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Secret weapon: The H/Yakka
January 31, 2013

D: We learnt the [H/]Yakka in P. E. today! It goes like this:
[Pats knees, then chest then puts arms in the air whilst chanting]
Cormati, cormati, bu – Orr!
And you have to do it so loud that you’ll scare your audience – and then you’re finished the [H/]Yakka and that’s all you have to do.
I don’t know why you have to get changed if it’s just that long.
Me: Wow. Is that about rugby?
D: No, everyone has to remember the [H/]Yakka – it’s for every single game – even basketball – it’s to scare the audience!

Manu Tuilagi, England rugby’s wrecking ball (telegraph.co.uk)
Six Nations 2013: England prop Dan Cole is committed to the pain game (telegraph.co.uk)

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A few good captains
January 24, 2013

D: We didn’t know who the captains were for PE today. We usually have two, three or four.

Me: Oh. I suppose it depends on what games you play as to how many captains you need.

D: Huh?

Me: Different games need a different number of teams. So that would mean a different number of captains.

D: No. It depends whether you’ve been REALLY good – sometimes there’s four people that have been REALLY good, sometimes three, sometimes two, sometimes one – no, not one – two, three or four.
Aly was sitting out today and he said “I’m going to be captain.” I said, “I don’t think you are, because you have to sit out.”

Me: Why was he sitting out?

D: Because he’d done something extremely not good.

Koscielny – Jack will be captain of Arsenal (gossip.ladyarse.com)
Scholastic Launches Captain Underpants iPad App (shoppingblog.com)

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Coloured rings
November 4, 2012

Coloured Rings – October 2012

D: It’s what we play in P.E. – it’s called Coloured Rings, and you have to get into a coloured ring when you’re told to, and then the teacher takes them away and you have to find another one to get in.

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Fish reincarnated
October 28, 2012

D: There’s a game we go and play at lunchtimes sometimes – It’s like Fishy Fishy, but there’s an octopus and if you get tagged by it, you turn into seaweed and you float around and wave your arms like this..!

If someone touches you then they turn into seaweed. If the last person touches you or the octopus, they have to turn into one – and the winner is…. Mr Grice – he’s our PE teacher.

And there’s a song that goes with it: “Fishy fishy, swim in the sea, and get turned into seaweed with your eaten body, and get your bones turned onto the ground, seaweed, seaweed, see-, see-, see-, seaweed.”

Seaweed: An Alternative Protein Source (jflahiff.wordpress.com)
Seaweed provides vitamins, minerals and antioxidants (utsandiego.com)

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