“The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.” – (Ken Doherty)
Who doesn’t like sports activities? Of Course we all love doing some extra running and hopping. Sports Day brings new energy in the hearts and minds of the children. Beaconhouse Elementary Campus PECHS organized its theme based Annual Sports Orbit 2022 on 9th December 2022. The theme of the event was Space Orbit and the sight of the décor at the National Coaching Centre was electrifying. The programme began with the recitation of the Holy verses of Quran by Abdul Qadir and Mahira Farooqui from grade IV. After the Recitation, the National Anthem of Pakistan was presented by the school choir that lifted the fervor high of all the guests.
The inauguration of the ceremony was commenced by Ms Sumera Savez, HM BECP along with the honorable chief guests. Moving forward to the event, we had a magnificent performance of cultural dances of all the four provinces representing the unique and diverse ethnicities of our beloved Pakistan and oh what a zeal of patriotism, unity and peace it was! In the fullness of time, now the kids from Toddlers till Grade II were ready to emblazon their zumba moves on the planet song with sparkling and shiny headbands and pom poms and took us on a ride of the solar system.
Moving on with the Zumba, our young athletes of Grade II till V were now ready to manifest their Gymnastic Presentation by their mighty and graceful moves. The students did different moves like Front and head roll, Cart wheel, some Cobra and Bridge moves that blew up the mind of all the guests. Following the gymnastics, now our master warriors from Grade I till V were all geared up to show us their moves of Ninja dance and Yoga, the guests of the event were left mesmerized by the astonishing Ninja dance moves and the yoga moves.
Now it was the time for the Walk past of early years along with their teachers that was led by our head boy Malik Azlan who held the flag of Pakistan and Ebtihaj Abid our head girl who held the flag of Beaconhouse. Following them was the walk past of houses along with their captains. We were extremely glad to introduce the four distinctive houses. Now it was the time for the Oath taking ceremony that was conducted by the head girl of our school Ebtihaj Abid where all the students took the oath to show the true sportsmanship spirit and to maintain the glory and honor of our school sports activities.
It was now time for the physically active teaser of the leadership skills that were demonstrated by the athletes of Green, Blue, Yellow and Red Houses. Our Grade 3, 4 and 5 champs imitated the 7 habits of an effective leader and practically exhibited some of them in a game. And now comes the most exciting and thrilling part of the day “the track events”. Not only children but parents and teachers were also waiting anxiously for it.
The races started with a pop and bang, the track events consisted of different races like butterfly race, reach your planet race, hurdle race, zig zag race, flat race, balance the bean bag race etc. The winning students were presented with 1st, 2nd and 3rd medals by our honorable guests and headmistress. The event concluded with some exciting races. The parents and school staff competed which was a wow element of the day. The winners were presented with medals. We culminated the day with a lot of cheers and big smiles on the faces of everyone.