Girl Power February 2018 Sports Day

The girl power sports day was held on the 24th, February 2018.The theme was healthy eating habits. The budget and the checklist and the activity plan had been drafted, typed and saved on the team drive therefore all was left  was implementation. The day started early as some of the pupils had to picked from their various schools, by 7:25 I was already at the pickup point at St. Catherine primary school. The schools attending was Olympic High School, St.Catherine, Nazarene primary school and Kidstar Academy unfortunately St Aloysius Gonzaga secondary school could not make it as they were participating in the schools termly sports activities. In total we had 64 pupils.

By 9:00 majority had arrived apart from Olympic high school later joined at around 10.00 am. The rest registration was done and coach Adongo started with a warm up session. This helped the pupils gather the energy to start the day. The field had already been set up and marked. By 9:30 the pupils had finished the warm up and divided into group. The group consisted members from the various schools thus no school was on itself.

The groups formed were four and the pupils named the groups hence we had queens, champions, mabuda and walafi. 


The groups started with dribbling football round the cones, a relay sac race, walking with one pupils leg tied to another pupils leg, obstacle of going through a tyre then a relay. Dribbling round the cones queens took the last position, mabuda followed in the third position, champions was number two and walafi come position one.In the sac race mabuda come position one followed by queens, followed by walafi and champions took the fourth position. Relay all the teams were given a tie ,go though tires queens come number one followed by mabuda, followed by walafi,then champions took the last postion. Running with leg tied to the other partner’s leg, mabuda come number one followed by queens, champions then walafi.

From there the team had a basketball shoot out. Champions and walafi tied with two points each, queens come number two and maduda come position four. Meanwhile Olympic being the only high school engaged in warm up football exercise and played rugby the game being capture the flag. They were playing against themselves in two  groups  of five since they were ten.

After all the games were finished the pupils assembled together where we had a discussion which revolved on the sports day theme of healthy eating habits. The students differentiated what food they considered healthy versus the one they considered unhealthy. We also discussed of what a healthy or balanced diet consists .Eating vegetables, fruits, keeping a active lifestyle and drinking a lot of water was highly emphasized.We then prayed and had lunch which was rice, beans and cabbage, served by Elizabeth, adongo and flora .

The pupils were happy and they were happy to meet pupils from other schools. The event was over by 1pm and the pupils all left together. Joy and adongo cleared the marked field.The sports day was a success and none of the pupils got hurt or injured .One pupils from Olympic at the end got dizzy but was given first aid and she managed to go back to school and after the follow up she was fit and healthy. It is was evident the girls enjoyed their sports day.