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Following the success of last year’s Scheherazade, the Fourth Form put on a stellar performance with their Three Folk Tales which contained moments of terror and gore, paired with hilarity, as well as spectacular dances in between the individual plays. One of the performers described the experience, “It was really fun pretending to be a grumpy cowboy because I could make silly cowboy accents and exciting being in such a great production.”
The U13 1st VII boys’ hockey team were crowned County champions on 29 January 2020 after taking part in the Cambridgeshire County Hockey Tournament at Wilberforce road. The team have now qualified for the Regional round, due to take place on 12 March.
T1s visited Europe’s first ‘Eco-Mosque’, based in Mill Road in Cambridge, as part of their exploration about special places and the idea of a sacred space as part of their Religious Studies curriculum. The mosque can hold 1,000 worshippers and has a wealth of sustainable features including air-source heat pumps, rainwater harvesting and solar panels.
Music that echoed, imitated and celebrated birdsong was the inspiration for the Sinfonia of Cambridge’s winter concert on 26 January 2020 at West Road Concert Hall. The young violinist Emma Lisney played the solo part in Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and Song of the Birds, a Catalan folk song arranged by the orchestra’s musical director, Howard Williams, for which the St John’s Senior House Chamber Choir and the Form 3 and 4 Choir joined the soloist and orchestra.
The Sixth Form were eager to get their hands dirty and wade into the river, despite the chilly weather, when they visited Epping Forest Field Centre, a Special Area of Conservation for their Geography Field trip.
The Fourth Form had a wonderful opportunity to enhance their understanding of Buddhism with a trip to the Cambridge Buddhist Centre on the first day of the Lent Term.
The St John’s Charities and Community Links Committee hosted its 2019 Christmas party for elderly people living in the Cambridge area to bring on the festive cheer.
Our festive ‘Services in Preparation for Christmas’, held over two days in the magnificent Chapel of St John’s College, once again heralded the start of the season with a range of carols, poems and readings all presented by the children. The carols and readings were interspersed with 5 congregational hymns. The Services provided a sense of calm from the busy nature of this time of the year and created up a contemplative mood to help prepare for Christmas.
Parents, friends and Byron House children were treated to a charming Nativity performance from the two Kindergarten classes with this year’s production, Whoops-a-Daisy Angel. While the angels in Heaven are busy going about their special duties efficiently and smoothly, Whoopsie, a slightly accident-prone angel who is never trusted with the important jobs, finds himself counting snowflakes again. This year, however, things are different: God Himself charges Whoopsie with the task of telling the world about the imminent birth of Jesus, the Saviour of the World. In spite of a few mishaps
Parents and pupils alike were enchanted by T1’s rendition of their drama production, Christmas with the Aliens. This humorous modern nativity by Nikki Lewis retells the traditional Christmas story to some alien visitors who become stranded on earth and meet a group of schoolchildren rehearsing their Christmas play.