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Courage House at the weekend emerged winners of the 6th edition of PrimeRose (Montessori) School Inter-House Sports competition hosted at the Anthony Village Recreational Centre in Lagos.

The house with the blue colour chalked up ten gold, five silver and four Bronze medals in a keenly contested competition with over 21 individual and team events.

They were closely followed by Integrity House with seven gold, five silver and six bronze medals, while Love House finished in third place with five gold, four silver and three bronze medals. Peace House placed fourth chalking up two gold, five silver and four bronze medals respectively.

Best athletes

The event saw Adesanya Dolapo of Courage House and Jubril Somide of Peace House emerging best female and male athletes of the school.

Dolapo coasted home to victory in 100m competition while Ada Egbuta of Integrity House won the Lime and Spoon girls’ race.

In the Getting Ready for School competition, Olapade Tamilore of Love House and Okolo Chitoo of Integrity House won in the boys and girls categories respectively.

In the Picking the Ball event, Ireyomi Makinde of Integrity House emerged victorious, while Joy Mkemakolam of Courage House won the girls ‘Filling the Bottle’ contest with Gbadebo Mosope of Peace House winning the Sack Race.

In the fashion parade event, Okolo Chitoo and Okogwu Gift of Integrity House became the new 2011 Queen and Princes of PrimeRose (Montessori) School.

Speaking after the event, Oluremi Joseph, proprietress of the school said:

“We are delighted at the huge turnout of our parents and guardians to encourage our wards in this year’s edition of the Inter-House Sports Competition. This will surely ginger the children to do well and create a good sporting culture in them as they grow up in our institutions of learning”.

For her part, Sabiba Ntiense-Williams, head teacher of the school praised the Inter-House Sports Committee headed by Elugbindin for ensuring that the event got the necessary sponsorship and equipment.