Football clinic at our school

We are all aware of our new association with one of India’s leading Sports management company, KOOH Sports Pvt. Ltd. They deliver professional sports training and coaching programs of international standards to schools, making improvements at the grassroots’ level across sports in India.

They have now introduced KOOH Sports Football Development Centers! They are committed to help develop the country’s talent by associating with ex English Footballer and a celebrated TV Pundit Paul Masefield. Paul will be assisting KOOH Sports football experts in complete deployment of the football program across the country.

About Paul Masefield: Paul has joined KOOH Sports as Technical Director for Football. Paul is a former English football player, a TV pundit and commentator @ ESPN Star Sports & Fox Sports. He has played professional football in England for a number of years with premier teams like Southampton and Birmingham City, before moving to Asia and playing in local Asian leagues. He also runs football youth development centers in Singapore and Malaysia.

We are very proud to associate with the KOOH Sports Football Development Center and we organized a Football Clinic within our school premises for 5-17 year old students.

Shail and Darsh in action.

Children and Paul Masefield.

The football clinic covered basic game abilities and mini football preparatory games. The most exciting news is that the clinic is just the beginning and will actually be followed up with a complete after school hour football center!

The after school hour program will challenge our students’ ability to adapt to different game situations  and the methods used in the program will affect their perception, decision making and on-field execution, rendering a long term impact. The after school programs will be held thrice a week and will be one hour long for the period of 8 months. The sports offered will not only be football but tennis and basketball as well!

The Round-up Gang!

Today the fourth graders had lots of fun trying to solve the jigsaw puzzle. It was based on the concept of rounding off. The children worked in groups. They divided the cards, then rounded their problems in the cards, matched with the answer cards, and  finally assembled the diamond shape! :)
The session started with a good discussion as to what is rounding, the literal meaning of it! Same answer in different forms:
a) if number greater than 5 or above we round off to the higher multiple of 10.
When prompted to think the english meaning of rounding and explain. Responses were:
b) circling
Little more prompting, with an example let us round up the children in the class. Then one child responded very innocently, "Ma'm my example may not exactly relate to numbers, but I think rounding means gathering!" It was really amazing as the child made an attempt to relate the meaning of the word to the process we do in the Mathematics.
Many times we say, let us round up the topic, i.e. discuss the main points that will summarise the whole topic! Thus, rounding in mathematics will mean that instead of taking the exact number we choose an easier number which is closer to the exact number. Easier numbers are generally the multiples of 10, 100, etc.
Extending from here, the concept was discussed and nicely applied by the children in the activity.

Following are some photos depicting their excitement and involvement in the activity.

They finally rounded up all the numbers!! :)

It is our endeavour to emphasise out-of-the-box thinking which prepares you better to solve problems in most situations of life as well! :)