Students Week
Academic stress can decrease student’s performance levels and lead to a lack of concentration in studies as well. Thus, to boost both the cognitive and non-cognitive skills within students, the student council arranged a fun filled student’s week to provide the students with a temporary escape from the burden of exams. The activities included a mystical Qawwali night, Sports day and a refreshing trip to the beach.
The Qawali night or, Shaam-e-Sufi was organized on the 16th October 2021 at the main Ziauddin University Clifton campus, the venue was specifically decorated for the event. The presence of Sabri brothers was the main highlight of the evening that made the atmosphere much captivating by their soulful music creating a spiritual journey for the attendees.
On the 14th November 2021, a picnic was arranged at the Nathia Gali Naval beach to restore the spirits of the students as their exams ended. The picnic spot was exceptionally striking with a pleasing view. After reaching the venue, students were provided with a beach house to settle down and breakfast was served. Moreover, different food stalls were also arranged that had popular street food items like Limca and bun kebab. Down the hill, the students enjoyed the sea breeze and tapped toes to the music with their friends, other activities like kite flying and color sprays were also available for them. Overall the event was properly managed by the organizing team with adequate amount of food to facilitate the students.
Last but not the least, in order for the students to unleash their hidden athletic abilities, a 3 day based Sports event was arranged starting from 18th of November 2021. The venue for Day 1 was the Sindh Sports Complex and, the main sport for the day was badminton. Different teams of students from all the three campuses competed in Single, Doubles, Mix-doubles where the teams showed great enthusiasm. The winners for day 1 badminton single for both girls and boys was Link Road campus while, for double and mix doubles, the North campus secured the wining position. Day 2 of sports arranged at the Clifton family park was full of energy where the main sports were futsal, throwball, basketball and table tennis. For the girls competition, the team of Clifton campus won throwball while, the boys futsal team from North campus took the victory. However, with respect to the basketball match, link road campus won the competition. The last day, ended with cricket and table tennis matches where Clifton boys team won the cricket match. Table Tennis was won by Clifton in Girls Single and Mix Double while North Boys won the Single and Doubles.
The student’s week turned out to be a very happening and lively event for students and was impressively managed by the team as well.
