A Sports Policy for MIS

Vikram Singh, a parent who is also in charge of Sports at the JNU writes in about a possible sports policy for MIS that came up in a discussion of the parents who participate in the morning sports activities at the School.

Health, Physical Education and Sports play important role in realizing the outcomes of physically, mentally, socially, emotionally and spiritually fit personality. The robust education has to be created and inculcated into the physical soil of the child, nurtured through interaction with the parents, teachers, peer group and the community. The father of modern Olympic Games Baron Pierre de Coubertin had said that “Physical Education is the integral part of the total education process”.

Hence it is imperative to conduct the sports training and fitness related programs in a systematic, scientific and pedagogical way. Eminent educationists have clearly marked the role of Health & physical education, arts, creativity, peace education and other allied subjects in the National Curriculum Framework-2005. We see that the Government of India has taken a small step towards decreasing the academic load by making class tenth board exams optional to make way for the co-curricular activities.

All the teacher training curriculums are going under modifications for the sake of joyful learning and development of the life-skills. Even the corporate sector is incorporating the yoga and fitness classes so as to improve the employee productivity and check increasing health related expenses of their employees.

Mothers International School is a place where we find one of the most organized and receptive human beings, whose habits and attitude can be changed, modified and improved and are at the appropriate age to do so because once the habits are formed they generally stay with the person for ever.

Thus MIS parents have thought of framing the sports policy that can be a guideline for the future programs so that the MIS students can become an asset to the society rather than a liability and they are able to become future leaders championing the cause of the great visionary Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It is strongly felt that there can be no better service than to produce the men and women of action and wisdom with the best quality of head and heart so that our children are better future citizens.

Accordingly, a sports policy for MIS is proposed as under:

1. To make the sports activities more systematic and satisfying for the students.
2. To improve upon the parents and all teachers participation in the sports and physical education programs
3. To carry out regular fitness camps for the MIS community.
4. To organize more and more extramural and intramural sports activities to build up confidence and leadership qualities amongst the students through exposure.
5. To contribute to the “INTEGRTED LEARNING” concept through wholesome experiences.
6. Create new and upgrade the existing sports infrastructure on campus.
7. To nurture talent for higher pursuits of excellence in sports and physical education.
8. To organize sports activities/competitions exclusively for the girls.
9. To organize sports activities/competitions for the otherwise able students.
10. To engage more and more talented coaches and parent volunteers for organizing sports in the morning (before school), during school hours and in the evening.
    
11. To encourage students to take up allied issues like NCC, NSS, SCOUT and GUIDES etc.

Please write in with your reactions, or call him at 9868614409

Sports!

Its time to take stock of how things have been at the MIS over the past few years- as many of you have commented during the last year (at least thats how long this blog has been around) there is much room for discussion.

Hence this post, at the special request of our Representative, Vivek Bhushan. This note is just to start things off, but among the various points you may like to comment on, here are some:

Are you happy about the level of sports at MIS?

Facilities- are they adequate? Some more games? which ones?

How much of a balance is needed between sports and studies? In which classes?

Do give your feedback- this is most important- and let's try to emphasise the positive aspects of all sides of the system, namely the efforts of the teachers, parents, and most importantly, the students!

An Unusual Festival

कबाड़ से जुगाड़ : RECYCLING WORKSHOP

Kabaad se Jugaad is presented by Red Earth as part of The Monsoon Festival 4 in Association with British Council, Swechha & Lakshya

IN ONE-LINE: Learn to make beautiful things from waste.

DATES AND TIMINGS

Friday 4 September 2009
First Session: For Schools; 9 am to 12 Noon
Second Session: For General Festival Audiences; 4 pm to 7 pm

VENUE: British Council; 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001

ENTRY DETAILS: Free workshop. Register in advance.
Maximum number of participants: 50 per session
Maximum 10 participants from each school.
Event happening in outdoor area.
Participants should carry the following: hat; water, fruits / snacks.

Open to all ages.

Please also bring old newspapers and chips packets.
For registration contact
Lopamudra Sanyal / swechhaindia@gmail.com / 9958147041
Himanshu Verma / himanshu@redearthindia.com / 41764054

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

We produce increasing amounts of waste each year, using natural resources at a faster rate than ever and putting strain on the environment's capacity to deal with waste. Given the immediacy of the global environmental crisis, it becomes very important for each of us to think of relevant ways in which we can ease the pressures on resources and the planet.

One tangible way for each of us to go-green is to RECYCLE some of the waste we generate, in order to create new, beautiful and useable things. Lakshya, a Faridabad based organization that makes bags, belts from jute and waste cloth, and jewellery from waste plastic, help us understand ways in which each of us can recycle items that we normally send to the dustbin.

The Lakshya team teaches the audience to make durable paper bags from old newspapers, wallets and cell-phone purses from plastic wrappers, earrings from used plastic wrappers and other items from everyday waste.

Change of Guard

After the election on 22 August, we have a new Parent's Representative on the Management Committee. Vivek Bhushan is our new rep. for the year 2009-2010.

Brimming with ideas- as many of you already know, he organizes the sports every morning at the School, and has recently started the adults Yoga session. He has already had a meeting with the parents reps. from earlier years to take stock of long-standing issues and to reaffirm the values of the School. Which, you might like to recall, is what drew us to put our children in this School in the first place...

This blog will continue for the foreseeable future, and one can only hope that as the year passes more of you will participate by sending your comments, adding to posts, and so on.

Yoga for all

A parent has written in to draw attention to two facts. One, that there are a number of parent volunteers who take the time to coach MIS children who come for sports in the morning. It is largely due to these efforts that we have a diverse range of different sports that children can participate in, and get coached in.

A welcome offshoot of this is that parents who come to drop their children have the opportunity to take a yoga class themselves! This will go a long way in making the chore of dropping the kids off at school a bit sweeter. And healthier.

What's on the the MIS website

Since it can be difficult to find:

• The School Medical Team has addressed the students and advised them about precautionary steps to be taken against H1N1 infection.
  
• The school functioned smoothly today (11th August).
  
• No further case of H1N1 reported.
  
• Students should refrain from attending school only if they are genuinely ill.
  
• We expect the school to function in full strength from tomorrow, 12th August 2009.

10th August Notice

Just repeating what is on the School website:

• Attendance for students on Tuesday, 11th August 2009 and Wednesday, 12th August 2009 is not compulsory.
  
• While there is no need to panic, students suffering from cold, cough or fever should abstain from coming to school till they fully recover. Parents please take special care!
  
• Tests scheduled for 12th August, 2009 have been postponed till further notice.
  
• Students wishing to wear a clinical mask are allowed to do so.
  
• The fumigation of the primary section has already been executed.

The comment in red is mine.