Summer Term Issue : 2

Sports Newsletter

St John’s Senior School

Tel: 020 83660035

St. John’s Senior School North Lodge The Ridgeway

Enfield Middlesex EN2 8BE

Senior Team in Final

On Thursday afternoons I have been

going climbing at Herts Young Mariners Base

for my games afternoon. I chose climbing as I

have done a little bit before and enjoyed it, so

when given the opportunity I wanted to do

some more. I also wanted to have extra

practice to improve.

I have learnt how to fit harnesses

and the rest of the group and I were climbing

fairly easy walls. We learnt how to get down

by using the harness knot, leaning back and

walking down.

There is also a wall with a chimney,

where you have to climb up in the chimney

and then climb out of it.

We are now climbing higher walls

and I am really looking forward to carrying on

with this during the forthcoming weeks.

Laura Bird

1 Blue

Climbing

Contents:

Pg 1

Senior netball

Climbing

Pg 2

PE fact file

Inter-house

competitions

Pg 3

Hockey

Cross Country

Sports fixtures/

Swimming gala

Pg 4

Trampolining

Sports clubs

PE notices

Fitness tests

Throughout the netball season the

senior team played numerous fixtures and all

team members displayed excellent practical skills.

Their effort, competitiveness and commitment

resulted in win after win; reaching the finals in

both the league and the end of season

tournament. Unfortunately they lost the

championship to Highlands School.

Nicole Couzens, captain of the senior

team showed exceptional talent and together the

girls have worked well as a team and the

individual members showed progression within

their position.

It is a shame to see the season over and

some of the girls moving on to higher education

in different areas. I hope all the girls continue to

improve and play netball with the same spirit they

did this year at St John’s.

Miss Foley

Senior team members:

Thi Chan Nicole Couzens

Gabrielle Tanner Ria Ravel

Samantha Somers Danielle Scott

Gabriella Fenwick Kim Chan

Bad weather conditions hampered the Inter-house competition which resulted in the

boys activities switching from football to basketball, whilst the girls continued with netball. Each

house competed in 6 minute matches. The matches were played in good spirit and were highly

competitive. 3 points were awarded to the winners, 2 points for a draw and 1 point to losing team.

Mr Russell

3rd & 4th Form Boys

3rd & 4th Form Girls 2nd Form Boys and Girls

Team Position

Toads 1st (9 pts)

Water Rats 2nd (5pts)

Moles 3rd (3pts)

Badgers 4th (2pts)

Team Position

Water Rats 1st (9 pts)

Toads 2nd (5pts)

Badgers 3rd (3pts)

Moles 4th (2pts)

Inter-house Competitions

Sports Newsletter

PE Fact File

Carbohydrates

The main purpose

of carbohydrates is

to give us energy

for our bodies to

move and take part

in sports.

Carbohydrate is

broken down into

glucose and carried

around the body in

the bloodstream.

This glucose is

transported in the

blood to the work-

ing muscles and

used to make the

muscles produce

movement.

Any carbohydrates

that are eaten and

not used are stored

in the muscle and

liver as glycogen.

Once the muscle

and liver stores of

glycogen are full,

excess carbohy-

drate is turned into

fat and stored in fat

cells.

There are two

main types of car-

bohydrates;

Sugars—sweets, jam, bis-

cuits, fizzy drinks (these

give a quick burst of ener-

gy)

Starches—bread, pasta,

rice, potatoes and cereal

(these give the body a slow

and prolonged supply of

energy)

Well done

to all pupils who

took part!

School Cross Country Friday 30th May was our

most recent school cross country

event. Pupils from the first to sixth

form ran the cross country course

and there was some fantastic person-

al achievements. Numerous school

records were broken which included

the following;

Boys

2nd form Andrew Connor 23.13

3rd form Tamilore Fayemi 22.10

Girls

3rd form Alexandra Behrouzi 28.27

4th form Dominique Tanner 26.02

5th Form Gabrielle Tanner 26.01

The school overall cross country

records are;

Boys—Daniel Rolle 19.26 (2005)

Girls—Stavroulla Panayiotou (2004)

Team Position

Moles 1st (9 pts)

Water Rats 2nd (5pts)

Badgers 3rd (3pts)

Toads 4th (2pts)

Every Friday during last term,

hockey took place at local astro turf pitch-

es. Despite bad weather conditions, the

5th and 6th form boys were still very keen

to play. Many of the boys were quite new

to hockey; they have been learning various

skills including, dribbling, passing, controlling

the ball, tackling and shooting.

After the warm up and skills prac-

tise each week, the boys have been playing competitive mini games, where they have

also been learning the rules of the game.

Hockey

Page 3

GIRLS’ TENNIS

1st Form St. John’s 5— 1 Latymer

NETBALL RESULTS

1st Form St. John’s 1—2 Chace

St. John’s 3—1 Chace End of season tournament —Reached

the finals

Mixed 2nd, 3rd & 4th Form St. John’s 9—15 Chace

Seniors (5th-6th Form) St. John’s 11—6 Kingsmead

St. John’s 22—10 Bishop Stopford

St. John’s 6—25 Highlands End of season tournament —Reached

the finals

GIRLS’ HOCKEY

1st Form Mixed mini matches with Bishop

Stopford School.

ROUNDERS

1st Form St. John’s 6.5—6.5 Latymer

St. John’s 6.5—6 Latymer

2nd Form

St. John’s 11—18.5 Chace

3rd Form St. John’s 21.5—19 Bishop Stopford

On 21st January 2010 six members of

St. John’s consisting of three third formers

(Tami Fayemi, Arinse Uade and Ben Turner)

and three second formers (Bedros Ioannou,

Nicki Dellinger and Andrew Connor) took part

in the Enfield Cross Country Challenge. The

students ran a damp challenging course on a

cold winter’s afternoon; the distance, a stagger-

ing 2850m. Tami Fayemi took 11th place out of

200 participants. Arinse Uade took 31st place,

and Ben Turner 75th place. Our second for-

mers saw Bedros Ioannou take 64th place and

Nicki Dellinger in 77th place. Andrew Connor

followed immediately behind Nicki in 78th

place. Well done to everyone who participat-

ed.

Mr. Hodgson

Cross Country Team

Also last term there was

lunchtime girls’ hockey training. This in-

cluded some first form girls who are also

beginners to hockey.

The girls were invited to Bishop

Stopford School to take part in an indoor

hockey coaching session and to play some

competitive games, in mixed teams with

pupils from Bishop Stopford School. The

girls played really well and are looking forward to continuing training next season

along with playing a few competitive

matches against other schools.

Miss Foley

SWIMMING GALA RESULTS (First form)

Boys breaststroke Boys backstroke

Gold Harri Prasad Gold Samuel Leigh & Jake Ward

Silver Joseph Theodorou Bronze Andreas Melekis

Bronze Matthew Charalambous

Girls breaststroke Girls backstroke

Gold Bethany Jamieson Gold Lucy Harbron

Silver Claudia Camera Silver Emma Gold

Bronze Ulrikka Donos Bronze Dawn Fasanya

Boys frontcrawl House relay

Gold Jake Ward 1st Water rats

Silver Christian Cannavo 2nd Toads

Bronze Samuel Leigh 3rd Badgers

4th Moles

Girls frontcrawl

Gold Lucy Harbron Overall gala points

Silver Bethany Jamieson 1st Toads

Bronze Charlotte Clements 2nd Water rats

3rd Moles

Mixed butterfly 4th Badgers

Gold Lucy Harbron

Silver Bethany Jamieson

Bronze Aly Blakeway

Sports clubs

NOTICES Summer extra curricular

clubs have started,

including a new athletics

throwing club along with

cricket and rounders

clubs.

With the weather

improving, badminton

nets have been placed

on the front field and

will remain there for the

rest of the summer

term. Pupils are allowed

to play badminton during

their break times.

Sports day this year is

July 1st.

Trampolining

Fitness Tests 1st, 2nd and 3rd forms

have been participating

in health and fitness

activities in their

individual lessons since

Christmas. Amongst a

variety of fitness tests,

pupils have carried out

the multistage fitness

test (bleep test). This

is a very common test

for aerobic fitness.

All pupils worked very

hard during the test,

but the PE staff would

like to say a special

well done to the

following pupils who

achieved a very good

level compared to the

national average

scores.

First form

Joseph O’Leary

Jake Ward

Adesuwa Akande

Second form

Bedros Ioannou

Isha Amin

Third form

Matthew Maloney

Uche Bartels-Williams

Katie Lodge

Christopher Carey

Various 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th form

pupils selected to participate in trampolining

during their games afternoon. Pupils have

been learning various trampolining skills and

progressions associated with these for the

basic moves, seat drops, front drops and back

drops. Pupils have also been practising linking

moves together to form routines.

During trampolining lessons pupils

have also learnt about the health and safety implications regarding the use of trampolines

and have started to take on the role of coach-

ing and peer assessing to further improve indi-

vidual techniques.

Miss Foley

DAY

TIME

LOCATION

SPORT

YEAR

TEACHER

Mon 1.00PM Hall/Court Netball 1/3 Miss Foley

3.30PM Hall Cricket F3 Mr. Russell

Tue 1.00PM Field Throwing Club 1/2 Mr. Hodgson/

Mr Russell

1.00PM Field Rounders 3/4 Miss Foley

3.30 PM Hall Cricket

1/2/3/4 Mr. Russell

Wed 1.00PM Field Throwing Club 3/4 Mr. Hodgson/

Mr. Russell

Thurs 1.00PM Field Rounders 1/2 Miss Foley

Sports Performers of the Month

Andrew Connor Nicole Couzens Niamh O’Leary

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