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COBIS Secondary Games Sheffield 2017 COBIS Secondary Games Sheffield 2017 COBIS SECONDARY GAMES FRIDAY- SUNDAY Sheffield 19 - 21 MAY 2017 Official Games Website: www.cobisgames.com COBIS Secondary Games Sheffield 2017 COBIS Secondary Games Sheffield 2017 Dear all, Foreword from the Lord Mayor of Sheffield Welcome to Sheffield! As we all come together for the COBIS Secondary Games, held in the UK for the first time this year, COBIS is delighted to welcome students On behalf of the City of Sheffield I have great pleasure and colleagues from 17 countries and 27 teams. We look in welcoming you to our magnificent city. I appreciate forward to three days of competitive sport and new- many of you have come from different corners of the found friendships. globe but hope your travel experience was pleasant and you are now looking forward to a weekend of events COBIS is committed to nurturing, developing and recognising that will bring lots of excitement. the student talent and achievement which exists both within our classroom and is shown through a range of exciting extra During the weekend of competition Sheffield will see the talents curricula activities. The COBIS Games is the perfect example of the young sports people within the COBIS family compete of this commitment in action. All participants are set to enjoy across three sports within three excellent venues across the the competitive spirit of the Games, which provides the perfect city. opportunity for teams to strive for success and showcase their A lot of hard work goes on behind the scenes from many individual and collective talents. organisations. So I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the We are delighted to welcome students, team leaders and staff at the Event Teams and Marketing Sheffield from Sheffield parents from COBIS schools in Africa, Asia, Europe and City Council, City of Sheffield Swim Squad, City of Sheffield the Middle East to the UK. Preparing for such a large- and Dearne Athletics Club and Onside Sports. Plus special scale, competitive event takes enormous commitment from thanks must also go to the ever present band of officials competitors and coaches, as well as parents, spectators and & volunteers who constantly give up their precious time to officials alike. Congratulations to you all for being here and let’s support. keep those energy levels high over the three days. Finally, I do hope that you enjoy your stay here and get As the COBIS Games grows, it becomes increasingly clear the opportunity to see some of the many beautiful sights of that this event is not possible without the dedication and Sheffield and surrounding areas. commitment of our hosts and organisers. I hope you will join I wish you luck and much enjoyment over the weekend me in thanking the staff in Sheffield for welcoming us to their city and the team at COBIS Head Office for organising such a professional and well-spirited tournament. Finally, on behalf of the growing family of COBIS schools across 80 countries and 5 continents, all good wishes for the Games ahead - let the Games begin! Councillor Anne Murphy Lord Mayor of Sheffield Colin Bell COBIS CEO cobis.org.uk COBIS Secondary Games Sheffield 2017 COBIS Secondary Games Sheffield 2017 Berlin British School, The Berlin British School are Republic, Kenya, Russia, Mongolia, extremely excited about competing Colombia and of course Germany. Germany in the COBIS Games competition. The team is most looking forward to This will be the fourth time the the football tournament, but it must school has competed, having be said, slightly apprehensive about previously been to Istanbul, the swimming. They are also a very History of the COBIS Student Games Athens and Dubai. Our team is friendly and sociable lot, who are truly international with students keen to meet and make friends with coming from, Poland, Turkey, Czech the other competing schools. The COBIS Student Games were founded in 2012 at the Prague British School in order to create an event that brought together COBIS students from across the globe. The first Games was opened by COBIS taking part after the competition was opened Honorary President, Sir Roger Fry, for students by His Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak aged 9-11. Twelve schools took part in the Al Nahyan. After three days of gruelling inaugural competition with The British School competition, St Saviour’s School, Ikoyi in in The Netherlands winning the overall Nigeria was crowned the Primary winner for competition. 2014. Following on from the success of the first 2015 saw the Games return to Europe to be COBIS Student Games, the 2013 Games hosted in Athens. For the first time, the Primary were hosted at The British School in The and Secondary Student Games were hosted Netherlands with more than 200 students from together by St Catherine’s British School with 15 COBIS Member Schools taking part. After the competition taking place at the prestigious three exciting days of basketball, athletics and Olympic Centre in Athens. More than 500 football, The British School Al Khubairat were students attended from 28 schools from Asia, crowned the victors, coming first in basketball Africa, Europe and the Middle East. and athletics and second in football. After a fantastic three days of sporting 2014 marked the beginning of the Secondary achievements from all involved, St Saviour’s Games and the first time the Games were School, Ikoyi in Nigeria were once again British Embassy is known both inside and outside of sessions so that we can do the best hosted outside of Europe, with The British named the Primary school winners with Dubai School Ankara Turkey. we can when we are at the games. School Al Khubairat hosting the third Primary College named as the Secondary winners. BESA has attended the COBIS We are really looking forward to Games twice before. We have an attending the games and meeting Student Games and the British International Established in 1959, The British 2016 saw the COBIS Student Games hosted Embassy School Ankara is a small enthusiastic team that has been other young athletes from around School Istanbul hosting the first ever in Dubai (Dubai College, Secondary Games) school consisting of roughly 200 training very hard since the start of the world. We are sure that it will be this year. Together we have had lots a great experience for our children. Secondary Student Games. and Kazakhstan (Haileybury Astana, Primary children. It provides the IPC and IMYC curriculum for students aged of fun and we have been working The Secondary Games included 12 COBIS Games) for 36 COBIS Member Schools. 3-14. Our reputation for excellence co-operatively during training Member Schools for three days of athletics, In 2017, the COBIS Primary and Secondary football and swimming with St Catherine’s Games will be held in the UK for the first British School Athens taking home the trophy. time with the former held at Stantonbury near The Primary Games took place in Abu Dhabi at Milton Keynes and the latter being hosted in The British School Al Khubairat with 16 teams Sheffield. Games Logo After an internal competition within the British School Al Khubairat, winners of the 2016 COBIS Secondary Games, this design was chosen for the 2017 COBIS Secondary Games. Well done to Daniel Lind, who designed the logo. COBIS Secondary Games Sheffield 2017 COBIS Secondary Games Sheffield 2017 British International BISC was established in 1976 and taken part in the event having British School on roll are nearly 1,800 students previously won the COBIS Primary in 2008 moved from the centre of previously participated in Istanbul, of more than 50 nationalities. Games in 2013 in The Netherlands School, Cairo Cairo to a purpose built campus in Athens and Dubai. BISC would like Al Khubairat BSAK have a proud tradition of and were runners up in Athens in participating in a number of COBIS 2015. This current squad is excited the Beverly Hills suburb of western to thank all of the organisers for all The British School Al Khubairat Games and hosted the Primary and looking forward to making the Cairo. It now has approximately 900 their hard work in preparation for caters for children aged 3-18; it is Games in 2014. journey to England for this year’s students from FS to IB. what is going to be a memorable one of the most established schools competition. As always the school is delighted to event. in the Middle East, located in the BSAK are reigning Secondary take part in the Secondary Games; heart of the capital of the United Champions after winning the COBIS this will be the fourth time we have Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi. Currently Secondary Games 2016, having British International The British International School of this size so we are a mixed bag of British School Bahrain in competitions around the Team BSB training t-shirts in PE Riyadh are thrilled to be competing nerves and excitement. Students Middle East, whilst other students lessons, fundraising, applying for School of Riyadh in their first U13 COBIS Games. For from the UK, Australia, New Bahrain have a natural talent in sport and sponsorship from local companies, lend their skills to the requirements and delivering assemblies. The some of our students it will be the Zealand, Ireland, Canada and Egypt Team BSB is made up of dynamic, of each. Since the selection was students are very much looking first time on British soil and they are make up our very International team. sporty and enthusiastic students made, members of Team BSB have forward to the opportunity of enthusiastic about experiencing Good luck to all competitors.
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