retrieve submerged items and jumps into water. Pupils then work towards participating

in the competitive school swimming gala which is

always held towards the end of their unit of

swimming and involves over eighty races.

Sports Performers of the Month

Rochea Dyer Katie Lodge Yiannis Katsaros

October November December

The First Form compulsory swimming

gala will be held at Furzfield swimming

pool on Saturday 19th March, 2011.

DAY

TIME

LOCATION

SPORT

YEAR

TEACHER

Mon 1.00PM Sports hall Netball 4/5/6 Miss Foley

3.30PM Sports hall Boys cricket 1/2 Mr Russell

Tues 1.00PM Sports hall Boys

basketball 1/2/3 Mr. Hodgson

Mr. Russell

1.00PM Hard court/

front field Girls hockey 1/2 Miss Foley

3.30PM Field Boys football 5/6 Mr. Hodgson Mr. Russell

3.30PM Sports hall Netball 1

Miss Foley

Wed 1.00PM Sports hall Boys/girls B a d m i n t o n /

table tennis

1/2/3 Mr. Hodgson Mr. Russell Miss Foley

3.30PM Field Boys football 1/2/3/4 Mr. Hodgson Mr. Russell

3.30PM Sports hall Netball 2/3 Miss Foley

Thurs 1.00PM Sports hall Netball 1/2 Miss Foley

3.30PM Sports hall Fencing 1/2/3/4/5/6 Gabor Hadalin

Fri 1.00PM Sports hall Gymnastics 1/2 Miss Cullen

Sports fixtures will take priority over sports clubs.

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