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St John's vs. Croydon High / Home Game - 28.02.2023
On Tuesday 28th February, St. John's faced Croydon Junior in a home match. With a final score of 11 - 6, our arch rivals managed to beat us. In the first half, we scored 2 goals with some fabulous interceptions from both sides. Our opponents also scored some amazing shots. We resumed play with a passionate desire to win, and thanks to our wonderful center Olivia, (player of the match) our attack came back much better! JoJo scored some brilliant long distance shots and before long we were neck in neck.
Unfortunately, our opponents swept past us. Although we are naturally disappointed with the end result of our final league game, we are feeling more unified as a team than ever before and we can't wait to ace our future friendlies. Go St. John's!!!
Written by Match Team Captain - Emily
Player of the match - Olivia
Player of the friendly match - Shalika
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St John's vs. Christchurch Primary / Away Game - 22.02.2023
On Wednesday 22nd February, St. John's netball team had another away game and faced Christchurch school. With a final score of 6-5, we managed to pull through for an amazing result!!
It was a very close game. In the first, we scored 2 goals. Our opposition scored 3 amazing goals too! When we resumed the game, there was further excitement. We scored another 4 goals, while our opposition scored 2.
Phenomenal play team!!!
Written by Match Team Captain - Emily
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St John's vs. Elmwood Primary / Away Game - 21.02.2023
* St Johns WIN 11-2 *
On Tuesday 21st February the St. John's netball team played an away game and faced Elmwood Primary School. With a final score of 11-2, we managed to win the game.
In the first half, we scored 4 goals. Our opposition scored a fantastic goal too! When we resumed the match for the second half, we scored a further 7 goals, along with our opposition scoring another great goal! Throughout the match, we were marked very closely and several great interceptions were made. Overall, it was a very good match.
Great play team!
Written by Match Team Captain - Emily
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St John's at Bee Netball Stingers Qualifiers - 09.02.2023
On Thursday 9th February 2023, the St. John's netball team faced off against several schools at Shirley High in the Bee Stingers Tournament semi-finals in hope of reaching the finals, which would take place at Coloma.
We played several matches, losing our first game but winning the next three. Our final match, against Forestdale Academy, was a tight game and we drew 1-1. We had to have a play-off but, unfortunately, they scored first.
Great play team!!
Written by Match Team Captain - Emily
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St John's vs. Regina Coeli / Away Game - 24.01.2023
On Tuesday 24th January, we visited Regina Coeli to play an away game. The game started brilliantly when we scored seven goals thanks to our players. Our opposition didn't manage to score any goals in the first half, despite several good interceptions. In he second half, we scored a further eight goals.
The final score was 15-1 to us. Great play team!
Written by Match Team Captain - Emily
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St John's vs. Elmwood Primary / Home Game - 18.01.2023
Awaiting match report from team captain
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St John's vs. Margaret Roper / Away Game - 17.01.2023
Awaiting match report from team captain
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St John's vs. Christchurch / Home Game - 30.11.2022
* St Johns WIN 11-3 *
On Wednesday 30th November 2022, St. John's played a netball match against Christchurch. With a final score of 11-3, St. John's managed to win!
In the first half, the home team managed to get 4 goals, with our opposition making several incredible interceptions. However, our team managed to win the ball back. After a short 2 minute half term break, we resumed the fast paced game, scoring a further 7 goals! Our opposition made 3 good shots too.
What a good game!
Written by Match Team Captain - Emily
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St John's vs. Regina Coeli / Home Game - 10.11.2022
* St Johns WIN 21-0 *
On Thursday 10th November 2022, our netball team played a home game against Regina Coeli Catholic School with a final score of 21 - 0 to St. John's.
We had a fast start to the match leading the game within minutes with a score of 3 - 0. The first half continued with a further 5 goals being made by us. Despite our opposition making several fantastic interceptions, our team pulled through with an amazing result.
The second half began with enthusiasm by both sides. The teams played extremely well, however, St. John's managed to score a further 13 points.
Well done everyone!!!
Written by Match Team Captain - Emily
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St John's vs. Ecclesbourne Primary / Home Game - 22.06.2022
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St John's vs. Orchard Way / Away Game - 26.05.2022
* St Johns WIN 7-0 *
"On Thursday 26th May, the Year 6 girls and one Year 5 visited Orchard Way for a netball match. Our netball players were Assana, Jemima, Jazlyn, Gloria, Erin, Elsie, Iris and Olivia, with Sienna as captain. St. John's team won 7-0. We now end the half term on a great note and we hope that out winning streak continues for next term. This is just the beginning of the netball season for us!"
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St John's vs. Orchard Way / Home Game - 25.01.2022
St. John's are extremely proud to announce that the Year 5 & 6 football team have won the Croydon Primary School football league. This becomes our second league title in a row!
Our season started with an unfortunate loss to Oasis Shirley Park. Being a new team who had not played together showed and handed St. John's a tough start to the season. However, within a week St. John's faced Trinity, a school we had never beaten before and the players put together a fantastic team performance to became the first ever St. John's team to beat Trinity, 3-2. This gave the team momentum and belief to go on and create a 4 game unbeaten streak and found us top of the league before the Christmas break.
The team went on to win 6, draw 2, and lose 2. The squad have showed passion, desire and above all, the ambition to learn and improve as a team. We managed to record our biggest win of the season with a 5-0 victory over Ark Oval and managed to get back to back wins against Trinity. Overall it was an enjoyable season for all involved and we look to continue our success when competing in the league winners cup over the next month.
A massive well done and congratulations to; Ralphy, Ezra, Isaac, Kavi, Blake, Max, Lemuel, Perez, Ezekiel and Mikolaj!
8th March 2023 - AWAY MATCH
St. John's vs Ark Oval
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2nd March 2023 - AWAY MATCH
St. John's vs Applegarth Academy
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22nd February 2023 - AWAY MATCH
St. John's vs Trinity
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10th February 2023 - AWAY MATCH
St. John's vs Oasis Ryelands
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25th January 2023 - AWAY MATCH
St. John's vs Ark Oval
5- 0
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12th January 2023 - AWAY MATCH
St. John's vs Oasis Shirley Academy
2 - 1
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7th December 2022 - AWAY MATCH
St. John's vs Applegarth Academy
1 - 0
Awaiting match report from team captain
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Thursday 1st December 2022 - AWAY MATCH
St. John's vs Oasis Academy Ryelands
3 - 3
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Wednesday 16th November 2022 - AWAY MATCH
St. John's vs Trinity
3 – 2! St. John's first victory of the season with goals scored by Perez and Max. Even though it was a rainy start, we persevered. Just as the match was about to start the rain ceased.
Although Trinity scored an early goal which put them in front, just 5 minutes into the second half Max scored the first of his two goals which took the game to 1-1. Not too long after that, I (Perez) scored a goal from a corner and I felt so happy but shocked not thinking it would go in due to me not being a left footer or good at scoring from that angle.
Shortly after Trinity scored a goal to equalise, which was sadly conceded by St. John's. By this point I was tired, but I did not want to come off. Eventually after a lot of arduous work, Kavi gave a great assist (like what we learnt in training), and Max scored in the last 5 minutes to put St. John's ahead and it did the job!
After the final whistle we felt a sigh of relief mixed with excitement, and due to our happiness forgot to shake hands with the opposition, but did after a prompting from Coach Alex. After the match we raced to our parents as they cheered us on after our first win of the season, which was also the first St. John's victory over Trinity in a long while. Congratulations to our school team who ALL contributed to a great win and Max was awarded ‘Man of the Match’!
Congratulations to our Year 3 boys team for coming 1st and Year 4 girls team for coming 3rd in the annual Croydon Cross Country event at Lloyd Park on 4th October.
We are very proud with the overall enthusiasm and efforts each child contributed towards this sporting event. Well done to all our runners!
Year 1: Zara, Shenay, Amelia, Yara, Bailey, Jacob and Malachi.
Year 2: Sion, Imaan, Lara, Lily, Keziah, Chloe, Jamie, Matvii, Elliot and Dogan.
Year 3: Rosa, Hayley, Èva, Amber, Jacob, Brandon, Riccardo, Robbie, Jacob, Jude, Oscar.
Year 4: Abigail, Anna, Gabrielle, Sofia, Elizabeth, Rhema, Ethan, Carter, Joshua, Cooper, Zane, Matthias, Max, Daniel.
Year 5: Alice, Maya, Bernice, Princess, Kishen, Ethan.
Year 6: Shalika, Adonai, Naomi, Max, Mikolaj, Lemuel, Ezra, Zain, Kavi.
We will keep you posted on our Swimming sporting success!
