Students at the Aspire Academy.
Doha: Aspire Academy started the new academic year (2021-22) on Sunday by welcoming new and current student-athletes in a gradual return to in-person attendance to classes on the premises.
This academic year starts with an enrolment of 277 student-athletes of whom 50 are new joiners.
The composition of new students is as following, Football 21, Athletics 15, Football Refereeing 5, Fencing 3, Squash 1, Swimming 4, and Table-Tennis 1.
While the coronavirus pandemic has brought about changes and adjustments to general lives, there has been set in place a system that will enable the world renowned Aspire Academy to partially open its doors to students and run as close to normal and pre-pandemic programme as possible: within the State stipulated regulations and observance of safety measures.
The new joiners will be gently introduced to life at Aspire Academy through various entertainment and educational games to help them adapt to life at the institution and enhance their social and behavioural skills.
The Academy will ensure that all entering the premises will have a temperature check, green status appear on the EHTERAZ app, wear face masks in closed places, maintain social distancing and other directives issued by the Ministry of Public Health.
After a socially distanced welcome assembly where the Academy’s teachers were also present, the new joiners were split into groups led by senior students and began to familiarise themselves with the Academy premises timetables and facilities.
The new students got to participate in several educational activities and games in their classrooms, receiving life lessons amongst these: how to live a healthy lifestyle and how to support each other in such a high-achieving environment.
Speaking on the school’s expectations for this academic year, Jassim Al Jaber, School Principal at Aspire Academy said: “Our objective remains to enable our student-athletes to realise their full potential and achieve remarkable things in whatever they choose to pursue. We, as a school, achieve this by constantly working with students, their parents and teachers to improve the academic and sporting mix we offer each individual.”
