Academics, Sports should be developed to boost skills in schools- VAM News

Academic activities with sports added will help because when students engage in sporting activities in the schools, a lot of skills are developed. 

Sunrise pupils, Corpers featured in an Inter house sport representing sunrise model school poe-tube in Ipokia local government: By Olorungbotemi Tunde Bright(VAM news gallery).

Sports are very important in education because there are a number of skills that the children will acquire in the course of preparing for sporting activities.’

Therefore, when children engage in sports, leadership skills, ethics, discipline, communication, resilience is developed. 

VAM News in a statement, When students engage in sporting contest, it makes students learn how to win and lose gracefully because you have to develop resilience to pick yourself up after you have lost the competition. 

Winning and losing during sporting activities  teach students that outside school, in real life, you will win in some cases while you lose at some other times, but when you lose, you don’t give up, you get up and try again.  

A case study of (Inter-house sports competition), we understand the value of good leadership as well as good following. ‘’Today, many students are going to lose but their houses are going to win, today, many houses are going to lose but their students will win  something together.. It thus teaches team spirit and to some extent too, the spirit of collective responsibilities. 

Sporting activities help people shed unnecessary weight. ‘’I can say that many of our students in Nigeria have lost weight in the course of march past rehearsal which is good for the heart. 

Do you know that sport has one universal language that even the body understands. 

Sports have one universal language that everybody speaks as could be seen in case of Special Olympic games for people physically challenged. . 

Special Olympics is when children with intellectual disability are able to come together and engage in sporting activities.. Researchers discovered that people with intellectual disability can be very good at sports. ‘’Sporting is also a form of education". It builds confidence in the children, it makes them understand that you can win today and you can lose tomorrow and even when you lose ,you are not downcast, because you know you can try again. 

‘’Sports help people to build a team spirit".

Sports have become very great source of livelihood in recent times because many students and even grown ups depend on sports to complete their educational careers and eke their living as decent people in the society.