SAIIER 2021:New Creation Sports

Physical Education training		Auroville Sports Resource Centre (AVSRC)
Entity::New Creation Sports by Savitri

New Creation Sports is a sports education sub-unit, focusing on teaching Aikiyam School children as well as targeting a larger sports population in Auroville and the surrounding bioregion.

The search to find new ways to impart knowledge to the children of Aikiyam School is an ongoing task. The research aspect leads us to focus on the individual as well as the team work for our students always, keeping in mind that sports should be fun. We try to make the children aware of their body's capacities by exercising all body sections in relative detail so that the students can relate this to their sports.

For the individual development such as athletics, we focus on the practice of individual skills, such as leg drills, quick feet jumping drills, passing and hitting drills etc. For team development during our games competitive season, we sometimes mix older and younger students so that older will learn to look after younger for instance; or we put an older team playing with a younger team then revert back to same age playing. This also allows the students to not be so competitive.

Our newly built multi-purpose stadium allows longer playing times in all seasons and brings together more sports disciplines.

For the bio-region and Auroville at large, this sports ground is developing and becoming a vibrant place for all to play. We plan to develop the volleyball court by adding lights to play at night.

Unfortunately, during this Covid time in 2020-21, we were not able to fully access the school children at Aikiyam, but we are looking forward to a fresh start in July 2021, when the school opens for the new school year.