Playing sports helps you stay in shape, teaches you how to organize your time, boosts friendships, and builds relationships with your peers and adults. Through athletics, you gain skills that can best be acquired on a court, track, or field.
Students have to participate in school sports to increase confidence, mental alertness, and self-esteem. Sports are important in schools because it helps to teach various skills to students like leadership, patience, discipline, team efforts, and social skills. It also inculcates the sportsman spirit among the students.
Sportsman spirit is the act of accepting one’s success with humility. This type of policy helps us to cope with failures and disappointments that come our way and make renewed and challenging efforts to achieve success next time. But at the same time, we will develop the way to concentrate and try to win the next game.
Sports day will encourage young people to stay healthy and avoid unwanted illness. Sports help improve mental and physical health. Moving around can improve cardiovascular fitness, and increase bone density. It can also help reduce blood sugar levels, and strengthen lungs.
Keeping all the mentioned and unmentioned benefits of sports, BKI E11 strongly believes that sports help our learners to become a better person with a strong will and patience. To project this belief, sports day had been enthusiastically organized on March, 7, 2023 in the sports complex. All the students zealously participated in the event. There were amazing displays by the little angels of early years and extremely adorable races. The show of commendable synchronization in a display by lower primary and skillful races.
Our primary students exhibited their excellence in the Taekwondo, gymnastic and tile breaking display. The show of power at the end of the event was the tug of war by Grade 5 students, which warmed up the hearts of the audience.
The scoreboard was maintained to update the scores of houses. The overall score was announced at the end in favour of House of Kestrels. Through an event like that children get the chance to show leadership, teamwork and communication skills, which help them physically, emotionally and socially.
Sobia Faisal
