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St John’s College will continue its reputation for musical excellence by featuring male and female voices – both adults and children – in its world-renowned choir for the first time. Founded in the 1670s, The Choir of St John’s has a rich, warm and distinctive sound. Known internationally for its broadcasts, concert tours and more than 100 recordings, the choir is made up of around 20 choristers, who join from the age of eight, and around 16 adult choral scholars who are largely students at St John's College, one of the 31 constituent Colleges of the University of Cambridge.
Children in Forms 5 and 6 enjoyed a wonderful afternoon ‘en français’ as part of their French learning. The Flying Theatre Company visited St John’s to put on an extraordinary hour-long show for the pupils, conducted in French at a suitable level for Key Stage 3 learners. The Flying Theatre Company has been touring and performing Modern Foreign Languages productions throughout the UK for 20 years. Curriculum French based subjects are cleverly woven into the storyline, which follows the day preparing for the village fete - 'Vive la France'.
Sixth Form spent the afternoon at the Imperial War Museum Duxford as part of their Art and English studies on World War One and Two. Duxford is set within the spacious grounds of the famous former First and Second World War airfield and the trip allowed the children the time to wander through the hangars, which contain many of the world’s most iconic aircraft.
The joyful sounds of the Harvest hymn, 'Combine Harvester', filled the hall as the children celebrated this year’s charitable giving at St John’s in our Byron House special service. The food donations came flooding in and after the services the goods were delivered to the Cambridge Food Bank, a local charity, who will redistribute to various voluntary and charitable groups throughout East Anglia. 10,185 three-day emergency food supplies were given to people in crisis by the charity in 2020. The monetary gifts will be sent to a charity chosen by the children in the Charity
The Sixth Form performed C.S. Lewis’ famous children’s classic tale, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (six months after originally planned due to Covid restrictions) with two nights of mesmerising performances in front of a captivated audience. In this spellbound landscape, filled with creatures of myth and fable, the evacuees face temptation and fear, but learn deep lessons of courage, unselfishness and wisdom that help them grow in spirit and prepare them for life in our world. The music score was composed specifically by our Senior House music teacher to aide the
Following the Parents’ Association’s successful Virtual Cake Bake competition last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's PA’s Macmillan Coffee Morning took place in Whitfield House, the school’s Boarding House, on 24 September and £1,150 was raised for the charity through generous donations and a raffle.
The 2021 Girls’ Under 11 A hockey season got off to a flying start on 10 September with a masterclass at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, led by Haileybury School’s Director of Hockey and former USA International, Mr Rob Schilling. The girls practised techniques and drills and soaked up the atmosphere of the prestigious surroundings of the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in the Olympic Park, which was host to the 2018 Women’s Hockey World Cup. Mr Schilling, ably assisted by six of Haileybury’s 1st XI players, helped the girls work
During remote learning in the Lent term, children across both sites enjoyed an incredible virtual Book Week with a range of authors and illustrators giving online workshops and talks. Once the children had all returned to school, St John's librarians, Mrs Kelly Johnson (Senior House) and Mrs Julia Clarke (Byron House) planned additional events which took place in May including: Dress as a Book Character Day, Book Fairs run by Heffers Children's Bookshop and an in-person event at Byron House with the children's author and illustrator Gillian McClure, as well as
Six SJCS sailors took part in the Schools Regatta in the Under 11 and Under 13 category in Weymouth on 26 May. The school has taken part in this event for the past five years and, as the IAPS sailing competition was cancelled, Millfield Prep School in conjunction with the Andrew Simpson Sailing Centre organised the regatta for budding Under 11s and 13s. In total, 21 boats competed over four races in light winds but beautiful sunshine in Portland Harbour, including Millfield, Clifton College and Durlston Court Prep School. The SJCS
Form 6 took part in a cross-curricular maths and sports project where they participated in various different fitness exercises and used the statistics gathered to analyse the results. They found out that fitness can be broken down into different components. Health-related fitness includes strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility and body composition. Skill-related components include agility, coordination, reaction time, balance, power and speed. The children looked at predictions using hypotheses and focused on the