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Here are just a few of the highlights from another very busy term at St. John's. As usual they tend to focus on the extra-curricular side of life here. So, just in passing, it should be mentioned that our Sixth Formers got themselves a good set of passes into their next schools and also gained five scholarships.

A lot earlier than usual, on Sunday 23rd May, the St. John's Association held yet another successful Family Fun Day. Although there was a risk of poorer weather this early in the (largely mythical) English summer, we felt we had to hold it before half term as the Summer Ball would be dominating the short second half of term. In the background is the by now largely complete new building.

Claude "Rhino" Norman, our founding headmaster, looks on in what can only be disbelief as a great net of helium filled balloons is assembled in the entrance hall of the main building. Four hundred of these were sold at a pound a piece on the basis that there would be a prize for whoever's balloon got the furtherest.

This great sausage of balloons was then taken out through the headmaster's study and down onto the 1st XI outfield where, as you can see here, they were released in a grand launch. The little pink cards you can see tied to them ask the finder to return details of where the balloon landed. Returns were tracked on a map in the hall foyer and quite a few were returned from northern Holland and Germany. The furtherest travelled got as far as Hälle in Germany.

Late in June we had Jazz in June at St. John's with plenty of big choral numbers.

But there were also the quieter moments as seen here with Chi-ho Cho of 3R on his flute.

And this trio of, from left to right, Alistair Mackay, Nathan Perry and Charlie Buhagiar are singing "Cairo Carl the Crocodile".

By now we were getting near the end of term and so, of course, rather than easing up, events seemed to come thicker and faster than ever. Here's the headmaster lending a hand with the tables as we set up the marquee for the St. John's Association Summer Ball. It was an immense success with a lot of people having a lot of fun and a lot of money raised to help with "extras" on the fitting out of the new building.

This is the same marquee but the day after the ball and it's now being used for a farewell luncheon for Graham Willcox who has been Assistant Headmaster at St. John's since anybody can remember and who is pictured here on the right talking to Peter Norman who followed his father as headmaster of the school.

And so to Sports Day and another new event. In this event, runners compete against each other to run from station to station picking up cones within a given timespan. Sounds complicated; was complicated but exciting to watch.
The inter-house tug-of-war has now well and truly established itself on the Sports Day programme. Here is Churchill winning the final of the senior event - and very happy they look too.

The final word should belong, of course, to the leavers of Summer 1999; and here it is, laid out in redundant supermarket brochures on the outfield of the 1st XI square. Thanks Chaps!

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