Annual Sports Day 16 - 17

"Podar World School, Sherkhi organizes 7th Annual Sports Meet"

The sprawling ground of Podar World School, Sherkhi was all set to organize the 7th Annual Sports Meet for the academic year 2016-17. The atmosphere was filled with a great zeal, excitement, frolicsome students, eagerly waiting for the events to start. The program began with a warm welcome extended by Dr. Durgeshwari Gusain (in English) and Ms. Rupa Singh (in Hindi) to the Chief Guest Mr. Tushar Arothe, an international Kabbadi player and the Guest of Honour Ms. Razia Shaikh, an athlete in Javelin throw of International renowned and a long term National Record holder. The Principal, Ms. Preeta Pillai escorted them to the ground along with the Head Boy and the Head Girl of the school amidst the sound of beating of drums. On the dias, the guests were joined by Ms. Michelle Ganeshani, Principal of Podar World School, Maneja and by Ms. Seema Khan, Headmistress of Podar Jumbo Kids, Nizampura. The esteemed guests were felicitated by the Principal, Head Boy and Head Girl. In the Principal’s address that followed she foremost expressed her heartfelt gratitude to the Guests for gracing the occasion with their kind presence. She then enumerated the umpteen numbers of awards won by each of the Sports personalities and stressed on the International Awards bagged by both the Guest and the Guest of Honour. She persuaded her students to continue to play as for them, even the sky should not be the limit. She concluded her words with the Sports Motto, “Never Give Up, Never Give In, Let’s Play the Game” and the students verbatim repeated her.

The Sports Instructors then escorted the Chief Guest, the Guest of Honour and the Principal to hoist the School flag, followed by the speech of the Sports Captain Kumari. Amruta Joseph of Class IX, a National level Cricket player (aged 14) under 19 category. This was followed by the Torch Run lit jointly by the Guests and the Principal and carried over by the students who are National achievers in varied sports. It was a very proud moment for the Podarites to see a group of 10 students running to the flame pillar where it was installed by the Chief Guest and Guest of Honour. A golden colored scroll with the school’s name in red written on it was then released to the sky using a bunch of colored balloons announcing the 7th Sports Meet Opened by the Chief Guest.

This was followed by the March Past by the four houses beginning with Satya, Adarsh, Seva and Ahimsa contingents marching with pride. The Oath taking ceremony by the House Captains and Vice Captains was administered by Mr. Aashish Jha, their Sports Instructor. In the speech of the Chief Guest that followed he expressed his appreciation for the students and lauded the Principal for her excellent leadership qualities that has led the way in drawing out the best in her students. He conveyed that the students should be playing a game or be reasonably good in any one of the sports activity and should be playing it as long as they could as it helps to keep one fit and committed. The Guest of Honour was overwhelmed by the achievements of the Podarites and wished them all success in their future endeavors.

The students displayed a wide array of colorful and reverberant events such as Mass Drill, Fancy Drill, Yoga, Parachute Drill, 100 & 200 meters Dash, Hurdles, Relay races, Passing the baton, Kabbadi etc.

Soon after, each of the events, the winners of 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions were awarded medals and certificates initially by the Guests, Guests of Honour, and Principal and later our esteemed parents and grandparents of our students were also included in honouring the students at the victory stand.

The kaleidoscopic events for the day included events for all age group as Parents race [Primary Parents Race: ‘Cindrella’s Shoes’, Secondary Parents Race: ‘Hum Saath Saath Hai’: Balancing a Balloon], Grandparents Race [‘Laughing Buddha’], Teachers Race[‘Mera Juta Hai Japani, Phir bhi daud hai Hindustani’] and Ground Staff Race[‘100 meters dash’] formed a part of the Sports Day events. All the adult winners too were honored with certificates.

The aggregate points secured by each Houses were as follows:

The day ended with a cheerful note, heralding the year 2017 filled with promises for all the young sports enthusiasts. Soon after the National Anthem, students left the ground for their classes and thereafter to their homes accepting the fact that in sports one may win or lose, but true sportsman spirit lies in accepting the victories and defeat with grace.
Concluding with the famous saying, ‘Winners win, winners lose, but winners play.’