Kane recently had his, and it's always a great day, with a chance to watch the kids having fun, and (sometimes) getting that competitive feeling.
An awful lot of schools, I hear, in the UK have stopped the tradition of sports day because they don't want their pupils to feel in any way inadequate by losing a race!
Personally I have the opinion that in order to survive this wonderful and difficult life, we have no choice but to teach kids the bad with the good - and how to cope with losing occasionally...
...even if it IS losing the 'running with a plastic cone on the head' race!!
Anyway, I digress.
The way the Sports Day works at Kane's school is they have lots of different events placed within the school grounds, each one being run by either a parent or one of the older kids at the school. Last year I ran the 'kick the football at targets on a wall' event, and felt I missed out in a big way from not being able to see Kane compete.
This year was different. This year I decided to drop all responsibility, and to follow Kane round and give him support. Jo and I went together and I decided to take a few snapshots of the day. I wish I could post more than I have here - but to be honest, I actually took 192 photos of the day!
So be prepared for lots of photos here - I'll just put a quick note saying what each one is!
Kane's 1st event of the day - 'balancing 3 tennis balls on a tray race'
Dribbling ball round cones.
Get a score with beanbags.
Standing long jump.
Run to get 1st beanbag and put it in bucket, then 2nd beanbag etc...
...then run carrying bucket to finish line.
Dribble football round cones.
Skipping race (which Kane was WAY in the lead until he got caught up in the rope!)
Famous 'cone on the head and run as fast as you can' race.
Egg and spoon race.
Having a laugh between events!
The sack race.
Get score by throwing balls in baskets.
See how many times you can bounce the ball on the racket event.
Obstacle course race.
Last event - get as many balls through the hoop with 3 balls.
We were so proud of Kane, and the way he handled himself during the day. It was lovely to see how much he had improved at certain events, and just how wonderful he was generally with everything that was given to him to do.
All in all everyone had a really fun day, the kids behaved impeccably (as did most of the parents!) and no one was mortally wounded or put into deep depression by any of the events.
3 comments:
That sums the day up really well. Good idea to tell the story of events in photos. Some great pics there.
Looks all fun and man, I do wish I was a kid again to do stuff like this again. Though here, we called them 'Field Day' and generally held on the last week of school. Ah well, this world is getting too PC.
Cheers ladies, we all had lots of fun, and were really impressed by the way Kane handled everything!
:D
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