Welcome to St John’s College Prize GivingFriday 12 December 2014, 7.00pm

Before Prize Giving in the College Hall

Training Orchestra Royal Fireworks by George Frederick Handel

Brass Ensemble White Christmas by Irving Berlin, arranged by Keith Griffin.

Welcome

Cathedral Choir A Selection of Christmas Carols Concert Orchestra First Movement from Symphony Number Four “Italian Symphony” by Felix Mendelssohn

R16 and Lower Sixth Awards presented by Mr Michael Prior and Canon Peter Collins, and announced by R16 form teachers and Dr David Neville

Junior Girls Choir accompanied by Jacky Ng (Lower Sixth) All Bells in Paradise by John Rutter

Solo Piano: Menglin Li (R12) Impromptu in C Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin Flute Choir Carol of the Bells Traditional Ukranian Carol

Solo Piano: Jacky Ng (Lower Sixth) La Campanella (The Little Bell), the third of Franz Liszt's six Grandes études de Paganini

SJC pupils representing the school at Cardiff, county, regional and national level.

SJC Training Orchestra

Cathedral Carol Service, Sunday 21 December, 3pm

Our Concert Orchestra performing the first movement of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto Number Two at the Dora Stoutzker Concert Hall, September 2014

Upper 6th Awards presented by Mrs Jayne Smerald, and announced by Dr David Neville

Solo Piano: Ashleigh Patrick (Lower Sixth) Nocturne no. 2, Opus 9 by Frédéric Chopin

Special Awards Mrs Linda Brown Memorial Award

Worshipful Livery Company of Wales Incorporated by Royal Charter announced by Dr David Neville

Concert Orchestra Fourth Orchestral Suite Overture by J. S. Bach

Awards to returning undergraduates and post A-level university applicants, presented by The Most Reverend George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff, and announced by Dr David Neville

Concert Orchestra Spitfire Prelude by Sir William Walton

Annual sixth form and staff cricket, netball, and football matches

Our GCSE and Sixth Form Choral Scholars received standing ovations for their performances in Madrid, October half term 2014.

Lower Sixth students presented a new politics app at the Pier Head Building, and the winning team went on to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster in November 2014 to deliver a presentation on their new app, designed to increase engagement in politics.

Gilbert and Sullivan HMS Pinafore, July 2014

Lower Sixth’s Team Prism were awarded Best Branded Company (sponsored by Ikea), December 2014.

DNA Workshop for Sixth Formers at Techniquest, 2014

St John’s College Spring Concert

Tuesday 28 April 2015 St John’s College Cardiff, 7.00pm

featuring our Concert Orchestra, Cathedral Choir, ensembles and outstanding soloists, including

Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor Solo Piano: Ashleigh Patrick

Bach Brandenburg Concerto Number Five Solo Harpsichord: Jacky Ng

Concert Orchestra Conductor: Mrs Diana Neville.Leader: Karthik Kumar; Violin: Nadiyah Hancock, Menglin Li, Leon Shen, Jasmine Son; Nicky Ng, Mayling Cheng, Pooja Kondath; Alif Aziz, Edward Williams; Emma Discombe-Short, Lily Morris, Rachel Evans; Selina Aziz, Matthew Chung; Jacky Ng, Rebecca Daniels, Merna Shafik; Namitha Michael, Natasha Sturrock, Hannah Son; Miss Sheehan, Miss Marshall, Miss French (SJC staff);Viola: Ashleigh Patrick, Dominie Patel; Sian Jenkins;‘Cello: Aditya Joshi, Stephanie Monti; Harini Somasekar; Robert Field; Robbie Griffith; Feyi Ajayi, Leila Al-Mitwally, Martha Sanders; Mr Patterson (SJC staff); Double bass: Jerry Zhuo (returning pupil, now at Bath University).Flute: Kezia Harris, Jennifer Hodge, Mehak Sakhuja; Bethan Thomas, Faye Courtney, Akua Obuobie; Daniela Mizzen, Aimee Howell; Mrs Lawrie (SJC staff);Oboe: Benedict Dimond;Clarinet: Richard Discombe-Short; David Griffith; George Quine, Olivia Evans; Matthew Barbato, Natasha Aziz; Miss Tanner (SJC staff);Bassoon: Ross Lisney-Wilson;Trumpet: Natalie Lloyd-Gale;Cornet: Joseph Morris; Dr Howells (SJC staff);Horn: Joseph Shaw, Miss Davies (visiting player);Trombone: Ben Andrews; Michael Lingham; Mrs Howman (SJC staff);Timpani: Andee Liu; Percussion: Abhinaba Guha; Harp: Eleanor Dimond.

Training Orchestra Directed by Mrs McMahon.

Violin: Alma Sanz, Pablo Luengo-Martinez-Sainz, Poppy Morris; Ansha Khurana, Christina Logan, Ella Evans, Srinetra Banerjee, Namitha Pasunuru; Saif Ali;‘Cello: Dylan Jones, Olivia Prosser;Flute: Kavin Durai, Sohini Guha, Dior Wood; Madeline Constable, Sophie Hale, Eleanor South; Thea Rundle, Purva Chandratreya;Clarinet: Catrin Dimond, Dominic Omidvar; Isabella Howell;Trumpet: Oliver Spear, Jack Aldridge, Jacob Vincent;Cornet: Tomos Harrison;Horn: Ben Davies;Percussion: Hiya Ray.

Brass Ensemble Directed by Mrs Howman.

Trumpet: Jack Aldridge, Jacob Vincent; Natalie Lloyd-Gale.Cornet: Tomos Harrison; Joseph Morris; Dr Howells (SJC staff).Horn: Joseph Shaw; Miss Davies (visiting player).Trombone: Oscar Harrison, Eleanor South, Ben Andrews; Michael Lingham.

Flute Choir Directed by Mrs McMahon.Madeline Constable, Eleanor South, Thea Rundle, Kezia Harris, Jennifer Hodge, Mehak Sakhuja; Bethan Thomas, Faye Courtney, Akua Obuobie; Daniela Mizzen.

Junior Girls Choir Directed by Mrs Lawrie.Kiki Farrell, Sofia Aldridge, Harriet Worthington, Tanisha Kamath, Alma Sanz, Hiya Ray, Rhea Immanuel, Akshara Nagaruru, Zahra Rangoonwala, Nadia Al-Ibrahim, Kelsie Young, Poppy Morris, Kate Franklin, Sinead Hennelly-Bridges, Carys Rees, Sara Mohan, Soraya Williams, Ella Horgan, Katie Wright, Elizabeth Lewis, Isel Hafiz-Echeveste, Harshita Agarwal, Crina Capatana, Livia Bell, Dior Wood, Tara Gallivan, Ella Evans, Estee Chen, Millie Power, Eleri Robinson, Topsy Perrington, Christina Logan, Charlotte Tilsley, Irene Thomas, Jasmine Son, Pannu Naresh.

Ensemble performing with Junior Girls ChoirStrings: Menglin Li; Nicky Ng; Harini Somasekar; Robert Field, Emma Discombe-Short; Miss Marshall, Miss French. Sixth Form Singers include Ashleigh Patrick, Aimee Howell, Daniella Mizzen and Eleanor Dimond.

Cathedral Choristers Directed by Mr Dominic Neville and Mr James Neville

Trebles: Thomas Cheung, Pablo Luengo-Martinez-Sainz, Frank Mitchell, Aryan Sakhuja, Anish Choudhury; Adi Bhat, Jacob Prosser, Oliver Spear; Jack Aldridge, Aviral Batra, Christian John, Joseph Morris, Dominic Omidvar, Dylan Oshnoei, Daniel Power, Jacob Vincent; Aidan Balaratnam, Callum McGarvey-Jones, Finn Mitchell, Joseff Morris.

St John’s College Junior Girls Choir

St John’s College Flute Choir

Members of the SJC Brass ensemble in Oxford, 2014

SJC Concert Orchestra at the RWCMD, September 2014

SJC Concert Orchestra at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, September 2014

SJC Concert Orchestra following Haydn Nelson Mass in Bruges (Belgium), October 2012.

Sopranos: Ansha Khurana, Isabelle O'Sullivan; Srinetra Banerjee, Lily Downie, Sohini Guha, Namitha Pasunuru, Ella Searle; Madeline Constable, Catrin Dimond, Sophie Hale, Nadiyah Hancock, Sadie Humphries, Olivia Prosser, Eleanor South; Stephanie Monti, Isabelle Lugsdin, Niamh Field.

GCSE & A-level choral scholars: Marco Aldridge, Aron Amal Calist, Rowan Downie, Idris Kriker; Benedict Dimond, Robert Field, Dylan Rees; Sam Rees, Johnny Wilson, Matthew Chung. Purva Chandratreya, Emily Harris; Morgan Gould; Andrea Mizzen, Gabrielle O'Sullivan; Faye Courtney, Ashleigh Patrick; Georgia Barry, Eleanor Dimond, Aimee Howell, Daniela Mizzen, Hannah Son, Natasha Sturrock; Matthew Barbato, Abhinaba Guha, Ross Lisney-Wilson.

Adult singers: James Neville, Francis Taylor, Rhys Batt, Michael Ford, Nick Cooper, Matthew Leach, Philip Lloyd Evans.

We would like to congratulate our pupils, staff, and parents for yet another year of examination success. St John’s College is celebrating being top school for A-level results in Wales over fifteen years, and in November 2014 the college was listed again as the top performing school in Wales in The Sunday Times “Parent Power”. Full details of the school’s outstanding inspection report are available from the ESTYN website and from www.stjohnscollegecardiff.com. This year’s university applications have very strong representation across all our A-level subjects, as well as medicine, dentistry, veterinary science, law, law in combination with European languages, architecture, business, history of art, optometry, biomedical sciences, management, accounting and finance, engineering, and natural sciences.

The School continues to flourish in sport, and particular recent highlights include the Tennis team’s victories at the UK Tennis Championships, obtaining ninth position in the whole of the UK at senior level. Our teams continue to achieve excellence in an impressive range of sports throughout the year, and following the success of this year’s netball, hockey and football tour to Malaga, our next international sports tour will be a ski trip to Austria.

Our pupils have achieved outstanding results in Maths Challenges, and our Formula One in Schools Team were awarded second fastest car and third in the Regional Finals at Swansea University. Our Engineering Club were prize winners at Cardiff University in recent weeks, and the College has also come to public attention for its remarkable success in a wide range of extracurricular activities. Our Debating Society represented Wales in UK finals earlier this year, and achieved a double victory in the Cambridge Union Debating Competition in November 2014.

It has also been another magnificent year of music making at St John’s College. Our pupils performed Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore in the summer, and in recent months the Concert Orchestra received standing ovations following performances of the first movement of Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto at Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. The Cathedral Choir gave two concerts at St David’s Hall, including Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 with period ensemble, and the choir was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 to an audience estimated at 1.8 million. In late July, our younger cathedral choristers sang Vivaldi Gloria in two of Belgium’s finest cathedrals, and received a standing ovation following their concert at Bruges Cathedral. The same choristers also collaborated with the renowned Philadelphia Boys Choir (USA) in concert at Hoddinott Hall. In the last six weeks, our senior choristers have performed in the magnificent basilica at El Escorial, and received standing ovations in Iglesia de San Manuel y San Benito in Madrid. In the coming months, the choristers will be singing at St David’s Hall, Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral, London.

Double Victory in Cambridge Union Debating, Nov 2014

Gilbert & Sullivan HMS Pinafore, July 2014

Outstanding success in maths challenges at regional competitions, and Morgan Foley (pictured left) obtained the WJEC’s highest mark in A-level Mathematics, 2014

More than 100 pupils from the archdiocese at the Music Outreach Day led by the Cathedral Choir, September 2014

Art and Design Trip to the National Museum of Wales, December 2014

GCSE Trip to the National Botanical Garden, October 2014

Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral Choir Lunchtime concert at

St David’s Hall

Faire is the HeavenTuesday 17 March 2015, 1.00pm.Tickets available from the St David’s Hall Box Office.