What are British primary schools sports days like?
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
