Sport
Scholarship Programme
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St John’s Sport Department Values Our Sport Scholarship Programme has been designed to support and develop pupils at an elite level, both on and off the field. We are passionate about the benefits of sport for young people, and we want every scholar to achieve their full potential. We’re proud of the strength of our sporting reputation, and the exciting sporting careers and professional contracts our pupils have achieved.
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EMBRACE TOUGH: Understand that situations that challenge us physically, mentally or morally make us stronger and to actively seek out such challenges. ‘When you know the difficult choice is the right choice, it becomes the easy choice’.
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ACCOUNTABLE: Take ownership of our behaviours and actions, recognising that the team is interdependent. We do the things we have said we will do.
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GOOD PEOPLE: Show humility and gratitude, recognising the role we play in our community. We look out for the underdog. We set the bar for the next generation. ‘It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice’.
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LEARNING QUICKLY: Recognise that being able to adapt quicker than your opponent is the best route to consistent success. Build the necessary physical, cognitive and emotional skills to thrive under pressure. ‘Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me’.
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ENJOYMENT: Understand that school life is short and precious; enjoy the fruits of our labour and celebrate our collective achievements. ‘We’re here for a good time not a long time’.
Sport Scholarship Programme Our aim is to provide the best possible level of support to the whole pupil/athlete to enable them to achieve beyond their expectation on and off the field, gaining valuable life experiences and skills to ensure sport stays part of their life for the years to come. HOW WILL WE ACHIEVE THIS?
• A mentoring programme for all scholars. • Education Athlete (leadership pathway programme). • Output Sport App. • ICE Guest Speaker Programme - a range of athletes from across world sport sharing their experiences and discussing topics such as:
• Dedicated sport scholar sessions to select year groups making the best possible use of space, facilities and staff.
- Embracing failure to achieve success
• Dedicated strength and conditioning sessions and testing, whereby data is collected and forms part of the termly report.
- Aspiring for excellence
• Timetabled skill and strength and conditioning sessions for Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth. • Smaller more purposeful sessions for Lower Fifth and Upper Fifth. • A termly report with data, test scores, feedback and target areas for development/improvement. 3
- Maintaining personal wellbeing in the pursuit of high performance - The spirit of leadership - Preparation for performance - ‘Being the best possible pupil athlete’ - managing academics/training - Nutrition - Anxiety/mental preparation - Female athletes managing their menstrual cycle
St John’s School Sports Scholarship Programme
The Education Athlete The Education Athlete is an innovative leadership pathway programme to help young athletes build resilience, enhance communication, become empathetic leaders that grow into authentic, independent men and women of tomorrow. THE PROGRAMME The Education Athlete is a leadership pathway programme created for young athletes, whilst also supporting parents and teachers to be external mentors to help young athletes gain the life skills to excel as they transition through school.
CREATING LEADERS It is an innovative and pioneering programme that motivates and inspires young athletes to take responsibility and ownership of their actions and lives, engaging in academia and sport with the framework to create a purposeful life.
FRAMEWORK OF SUCCESS Athletes learn tools and strategies to build confidence, resilience, identify their unique strengths and talents, enhance their ability to communicate and build rapport with others, positively resolve conflict and deepen their understanding of the modern world.
ENRICHING THE WORLD The programme is designed to enhance the future of our young athletes so they can lead a life of authentic fulfilment, independence and passion, with a strong sense of self and purpose as they journey into the world beyond school.
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Communication and effective relationship building
Values and inner drivers
Handling stress and anxiety
Habits and identity
Goal setting and refining focus
Mentoring Mentoring is proven to be among the most effective tools we have for enabling transformational growth and development in people. All pupils will benefit from a form of mentoring: • Lower Fifth to Sixth Form scholars will have access to a staff sports mentor with a background in high performance sport. • Sixth Form scholars will also receive mentoring and coaching training resulting in them acting as mentors to our Lower Third to Fourth Form scholars. • Mentoring notes will be submitted via Microsoft Forms allowing all scholars to fill out their individual development plan throughout the year. Termly reviews will also be conducted by specialised staff.
THE MENTORING TOPICS OF FOCUS WILL BE: • Performance • Identity and values • Mindfulness • Community and social responsibility • Nature and connectedness 4
EMBRACE TOUGH: Understand that situations that challenge us physically, mentally or morally make us stronger and actively seek out such challenges. ARE ACCOUNTABLE: Take ownership of our behaviours and (in)actions, recognising that the team is interdependent. We do the things we have said we will do. GOOD ROLE MODELS: Show humility and gratitude, recognising the role we play in our community. LEARN: Recognise that being able to adapt and out-think your opponent is the best route to consistent success. Build the necessary physical, cognitive and emotional skills to thrive under pressure. ENJOY THE VIEW: Take a moment to appreciate your opportunities, achievements and time together.
Monitoring Athletes on the Sport Scholarship Programme will receive strength and conditioning support along with access to our OUTPUT sports platform - a tool to help strength coaches and rehab and peak performance professionals manage and improve strength, power and movement. This allows instant access to high-value data across a range of metrics to make better decisions on: ATHLETE TESTING AND PROFILING Assess and monitor key physical tests regularly to ensure athletes are improving and identify weaknesses. Compare daily to historical performance and stay on track and to identify weaknesses. READINESS AND RECOVERY Access readiness and recovery to avoid over training and to minimise the risk of injury.
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ANALYSIS, CHARTING AND REPORTING Instantly visualise key trends and compare set to set and athlete vs athlete. Share key KPIs with athletes, coaches and stakeholders with one-click dynamic reporting. Monitoring will form an integral part of the Sport Scholarship Programme, allowing both athletes and coaches to make decisions on load management, training block progression, and readiness. Objective data will be used to make decisions on scholarship retention as well as providing coaches with quantifiable, tangible, and relevant detail to help inform whether an athlete can train at their regular intensity or not, or whether an athlete has got stronger post-training block. DAILY READINESS MONITORING Readiness questionnaires are available for all scholars to complete on a daily basis. These scores will feed directly into the Head of Strength of Conditioning to identify athlete fatigue and risk of injury.
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Feedback As part of the programme pupils will receive data on a regular basis. In addition, they will receive feedback using velocity based training (VBT) metrics giving them a template for how they and coaches might utilise VBT in an applied setting to improve their on the on-field performance.
Load-velocity profiling
Velocity zones/targets
Simple velocity checks
Velocity loss
Load manipulation IRM prediction
Monitoring feedback
THE POWER OF FEEDBACK
Drive intent and motivation Create competition Educate athletes Improve performance
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Example Sport Scholar Report
SPORT SCHOLAR REPORT This report covers the period from September 2024 - October 2024 Na m e :
Mark Rogers
House:
Churchill
Mentor:
Mr C J T Holland
FIXTURE ATTENDANCE
SCHOLARSHIP SESSION ATTENDANCE
ENGAGEMENT IN SCHOLARSHIP SESSIONS
BEHAVIOUR
ENGAGEMENT OUTSIDE OF SCHOLARSHIP SESSIONS
75%
82%
Exceptional
Good
Requires Improvement
Physical profiling tests are shown below. The latest result is shown in blue, personal bests are shown in green, and the previous term's result (if applicable) is shown in light blue.
Countermovement Jump
2 kg Throw
Yo-Yo Shuttle Test
Flying 20 Sprint
Height
Mentor Report Whilst Mark's upper body power and sprint speed have really come on over the last term, more time should still be spent on specific skill development and decision making. As we move into his favoured, badminton term, he should aim to retain his ferocity in attack whilst maintaining the level of defensive focus he has worked so hard on this term. Mr C J T Holland
Expectations As a member of the Sport Scholarship Programme, pupils take responsibility to hold themselves accountable to the values of the programme set out by the School.
AS PART OF THE PROGRAMME, IT IS EXPECTED THAT PUPILS WILL: • Represent the School in weekly fixtures and major competitions; • Be a leading example to other pupils around them, both within a sporting environment and within the wider St John’s community; • Proactively demonstrate high levels of hard work, responsibility and honesty to their peers, staff and external parties; • Take a proactive approach to open communication and demonstrate strict attendance and timekeeping to all scholarship sessions, ensuring any problems are raised in advance of the session; • Demonstrate a desire and passion to grow as a person and athlete; • Be an ambassador for the School and within the community.
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St John’s School Sports Scholarship Programme
Recent Sport Scholar Graduates Saffy Lewis-Collymore
British Universities Netball
Naomi George Lafayette University Field Hockey USA
Grace Sullivan
Surrey Storm Netball
Filip Lisah
Swansea FC
Jack Musk
Harlequins RFC
Ben Geddes
Surrey CCC
Henry Jeffcott
Arsenal FC
Ryan Trevitt
Brentford FC
Joseph Akhurst
MCC England Schools XI Captain
Jodie Brine
Brown University Field Hockey
Josh Clarke
Celtic FC
The Sports Leadership Team Director of Sport
Craig Holland
cjholland@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Assistant Director of Sport; Head of Netball Alice Pedley
apedley@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Director of Rugby
Liam St John
lstjohn@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Director of Football
Joe Butler
jbutler@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Director of Cricket
David Hammond
Head of Girls’ Cricket
Richard Hall
rhall@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Head of Boys’ Cricket
Jack Myers
jmyers@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Acting Head of Hockey
Jack Myers
jmyers@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Head of Swimming
Catie Moon
cmoon@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Head of Performance Swimming
Andrea Gaget Mato
Head of Athletics
Maddie Shaw
mshaw@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Head of Tennis
James Nickson
jnickson@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach
James Nickson
jnickson@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
Key Partnerships
dhammond@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
agaget-mato@stjohns.surrey.sch.uk
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September 2026
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