Playground games banned at Primary school

jpwhittle

mmmm theyd have been most upset at us jumping over everybodies backgarden fances, playing tag, and pile on, horses with our skipping ropes and any onther ridiculous game we came up with. Cant say i expect any less of my son growing up either, in fact i may be disapointed if he didnt. WE encourage them to play pile on its fun. Havent had any broken bones yet, and to be honest i think it would be one of mine rather than the kids bones that got broke.

Me thinks the bad mother brigade will be round soon lol.

jpwhittle

manda1205 wrote: »

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.

I thought 40/40 was alcohol :whistle: i guess thats what you get when you come fom leigh! it makes shameless look posh

Raggs_2

In my last year at primary school we had a health and safety nut take over, banning conkers, british bulldog, bumper cars etc.

She took it so far as to ban competitive sports of any sort, sports day involved seeing if you could bounce a basketball 5 times (they stopped you when you got to 5 after the first few, since ineviatbly children were competing as to how many bounces they could do).

However, my next school (private school) allowed all the old classics. The most brutal we played were manhunt (probably more due to us than anything else), and foul football (basically football where fouling was allowed).

Manhunt involved either two teams if there were enough playing, or 1 team and 1 runner (in the two teams version one team was designated runners).

It involved finding the runner(s), then by any means returning them to a certain point. Considering we had probably an acre or two of grounds (fields, buildings, play areas) it was a lot of fun. If you struggled to escape more people would grabbed you, if you kept fighting too far, there was a chance you'd just get picked up by a group and carried. The catchers weren't really allowed to assault the runner, but a few elbow strikes etc from the runner to the guts of the catchers was fair game.

Great fun, and no serious injuries (that only came when we started launching branches at each other during "war" and that, reasonably enough, was banned (and it was only a slight concussion)).

vickiem30

Talking of dangerous games, we used to play The Gates. The rules are simple: two people hold hands forming a bridge and the other players taking it in turns to lie on it. With every turn the time spent on the bridge grows, e.g. 2 seconds, three seconds. The one who breaks the gates and fall; on the concrete playground is deemed the winner! Happy days.

I was in school in the late 70s and early 80s and our school didn't seem to ban anything much, including British bulldog, although once those small rubber ball were banned.

busiscoming2

At our school bulldog is banned, so are handstands and cartwheels!!! I think it is OTT but it seems H&S is the order of the day and the head is paranoid about being sued!! Having said that we do have a lot of playground toys, probably more than most schools so there is no reason for the children to feel hard done by.

Conkers are banned because of the nut allergy thing.

lallysmum

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.

We called that 40 40 home. No idea why. I seem to recall "home" was a lamp post in someone's hedge. Used to climb up the hedge to get to the top of the lamp post - the only "safe" place.

Not entirely sure how I survived my childhood, :rotfl:

pigpen

We had those games banned too, I don't even think my children know what they are!

we had a Bulldog pileup though and 4 children were carted off to hospital with injured limbs.. a couple came back in plaster casts a few days later and one was kept overnight I think with concussion.. was great fun though They were legends!!!!!

Mine have hoops and beanbags and every few days footballs and skipping ropes are allowed.. though not the same day. Handstands and such are banned too. My best friend at junior school had a nasty accident and did a handstand and landed on her face and pushed her front teeth backwards into her mouth.. they were straightened and saved but there was a fair bit of blood.. no harm done eh?! lol

that said my daughter smashed one of her back teeth on one of the plastic seesaw things at nursery so I'm shocked they have banned those too!

building_with_lego

jpwhittle wrote: »

I thought 40/40 was alcohol :whistle: i guess thats what you get when you come fom leigh! it makes shameless look posh

That was 20/20

Available in a variety of tasty fruit flavours... not that I'd remember that :whistle:

balletshoes

building_with_lego wrote: »

That was 20/20

Available in a variety of tasty fruit flavours... not that I'd remember that :whistle:

I absolutely don't remember the Kiwi flavour of that, no way, not at all, never heard of it :cool::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

stejobeth

When I was in primary school we had a big metal climbing frame in the playground. I remember having competitions who could hang upside down for the longest. At least once a term someone would fall and have to be carted off to hospital. We all thought it was very exciting when the ambulance came into the playground and took someone off. I have always been a bit disappointed that a never got a ride in an ambulance .

The only thing I can remember being banned was in the first year of high school we did javelin in PE. A girl in our class was having her go and threw it backwards by mistake, which was a bit unfortunate for the girl in the queue behind her! It went through her leg and she was pinned to the floor :eek: