Sport is a top priority at our school, not just to create good healthy habits for our students, but also emulating these values amongst staff too.
There are many different sports initiatives at school from our staff, who play a variety of different sports from curling to cricket, ballet to basketball, SUP and yoga.
As a school community, sport resonates in our school lives too. Each year we have 2 different sports day: motions day in combination with the Danish initiative in November, to promote healthy lifestyles. And a Summer Sports Day in June to round off the year and promote teamwork and team skills. What is lovely to see is the staff getting involved as much as possible too. Some of them join the team and play alongside the students, some stand along the sidelines and join in the cheering and celebration. The important thing for our students, is to see their teachers be involved.
We also hold annual staff vs. student matches throughout the year. Our annual last-day-of-school football match is always a highlight of the day, and a tradition that gave our MYP5 leavers a chance to play against the teachers they have had during their time at AIS. And this year we introduced a second annual match: the Basketbowl, where a mixed team of MYP students played against out teacher team. These types of events are hugely popular not just for bringing together our entire school community, but for giving students the opportunity to see their teachers in a different light, outside the classroom. And whilst these matches are for a bit of fun, it is really wonderful to see students bond in these matches, to work together, to demonstrate fantastic sportspersonship and take their sport seriously.
Basketball has definitely been a rising favourite sport with our collaboration with the Aarhus Bakken Bears. The bears have made frequest trips to the school with some of their coolest players: they demonstrated tricks, signed some autographs and promoted their basketball club which now houses quite a number of our students. But basketball is also supported by our staff with some keen players especially among our female staff.
A final sport to mention is running. There are lots of runners in our staff of varying levels. Every year in August, the school staff take part in the DHL staffattest – a relay race of 5km walking or running. It is a fantastic tradition where some personal bests and personal achievements are made. This year we also set up our own staff running club, and no less than 6 members of our team ran the Aarhus Motion BESTSELLER Half Marathon 2025 – with veteran runners running their 8th or 9th race, and debut runners demonstrating their risk taking, discipline and dedication.