By Damola Kola-Dare
Sporting activities remain an integral part of academics for young people to be able to achieve their set goals and objectives, Falilat Ogunkoya, sporting icon, has said.
Ogunkoya, who was the guest of honour at Roshallom Schools Inter-house Sports competition, said she derived joy watching young talents in action.
“It is always exciting to see young people in sports. In fact, seeing nursery pupils here performing makes me very happy. I have always supported inter-house sports competition, and of course, it is quite important to marry education and sports to enable our young ones achieve their goals in both fields,” she said.
The 2020 edition of the competition with the theme: “Catch them young” held last Tuesday, at the Command Secondary School sports playground, Ipaja, Lagos, featured delighted pupils from nursery to secondary levels participating in various sporting activities.
The contests featured such activities as march past, 75m, 100m, 200m, and 400m race; filling the bottle, lime and spoon race, sack race, bursting the balloon, relay race, among others.
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In a keenly contested competition, Red House emerged the overall winner; Yellow House was second; while Blue and Green House placed third and fourth respectively.
Speaking at the event, Proprietress of the school, Mrs. Roseline Owoniyi, noted the school was poised to apply a holistic approach to learning to achieve balanced education.
“Considering the domains of learning in education which are cognitive, affective and psychomotor, hence, the school has imbibed a holistic approach of applying all the domains of learning in order to enhance all round development of a child.
“In recent times, sports, an aspect of the ‘psychomotor’ of the domains of learning is receiving attention both at the grassroots and national levels. Sports could be seen as one of the catalysts of peace and progress in a nation. The benefits of sports are numerous, they cannot be overemphasised,” she said.
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