The Sports Committee’s primary role is to assist the school’s PE Instructors in fulfilling their goals.
It acts as the funnel to channelize communication and recommendations from the parent body to the school with regards to all activities connected to sports. The Committee works with PE instructors to help prepare the school’s inter-house sports calendar, in order to synchronise it as much as possible with the MSSA (Maharashtra State Sports Association). The Committee also works to liaise with clubs or other viable venues for tie-ups with the School to hold inter-house events for the following sports that are held annually outside the School premises:
Swimming
Athletics
Badminton
Squash
Tennis
Members also assist PE Instructors with inter-house events that are held on the school premises. There is continuous monitoring and review of all external resources currently being availed of by the School to ensure, that terms of service, facilities, communications, collection of forms, payments are streamlined as well as feedback and/or concerns, if any, are addressed.
The Committee invites or responds to new external resources for sports not already being offered through the School such as Badminton, Athletics, Cricket, Swimming, etc. and evaluates the same.
The Committee has successfully worked out an arrangement for students to go once a week to Cooperage sports grounds for PE in an effort to raise the standard of the PE programme at BIS.
Accomplishments
Set up a Committee meeting protocol (once a month) along with the PE teachers
Set up a channel of communication with the parent body (email id: [email protected] )
Created parent volunteers for inter-school soccer matches. The parent volunteer is responsible for the following for his or her assigned age group and performs the following functions:
1) Liaise between the players’ parents and the teachers
2) Convey the practice schedules to the team / parents
3) Convey the match timings and schedules to the team / parents
4) Organise and coordinate pickups and drops to and from the matches
5) Ensure the presence of at least one parent at each match
Badminton: Got an alternate venue for the Inter House Badminton Tournament, and staged it on time
Table tennis: 2 parents came forward to donate TT tables to the School and classed for TT are conducted by well-known coach – Kedar Kasbekar.
Soccer: Soccer coaching is currently offered by Soccer Connections (SC). SC and the School has organized a Summer Soccer Camp. The response to the camp was good and we plan to offer this during every summer vacation.
Karate: Karate has been offered at BIS since 2008 by the Academy of Martial Arts under Sensei Pervez Mistry (8th Dan black belt). Over the years, on an average 30 students enrol in the class and are today ranked between white belt (beginner) and brown belt (senior student).