What are British primary schools sports days like?

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are they held at school play grounds? any music? programme? prizes? dancing? can the kids participate in any activities they want to? do they put much effort into preparing for the day? do the parents join in the activities too? etc..
 
Mine was just a simple short track, which parents came and watched. Im pretty sure there wasnt any music, and the teachers just put you in random races, unless you were known to be really quick or something. It was basic to the school i went too, not much needed preparing, a few chairs for spectators, a few winning badges, and the equipment used. The races were just sprinting, egg and spoon, skipping rope, ball and racket, sack, and a three legged race. The parents didnt join in, they just sat by the side and watched. We raced for our houses, as our school was split into groups, and the house winners of sportsday won a cup.
 
Here in Scotland, the Sports Days at Primary School are held in the school grounds, usually on the football pit or tarmac.

There are several parts to Sports Day at Primary Schools.

The first is the potter sports section. In Scotland, all Primary Schools are divided into houses and the students are separated into them. For Sports Day, the houses are then split into smaller groups of between 8 and 12, numbered 1 - 5 or so. Each little group starts at one of the potted sports and moves around in a circle until they are back where they started. They receive so many house points for completing it.

Then there is the individual sports. For each class (Primary one to Primary seven) there are two hundred metre sprints - boys and girls. The first three are given an award of some sort as well as house points.

Then there is the house sports. The house captain (a primary seven pupil chosen by their house) chooses a football team, a netball team and a tug-of-war team. These teams compete against the teams from the other houses and the winners receive house points and a trophy.

The points are then added up and the house with the most points wins sports day. The house captain for said house receives the trophy and holds it up, while their house cheers.

It is quite an important day in the school calendar. The house captains have to choose the best for their team and then they are given time to train. The PTA (parents and teachers association) are usually there and provide refreshments for the pupils and parents.

The parents are welcome to attend the sports day and there are often events for them to take part in. Usually, they have an egg and spoon race and a three-legged race.

if the weather is not nice on the day chosen for sports day, it is canceled and moved to another day.

After all the events have taken place, there is sometimes music and the like for the students.

There is always an awards ceremony to officially present the trophies. The Head Teacher will stand at the front and announce all of the winning houses (for football, netball, tug-of-war, sports day, etc) and the house captain will go up and collect the trophy. There is usually a trophy cabinet somewhere in the school for the trophies to be kept.
 
When I was at primary school our sports days were always amazing. Depending on how you performed in PE, you were selected for certain events (egg and spoon race etc). Then we finished with a huge house race (yellow, blue, red) in which the fastest girl and boy from each year competed in a rally. Tremendous.
 
Held in school fields, no music, not normally any prizes unless handing out ribbons or something but they try not to encourage competitiveness! No dancing, kids have to sit down until their race comes up, (they normally know what races they'll be running in advance),depends on the school to how much they prepare for the day, they normally have a race for mum's, dad's and one for younger brothers and sisters too.
 
they're quite cute. they have loads of races e.g. sprint, obstacles, egg and spoon, skipping rope, sacks e.t.c they don't go proper events e.g. throws or jumps. some do cross-country but most don't. there's two races for each year, one for the faster half and one for the slower half. parents come and watch but normally don't participate apart from somethimes theres a parents or teachers race for fun. they're normally held in the field with no music but its really loud becasue everyones excited and talking loudly and cheering. theres no programme but prizes can be medals or certificates or something to eat or merits/ house points e.t.c. the kids have to participate in every type of race unless theres a medical reason not to as the idea is to get everyone involved. its not very competitive, it doesn't normally matter who wins or loses all the kids have fun even though soem are nervous. lots of effort goes into preparing - the tracks are marked out, prizes prepared, parents invited, children train in p.e. lessons e.t.c. basically its a load of fun and its really friendly, but with typical british weather it nearly always rains!!
 
They're normally held where the kids do most of their sports so for me they were in our schools sports field but they could be in the playground too.
The kids do events they want to , in some schools they have to sign up or get chosen prior to it. Parent's dont join in but they normally cheer them on from the side.
there's normally not any music, but at the end everyone gathers up to hear who won which event and trophies and medals are normally given out.
You don't need to put much effort into preparing for the day, maybe bring some food & drink? Normally the schools will send out a letter informing parents on when and where (+ any other info) about the day!
Hope that helped!
 
they're kind of crap to be honest. They're held at school fields usually, No music usually, yes there's normally a programme, prizes are sometimes given and they can usually choose what event to do. Not a lot of prep needed and parents nearly always do an egg and spoon race or something.
 
When I was at primary school our sports days were conducted so that you only got out of lessons for field event but the whole school got the afternoon off to watch the track events. I hated them personally because I was the fat kid who everybody pitied as they always came last :(

Parents involvement is based on the school, but i don't think i have ever come cross music etc etc
 
Rubbish

Welly throw
Egg and Spoon race
Sack race
Three legged race
Chuckin hoops onto things

Basic b*llocks like that, none of which actually have anything to do with sport.
 
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