Sports Day
Sports Day was an annual event in Fuhua from the period 2000 to 2005. It was phased out and replaced with the Sports Carnival.
Sports Day was a day of athletic competition, with individual events traditionally being the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, shot put and the long jump. Team events were 4x100m relays and 4x400m relays.
Students were grouped into Houses (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow) and competed for points for the Houses. Competition would be tough, with each house claiming superiority over the other. Within the short periods of time, the houses each managed to form rather distinct identities. Yellow House was well known for its cheering abilities, while Blue House would claim to have the best athletes, and thus the best in sports. This claim would however, be hotly contested by Red House, who would argue being the most rounded House (both in competing and cheering) and winning the Sports Day Championship in 2002. Green House would alternative being good in both cheering and competing, a claim which was well deserved.
The house system has since been phased out, with the Sports Carnival being competed on a class basis.
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