In today's news analysis correspondent writes on the need for education stakeholders, school authorities, government through the ministry of sports and youth development among other relevant bodies to begin to start prioritizing inter house sports as a strategy and platform for grooming young talents that will make the nation, their states and themselves proud in major competitive sports events both at national and international levels.
Every year public and private schools organise inter house sports competitions for their students and pupils.
During such sports meets, students and pupils are beautifully dressed in their different houses colors.
The children participate in various track and field events such as match past, different relay races, filling the bottles, sack race, long jump, high jump among others.
On this day, some sports officials, members of the Nigerian Association Physical And Health Education Recreation NAPHER are always on ground to document records of various games while parents and guardians sit as spectators to watch their kids and wards exhibiting sporty talents they have not seen in them before.
It is a directive from the ministry of education to all schools from across the nation, to organize sporting events to train school children mentally and physically.
However there are calls for a change in the narrative on why inter house sports are organized, so that inter house sports can be used to discover and develop sports talents that will make the state, and indeed the nation proud in the future.
Sports analysts have stressed the need for well to do individuals and organisations, including community leaders to sponsor and support sports development by building sports academies where young talented children will be trained.
Parents and guardians, should engage their children and wards in regular sporting exercises, as they stand alot to gain from it in term of making them bodily fit among others.
It is pertinent to note that aerobic exercises also help to build the affective, cognitive and psychomotive domains of the learning of a child.
Furthermore, inter house sports competitions should be sustained as a platform for catching them young in sporting activities.
The ministry of sports and youth development should ensure that they assign staff of the ministry to observe inter house sports competitions with the aim of identifying extra ordinary talents in school children who emerge winners by breaking set records, unimaginable for their ages.
Such uniquely talented children should not only be identified but also be followed up by ensuring that they are enrolled in sports academies where they can be trained to become great athletes in the future.
For more effectiveness, inter house sports should be adequately funded by government, since they are the ones who instructed public schools management not to collect inter house sports levies from school children.
Private schools who are not organizing inter house sports competition should be compelled to do so, for the good of those children in that school.
If Delta state and indeed Nigeria must sustain its pride of place in sports, then we must start paying real attention to young talented athletes right from the primary and secondary schools during inter house sports competition.
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