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October/2023
DHYAN CHAND INTER-HOUSE SPORTS WEEK
‘Dhyan Chand, a former Indian Hockey team The upcoming week, however, was a task cut out
captain, revolutionized hockey in India. At a for the P.E. students as our P.E. teacher had an
young age, Dhyan Sharma joined the Indian injury.
Army. Every night, he used to practice hockey
with a stick under the moon. That’s how he got The next day arrived with great excitement
his nickname Dhyan ‘Chand’, from the Hindi about the next event - Volleyball! It was the first
‘Chaand’, meaning ‘moon.' He carried India to 3 inter-house team event. It went really well, and
consecutive gold medals in the Olympics in in between, for fun, even our Principal and Dean
1928,1932 and 1936. His most viewed final match had a go at it!
was in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where they beat The following day, our Chemistry teacher who
Germany 7-2. Adolf Hitler himself offered Dhyan plays a lot of badminton and knows all the rules,
Chand a position in the German Army and to play was the referee for the event. Next up was
for the German hockey team. Dhyan Chand, a football, which took two days to complete but was
simple and honorable man, said no to Hitler. This really fun. One player somehow scored two half-
shows Dhyan Chand’s loyalty towards India. court goals and brought victory to his house. In
competitive events like these, it's really nice to
see students bring out their best in the true spirit
of sportsmanship.
Every year on the 29th of August, we celebrate
National Sports Day in India. Vellore Cricket was initially a let down for the finalists -
International School planned a week full of inter- the Voyagers and Pioneers - because it rained
house sports competitions starting from the 23rd heavily for two days. When the match finally
of August. The houses were divided into 4 teams: happened, both teams were really happy to play.
Innovators (orange), Voyagers (blue), Explorers Winning was not their main motive; they just
(red) and Pioneers (green). The Students of VIS wanted to play!
were really excited for this much awaited event By the time the sports-week came to an end, we
as this was our first inter-house competition this had all had a great time. Many students learnt a
year. lot during the events, but above all the Sports
It was all kick-started on the 23rd of August by a Week taught us that one of the best kinds of
running event in which the Voyagers prevailed. enjoyment you can have in school is healthy
There was a really healthy competition during competition.
that event and all the participants and observers Akhil (9A) & Ardith (9B)
were enthusiastic.
