Playground games banned at Primary school

Emmylou_2

borokat wrote: »

Bulldog is dangerous, I have a long scar above my eye from playing it. If I could go back in time and ban bulldog earlier then I would! Broken limbs heal but scars are with you for life.

I have a Bulldog related scar too - right on the "point" of my chin. My school (private, mid 80s) had a rule where Bulldog was banned each year on the third injury requiring hospital attention. I was the 3rd in 1984

We had "seasons" for everything - from bulldog (!) to conkers to sliding (!!) to marbles to elastics to skipping. But mostly that was the girls, the boys played football (with those super hard plastic balls with holes in) all year round.

bylromarha

building_with_lego wrote: »

That was 20/20

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

Tasty? TASTY?????? I saw a bottle the other day and was tempted to buy it to see if it was a grim as memory recalls it to be.

As for playground games, I agree the banning of games is not great, but the alternative is loads of threads asking for info on how to blame the school for these accidents as the childwas in their care.

Our parents would be ok with us coming home with a broken arm from tag, or a huge cut from skidding over the concrete, but society has moved on to the blame culture. Schools can't afford to take the risk of being blamed.

Derivative

Raggs wrote: »

She took it so far as to ban competitive sports of any sort.

Our primary school did this. Disgraceful really, teaching kids that being average is good enough.

Didn't stop us from getting absolutely trashed by a tutor group in secondary that had 'team shirts' and all of the 6ft lads.

Janepig

When I was in infants, we had a game which I think was probably just peculiar to my school, called SUPERFOOT, which involved you loosening your shoe then kicking out with as much welly as you could muster whilst yelling "SUPERFOOOOOOOTTTTTTT" and seeing how far your shoe could go. Whoever's shoe went the furthest was the winner. I don't remember anyone getting belted with a flying shoe, but it might have happened. Although no end of shoes ended up on top of the various outbuildings in the yard.:D

DD and DS go to a school which seems to be stuck in the 70's when it comes to H&S, thank goodness. Nothing banned from the playground, DS is 5 and takes his football in, and in his "clique" fighting is the playground game of choice, DS particularly likes to be wrestled to the ground and have as many boys on top of him as he can take (I have witnessed this!). Once they all get off him then he starts chasing them again until they climb on top again <rolls eyes>. Nothing is rough enough for DS, even though he's a very titchy 5.

Sports day is good old fashioned competitive sports, even down to the 3 year olds in the nursery class, although the winners don't get anything for winning (except the thrill of it, I guess). It's little wonder that the school wins everything they enter (cross country, rugby, cricket, swimming, folk dancing!!! etc.....).

Oh and DD's favourite thing is to practise her cheerleading pyramids in the yard, with her friends acting as basers for her. There's many a headteacher would have kittens at that by the sound of it!

Jxx

no1catman

Fascinating read some of the posts on this.

Many posts just refer to 'primary school', I make a distinction between Primary and Junior School.

Anyway, the Primary/Junior School I went to was an old building built about 1896 - with outside toilets, and tarmaced divided girls and boys play ground. Incidentally this is going back 50 -55 years ago!!
We mainly got on with anything - Teachers only came out if there was a 'fight'. While British bulldogs did sometimes happen, it didn't involve everyone. More often there were 'touch' games - especially chain touch - if you start, you join hands with the one you touch, and the pair of you then chase the rest, touch - to become three, chase the rest, touch - to become two pairs, etc till there was only one left.
If you fell over and grazed your knee - tough, be more carefull next time, no one would dream of seeing a Teacher about it - what for!!

I remember in High School, the P.E Teacher laid out the Gym with various apparatus - to play 'pirates' - if you land on the floor you're out. Some lads climbed up the ropes and up along the steel 'rafters' of the roof .... Happened again next year !!