SportSport has a major role to play in the life of every child at St John's. We have strong beliefs regarding the vital role that sport should play in every child's educational development. Our aim is firstly to encourage participation in a wide range of sports and activities, to develop individual skills and team play, we want to build an individual's confidence and to foster a healthy lifestyle. Our ethos is not a 'win at all costs' attitude but one which reflects true sportsmanship. Some of our pupils and teams have reached the highest levels of achievement in various sporting areas, for example, Victoria Morgan who runs for Wales and Lewis Jones, have both won major sporting scholarships to Millfield School. Several pupils represent the district in their chosen sports but the school regards that its greatest achievement is to encourage all pupils to participate in as many team and individual sports as possible, developing their skills, building their confidence and leading a fit and healthy lifestyle. We cover all the main team sports for girls and boys and encourage combined age groups enabling us to play schools of similar size and ethos as St John's. We attend 7-a-side Rugby Tournaments and 6-a-side Soccer Competitions at Wycliffe and other local events along with short tennis, tennis, District athletics and District cross country. On top of this we offer non-team sports such as badminton, swimming, trampolining and archery. Games afternoons for each term are as follows:- Boys Games
Autumn Rugby
Spring Football Summer Cricket Subsidiary games activities for boys Cross country 5 a side football Athletics 
Girls GamesAutumn & Spring NetballSummer Rounders Subsidiary games activities for girls Girls First programme run by Bridgend Sports Council, which offers a variety of activities. GeneralSmall class sizes allows the House system to operate more effectively with small numbers allowing a greater participation, in House table tennis, uni hockey, basketball, 5 a side football, short tennis and tennis. PE lessons allow the minor sports of aerobics, badminton, short tennis and uni-hockey to be taught with both boys and girls. Bridgend Recreation Centre is used for athletics, there is scope for those children who live locally to join a growing number of external clubs that hire the school in the evening - currently karate and football clubs use the premises. Results Page 2005/2006Show me St John's ResultsSporting Review - 2005 / 2006Girls' Sport
The traditional sporting fare of Netball, Rounders and Athletics for girls has been extended this year. The girls have been encouraged to play in mixed teams of Tag rugby, football and Cricket. In the Spring term, an all girl football team took part in a football festival at Pencoed College.They managed 1 win, 4 draws, and 2 defeats. Player of the tournament was Laura Clint with 3 goals. Throughout the Summer term the Girls have had Cricket Coaching from Mrs Teresa Stenner, the Ladies National Cricket coach. Laura Clint has since joined Gowerton Cricket club and played for West Wales.Natalie Dawson and Caroline Raymond were both asked to trials for Mid Glamorgan.
Boys and Girls Individual Success
One of the key aims of the sporting philosophy at St. John's is to encourage all pupils to develop their sporting prowess in their free time. Individuals from St.John's have been very successful in a wide variety of sports , over the past academic year. Huw Bentley, Yr 9
Bradley John, Yr 7
Jessica John, Yr8
Harriet Isaac, Yr 8
Richard Raymond, Yr11
Tom Bentley, Yr 10
James Greenway, Yr 11
Laura Clint, Yr6
Victoria Midgely, Yr 11
Daniel Shearer, Yr 6
Rhys Jones, Yr 10
X-Country Running and Athletics at St John's
Congratulations to those runners who took part in the local Saturday morning monthly X-Country Runs. St, John's finished 7th out of 18, mostly larger schools. Best Girl performer was Hannah Raymond (yr4) with a number of top 4 finishes, best boy runner was Sam Phillips in Yr 5.The school would like thank Mr Richard Goldsworthy of Mynydd Cynffig School for organising the races.
The fitness of all Athletes have improved across the course of the Season and this has culminated in success at the District Sports . Francesca Groom won the Shot Putt with a record throw of 7m( named Best Girl Performer) and at the Cardiff and District Independent schools Sports Day 8 Golds were achieved. Hannah Raymond 100m Yr 4, Sam Phillips Yr 5 100m, Hannah Raymond Yr 5 Long Jump,Callum Hawker Yr 6 Cricket Ball Throwing. Year 4 /5 Relay Hannah Raymond, Tom Griffiths,William Davies, Hugh Perkins. Under 11 FootballThe Under11s saved their best performance of the season for the football festival held at Pencoed college. They managed to remain undefeated throughout .Results were
0-0 v Bryn, 1-0 v Plasnewydd, 0-0 v Garth, 0-0 v Maes yr Haul , 3-0 v Llangynwdd. 2-0 v Y.G.Bro Ogwr, 1-0 v Y C. Sant
A special mention for Michael Raymond who did not concede a single goal throughout the whole tournament, Tom Brown who scored 4 Goals, and to Man of the tournament Callum Hawker who was as a rock in defence. This team finally realised that the essence of good team work involves playing for each other and communicating positively with each other.
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"My favourite day at St John's was when it was Sports Day and I won a race."
"I like St John's because it is easy to make a sports team because the classes are small and so no one is upset because they haven't made the team."
"My favourite day at St John's was when the Saxons won the Swimming Gala."
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