Sports
The Junior Academy offers a wide range of sporting activities in school. These include hockey, rounders and cricket, tag rugby, swimming, football, tennis, squash and athletics. Facilities for sports offered include:

• A Soccer field which is also used for rugby and hockey.
  
• Basketball and Netball courts which also doubles up as Tennis courts.
  
• A Volleyball court.
  
• A swimming pool which is regularly maintained by a qualified pool attendant.
  
• An attractively designed dance studio with a large space mainly used for activities such as gymnastics, yoga, karate and dance.
  
• The school also enjoys the sporting facilities of the Aga Khan Sports Club. Tournaments such as Soccer, Cricket and Rounders are usually held at the Club.
  
• Recent collaboration with the Windsor Golf and Country Club has enabled the school to offer golf lessons to the students during the popular enrichment programme every Wednesday.

The Aga Khan Academy has a 25M pool. Students are given swimming instruction from a very early age and our swimming team features regularly in The “Nairobi Amateur Swimming Association” (NASA) interschool swimming galas with many swimmers in the “AA” and “AAA” categories. Both competition and recreational swimming are enjoyed at The Aga Khan Junior Academy. The school also holds annual swimming galas for both the Upper and Lower schools.

U11 Cricket/ Rounders Tournament
This event takes place in the month of October. The event provides an excellent opportunity for young talent and positive competition to be displayed.

U11 Soccer Tournament
In the month of February a Soccer Tournament is hosted by the school whereby other schools are invited to compete for the coveted trophy.

Annual Sports Day
The School Sports Day is a mixture of fun, entertaining races and flat races held each year. We strive to ensure that all students actively take part in the event.

Key Achievements in Sports
The school has achieved a number of awards in various sporting activities:

• In February 2005, the 7 year old boys were 2 nd overall in The Aga Khan Junior Academy Soccer Tournament.

• The grade one Soccer Team took part in the Banda School Soccer Tournament on June 7th 2005, and emerged as the overall champions. This was the second year in a row that the grade one team has won the trophy .

• The U9 Netball team won the Premier Academy Tournament while the U12 boys won the Cricket Tournament in June 2005.

• The school took part in four swimming galas organized by the Nairobi Amateur Swimming Association. Rupam Shah dominated the 10/11 age group for girls while Harleen Gokaldas, Malouf Shivji, Zeeshan Sohani, Tanya Shah, Rushil Shah and Shimona Shivji displayed exemplary performance.

• The overall winners of Rounders during the annual Cricket and Rounders tournament held on October 2 nd, 2005 at the Aga Khan Sports Club.

Other Achievements at the JuniorSchool
Interschool Science Fair
The School Science Team won the “Best Primary School Trophy” at the interschool Science Fair held at Rusinga School on November 5th, 2004. There were about nine other Primary schools that participated.

Lion King Musical
The production took place at the Kenya National Theatre on the 18th and 19 th of March 2005 with 3 house full shows. The cast included 150 children from Key Stage 1 who were under 9 years and a choir of 30 children who were under 12 years. The musical was aired on several television channels.

Community Service
Community Service is offered as part of the enrichment programme (Helping Hands). Students from grades 1 to 6 are given opportunities to take part in this programme. This helps to promote a caring attitude among the children and enables them to emphasize with those less fortunate than themselves.

Kayole children’s home
Kayole children’s Home is a centre for orphaned children in the slum area of Kayole in Nairobi. As part of the Helping Hands project this year, the school adopted the home, to help and work with the children. The Helping Hands group donated clothes and toys to the home and spent quality time getting to know the children. The second project for this home was a fund raising event, which raised money to buy food items and other necessities for the children. Other projects for this year include fund raising events towards the Pakistan quake victims and famine relief in the Northern part of Kenya.

Last year, the Community Service group came up with a number of fund-raising activities and a total of Kshs. 141,085/= was successfully raised. A cheque for Kshs. 70,000/- was presented to the Sri-Lankan High Commissioner for the Tsunami victims. A cheque for the same amount was given through Honourable Moody Awori at a function organized by UNICEF for the Malaria Campaign in Kenya.

Heart to Heart Foundation Charity Walk
The school has actively been supporting the fundraising activities of the Heart to Heart Foundation, which aims to provide proper medical care and surgery for poor children with heart ailments.

Cadbury Chocolate Advertisement
Five students of the Junior Academy were given an opportunity to show their multi-media talents in the form of a radio commercial for a new chocolate product from Cadburys Chocolate. KISS FM recorded the children for an advert to be played on radio.


Other Activities
As our mission statement indicates, the Junior Academy believes in the holistic development of the child. Therefore co-curricular activities play an important role in the school. A wide range of activities from physical education to fine arts are offered to the children.

Every Tuesday, all children in school take part in inter-house competitive games such as soccer, cricket, tag rugby, hockey, fun races, basketball and swimming with active supervision by the P.E. department and other teachers.

Enrichment Programme
Once a week, students are given a choice of enrichment fun activities sponsored by each member of the staff at the school. Some activities on offer are rock climbing, horse riding, archery, golf, cookery, mask making, reading circles and model making. As the name suggests, these activities are truly enriching experience for the participants, and designed to ensure that children take away a new skill, knowledge or expertise at the completion of each activity. Children are also offered Piano and Karate classes conducted in school by external tutors.

LAMDA
Drama Development in association with The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) offers students opportunities to develop skills in speech, drama and communication. The courses run within the school’s daily curriculum.

Outdoor Adventure
At the start of each academic year, grade 6 students undergo a team building programme usually held at the River Sagana Camp to prepare them for leadership roles. Camping trips for different classes are also organized to tie in with the various Units of Inquiry. These trips enable students to learn important life skills such as independence, risk-taking and collaborative work.

Canteen
The school canteen area is a place where the children eat their lunch and socialize with their class mates. The bright colours of the banda set a friendly and cheerful tone to the setting. The lunch menu offers a variety of both eastern and western cuisine on a day to day basis, to accommodate the cultural diversity of the students at the school. The students have the option of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian meals.

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