sports day

first came practice/rehearsal: Chaos. Complete and utter chaos. No one had any clear idea of what we wanted so we didn’t know where to direct the kids. You could tell the kids enjoyed it as every once in a while we were able to get one of the races going and they got to shout and cheer and be mostly out of control. Oh dear..what is sports day going to be like when we get the parents around…


And then it was sports day! And it went quite well. Started with a parade around the grounds (sadly the parents were all late (all but one)) with cheering and marching…then the 25 meter dash from reception class up to 3rd grade. A rush for the finish line without lanes or very far to go…I was standing at the finish line to hand out the #1,2,3 as the school was divided into houses for the competition…all the kids wanted numbers and they wanted to tell me which number they wanted…next was the potato-spoon race…a balance game that the kids got around by holding it with the thumb or other hand but they could only speed walk.

A short break in the middle for the youngest classes to do some demos…kindergarten did somersaults on a blanket. Pre K did some steps and reciting. Reception walked across a raised beam and then balanced small bags of sand as they walked. Then time for relay for the bigger kids and then the sack race. Good fun and not as much chaos as the practice earlier in the week.