News : St Johns College

Children in the Infant and Junior departments of St John’s College dressed in spotty socks and ties and brought their teddy bears to school to support Children In Need. Paying £1 per item and the same for their very own Pudseys to attend lessons and assembly, the school raised over £150. St John’s pupils have already raised over £2,000 for worthy causes since the start of the new school year in September, including...

St John’s College in Southsea enjoyed another fun-filled Friday morning, this time celebrating Diwali, the Hindu ‘festival of light’.
Nursery and Pre-Prep children spent the morning tasting Indian foods, making rangoli patterns from beans and pulses and having their hands decorated with traditional mendhi patterns. They also made diva lamp mobiles.

The children were very excited by the ‘exploring light’...

St John’s College in Southsea had a Fruity Friday on 15th October.
All the Pre-Prep children, aged 3-7, thoroughly enjoyed a fun filled morning of fruity activities, including cutting fruit and making multi-coloured fruit kebabs, apple printing, making a fruit rainbow and mixing fruits to make delicious smoothies. They looked at lots of different exotic fruits, read fruity stories and talked about healthy...

Going from strength to strength the Chapel Choir from St John’s College has already stormed the UK and is now preparing to take on Europe!
A successful year has seen performances in numerous cathedrals around the country, including Winchester, Chichester, Rochester, Canterbury, Liverpool, Salisbury, Chester, Westminster Abbey and both cathedrals in Portsmouth. The Choir, made up of 24 boys aged nine to 14, were...

Retiring Headmaster Nigel Thorne looks back at how a school was transformed into a vibrant learning community
Nigel Thorne is proud of the transformation that St John’s College in Southsea has undergone since he took over the Headship in 2001. Reflecting on those achievements as he retires this year, Nigel Thorne suggests that the project which started out as a plan to improve the school in all aspects has...

Year Six Pupils at St John’s College embrace Enterprise Week with an Apprentice Style Challenge
Year Six pupils were challenged to make a new drink, market it, prepare an advertisement for television and deliver a professional pitch in an Apprentice-style challenge. The pupils had just a week to work in small teams, and the budding entrepreneurs attacked the task with great enthusiasm.
A first round of pitches...

Pupils at the junior school celebrate World Book Day by raising funds for a library in Kenya
Pupils at St John’s College junior school in Southsea celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite literary characters. They also honoured the spirit of the day by raising vital funds to support a library project in Kenya.

Kekopev School in Kenya is situated in a deprived area and the school library...