Playground games banned at Primary school

balletshoes

tiff wrote: »

Bulldog wasnt banned in our school until recently, there was never a blanket ban across all schools. So manhunt and touch are risky too? Sorry I dont believe it.

whats manhunt and touch? they're maybe called something else where I'm from.

balletshoes

rachbc wrote: »

shouldn't year 6 be smoking behind the bike sheds, snogging and stealing dinner money in training for highschool rather than playing games

Both the year 6 girls my DD is friends with in her class (she's year 5) seem to spend most of their break times trying to sneak back into the school so they can take random photos of each other and anyone else who sneaks in with them, on their camera phones. And yes, they both have boyfriends, also year 6s. The rule appears to be the oldest year 6 girl has to go out with the oldest year 6 boy, and once thats established, every other year 6 has someone they call boyfriend or girlfriend lol.

Playground politics - I vaguely remember when that was the most important thing in life ever :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

mummyplus3

Bulldog was banned at my primary school but that was about about 13 years ago. shame we used to love it, and 40/40

Becles

They banned balls, running games, Bulldog and so on at the primary school for "health and safety" reasons.

The head would probably have a fit if he saw mine on weekends doing things like climbing trees, sliding down the hill on "for sale" signs and swinging across the stream on a bit of rope tied to a branch

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

We did all of those - plus murderball, which was usually played with a cricket ball or 'softball', although that is possibly the greatest contradiction in terms I have ever experienced. (dodgeball was for wimps!)

We also played shinty. Very hard.

BB usually ended once someone was flattened under about 25 other people and squealing that they couldn't feel their feet.


We weren't allowed to play around the trees on the field (not that it stopped us throwing things at the wasps' nest in the weeping willow) although we could play under the flowering cherry trees when they were in blossom, getting covered in cascades of snow white or perfect pink petals, but we used to take great running leaps off the 4 foot high brick wall into the concrete playground or play scrambles.

Scrambles. You brought in the marbles that you didn't actually want any more. You stood on the wall and bellowed 'SCRAMMM BUUUULLLLE'
and chucked them at the crowd that gathered in front of you. Blood was shed over the best marbles.


Primary school was a lot tougher in the 1970s and early 1980s. But we generally survived with only a few scars or breakages.

GracieP

The primary school I was at was beyond ridiculous. When I moved to the area aged 7 skipping ropes and balls were already banned. Oh, and were weren't allowed play on the grass, only the asphalt, even though about 3/4 of the yard was grass. I was beyond baffled for my first few weeks. Then each year more and more things were banned. Elastics went first as they could trip up kids who were running. Then running was banned as you might fall while running on the asphalt, but we still weren't allowed on the grass, nor were we allowed have elastics back even though running kids could no longer trip on them as nobody was running. Then marbles went. Then cards and other card games like Top Trumps were banned. I still don't know why? I don't know what we were supposed to do on out breaks. Walk about in a circle like prison yard exercise?

I was in 6th class at this point and one lunch the boys in the two 6th classes decided to throw their apple cores at each other out of boredom. Henceforth fruit was banned in the yard. Seriously, if you had an apple, pear or an orange you had to go into the hallway of the school, eat it and dispose of the remains under supervision.

The following year I had left but both my brothers were still in there and they came home with a note saying that from then on boys and girls were not to play with each other in the yard as boys were too rough for girls. This was 1991. It was the weirdest school ever, the yard rules are just the tip of the ice-berg. I think my parents were wonderful in almost every way, but I really don't understand why they kept us in that place.

bluenoseam

i remember an old gem called "Red Rover" that got banned back in my day, that was frickin brutal though, i think they banned it because some kid in the class above ours got clotheslined like something out of Wrestlemania, we all got letters sent home with us a couple of days later informing parents of the fact & why it was banned. This was laughable given the fact less than 6 months later they erected a breeze block "train" for us to play on, the edges were razor sharp & it essentially looked like it'd been put together by the local cowboy builders - my old man couldn't figure out how they got away with that!

We got banned from rounders at lunchtime pretty much cos of broken windows (i only broke one of them - still say i'd have put that out at Yankee Stadium!), they banned skipping ropes after some "incidents" with tying people up, banned marbles because apparently it "encouraged gambling" & only allowed us to play football on the grass when it hadn't been raining. Yet they were happy to allow us to play tag, catch (with a ball - wow, how original!), hop-scotch & footie on the concrete. For some reason they never directly outlawed kiss-chase though - must have been in league with the cootie shot companies!

*Louise*

It seems like all it takes is one small accident for something to be completely banned these days

British bulldog and the like have been banned in many places for up to 20 years now. However rather than saying to kids 'you can't do this' maybe some schools should focus on what they ARE allowed to do?

My childrens school Had tarmac and grass football pitches (yes, they are allowed balls) basketball hoops, chalk for the younger ones to draw on the concrete, and various painted activities on the ground kids can use. They even brought people in who ran a course on playground games (!) so the older ones could teach the little ones some of the safer games :rotfl:

One of my favourite games (and so simple) at primary was when half the school joined up, split into two teams at opposite ends of the playground - the aim was to hit the wall/grass of the opposing teams end and it was up to the team to catch the ball and stop them scoring. Simple. All we needed was a tennis ball, and nobody got hurt.

pupsicola

Plans_all_plans wrote: »

When we used to play out at home we used to play a game called 'hard run-outs', which was really violent! It was like 'hide and seek had' where you'd split into 2 teams: one team would hide, and one team was on 'it' guarding a central post. The aim of the hiding team was to get home and the aim of the guarding team was to prevent you getting home by beating you up! What madness! This'd have been in the mid 90s.

I take it you all lived to tell the tale. Rough/tough games are not as dangerous as all these pc worriers make out. I cant believe my kids school wont allow competitive sports days. They have to do it in teams as they can then cope better if they dont win. We had a letter stating it would then be a team loosing rather than an individual. What a sorry state things have got to. When I was at school many moons ago you just got on with it. Made the triumphs even more special.

manda1205

mummyplus3 wrote: »

Bulldog was banned at my primary school but that was about about 13 years ago. shame we used to love it, and 40/40

We used to play 40/40 too but cant for the life of me remember what we used to do, just remember the name, lol (does that mean Im getting old). Bulldog wasnt banned at our school but the area we used to like playing it best was supposed to be out of bounds and if we got caught we'd have to move into the big yard, I never remember anyone breaking arms or anything, the only thing I remember happening at school was a boy getting a daisy stuck up his nose and having to go to hospital to have it pulled out cos the teacher couldnt get it. I would imagine that the teachers at DDs school wouldnt even attempt to pull it out now, incase they did damage.
DDs school have lots of equipment for the children to play with, barrels, ropes, balls, puzzle boards that they can make houses out of. They have put on a lot of fetes etc to raise money for all those things though. But I know DD plays whats the time Mr Wolf oh and Zombies where they just seem to chase each other being zombies, what fun, lol.