St John’s students show their star quality

Students at St John’s College Southsea illustrated their star quality with a brilliant House Dance Competition and also with over 100 being honoured in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards.

St John’s College House Dance Competition

Our annual house dance competition was finally able to return to the school calendar this year and what a return.

Leo
Leo kicked off the show with ‘Roar’ choreographed by Spike and performed by the Middle School along with help from Seniors and Sixth Form.  They rounded off the performance with the help of Mr Parkinson (Head of Leo) and the Leo tutor team with their tribute to ABBA and Dancing Queen.

Edwin
Edwin kicked off their energetic performance with the Middle School dancing to New Memories, Dubvision & Afrojack. Senior and 6th Form continued the energy with Faith by George Michael and two brave middle school students danced a duet to Dancing in the Dark.  Edwin’s performance came to an end with all pupils donning masks and dancing rhythmically to Circle of Life, whilst the audience was treated to a daring gymnastic tumbling routine.

Damian
Damian kicked off their three dances with Middle School performing a brilliant choreography of  ‘Don’t stop believing’ moving onto a fantastic performance of ‘Time Warp’ by Izzy and Reuben (Sixth Formers), finishing with the whole of Damian house dancing to ‘Boogie Wonderland’. A great choice of songs to get the feet tapping.

Alan
Alan house ended the competition with four dances. The first was a fantastic performance of ‘Ghost Busters’ from 6th form, followed by Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ moving swiftly onto Middle School performance of 'High Hopes' and rounded off with Adam and Max performing 'time of my life' from Dirty Dancing.

Alan House was awarded the overall winners after much deliberations by the lovely Judges (not a Craig comment from any of them!) and Adam & Max were the well deserved ‘Outstanding Performance’ winners from Damian.

If this is the standard of house competitions, we are looking forward to this year’s programme.

Duke of Edinburgh Award Celebrations

Duke of Edinburgh participants at SJC show exemplary perseverance and resilience over the course of a challenging year. Despite the challenges faced, over 90 students across four year groups completed either their bronze or silver expeditions, with 25 Bronze awards, 16 Silver awards and 3 Gold award winners.

We were delighted to be able to finally celebrate the achievements of our Bronze & Silver Award winners on the 14th October with family and friends. Our three Gold award winners will be attending one of the Royal Palaces to pick up their awards in the near future.

The celebrations were joined by Nick Glover from the Duke of Edinburgh Awards via Teams, with speeches from Ellie Maunder and Reuben Smallwood (Bronze and Silver Award winners). The presentations were made by Mrs Maguire who was delighted to be able to celebrate with the SJC community once again.

Well done to all.

 Gold Duke of Edinburgh Success

Sixth Form pupils, Toby, Reuben, Izzy and Joseph completed and passed their Gold Duke of Edinburgh expedition at the weekend having walked 100 miles from Winchester to Eastbourne in challenging conditions with strong winds and driving rain for much of the week. They are a credit to the school and we are so proud of their achievement. Now onto the presentation at a royal palace!