June 2014

Jun 2014
Parents’ Association events have raised almost £12,500 for charity this year. This term’s Fun Day raised £1300 for the Street Child World Cup charity. The Fun Day was in its second year, incorporating the well-loved Fun Run and was designed for all ages to have an action-packed afternoon of sport and play with St John’s families, friends and staff. The weather this year could not have been more perfect, adding to the carnival atmosphere. There was once again a spectacular cake stall, which included a bake-off judged by the new teashop in Cambridge, Afternoon Tease. The day was very
Jun 2014
6 June 2014 The St John’s College Choir travelled to Normandy to take part in services that commemorated the 70th anniversary of D-Day. The Choir performed at three services over the course of the anniversary on Friday 6 June 2014. Performances took place at Bayeux Cathedral, Bayeux Cemetery and Arromanches and the commemoration was broadcast live on BBC One. St John’s College Choir was the only choir to sing at the British commemoration services, attended by members of the Royal Family as well as heads of state from all over the world.
Jun 2014
For their production this year, Form 3 presented Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a dramatic adaptation of Roald Dahl’s unique take on the classic fairy-tale. After the death of Snow White’s mother, her father, the King, takes the beautiful but devious and impossibly vain Princess Maclahose, owner of a magic mirror, for his second wife. When the mirror one day reveals that Snow White’s beauty now surpasses her own, the Queen commands her head Huntsman to kill her stepdaughter; lacking the resolve to follow this through, however, the Huntsman secretly allows her to go free. Snow White