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Sports day is going ahead?!

79 replies

SconeInSixtySeconds · 03/07/2013 09:14

In five minutes I have to go back up to school for sports day. I'd not know what the weather is like where you are but here it rained like a bastard last night.

I just slipped over in the garden while doing the chickens.

Yet my dc are expected to do running races! I am Angry and Shock

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mrsravelstein · 03/07/2013 11:02

why would the kids, or especially the parents, WANT to be out in the pissing down rain though? bizarre. it's not that i'd worry they would melt, just that, um, it's not fun, even if you were quite sporty?

xylem8 · 03/07/2013 11:18

Yanbu! have some of you seen the momentum behind some of those big Y6 kids flying down the track.Very dangerous on wet grass without spikes.
The school are idiots!

BlueSkySunnyDay · 03/07/2013 11:23

I bloody hate sports day, all that enforced proximity to other parents turns me back in to a bullied child, its one of the most stressful days of my year.

If I could sprinkle something over the clouds to create a monsoon I would Blush

I am sure the school have given thought to whether it is safe or not and I am pretty sure if anyone gets injured it will be the asehole parent who just has* to win the parents race. Grin

ImNotBloody14 · 03/07/2013 11:26

dont your children ever run on wet grass when they're with you? Confused

If i waited til the grass was dry my dcs would be out about 4 times a year! Hell i let them out when its actually snowing!! Im a terrible mother. Grin

soverylucky · 03/07/2013 11:28

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insanityscratching · 03/07/2013 11:32

Dd's sports day is next Monday when the temperature is predicted to be 30 degrees here. I'd rather she was running on wet grass than in the baking heat tbh.

ENormaSnob · 03/07/2013 11:37

My dds was cancelled last week due to heavy rain. It has been rescheduled for next week.

Unfortunately dd can no longer take part as she broke her wrist doing martial arts on monday Sad

BlueSkySunnyDay · 03/07/2013 11:40

Yeah ours is next week - looking unlikely it will be rained off Sad

At least DC2 doesn't loathe it as much as DC1 did so I can console myself with the fact that at least 1 of us is enjoying it.

HeySoulSister · 03/07/2013 11:42

I'm amazed at all the 'sports day angst'!!

So many people seem to hate sport.... We are human, we are designed to RUN and MOVE

mrsravelstein · 03/07/2013 11:51

i don't hate sport. i hate sports day though, and cannot work out why there is a day for ritual humiliation of the kids who aren't good at sports, but no ritual humiliation day for the kids who aren't good at music, or spelling. why not just let the sporty kids do an after school event just like the musical/theatrical kids do their evening productions?

HeySoulSister · 03/07/2013 11:53

Humiliation? Never seen that... Maybe change school?

DreamingofSummer · 03/07/2013 11:53

They can't let this go ahead! Some of them might fall over and get dirty and there might even be some adults with cameras there.

Report to OFSTED immediately

BlueSkySunnyDay · 03/07/2013 11:53

I have no problem with anyone running and moving - I just don't want to sit in a field with strangers observing it, id rather watch paint dry

I couldn't give a shit which child can run fastest in the school as its very unlikely to ever pay the bills for them.

BlueSkySunnyDay · 03/07/2013 11:56

HeySoulSister - look on the periphery, rather than at the winner - there will always be a child there who is having the worst day of their year.

I appreciate we all have things we need to "just get on with" but this one is unnecessary.

mrsravelstein · 03/07/2013 12:01

i have observed kids looking pretty humiliated by being the last to finish in every race, yes. ds1 would have been one of them, except he couldn't give a shit what anyone thinks of his ability to run fast, so he just used to walk and look bemused.

Sirzy · 03/07/2013 12:10

I was always the one who came last, was never bothered by it though. I was raised to understand that not everyone can be good at everything and that there was nothing wrong with coming last, just try your best.

boschy · 03/07/2013 12:14

sports day should be BANNED regardless of the weather. I'm with the ones who say 'look at those on the periphery' if you want to see miserable kids. and its so bloody BORING! DD1 (just finished GCSEs) is ecstatic that she will never have to do one again. DD2 is resigned that she has to do 2 more...

ouryve · 03/07/2013 12:16

We used to do PE outdoors in all weathers. It's only water and mud and most kids bounce pretty well.

elQuintoConyo · 03/07/2013 12:21

Call Ofsted and go to your MP, too. Shocking stuff!

I may have to report you to the RSPCA for 'doing' your chickens, you horrible woman.

Outraged of Tunbridge Wells.

Grin
mrsravelstein · 03/07/2013 12:23

there's nothing wrong with coming last at sports day, but why is sports different to music or theatre? they don't make the whole school take the day off to do a production of bugsy malone and get all the tone deaf kids to stand up in front of the entire school & parents to sing a song, do they? the only reason they do it with sports day is to have some cannon fodder so the kids who are good at sport can have somebody to beat. pointless and stupid, and really very dull for many of the parents. hence why i said upthread, why don't they just do sports day as an after school event for the kids who want to sign up for it, and then any parents who enjoy standing in the rain watching it can do so.

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SconeInSixtySeconds · 03/07/2013 12:32

I am back. And one poor dc (though not mine) did slip and was carted off to hospital.

I may have allowed my hatred of sports day to have clouded my judgement, but it is very wet here and the (strongly sloped) field is not well drained.

I agree with Mrs Ravelstein.

I think the world may be split between those who enjoy sport and those who loathe it. Whilst I would love to be one of the former I am not. My dc don't like getting wet - they would much rather play indoors when it rains. And they were exactly the same when we lived in Australia!

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Tee2072 · 03/07/2013 12:45

Oh I hate sport. But I enjoy sport day at our school.

MadeOfStarDust · 03/07/2013 12:50

mrsravelstein - we had our Y6 leavers performance last night - and oh yes they do get the tone deaf kids singing in front of everyone.. DD plays the piano beautifully, but cannot hold a note singing to save her life... those are 2 hours we will never get over back.....

BlueSkySunnyDay · 03/07/2013 16:32

The years 6 leavers performance is once in 6 years - sports day is every bloody year

I agree totally, make it optional then the show off sporty kids and go it and their - usually equally sporty show off parents can watch. My DC can carry on with his education and I can stay at home.

MadeOfStarDust · 03/07/2013 16:39

yes but they sell a DVD of the Y6 leavers - so there it is for perpetuity...