St John's College

A huge congratulation to our fantastic Year 11 who picked up their results this morning. There was again an increase to 90% in pupils who achieved 5 passes including Maths & English and a 98% pass rate in Maths. The pass rate in Art, Drama, French, Music, PE and RS was again 100%.
Among those picking up their results and a huge ‘Well Done’ to Edward Holmes who is heading off to PGS to do his A Levels as well as Maya Flint, Kate Nitsch and Max Davidson who are all off to Peter Symonds.
All the staff at SJC wish the Year 11 Cohort of 2022 all the best in their next steps, you have already created great foundations.

Huge congratulations to our 2022 A Level cohort on another year of fantastic results. 100% pass rate and again over 90% with their preferred choice of university.
The first of our A level stars is Joe Deans who achieved A*, A*, A, A. Joe is heading to Southampton to study Aeronautic and Astronautic Engineering.
Bella Crashaw came in to collect her results with her very proud Mum. Bella achieved A*, A, B and is off to University of Nottingham to study Industrial Economics.
Izzy Krys is delighted with her A, A, B and is taking a well deserved Gap Year before heading off to Nottingham to study Biology.
Romy Molho is taking her next steps at the University of Nottingham where she will be studying Politics & International Relations after gaining A, A, A, C.
Finally, Solly Welch is starting his IBM Computing Apprenticeship.
Well done to everyone in what has turned out to be a very challenging year in many ways. All the staff at SJC wish you all the best in your next steps, whatever they may be.

Continuing our celebration of the SJC Alumni, Matthew Chapman has just completed Economics BSc at Surrey University and started a job in energy related economics. Matthew was a pupil at SJC from Nursery through to the end of Sixth Form. He is pictured with sister, Eleanor, who was also a pupil at SJC and gained a Geography BA at Swansea University followed by a PGCE at Portsmouth Uni. She is now teaching at a school in Chiswick. Congratulations to them both!

Celebrating the SJC Alumni continues with James White who joined SJC in September 2013 and graduated in July 2018. He has completed 3 years MEng Chemical with Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College in London and is now about to start a 12 month industrial placement with NSG Environmental Ltd for AWE before his final year. James also looks after Imperial's 100 year old motorised mascots in his spare time.

A very big thank you to the Friends of SJC and Daniel for the lovely coffee for staff on our last school day. What a lovely way to start what is going to be a emotional one.

This year's prom was amazing, and everyone said that it was the perfect way to finish our time at St John's. We had a barbecue and then were surprised with some ice creams, along with a few of us having caricatures drawn of us, each one as flattering as the next! The pavilion was decorated as a casino, with music throughout. Thank you very much to everyone who made it possible, especially Mrs Coombs.

This week the year 5 and 6 students made poo during their science lesson as part of the unit on the digestive system.

Well done to the Year 9 students who took part in their assessed Bronze DofE expedition at the weekend. They navigated well in very warm and sunny conditions.

Celebrating our former pupils success, Matthew Jeffrey finally graduated from Exeter University last Friday. Matthew left SJC in 2016 and took up his place as a choral scholar at Exeter Cathedral, He then began studying for a Masters in Physics which he completed in 2021 with First Class Honours. Because of the Covid restrictions he has only just been able to graduate properly! Matthew continues to live in Exeter and is holding the position of Tenor Lay Clerk with the Exeter Cathedral Choir. Well done Matthew, it was worth the wait!

For assembly this afternoon we welcomed Kevin from Raring to Row, who is the leader of a team of 3 people that are going to be rowing 3000 miles across the Atlantic starting in December. He was invited in to talk about the challenge and show the students the rowing boat that the team are going to be living on for the planned 45 days the challenge will take. The team are doing the challenge to raise money for Action Medical Research for Children and you can find out more information about the Raring to Row team and challenge here: https://www.raringtorow.com/.

If parents are interested in speaking with Kevin or looking at the boat, then they will be at Portsmouth City Museum on Saturday 9th July in the afternoon.

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