Other Extracurricular Activities
St. John's College is steeped in the arts, particularly Drama and Music. The music program is very well respected and has received numerous honours, including gold standing in the regional and national MusicFest competitions. The Drama department is known for its ambitious major productions, including "Cats", "Fame", "Little Shop of Horrors", "Our Town", "Godspell", "Into the Woods", "Evita", "Footloose", "Kiss Me, Kate", "Disco Inferno" and "Back to the 80s". For a short while, St. John's major musical productions of Jesus Christ Superstar (1995), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1996), and Peter Pan (1998), were produced at the Brantford Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts.
During the production of Joseph, the Saturday night performance was stopped in the middle of the "Close Every Door" scene due to a bomb threat, which was later attributed to a student at the school, who was arrested and charged. EVITA was presented in 2008 at the Sanderson Centre from May 28 - 31. Also notable is the school's yearly participation in the Sears Drama Festival, which has brought the department several awards of excellence.
St. John's College is also the only secondary school in Brantford with a debate team, and placed 1st in the categories of Debate Team and Individual Debator in 2008 through the regional tournament of the Ontario Student Debating Union.
The school's Green Team or environmental club recently added a water filtration system to one water fountain in the school. The filtration system was installed to promote students to use reusable water bottles rather than plastic water bottles.
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