By Daily Echo reporter Emma Streatfield, who went to school with Jo Yeates.

WE were just 11 and didn’t have a care in the world when my mum took this picture.

It was Sports Day 1996 at Sherborne House School in Chandler’s Ford, and a special occasion as the winners’ cups were presented by cricket star David Gower.

That’s me next to the former England captain, proudly wearing my summer blazer, and, kneeling at the front, second from left, is classmate Jo Yeates.

I was always pretty good at sports in those days and picked up several cups for long jump and high jump, though I don’t remember what Jo’s was for.

This was our final year at Sherborne and we were all about to go our separate ways – Jo was the only one to go to Embley Park.

Looking at this photograph, it is hard to believe that she is gone.

Hopeful messages on Facebook from old friends trying to spread the message of Jo’s disappearance in the run up to Christmas quickly turned on Boxing Day to sympathy with confirmation that it was Jo’s body found on Christmas Day.

The sentiment among her old friends is utter disbelief – that this has actually happened to someone they knew.

Sherborne was a small school with only 26 pupils at most in the year – it was very much a family atmosphere there where everybody knew everybody.

The Jo I remember was always in good spirits and could always make you laugh.

She was small like me, but always full of energy and just irrepressible.

My heart goes out to her family.