Sports and Games
Sports and games are an indispensable part of Montfortian education in all Montfortian schools. As per EW-C fore Survey 2011 conducted by “Education World”, Montfort school finds the 46th place among India’s most respected 400 schools. And in Sports Education which is one of the parameters in the survey, Montfort School is proud of its No.1 position. This has been possible because of the school's commitment to the old adage ‘a healthy mind in a healthy body’. Besides this, the school believes that good education should also help the students to appreciate the beauty of their body by taking care of it through healthy eating habits and exercise which will keep them physically fit, keeping obesity and many associated illness away. Towards attaining the above goal, the school is privileged to have a vey spacious and well maintained multipurpose play ground where children play cricket, football, athletics and other games with the right amount of guidance and training.
Our two cemented basket ball courts (soon to become synthetic) have brought Montfort glory and fame as the school has the best school basket ball teams in Delhi, and the girls team has been the national champions in the CBSE Basket ball tournaments more than once.
The latest addition to physical fitness is the swimming pool equipped with dry and wet change rooms for boys and girls and Water Filtration Plant, and a gym for all. Besides the above, the school has skating rinks, several Table Tennis Boards, badminton courts, volley ball courts and kho-kho grounds which are all always occupied by the enthusiastic youngsters.
Everyday (except Sundays) interested students are given coaching in the evenings by trained coaches in Cricket, Football, basket ball, badminton, Table Tennis, Tennis, Skating, Chess and Swimming (except in Winters).
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and/or games:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)