Sports
As children come to HHMS to learn, we have to let them learn as much as we can. Learning is not confined to the classroom, learning happens at the playground too. We do not want children to become bookworms. Along with the mind, the body must develop too. Learning sports develops the personality.
This is also a part of our idea of complete education in the HHMS. We strongly believe that developing these skills and co-ordination is as important as training the mind academically. A child learns real life problems, human behavior, expressing emotions and people management at the playground. All these things build character. Learning sports is so important that we simply cannot imagine having an education program without an intensive sports program integrated in it. All the sports are played in our unique sports school uniform. Children are taught individual sports and team sports.Sports are planned according to the physical and mental capacity of the children at each age. They are also planned in such a way that one builds on top of the other. All sports activities are compulsory. Because of this, each student at HHMS gets a proper feel of many different sporting activities. All activities are conducted within the school campus.
1st and 2nd standard children learn free play once in a while. 3rd standard children learn Kho Kho. P.T drills for beginners are also introduced in Standard 3 so that children pick up balancing quickly. 4th standard students learn introductory yoga and P.T drills. We continue the yoga activities as well. In lower classes some of the difficult aasanas are skipped as children lack the necessary strength. In this class, those aasanas are covered. We also introduce basketball to these children, as a starter towards building our school team. On rainy days, we teach our children Carrom and Chess and other indoor games.
Children of the 5th Standard play badminton, basketball and Carrom, along with an introduction to volleyball. In 6th they learn athletics, and chess, along with an introduction to football. 7th standard students practice badminton, basketball and volleyball. In the 8th, 9th and 10th standards, the children learn advanced levels of basketball, volleyball, yoga, badminton and football. These are specifically made so that there is enough physical exertion, and also to encourage continuation of exercise post 10th standard.