Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 21: The KC Public School celebrated its 17th Annual Sports Day with pomp and show in a grand manner, here today.
3000 parents and invited guests were in attendance to grace the occasion.
BR Sharma, Principal Secretary, Planning and Development, Government of Jammu and Kashmir was the chief guest on the occasion and Mr Kiran Wattal, Commissioner, Jammu Municipal Council was the guest of honour.
Raju Chowdhary, Vice Chairman of the School and Arti Chowdhary, Director of Junior School were present on the occasion.
The function started with the unfurling of the national flag by the chief guest after which the contingents of athletes from 4 Houses of the School had a marched past the saluting base in a colourful parade to the accompaniment of the ‘saare jahan se acchha’ tune played by the School brass band.
School Principal, Amarendra Mishra presented welcome address, which was followed by Mass PT display by about 500 children of the School set in synch with Michael Jackson’s ‘They don’t care about us’. The next item was a winsome drill display by senior girls of the School.
The main events of the day were 15 final track races for both boys and girls under different age categories.
At the end of the athletic events, a large number of boys and girls put up an impressive show of Taekwondo and brought forth the significance of martial arts in self defence, especially for women.
After the display, the chief guest and the guest of honour gave away the medals to the athletes and also distributed Rolls of Honour conferred on students for their outstanding performance in academics and sports.
The next event was the tug-of-war between parents and teachers of the School which caused immense amusement among the spectators.
The students also displayed their skills in roller skating by making interesting formations on the basketball court used for the display.
Vote of thanks was presented by Raju Chowdhary.
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