Sri Prakash Synergy School, Peddapuram organized one of its flagship annual events Schoolympics-2022 on 8 November 2022. The grand inaugural event was witness to an array of competitions encompassing co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that ranged from cricket to clay modelling to quiz. Lt. Col. Sri Varun Bhartiya garu, Commanding Officer, 18 (A) Battalion NCC, Kakinada graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.
The high-spirited inaugural session, the first day of the five-day schedule of the Schoolympics, ceremonially commenced with the hoisting of the National Flag followed by the Schoolympics flag by the Chief Guest Lt. Col. Sri Varun Bhartiya and the Director of the school Sri Ch. Vijay Prakash respectively. The four houses of the school – Chola, Mourya, Maratha, and Kakatiya – presented the Guard of Honor to the Chief Guest. The inaugural ceremony was rather studded with a couple of unique features. One of them was the five students who had been selected as Student-Teachers were the Guests of Honor on this occasion and, most interestingly, the five students actively participated in a thought-stirring panel discussion on the topic: “Does Homework Improve Learning or Impede Learning?” moderated by the Senior Principal Sri M.V.V.S. Murthy. In his key-note
address, the Chief Guest Lt. Col. Sri Varun Bhartiya was highly appreciative of the combined learning process which comprises of academics, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities being implemented in the school. He exhorted the students to honor time-management in the learning process and categorically stated that there is no short-cut to success and further appealed students to plan and execute their study schedules with more maturity and understanding. The Director of the school, Sri Ch. Vijay Prakash, quoting the maxim “Freedom mis-utilized takes one nowhere”, underlined the need to be independent in designing one’s learning process with added caution and conviction. The phenomenal professor of Mathematics Sri S. R. Santhanam pronounced that sole focus on academics alone would make students bored and burnt out in the conspicuous absence of extra-curricular activities. The Schoolympics torch ignited the imaginations of all the students as the Chief Guest handed it over to the sports secretary of the student council who in turn took it round the ground through the hands of other council members and finally kindled the Schoolympics flame. Exhibiting the height of sportsmanship and craftsmanship, a solemn oath was also administered by the whole school. There emerged true momentum to the spirit of the day when the school director declared the Schoolympics meet open.
Parents, academic and cultural coordinators, teachers, students, staff were among those who made their distinct presence felt on the day.