Northern Park Primary School Extracurricular Activities
SPORTING ACTIVITIES
The following sporting codes are offered during the course of the year.
NON-SPORTING ACTIVITIES
GENERAL
Fixtures are played on a regular basis against local schools, as well as some in the country such as Eston, Greytown, Ixopo and Richmond. During the swimming season, an annual inter-house gala is hosted together with some mini inter-school galas.
The second term is by far the busiest in terms of sporting fixtures and the organizing of tournaments. Amongst all the sport played during this term, an u11 Girls’ Hockey tournament is held on the first Saturday in May which coincides with an annual “Art in the Park” activity where art produced by learners from a number of schools is displayed amongst the avenue of enormous Plane Trees bordering the sports field. An annual Soccer Tournament a few weeks later, is always a morning of great fun with participating schools getting to play between 4 and 5 mini games of soccer.
During the third term, the entire school, from Grade 3 to 7 is strongly encouraged to become involved in the school’s Athletics programme. A very lively and highly competitive inter-house athletics meeting concludes the athletics season for the school’s learners, however the school’s Athletics team goes on to participate in an annual inter-school meeting held early in September to welcome in the season of Spring. Five schools usually compete in this friendly but highly competitive meeting.
During the different “sporting seasons”, teams from the school’s three sports-houses compete in internal, inter-house matches. These games are invariably the highlight of the season and one can imagine the competition that they are played in. Each winning team causes points to be accumulated towards a final shield presented at the end of each year.
