Getting Sporty: Old School stylie. #motivationalmonday #MWActive

Taking part this week in the Mark Warner Get families active campaign, you can read about it by following the link. But basically it is about being active..i know..but surprise there. 😉

This week it is all about getting sporty. Made me think of sports day when we were at school, the sack race, egg and spoon, wheelbarrow races. My favourite, the three legged race!! We are coming into the term when many schools are running there sports days but in school nowadays it has changed beyond all recongition. The schools choose the more inclusive ‘afternoon of non-competitive activity’ which involves the kids in the school being divided up into teams of about eight kids, from all different year groups and they then rotate around a variety of different activities.

There are the running races but they are team relay races so that no one child is put forward to win or lose. Im not really sure what my opinion on it is to be honest. I think its great for kids who are maybe not naturally sporty and can feel like they are part of a team…Also one of the sweetest things for me is that as the groups are made up of all the year groups, you get to see the whole of the school community working together. The savvy year 6’s helping and encouraging the nervous reception kids and making sure they are doing their part for their team…but on the other hand it gives no opportunity for any kids to shine on their own. Which surely if any of them will go into any sort of sport – that will have to happen. I dont’ know.

Although thankfully the parents race is now a thing of the past, in our school at least! No more stocking clad women hurtling down a playing field, elbows and fists at the ready, determined to make little johnny proud. Im not sorry at all that we have come into parenting after that had died a death at the hands of the craziness that is health and safety.

But…old style school sports games are still great for having a giggle, getting outside and burning off some energy. We did our own in the local park with some friends and the wheelbarrow race had them collapsing in fits of laughter at the lunacy of trying to make someone run fast on their hands.

Sometimes old school is just the best.

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  1. Jennifer Hughes
    May 19, 2013 / 11:58 pm

    In addition to our weekly Monday Kid Corner, this week’s theme is MUD. Brush off those archives and link them up at thejennyevolution.com. See you there! Jennifer

  2. Olivia Unlucky
    May 19, 2013 / 11:59 pm

    I try and plan a family sports day every summer…it’s so much fun and it brings back great childhood memories of school.

  3. Dale Parker
    May 20, 2013 / 12:20 am

    So what size is this?

  4. Sarahann Tonner
    May 20, 2013 / 12:27 am

    Egg and spoon race!!

  5. Tracy K Nixon
    May 20, 2013 / 4:59 am

    I loved the traditional games like the egg and spoon race!

  6. Michaela Eloise Turner
    May 20, 2013 / 5:00 am

    I loved the rlay race at school, it was so exciting!

  7. RenaPlumrudge
    May 20, 2013 / 5:59 am

    800 meters I won it every year I loved it.

  8. Kelly Koya
    May 20, 2013 / 6:23 am

    I hated sports day at school tbh! I love sports now, run and cycle miles, but at school I loathed it. Though we did used to do an alternative sports day when I was in Junior school, and I enjoyed the stilt walking!

  9. ONeill Hannah
    May 20, 2013 / 6:28 am

    Rounders

  10. Sally Bousie
    May 20, 2013 / 6:35 am

    I loved the high jump, so muc fun flopping onto the bit mat 🙂

  11. Philip Darling
    May 20, 2013 / 6:47 am

    Sack Race

  12. Robert Stirk
    May 20, 2013 / 6:52 am

    My Favourite was the 3 legged race with my twin brother..

  13. Rebecca Rosendale
    May 20, 2013 / 7:01 am

    I loved any sort of obstacle course.

  14. Mark Rayner
    May 20, 2013 / 7:24 am

    Egg and spoon race

  15. Jo Jones
    May 20, 2013 / 8:00 am

    Sack race

  16. Charley Foulds
    May 20, 2013 / 8:11 am

    I loved running!

  17. Louise A
    May 20, 2013 / 8:29 am

    I also hated sports day. I suppose the egg and spoon race because I stood a chance with that one!

  18. Caroline Clarke
    May 20, 2013 / 8:44 am

    I loved everything about sports day, especially running the mile!

  19. Sarah Birkett
    May 20, 2013 / 8:52 am

    dressing up, I always lost but at least it was fun.

  20. Elaine Savage
    May 20, 2013 / 8:55 am

    three legged race

  21. Sally Carter
    May 20, 2013 / 9:03 am

    I liked the relay – prefer a team effort.

  22. Holly Smith
    May 20, 2013 / 9:08 am

    Sack Race

  23. Emma Gallagher
    May 20, 2013 / 9:36 am

    I liked the 800 metres, for some reason I could run that but I never did well at any other distance.

  24. May 20, 2013 / 9:54 am

    I def think it’s all this political correctness gone wrong isn’t it – no competitions etc.
    We still have the parent races mind

  25. Faye Huntington
    May 20, 2013 / 10:33 am

    Long Jump! xx

  26. Tammy Tudor
    May 20, 2013 / 10:35 am

    dressing up race

  27. Kieran John
    May 20, 2013 / 11:32 am

    egg and spoon race.

  28. Caroline H
    May 20, 2013 / 11:41 am

    I always loved the three-legged race – it was just good silly fun and it didn’t really matter who the winner was.

  29. Margaret Remmer-Riley
    May 20, 2013 / 11:44 am

    The Sack race.

  30. Penny Lee
    May 20, 2013 / 12:05 pm

    Tug of war.

  31. Megan Bayford
    May 20, 2013 / 12:47 pm

    WE DIDN’T HAVE SCHOOL SPORTS DAY…

  32. adeinne
    May 20, 2013 / 1:20 pm

    My favourite was the egg and spoon race

  33. Al Smith
    May 20, 2013 / 1:41 pm

    Sack race!

  34. Kirsty Lowde
    May 20, 2013 / 2:32 pm

    I always liked running even though I wasn’t that good at it.

  35. Helen Dickinson Annette
    May 20, 2013 / 3:24 pm

    The egg and spoon race 🙂 x.

  36. Sarah Miles
    May 20, 2013 / 3:43 pm

    Bring back competitive sports, I say! I know, it’s all lovely these days, but get to senior school/life and it’s every man for himself!

    At my first school the oarents race was banned because it got too competitive! There were previously heats and much cheating of holding the egg on the spoon!

  37. May 20, 2013 / 3:50 pm

    My daughter’s school is tiny – only 63 pupils in total and Sports Day is great fun with mixed year groups and teachers and the Head all joining in!
    I love the idea of having your own old school games. Our youngest requested exactly this sort of thing for a birthday party once and it was one of the best we’ve had.
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  38. Helen Moulden
    May 20, 2013 / 4:45 pm

    The long jump!

  39. Jenny
    May 20, 2013 / 4:48 pm

    Wheelbarrow race because we were really good at it, really fast!

  40. Frances Sunshine Hopkins
    May 20, 2013 / 5:43 pm

    I loved the relay race.

  41. Jill Webb
    May 20, 2013 / 5:47 pm

    I liked the three legged race.

  42. andy harris
    May 20, 2013 / 6:08 pm

    obstacle race – unbeaten every year

  43. Megan Adams
    May 20, 2013 / 7:54 pm

    Egg and spoon race 🙂

  44. jemma taylor
    May 20, 2013 / 9:41 pm

    Got to be bean bag race

  45. Sean McCafferty
    May 20, 2013 / 11:41 pm

    Egg and spoon race… Yum yum

  46. May 21, 2013 / 9:09 am

    I hated sports day then and I’m not too keen on it now either! I think it was fun in primary school but these days there is so little competition and ours is just about playing nicely together, it’s a bit tedious to watch! I loved the wheelbarrow and sack race – whatever made them do away with those?!

  47. May 21, 2013 / 3:36 pm

    What a good idea to recreate the races at the park. Somehow it seems to always be raining for our school’s sports day, at least you can choose a sunny day to have your own races!
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  48. Hazel Anna Rigazio
    May 22, 2013 / 10:02 am

    my fav was netball.

  49. Mickie Bull
    May 22, 2013 / 8:37 pm

    Sack race – I was bizarrely talented at that…

  50. Teresa Lee
    May 22, 2013 / 10:48 pm

    The relay race – watching everyone make a right mess of handing over the baton to each other was always funny

  51. Hilda Wright
    May 23, 2013 / 9:20 am

    Plain old running was the one for me because unbelievably I used to be good at it!

  52. Tracey A Belcher
    May 25, 2013 / 6:15 am

    I used to love the relay – team spirit all the way!

  53. Natalie Cross
    May 25, 2013 / 8:05 am

    sack race

  54. Darius Dragasius
    May 25, 2013 / 3:20 pm

    200m run

  55. Karen Barrett
    May 25, 2013 / 6:32 pm

    Javelin, at Secondary, not Primary ;0).

  56. leemc
    May 25, 2013 / 10:07 pm

    The Famous 3 legged race, love to work in a team thats how life should be lived.

  57. Helen S
    May 25, 2013 / 10:42 pm

    My favourite sport at our primary school’s annual sports day was the cross country running, unfortunately this was in the early 70s and the girls were not allowed to compete in this, we were stuck with the egg and spoon and sack race, how things have changed.

  58. Michelle Williams
    May 26, 2013 / 10:38 am

    I loved the three legged race, my mate and I always used to win.

  59. Laura Hadland
    May 26, 2013 / 12:01 pm

    I liked the sack race.

  60. Amy Ripley
    May 26, 2013 / 12:15 pm

    The 3 legged race definitely I was great at it!

  61. Angela Sandhu
    May 26, 2013 / 8:34 pm

    I hated it all!

  62. sj wesley
    May 26, 2013 / 9:21 pm

    The egg and spoon race!

  63. Trupti Dave
    May 26, 2013 / 9:22 pm

    Obstacle Race..Loved I!

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