Pharmacy Winter and Summer Games

The annual Inter-House League (IHL) and Inter-House Event (IHE) organized by NUSPS first started in 2016, a year after the introduction of the House system. These events serve as a platform for the 5 Houses to display their House pride, spirit and identity, in addition to realizing the objectives of the House system to bond students within and across batches, as well as promote interaction between staff and students.

Brains versus brawn – this forms the underlying basis of the IHL and IHE. Encompassing the theme of “brawn”, IHL is a sports league held at the end of Semester 1 (also the start of the “winter break”) where students from the 5 Houses can look forward to friendly competition in team sports such as captains ball and frisbee. To conclude IHL on a high last year (11 Dec 2017), an exciting staff-student five-way mass dodgeball game was planned, but was unfortunately cancelled due to inclement weather.

In contrast to IHL, IHE is held at the end of Semester 2 to mark the end of the Academic Year and start of the summer vacation, and involves games that require more “brains”. The third IHE was recently held on 11 May 2018 and the lead up to the event featured a publicity storyline and teasers involving professors and House Heads, building on the good creativity from the past two IHE editions of “T4KEN” (2016) and “5TRANDED” (2017).

In line with the theme of IHE this year – “E5CAPE” – the finale featured a mass escape room game for the very first time, where students had to work together with their House to solve a variety of puzzles. As part of this segment, students also had to challenge and win the staff representatives from the 5 Houses in a simple game in order to obtain the necessary clues to complete the finale.

The end of IHE also marks the official handover of leadership to the next batch of House Heads who will continue to lead their House forward in the next Academic Year. NUSPS hopes that students, staff and alumni will continue to support the next batch of House Heads and their House Committees during their term as they set forth to bring the House system to greater heights.

After all, though we may be 5 Houses, we are 1 Pharmily.

Do also check out the following links for photos from IHL 2017 and IHE 2018:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/nuspharmacy/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10155061982126129
https://www.facebook.com/pg/nuspharmaceuticalsociety/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2070218712991705

Article contributed by Liu Hon Jin (Class ’20)