Sports
Sport is regarded highly in Taipei European School, and nearly 70% of the students in each year group participate in at least one sports team every year. TES offers the KS3 teams the opportunity to compete in U13 and U15 FOBISSEA, an overseas interscholastic sporting tournament held every year which holds opportunity for the pupils to compete against others of their own age from British international schools across Asia.
TES offers sports such as Football, Basketball, Softball, Volleyball, athletics and Swimming. TES also hosted the U15 FOBISSEA teams in May 2008.
In the High School Section, the sportspeople take part in 3 main activities: Football, Basketball, and Volleyball. These teams compete in numerous tournaments hosted at the Morrison Academy and the Taipei American School, with the Soccer programme extending to an overseas tournament for women and men U18 in Phuket, Thailand against numerous international schools. Extracurricular activities such as Swimming, Fitness, Table tennis and Badminton clubs are also offered for those interested.
Within the school, the students are involved in the House Cup, which they really enjoy, in which they are split into four separate Houses: Bora, Sirocco, Mistral, and Marin (named after different Asian/European winds). Every semester the Houses compete against one another in various sports and competitions for House points, and the House with the most points receive the House Cup at the end of the year.
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