School is probably the best time for sports. The children are just the right age, have the same age group to interact with, and they have all the stamina that is needed to play. Sports are also highly crucial for their physical, social, and even intellectual development process. It helps create social bonds, a sense of belonging, and also just makes one feel accomplished when they win something at the end of the day.

Sports are just so much fun even if you don’t win in it. The very involved in the game, the exercise, physical activity and the thrill of being on the field is enough benefits to consider making it a part of the school curriculum.

School is meant to be a place of holistic development, where the child learns and develops to be a whole rounded human being, with an educated, open perspective of the world. Sports is an excellent medium to learn to be all of that. 

Sportsmanship is a valuable lesson to take with oneself all through life. The ability to bond with everyone on the team, listen to other perspectives and points of view, without having to find the need to be aggressive and overpowering, are very essential parts of sportsmanship. Such qualities are very good if followed later on in life, in handling the work team and in professional environments.

Sports teach discipline and self-confidence, in the following rules, in working healthily with peers. It helps maintain a daily fitness schedule, and encourages healthy eating. Children who play a lot are more likely to feel the need to eat regularly and healthily. Moreover, it teaches them to be focused and determined on a task or goal at hand. A child who is serious about his cricket match, for example, will spend a considerable amount of time researching and devising strategies. This dedication towards a single task is very commendable, and a valuable trait later on in life.

The competitiveness that sports instill in children is also highly beneficial. It stimulates growth, an enthusiastic drive to do better, and helps in overall development. The healthy competition gives room for improvement and provides opportunities to do better.

Sports, therefore, are as essential for the school’s curriculum as a history of Maths is. Without sports, a student cannot be expected to live his or her young life to the fullest, to be able to maintain a steady level of enthusiasm and zeal, in any bookish learning process, ever.