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Training, Fixtures & Sports News

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Recent Special Events

•St John's College Sports Assembly

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•Sports Day 2008

ST JOHN'S COLLEGE SPORTING ETHOS

St John's College, Cardiff aims to raise the standards of achievement in physical education and sport for all our students across the ability range leading to whole school improvement.

We believe this can be achieved through clear targets and standards:

• high quality teaching

• high expectations of achievement levels and behaviour

• sound curriculum organisation and planning

• well-defined system of assessment, recording and reporting which is shared with the students

• an extensive extra-curricular programme giving equality of opportunity.

We support the Government’s aspiration for all young people to have two hours high quality P.E. per week within and outside the curriculum. We believe that every pupil at St John's College, Cardiff has an entitlement to a comprehensive grounding in sport. We aim to give pupils the access and opportunity to achieve this. Every student has the prospect to integrate with other students of varying levels of ability and aptitude. Within every sporting activity we endeavour to foster an appreciation of all abilities, achievements, individual contributions and personal experiences that each of the students brings to the learning process in Physical Education.

CLUBS AND TEAMS

We offer a broad range of sporting activities at St John’s College, Cardiff, emphasising both team and individual sporting prowess, including:

• hockey                                                         • a variety of racquet sports (including tennis)
• netball                                                          • gymnastics
• basketball                                                    • athletics
• rugby                                                            • cross-country running
• football                                                        • dance
• cricket                                                          • golf
• swimming

Each year group has its own teams and every pupil is encouraged to participate in teams and squad training sessions. We compete in both local state school leagues in the mainstream sports as well as playing against other independent schools from all over Wales and England.

Extra-curricular clubs and practices begin at 3.45 and end at 5pm; match times vary. Team sheets are given out prior to matches with exact times for parents to organise pick up times.

Every week a timetable of extra curricular events is displayed (see above) and on the P.E. Notice Board giving notice to pupils and parents of the sporting activities planned for the week ahead.

At St John's College, Cardiff, pupils are provided with the highest standard of sporting equipment and facilities and are expected to play to the best of their abilities. The school fosters an ethos of sportsmanship both within sports practices and amongst teams and individuals representing the school in competitive external fixtures.

FACILITIES

St John's College, Cardiff boasts a newly built multi-purpose sports hall comprising a netball court, four badminton / short tennis courts, a full size basketball court with retractable goals, two junior basketball courts, 2 trampolines with summersault rig and a five-a-side football court; we also have an outdoor netball court.

Our extensive sports grounds in nearby Began Road include a full size football, rugby, and cricket pitches with an artificial all-weather wicket. We also have plans to incorporate athletics equipment and a pavillion into the grounds in the near future.

ANNUAL EVENTS

Every year we have both a junior and senior sports day held at the National Indoor Arena at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC). All pupils compete for points for their House (be it Bute, St David's, Mostyn or De la Salle) in their preferred events and at levels appropriate to the abilities of each pupil.

Swimming is an essential part of the junior curriculum, and at the end of the swimming term in February we hold a swimming gala at Pentwyn Leisure Centre where pupils compete for house points.

Both of these events are well supported by pupils and parents and are great fun for those involved.

GIRLS' FIRST GRANT

St John’s College, Cardiff has been awarded the Girls' First Grant of £1000 for the second year running. Last year the school used the grant to further invest in dance and girls' football. The increased emphasis on dance enabled the girls to perform to a very high standard in the school production ‘Bugsy’ and most recently in the 'Evening of Victorian Entertainment'. We have also established two highly successful football teams (u12 & u14), with the under-12 team reaching the Welsh Schools' Final. Both teams were frequent participants in coaching and matches. Whilst the high standards of football and dance coaching achieved this year will continue in subsequent years, this year's grant has also assisted the establishment of the St John’s College Girls' Golf Team. There has certainly been considerable interest from all the girls at St John’s College.