Essay On - School Play ground

School Playground

Playgrounds are part of every school for the mental and physical development, because physical activities, exercises and games all are quite essential for the good growth, health, body fitness and development of a personality. Having this in mind schools authorities have chosen a playground to make it ideal in many respects.
In our school, there is a quite big playground, which is located after school building. So the students have the opportunity of walking to the playground. It has a huge boundary wall. We play all types of games in the playground. Even in the evening the students find it pleasant to go to the ground and play. It has green grass looking like green velvet all around the ground. There are green shrubs that are beautifully trimmed. A school peon look after it and work as gardener to water it. Our playground has several big trees under which we sit and talk on matters of interest to us.

Our school gives special importance to games. Our physical training master encourages all students to play the games they are interested in. He teaches us the games with great interest. Being young he is able to play with us. Our school Principal also encourages all students to play one or the other game. Our physical training master conducts classes on daily exercise, body-building and Karate in the playground himself.


Our playground has an ideal location. We play hockey, football, cricket and basketball. It has a tennis-court as well as Squash court. Next to Tennis court, there is also a football court. The students can play cricket in the space allotted at the center of the ground with beautiful pitch. We do long jump and high jump and run till we get tired. Our physical training teacher let every student to play all games. He teaches both boys and girls all kinds of games. There is an indoor stadium in which some of the students play chess and carom.
We have very strong Cricket and football teams of players. Our school is particular in taking part in the inter-school competitions and various inter-schools matches are held on our school playground. Our teams have won many prizes in sports and games. Our school playground has produced many great players. They play at the national level.

There is a small swimming pool by the side of the playground. But the students are warned not to swim in the river. The students who want to become swimmers are given training by some expert swimmers. It is a pleasant sight to see all the students at play. Sometimes the teachers join the games. At that time, there is a wave of joy and happiness everywhere. All look bright happy and jolly. I am proud of my school playground.