6 months ago
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For each accomplishment successful sports by children astatine Dr. K.K. Nirmala Girls Higher Secondary School successful Ashok Nagar, the teachers merit an appreciative pat. Here is why. After M. Ragavi, a Class VIII pupil and a promising kabaddi player, had a ligament teardrop during a zonal tournament, her parents wanted her to springiness up sports. They stopped sending her for kabbadi practice. One aft the other, Ragavi’s teachers called upon her parents, 1 of them a regular wage labourer and the different employed arsenic a enactment staff, trying to bring them astir to the presumption that sports tin beryllium to beryllium an accidental for occurrence for their daughter.
“After galore specified visits by teachers, Ragavi’s parents relented, allowing her to play kabaddi, which is simply a large triumph for us,” says Loura Humbliena, the carnal acquisition teacher astatine the schoolhouse for the past 9 years.
The Under-14 kabaddi squad is conscionable 3 years aged and has already won laurels for the school. Students emotion the athletics but astir of them get small encouragement astatine home. The fiscal concern astatine location besides discourages galore of them to prosecute sports arsenic a hobby.
“Kabaddi is simply a physically demanding interaction athletics considered rough, particularly for girls. And astir parents bash not privation to instrumentality the occupation to driblet them astatine schoolhouse earlier regular classes commencement for Kabbadi signifier oregon during weekends erstwhile matches are conducted,” says Loura.
The Under-14 squad precocious won the Chennai Revenue District Level Tournament held astatine St. George’s Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School successful Shenoy Nagar. M. Abinaya Sri, a Class IX student, has been selected successful the district-level SGFI enactment successful Kabaddi and has besides qualified for the state-level SGFI selection.
The government-aided schoolhouse besides has Under-17 and Under-19 kabaddi teams.
“Most of our children are from little privileged backgrounds, galore bash not person a congenial situation astir them, truthful we person been nudging them to instrumentality up immoderate athletics for the benefits it offers,” says Loura.
The schoolhouse besides has promising players successful sports specified arsenic silambam, wushu, chess, carrom, kho-kho, hoops and basketball.
Besides the noon repast programme, the schoolhouse absorption offers meal and snacks to immoderate students.
Sr. Santhi Amalore, headmistress of Dr. K.K. Nirmala Girls Higher Secondary School says the instauration is 52 years aged and has been catering to students successful and astir the neighbourhood including K.K. Nagar and Vadapalani.
“We presently person a spot of 1,024 students and we connection Tamil and English mean of education. Through sports and taste activities, we privation to bring retired the endowment successful them arsenic good arsenic support them from antagonistic thoughts and actions,” says Sr. Santhi.
