Sports Day, Round 1

I have actually been to two different sports day type events today - the one at school, this morning (using "morning" in this instance, the way delivery people or repair people use it - to mean 8amto 1 pm - or in this instance, 8.50 to 1.30) and one at Brownies/Guides/Rainbows this evening. Luckily, the weather was clear - which is more than I can say for what Sunday, which is the school fair, looks to be like. But that's another story.

Anyway, there are no photos from the Guiding sports day, as I was doing facepainting all the time and Geoff is hopeless with a camera (even if I had remembered to give it to him), but we have some from school. Above, Olivia is not cheating at the egg and spoon race (okay, tennis ball and spoon - same principle), she is handing over to the next person... I just loved the look of concentration on her face. This was the only race she did in the end, as it happened - she was scheduled to do another one, the obstacle race for year 3, but they had to cancel a handful of the last races for various reasons, and that was one of them.

Here she is (below) starting out the race. Although her team (the school is divided into 4 teams across the school - like Houses in Harry Potter) came last overall, they did well in this race. (We are all blue - Panthers.) And here's Sarah, about to come third in her running race - she has resigned herself to third place in the sprint - every year for ages she has run against the two same girls (the yellow team member varies), as Elle (in red) is the fastest Tiger girl in their year and Manahil (green) the fastest Leopard. Sarah is the fastest Panther, but not as fast as the other two, so she always comes third (Elle wins). The Tigers always take the sports day cup as well - this year was no exception. It's one of those facts of life we all resign ourselves to! (Mind you, some of us care more than others.)



The little kids do less racing and more skills - this was Alex catching a ball as part of his circuit - i didn't see everything he did, as I was busy try to watch 3 kids at once and make sure the tea & coffee urn wasn't boiling dry, plus set out the plan for Sunday's fair. Yep, one of those days.



And finally, here are a couple more races - Alex doing a straight running race and Sarah doing the sack relay. None of my kids are fabulous athletes, though they are all ok, but they had a fairly good time, I think, so that's what matters.