Sports Program
Sports Program
Sport activities are a crucial part of a student’s growth and help in the development of mental health and physical fitness of the body. Through participation in sports and games, a student gains various skills, experience and confidence that are helpful for developing their personality.
Akshara’s sports program focuses on teaching the young impressionable minds values of discipline, sportsmanship, teamwork and thereby prepares them to face challenges and failures positively. The sports teacher focus on physical fitness and teaching a variety of sports to the students. The school encourages and enables each child to develop skills in multiple sports and games.
SportsInfrastructure
The school campus has following facilities for conduct of sport activities
- Football field with FIFA certified artificial grass and two junior sports practice ground
- 5 layer synthetic rubber basketball court with a junior practice court
- Two cricket practice pitch with artificial grass
- Clay court for indigenous sport like volleyball and Kabaddi
- Indoor Halls which are used for activities like Table Tennis, aerobics, karate & yoga.
- Pre-primary play area with soft rubberized flooring for safety of the little ones along with an adjacent sand pit and cycling track.
In addition school has an off-campus sport ground enclosed by a 400 meter running track.
IGNITE – Annual Sports Meet
IGNITE is school’s annual sports meet and is a culmination of several inter-house competitions. Final of some of the athletic events are conducted on the sports day besides activities like PT drill, March past etc.
NCC (Air Wing)
National Cadet Corps (NCC) is a youth development program of the Ministry of Defence.
Akshara offers NCC to students of grade VIII & IX. The selected cadets become part of the 3 MAH Sqn Air wing and after 2 years of training get the ‘A’ certificate.
NCC (RDC)
From Akshara International School’s second NCC batch, Cadet Akshat Bharadwaj and Cadet Manasvi Balwatkar completed 7 pre RDC camps. In order to get selected they went through rigorous training and got selected to represent Pune city. They competed with 7 other cities and got nominated to start a journey in the first camp of pre RDC.
Cadet Manasvi was selected among the 350 credits to be a part of the Maharashtra contingent which also became The Champions directorate. She became the Golden Sergeant.
She also got a chance to represent Maharashtra in front of the Prime Minister.
FIT INDIA
Akshara International is a proud participant of the ‘Fit India Movement’ launched by the Government of India. This movement is aimed at encouraging people to inculcate physical activity and sports in their everyday lives and daily routine. Akshara encourages its students to indulge in active field time during school hours by involving them in fitness and sports activities. This instills in students the understanding for regular physical activity and higher levels of fitness, thus enhancing self-esteem and confidence in them.
Achievements
Akshara school teams actively participate in various district tournaments (under 14 and under 17). Some of our students have been selected further for state and national level.
Some of our outstanding students in various sports are
- Sai Brahmankar – Basketball (nationals)
- Pruthu Deshpande – Chess (Commonwealth Silver 2017, SGFI National Gold 2016, Maharashtra Senior state champion 2015)
- Sana Chauhan – Shooting
- Sanskruti Pawar – Skating champion
- Neha Kolapkar – Lagori (Nationals)
- Varun Gopalhare and Tijal Katti – Inline champs
- Hashmita Sachdev (Athletics)
