As children come to Millennium to learn, we have to let them learn as much as we can. Learning is not confined to the classroom, learning happens on the playground too. We do not want children to become bookworms. Along with the mind, the body must develop too. Learning sports develops personality.

This is also a part of Dr. Phatak’s idea of complete education. He strongly believes that developing these skills and co-ordination is as important as training the mind academically. A child learns real life problems, human behaviour, emotion expression and people management on the playground. All these things build character. Learning sports is so important that we simply cannot imagine having an education program without an intensive sports program integrated in it.

Children are taught individual sports and team sports. Sports are planned according to the physical and mental capacity of the children at each age. They are also planned in such a way that one builds on top of the other. All sports activities are compulsory. Because of this, each student at Millennium gets a proper feel of many different sporting activities. Except swimming, all activities are conducted within the school campus. Having a unique advantage of such a large campus, all these activities are possible.

1^st and 2^nd standard children learn yoga, karate and cycling. At this age the bodies of the children and flexible and they can do a lot of the movements quite easily. Once they learn these, they can practice the movements from time to time in adulthood and remain flexible even in later life. Cycling is a good form of exercise for the children and an essential skill that they pick up. Yoga and Karate are both done in the school uniform itself. No separate dress needs to be purchased.

3^rd standard children learn swimming, gymnastics and kho kho. Gymnastics naturally builds on the yoga that they have learnt. Since they already have the basic skills, they are able to do workouts on the beam and 3^rd standard is a good age to learn swimming. Children learn the basic strokes and overcome the fear of water. The swimsuit and towel is given to them in the school. Kho kho is the first team game that the children play. The rules are quite straightforward and the children understand strategy, how to play as a team and how to win.

4^th standard students learn mallakhamb. The boys workout on the mallakhamb pole and girls learn rope gymnastics. Since these sports build on gymnastics, the skill level that the children attain by this class is quite high. They also learn roller skating. We continue the yoga activity as well. In lower classes some of the difficult aasanas are skipped as children lack the necessary strength. In this class, those aasanas are covered.

Children of the 5^th play badminton, basketball and carom. In 6^th they learn athletics, gymnastics and chess. 7^th standard students learn table tennis, volleyball and aerobics. In the 8^th the children choose one of these activities and pursue it for the next two years. Since they have had fair exposure to each activity, they can make a sensible choice.