Sports and Extra-Curricular Activities
A variety of sports are played, some of which are dying sports hardly played in any other school. Football, Cross-country running, Athletics, Gymnastics, Swimming, Hockey, Tennis, Boxing, Badminton, Table tennis, Basketball and Volleyball are some of them. Extra-curricular activities include debating, SUPW, Singing and elocution competitions. Barnes has won the "All Maharashtra Anglo-Indian Schools Football Tournament" 11 out of the 18 times, including a yet unbroken record of 7 times in a row. These sports are encouraged by the facts that Barnes has a campus of 265 acres (1.07 km2), has 7 playing fields and an expanse of plains and forests surrounding it on almost all sides. Barnes now are one of the schools where students get proper knowledge about sports along with proper studies.
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