Rumah Aman Sports Day 2009

During the last school holidays, the boys and staff of Rumah Aman had lots of fun participating in the sports festival that was held from December 9^th. to 21^st. 2009, the longest sports event ever held in our five years of operation.

There were eight indoor games contested namely table tennis for both the children and staff, checkers, scrabble, chess, monopoly, sahiba (Malay language scrabble), congkak ( a traditional Malay indoor game) and a jigsaw puzzle competition for the five, six, seven and eight year old boys.

The children were divided into five groups of six members each according to their dormitory Taqwa, Sabar, Iman, Ehsan and Yaqin. Each group were joined by the adult staff. All games were played in a league format except monopoly, scrabble and sahiba.

The indoor games were played from 9^th. to 17^th. December 2009. Each group picked one or two players to be pitted against players from the other groups. The winners and losers were each awarded points accordingly that is 3 points for winning, 1 point if the result was tied and 0 points for losing.

The last competition held on 21^st December was an outdoor game called rounders, where the staff also joined in and tried very hard to give everyone a run for their money.

Everyone had lots of fun especially the children who were given a lot more time to play than attending classes. Heartening to note, they showed a lot of fighting spirit and teamwork and willing to listen to instructions to help their team win.