Mole Valley Awards

Sixth Form pupils Jake Luscombe and William Webb were both winners in the Mole Valley Youth Showcase awards. Jake received the Youth Art and Design Award and William was the Community Spirit Award winner.

Mark Mortimer, Deputy Headmaster, said: "We are very proud of both boys who are a credit to the School and worthy recipients of their awards. Jake is a talented deisgner and artist who has produced some exceptional work in his time at St John's. We are very keen for our pupils to leave here with a sense of their responsibility to the local community. William exemplifies this with his cheerful and selfless work helping others." 

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Pancake Races - a flipping draw

The traditional Pancake Races around the Quad took place a week early as Shrove Tuesday fell during half term this year.

The competition for the Frying Pan Trophy was fiercely fought with the entire School cheering on their own Houses.

Churchill, the defending champions, were keen to repeat last year's victory but at the end of the three races, Junior, Inter & Senior, they ended up as joint winners with East House.

School Chaplain and organiser of the races, Reverend Clive Case, said: "The races were great fun and congratulations to East and Churchill who proved to be the most nimble-footed and deft flippers on the day"

Prep Schools play Hockey and Elgar

Over 150 pupils from ten Prep Schools visited St John's to take part in two events - a Hockey Skills training morning and an Orchestral Play Day.

Brett Garrard, England's most capped international hockey player and St John’s hockey coach, created a challenging and enjoyable training session where the aspiring hockey stars not only benefited from some top class coaching but also saw some superb skills from Brett and other visiting international players who ran the coaching session.

Nick Platt, Director of Sport at St John's, said "We are delighted to have someone with Brett's experience guiding our own hockey players and pleased that we are able to let other schools benefit from his expertise - I know our visitors thoroughly enjoyed their time here and I hope they are able to impress on the hockey pitch with some of their newly acquired skills".

Over one hundred Prep School musicians from six schools joined forces at the annual Orchestral Play Day. With just an afternoon's rehearsal the orchestra performed a concert in the evening to their parents. This event is particularly impressive as the musicians were all aged between 8 and 12.

The concert was organised by Nicholas Smith, Director of Music at St John's School, who said

"As always, this popular event demonstrates the excellent quality of musicians that these schools are producing. They get an awful amount out of the day and hopefully it enthuses them to play in larger ensembles in the future".