Last week, TISA and its Secondary PHE team held the biggest annual secondary sports event - the Sports Day. Sports Day has a special place in the hearts of TISA family: for our budding athletes, it’s a chance to show off their finesse and lead their “houses” to triumph. For the younger students, it’s an opportunity to show that they can compete with the very best. For the P8s, it’s part of an introduction to the Secondary School - a chance to get to know their peers and teachers. Most importantly, it’s a school-wide celebration of team spirit, where students of different ages, interests, outlook, and skills come together to make-up colour-themed squads that perform seamlessly as single units.

While TISA’s athletic fortunes are often swayed by sibling rivalries; on the Sports Day, competitive siblings from one family represent one house. In this dimension, the Sports Day is “family business” - with “Green,” “Blue,” “Red,” and “Yellow” consisting entire families - with student competing, parents supporting, and teachers offering advise and encouragement.

The Sports Day 2017 included relay runs, volleyball, trivia, basketball, and of course, the “King” of Sports Day games - the “Tug-o’-War”. In between these nail-biting competitions, the students helped themselves to fruit and drinks offered by our parent community, and occasionally dropped by TISA 5 Gymnasium to learn the latest scores from our ever-vigilant scorekeeper. Dropped three points at volleyball? - better go and one-up the other houses on the relay.

In the end of an exhilarating and grand celebration of TISA sports, the “Red Rum” powered itself to victory - taking the crown away from our perennial champions “Blue” for the first time in five years. It is perhaps only fitting that “Reds” won on the year of TISA’s anniversary - after all it’s the house that shares its colours with TISA TITANS. Next year; however, things may change in the uncertain realm of sports, and we may be all wearing Green, Blue or Yellow (or Red again!) all the way until the end of school year.