Sports activities

Any academic training, however high its level, would be incomplete if it did not include sound physical and sports education. Nobody doubts the high educational value of playing team sports; the stimulus and the eagerness to win and the strengthening of bonds of friendship which competition among girls and boys from different schools means; learning both from success and from defeat. Furthermore, contrary to what some may think, correct and balanced sports training is in no way an obstacle to the rest of a child’s studies, rather the contrary: it awakens their minds, helps concentration and prepares them to withstand the tiredness and physical wear and tear of the long school day.

Sports activities are an indissoluble part of the overall education which we offer our pupils. With sport we not only seek to help correct physical development but also to encourage a mental attitude in pupils which values constancy of effort to achieve a goal, the importance of team work, keenness to overcome difficulties, and sportsmanlike behaviour both in victory and defeat.