St George's School recently celebrated its Sports Day at Berakas Sports Complex.

The guest of honour was Melvin C Almonguera, Third Secretary and Consul, Embassy of the Philippines in Brunei Darussalam. Also in attendance were Anthony Liew Vun Chiang, Chairman, School Board of Governors, Charles Shim, member of School Board of Governors, the school principal, Janidi Jingan, and deputy principal, NM Mubarak.

In his welcoming speech, Janidi Jingan, said, "Our deeper motive is to build not just winners on the field, but well-balanced healthy individuals who will have much more to contribute to society and to the country.

"Sports, and the range of other physically challenging activities that we expose our students to, go beyond developing fitness and athletics, and games skills."

He said that today's generation is confined indoors for long periods of time at the expense of sports and other physical exercises and that it is important to know that physical exercise plays a vital role in releasing built up energy and stress.

The principal added that sports would freshen the mind and this would lead to better creativity and higher productivity. He said that taken up from young, sports would help nurture a certain mental toughness, resilience and team spirit.

Saathish Murugesan was named Overall Best Male Athlete and Best Athlete Under 15 Boys whilst Afrin Begam was the Overall Best Female Athlete and Best Athlete Above 15 Girls. Cassandra Jacklya binti Dakius was named Best Athlete in the Under 15 category for girls.

The title of Best Athlete Above 15 Boys went to Wel'son Ak Awang @Elvis.

Prizes were given to winning athletes by the guest of honour and other invited guests. Green House eventually emerged as the Overall Champion House 2016 apart from winning the title of Champion House for Girls.

Yellow House won for Best Team Spirit, Red House won in the Champion House Parade and Blue House won for Champion House for Boys.

The customary annual 'tug-of-war' event was won by Green House who emerged as Champion House.

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