Should our children be taught that competition is only ok in certain circumstances and subjects?
This Tuesday was Ben's 'sports day', one of only 3 days of the year where I take time off work to go to school and see him achieve something or perform to the best of his ability. But this year sports day was very different, we were told that the head teacher didn't believe children should be competitive any more. I almost thought I had misheard but no, sports day was going to be a team event rather then individual competition. They had all survived their Reception sports day unscathed (Y1 was cancelled) but now they are in Y2 we are being told that children cannot cope with disappointment until Y6 so sports day will be changing.
This year the children were split into teams of 9/10 children and would be scoring points towards a team total at individual activity stations, when the time was up someone else went to that activity and you moved on. Let me share how sporty some of these were with you....
Throw a bean bag in a hoop. Depending on which hoop it lands in you get 1, 2 or 3 points for your team.
