Most schools in India avoid including sports education in their curriculum because most Indian schools are mainly academic centric. But giving more attention to sports facilities increases students’ participation rate in class and serves a much broader community. Developing a sports facility within the school boundaries and maintaining it targets a specialist area of many students who can showcase their talents through this medium.
At present, sports activities are valued as much as academic activities because choosing sports as a career can now help you flourish, and there are a large number of fields full of opportunities for true sports talents.
Sports activities make a student’s body healthy and nurture their management and leadership skills. Along with academics, every student needs to get into any sports activity of their choice as it will help them learn discipline in life and make them feel motivated.
To engage its students in physical activities, all schools, irrespective of their size and exposure, should organize events according to their capabilities so that students can take part in them. This will compel students to dream big, ahead of their books and academics.
The Physical Benefits of Sports
Playing a particular sport have a lot of positive effect on health. It helps kids to make their muscles stronger and develop strength in them. Those who play some sports from a young age naturally have a healthier physique and active brain functions than those who only drool over academics.
Why should Schools include Sports in their curriculum?
Involving students in various sports events together increases the feeling of unity and togetherness in them. Students push their bars to coordinate with their peers while playing sports. It also embraces all the emotions present inside a person, which is responsible for maintaining the body’s hormonal balance. These sports teach the students the hardest truth in life: sometimes they face failure, and sometimes success and nothing is permanent.
Sports show us how to be disciplined in life and maintain balance by being in control. It gives us insights into how to manage time and all activities in life. Therefore, sports play a huge role in students’ mental growth by keeping the brain’s activities sharp.
How Can Schools help their students to achieve success in sports?
Those who are eager to make a career in sports start as early as in their teens. For this reason, having sports facilities inside a school premises is so important because most of the teenage year is spent in school. School plays a vital role in pushing them towards making their future bright. Under worthy supervision and authorities, children can reach as far as playing at national and even international levels. For this, they have to maintain a proper diet, health, discipline, and most importantly, they should keep practicing.
