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The Gymnastics Academy at the British School of Bahrain is hosting its second gymnastics competition since opening in April 2012. Last year we hosted a competition between two gymnastics clubs on the island to help raise the profile of the sport.

This year our number of gymnasts have been steadily increasing so we have elected to host a club competition in order to celebrate the achievements of our gymnasts this year.

On Friday, 110 gymnasts from three to 13 years will be competing on Floor, Beam, Bars, Vault and Trampette. In each round 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will be awarded in each discipline, in addition to an Overall Round winner. Trophies will also be awarded to gymnasts whom the coaching team have nominated as ‘Most Improved’ and ‘Most Dedicated’ in their category over the course of this year.

The day will be structured as follows:
8.45am Round 1: Novice 3-4 years Mixed
9.40am Round 2: Novice 5-7 years Girls and Novice 5-7 years Boys
11.40am Round 3: Novice 7-9 years Girls and Novice 8+ years Boys
1.40pm Round 4: Novice 9+ years Girls and Novice 4-5 years Mixed
3.45pm Round 5: Intermediate Girls and Advanced Mixed
Presentations for the competition medals and trophies will occur at the end of each round.

Matt Brant,
Director of Gymnastics, The British School of Bahrain.

Generally I am not the type who writes letters to newspapers. This time I had to do it. We read the article in your youth talk column today on entropy and just loved it.

Both I and my husband are engineers and after reading this article at the breakfast table on Wednesday, just could not control going back in time to the days when we were ourselves grappling with high-level physics.

Having been married for the past 12 years, I don’t recall another moment in these past years when I had so much fun at home remembering about our days gone by.

Congratulations to young writer Hemangini Raina for writing this wonderful piece. The way this concept was woven into the realities of day-to-day life was beautiful.

Tracy,
Amwaj

I enjoyed reading your article on the BSB in last week’s issue and thought it was very well written. Raised enough questions but still came across as very balanced.

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Unconditionally yours … ours
Come what may, I am there for you is a manna from nature.
In the guise of a mother comes security and unconditional love.
Even before solicited, willing and yielding is mother earth’s nature.
Most benevolent and supportive almost patriarchal in nature is nature.

Abundance in all resources does provide this mystical creation.
Exploitation and destruction of the luxuriant natural haven does wreak havoc.
In many forms, in a fit of fury, cries the outraged and abused creation.
Nemesis forewarns the impending doom and gloom, which lurks for the future generation.

In the name of glory and fame, do countries and nations create edifices that challenge nature!
Like a child, who has tasted the sweet success of independence, defies parental succor.
Flaunting and taunting stares in the face of the serenity and benignity of nature.
Frequent are calamities as floods, droughts, famines and tsunamis, from a weeping nature.

How can we not care? Why do we not care? When will we care?
The only crime that nature committed was to unconditionally care and share.
All the flora and fauna, rivers and mountains, earth and ether mark this numinous care.
That which was blessed as unconditionally yours is unconditionally ours to cherish and care.

Mrs Rama Nair,
Lecturer,  Royal University for Women.