{"id":130,"date":"2021-12-23T05:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T05:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/?p=130"},"modified":"2021-12-23T05:45:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T05:45:04","slug":"raising-young-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/raising-young-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Young Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s not how big you are, it\u2019s always how big you play.\u201d (<\/strong><strong>Anonymous)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In an event like <strong>Junior Athletics<\/strong> children get the chance to show <strong>leadership<\/strong>, <strong>teamwork<\/strong>, and <strong>communication skills<\/strong>, as they interact with other students and face new challenges. This would encourage children to work together to achieve the same goal. Annual Junior Athletics events for all levels were held in the month of December, which were a tremendous success. In the days leading up to the event, our young athletes diligently rehearsed for March Past, P.E. Display, games and the races.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-130 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/4-6.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/4-6-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:76.69%;max-width:605px;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/2-5.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/2-5-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:75.88%;max-width:622px;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/1-5.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/1-5-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:119.23%;max-width:624px;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The students\u2019 parade was in synchrony to the tune played and each move had been carefully choreographed and was executed to perfection by the children. Cheering by the\u00a0mothers was there all along.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/5-4-300x204.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/5-4-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/5-4.png 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pre-Nursery and Nursery students adorably raced on the tracks mesmerizing the audience. Kindergarteners competed with their utmost effort and proved to be resilient beaconites. And last but not the least our Class one students had team building games which were fun and creative way to show their sportsman\u2019s spirit.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-130 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/raising-young-athletes\/3-8\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/3-5-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:75.56%;max-width:622px;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/raising-young-athletes\/6-6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/6-3-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:66.93%;max-width:626px;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/raising-young-athletes\/7-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/7-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:74.16%;max-width:627px;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/raising-young-athletes\/8-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2021\/12\/8-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:75.68%;max-width:621px;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The most exciting part of these events was when the students happily applauded for their mothers and teachers who participated enthusiastically in races.<\/p>\n<p>Children&#8217;s jubilation was evident when they were awarded gold, silver, bronze and runner up medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not how big you are, it\u2019s always how big you play.\u201d (Anonymous) In an event like Junior Athletics children&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/raising-young-athletes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raising Young Athletes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students-activity","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/452\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}