Pakistan School Sana’aPre-Students’ Week Activities Over Students’ week Starts [Archives:2003/629/Culture]

Pakistan School Sana'a is celebrating its annual sports week. The first phase of this annual event has ended. This phase included speech contest, drawing and painting, morning assembly performance and qualifying rounds of football, basket ball and volleyball matches.
Speech contest was divided into two categories; serious and humorous. The topic to speak on for the former was “It's better to wear out than to rust out ” and for the later “Friendship is a curse”. The contests of the serious speech made the audience spell bound by their eloquence and brevity on the other hand the contests of humorous speech appeared on the stage like comedians. The little comedians amused the audience greatly with their jesting comments and satirical speeches. Miss Najah Al-Mujahid won the first position for Jinnah House in the serious speech contest whereas Miss Grami Dong secured the first position for Al Qais House in humorous speech.
Drawing and painting was another event that captured the attention of the students. This event had also two categories namely Junior and Senior. Though the participants were not professionals but their performance was not less than that of the professionals. Participants remained immensely engaged for about two hours in drawing and painting. Their keen interest and dexterity greatly marveled the viewers. In drawing competition Miss Rasha Durrani and Mr. Hadeel won the first positions for Al Qais House and Jinnah House respectively. In painting Miss Samah Fadhal and Miss Rabia Khalid won the first positions for Al Qais House and Jinnah House respectively. Morning Assembly presentation was another spectacular show. Students and the House Masters toiled hard to win this competition. The competition included the recitation of the Glorious Quran and Hadith with short and brief explanation. The competitors staged tableaus and presented skits to amuse the audience. All the Houses concluded their presentations with singing of the National Anthems of Pakistan and Yemen. Al Qais House won the first position in this competition.
The qualifying rounds of food ball, volley and basketball have been completed. Many matches ended up in a draw and the decisions were made on the basis of penalty kicks or by giving extra time. Al Qais House is leading with 37 points. Jinnah House has 30 points, Iqbal House has 25 points and Al-Zubairy House has 23 points.
Now this annual event has entered the final phase of the activities. All the houses are endeavoring hard to win the trophy.
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