Keeping the trend of conducting workshops St. Joseph ’s Sr. Sec. School has been providing many different learning opportunities not only in academics but in sports as well. The school had a privilege to conduct a workshop to cater to the hunger of students to learn about the world renowned game Basketball. It was conducted by the renowned Head Coach Mr. Kenneth Blake of USA – from ‘Assist Basket Ball Network’ – a world reputed Basket Ball Academy with operation in multiple countries. He has also been sharing his skills in camps with NBA teams and is currently serving in India . 150 students from classes 5th to 9th along with their PTI teachers got the privilege to attend the workshop.
His target was to achieve the objectives to acquaint the students with the ‘Idea of working with school teams’ , ‘ Help in the formation of Sub-Junior school teams’, and ‘to teach the skills and fundamentals of Basket Ball’.
As present era emphasizing on learning by doing, he picked up the technique of demonstration to make the students more familiar and have better understanding of the skills which emphasized on ‘ Passing skills’. ‘ Shooting Techniques’ and ‘Defensive stances’. He answered many queries put forth by inquisitive students.
Mock matches were also conducted so as to analyse the performance of the students. He divided them into 2 teams and made them play. The students played the matches with full enthusiasm and tried their level best to come up with the expectations of Mr. Kenneth Blake. The zeal of the students was beyond the expectations of the trainer. They are looking forward to many more informative workshops of such kind. The workshop was highly rated by the students.
