https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. en-us 2022-12-06 19:49:19 UTC 2022-12-06 20:46:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411239579 We as a house were unorganised and pretty dysfunctional during house music which lead to stress with deadlines. The communication was poor from the year 13s which meant we missed our soundchecks. We were pretty wasteful with time spent during practice.]]> 2022-12-06 20:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411239579 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411242085 I think academics are seriously lacking from the whole house. We need to manage younger years better and try to improve effort across every subject. We need to have a bigger focus on studying and tutoring combined with a culture of focus and willingness to learn and change.]]> 2022-12-06 20:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411242085 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411248891 Very little attempts at targeted support to students failing subjects (low attitude and effort). Bad results were role modelled by year 13 dorm which led to house culture not pushing for good results.
No targeted talk to troubled year 10 group who consistently gamed and used their devices inappropriately during prep.]]> 2022-12-06 20:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411248891 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411250485 Because of the numbers within our house we struggle to compete in some sporting events. This mean't that a lot of people had to step up and take on more events in athletics and swimming as-well as play house sports where they aren't very familiar with the game. The year 13s did well in making sure we had enough players to full teams as well as enough participants in whole house events. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411250485 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411250764 I thought our heads of sport this year were pretty good at putting teams together on time however sometimes they were unorganised and ended up putting students in that wernt keen on that sport meaning we didn’t perform well]]> 2022-12-06 20:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411250764 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411251175 Not much to say tbh last in both music house events worst St John’s year ever in that regard.]]> 2022-12-06 20:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411251175 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411251487 The house lacked in community service this year. I only recall one community service event which the house had to do this year, which only yr 12s and 13s where compulsory to attend. The rest of the house did not need to attend and the year 9s as-well where not involved in this. I think this is an area for improvement for next year.]]> 2022-12-06 20:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411251487 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411251606 On the academic side of things. One of the positives I picked up was the more productive prep sessions conducted by the juniors. It’s noticeably quieter and the year 10s and 11s seemed to be more focused on to their work. But one of the negatives I had noticed was that the juniors never really received any tutoring help from the year 13s or were informed of the open tutoring sessions they offer down at school. I believe if the juniors were to receive occasional academic help from the seniors and were better informed of the open tutoring sessions then it would reflect overall better on the house as test results would likely improve.]]> 2022-12-06 20:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411251606 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411251807 I believe that as a house academics were not our strong point. I believe that we did not provide enough support to the younger boys in the house. In 2021 the year 13s offered tutoring to the year belows in their chosen subject. If we offer this it will help the year belows to succeed in terms of academics. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411251807 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411252573 I think that the academics was lacking but there was a great improvement after letting in the students study in the house. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411252573 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411253730 I thought this year there wasn’t much help towards students not doing so well with their academics, I also thought there wasn’t a push for tutoring for those who needed ]]> 2022-12-06 20:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411253730 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411255709 Are house culture isn’t amazing, we need to make more house activities more exciting and fun for all years. There needs to be an aspect of fun in a lot of things we do e.g. big house practice. We need to balance the amount just right otherwise boys will become troublesome. Reward based system with these activities could work but we don’t want to lose focus on the end goal.]]> 2022-12-06 20:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411255709 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411255726 I think the heads of sport that were chosen for 2023 did a particularly poor job with running the sport, at the beginning of the year our entries for athletics day and swimming were late. When we needed juniors for the sporting events no communications went to the lodge for times and places.
We only started training for cross country two weeks out from the day which meant we did pretty poorly coming last.]]> 2022-12-06 20:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411255726 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411256442 I liked how skits night worked well and how the night turned out. I believe it still could have been improved through more talent and more band gigs like the previous years]]> 2022-12-06 20:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411256442 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411256912 Small House

-Good song suggestion

-unorganised, dysfunctional, not enough practises, started practising too late to the event, felt rushed with time, very little attempts on trying to make practises work and managing free time between the band (time management), missed sound check both small house and big house.

-we need to start earlier, come up with song suggestions now, start practises beginning of the year, weeks prior to the event.

Big House

-good song suggestion, organised, making big house a priority (instead of small house which felt like an option). (Costumes were amusing).

-Disappointing result yet I believe that dance moves weren’t original.


House Debating 
-successful, semi-final, good support and appearances to each debate, STJ boys had supported.


House Haka
-Changes in house haka, STJ boys did well adjusting to the changes.]]> 2022-12-06 20:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411256912 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411257560 Uniform checks where effective and frequent enough to keep the house well kept. Not many times where boys from St. John’s told off for poor uniform down at school.]]> 2022-12-06 20:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411257560 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411258307 I thought our discipline was poor this year, no matter how many house detentions were given to that year ten dorm they never seemed to learn and a week later it seemed they were back to being naughty]]> 2022-12-06 20:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411258307 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411258819 The results in the small house and big house wasn’t what anyone in the house had expected. But I think in order to gain better results we must better organise the practices and begin practice at an earlier time in the school year. Also to ensure the entire house makes it over to the sound check which can be crucial for gaining stronger results for st. john’s.]]> 2022-12-06 20:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411258819 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411259801 Late applications to many events set the standard, and a general lack of house spirit in events such as cross country led to low attendance rates which meant we didn’t succeed the in the attendance award and leading to very low placings and performances as sometimes even our good runners would not attend.]]> 2022-12-06 20:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411259801 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411259823 In the house music we started late and it was poorly done. The head of cultural failed to get big house and small house to show up for two sound checks. We had a very small amount of time and it shows. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411259823 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411259937 I believe our cultural was not great. We came last in both small house and big house and missed to sound checks. I believed we need to be more organised and we should also encourage the boys to join more cultural groups. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411259937 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411260642 Felt as if there wasn’t much significance towards the academics within the house. It almost felt like academics was not apart of St Johns this year. Wasnt enough support provided to the younger boys in the house. 

-Junior prep time could be better managed, a few distractions have left. While the study work ethic within the house needs to increase for next year.]]> 2022-12-06 20:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411260642 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411260981 I think the only thing we can change on the sporting side is being more prepared and competitive. If we want to achieve more we should organise 1 or 2 practices for each activity. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411260981 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411261139 I feel like what would have helped our failures of the house this year was starting early. I feel we didn't have enough practice or organisation and left it too late to start practicing. I also feel that the younger kids didn't have enough house spirit and commitment and new how important big house is. We were not loud enough in singing and I feel this was the cause]]> 2022-12-06 20:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411261139 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411261706 Only one house service attempted and run by Mattias. I’m previous years it was given we did one house service event a term.]]> 2022-12-06 20:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411261706 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411262241 There was only one community service organised this year in the house and the people attending were only the seniors and the ones that stayed that weekend. I think community service involvement is very heavily looked upon by the school and more organised service events by the house will greatly benefit st. john’s.]]> 2022-12-06 20:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411262241 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411262379 We needed more focus on academics and more supervision during prep to ensure that our year ten and eleven dorms were putting in the effort. Stuart did a good job organising academic tutors in the house to help the junior but there was no drive to make sure people were taking those opportunities ]]> 2022-12-06 20:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411262379 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411263019 I think that Pau and Caleb did well this year regarding their circumstances. Both where in top sports teams during most of the year. Taking up most of their time, on top of that organising sports events such as athletics. During times where Covid was taking a lot of people out of the already small house. Meant it was very difficult to have all events filled in prior. Without people dropping out and not being able to attend. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411263019 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411264126 When I was a younger member of the house we did a lot of community service. Not only did this help the community but also I feel it helped build the house culture and was an opportunity for the younger and older kids to work together and spend that time. With the lack of this come a downgrade in culture within the house that I felt. To improve this we should have another crack and the most community service hours in 2023]]> 2022-12-06 20:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411264126 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411264315 No individual year 13 made an attempt to improve the big house performance by adding new ideas on how to perform the song, we should have been trying to be more creative in inventing new dance moves for our song and finding new ways to impress the judges aside from singing well, instead our big house was a poor copy of previous years. Small house was problematic due to the fact that we did not start our practices until 3 weeks before the performance. The practice we did during those three weeks were some of the most productive practice I have seen in my years of being in small house but we did not start early enough to be the best we can.]]> 2022-12-06 20:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411264315 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411265378 The house lacked a bit in service. The only real service we did was going to the Crawford farm and planting trees. In years before we have done multiple different weekends where we did 3 hours of service and won the house service cup. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411265378 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411268663 Because of the changes made to the year 13 role we need to change how we treat the younger years to make sure we keep the house under control ]]> 2022-12-06 20:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411268663 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411269234 There were a fair share of successes for st. john’s this year in sports with us making quite far in intermediate house rugby and also have one of the best attendances for cross country across all the houses in the school. However the last place finish in cross country results isn’t due to the lack of effort from the house but more so the lack of practices we got for it. The best thing to do next year is for there to be better organised cross country house trainings which can very well help us receive better results.]]> 2022-12-06 20:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411269234 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411269450 I think Pau and Caleb did a good job with sports this year. They were well organised and everyone knew when and where they needed to be places to participate in the house sport. All the boys if they were not playing got behind the players and cheered them on. I do believe we need to do more trainings for cross country to avoid what happened this year. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411269450 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411269656 The year thirteens didn’t do a good job of making sure the year tens in particular were in bed on time and doing their duties and this meant for a lot of stress on miss kimi and ultimately led to the year ten dorm shrinking by four by the end of the year]]> 2022-12-06 20:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411269656 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411271046 Mrs Kimi struggled greatly with disciplining this house leading to great stress for her this year.
With 2 boys disciplined out of the house we struggled to lead boys into the St. John’s way.]]> 2022-12-06 20:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411271046 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411271640 We had the least amount of detentions out of all houses present. I believe that this may have been related with the small numbers in the house. Discipline around the house wasn't the best, boys weren't respecting their bed times leaving tutors to hand out fatigues. Year 13s werent able to perform their jobs effectively due to the lack of authority and juniors exploited it.]]> 2022-12-06 20:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411271640 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411271909 I’d say for the most part that a good portion of the house was behaved in an accordingly manner. But seeing the number of boys that have unfortunately left the house due to the disciplinary issues is disappointing seen as we’re already a small house in numbers. ]]> 2022-12-06 20:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411271909 https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411272069 -some areas more successful than others. Overall a greater organisation prior to events and more practise could have been conducted to have gained us a better result.
STJ Girls successful but I will aim to build a stronger connections with our girls in the house
House touch, house football and house cricket successful teamwork used as well as a memorable win against major house.( showed a good interrelationship between the different year in our house.
Athletics day, should have better organised our entries prior to the event. Swimming sports, not a wide variety of entries. Cross Country, more practises, started practises much later than other houses. (We are a boarding house which means practising as a house for events like these should be much easier than day houses) for us to end up coming last.]]> 2022-12-06 20:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/wallyrifle/kpd9wpkcnp0mng0v/wish/2411272069