Mum: Did you make the cakes today or just decorate them?
Boy: We just decorated them.
Mum: How did you decorate yours?
Boy: We had to do something sporty on them and mine was awesome!
Mum: What was it?
Boy: It was me – sweating! Because I was running so much. And I really did that today – I ran a lot.
Actually it wasn’t me sweating, it was me with a swoosh behind me – you know when you’re running SO fast that the air swooshes? It tasted sooooo yummy.
Mum: What are you doing?
Son: I’m boxing – I’m being a boxing kid. Imagine if I went to training every day and I got really good and I was against adults and they say to me, “What kind of kid is this?” and I say, “I’m a boxing kid! And I train every day and this is my boxing lesson!”
Son: I’m going to be very sad at the end of sports camp this time.
Mum: Why?
Son: Because there’s no wristbands, medals or trophy now – they don’t do that anymore.
Mum: Why don’t they do that anymore?
Son: Because the Coach has got a boss now and he says, “Don’t give out wristbands, medals or trophies at the end because it wastes too much time!”
Mum: Oh dear. And do you think they should carry on giving them out?
Son: Yes, because it’s a good thing for children.
Mum: Why is it a good thing?
Son: Because there are people who haven’t got them yet – like James – it’s not fair for him, he hasn’t got anything – no wristband, no medal, no trophy, nothing. They don’t do any of it now, and he just REALLY wants a wristband, a medal or a trophy! What I really want from there is a wristband.
Mum: Do you try harder if there’s wristbands, medals and trophies at the end?
Son: Yes, we have to work REALLY hard if we want to get one. In the olden days when I didn’t get anything I worked SO hard and I didn’t get anything so I just gave up – I just worked normally. Until eventually I found out that I still wouldn’t get anything, so I gave up from working normally. Then one day I decided to try again and that’s when I got a medal. And then the next time I tried even more and that’s when I got the trophy.
Mum: And how did you feel when they said they weren’t going to give them out any more?
Son: It shocked me so much that I felt angry to hear the news that they didn’t give out wristbands, medals or trophies anymore and to this day, I am still a little upset. I gave up being angry though, because the more you’re angry the less things you’ll get – do you know that?
Mum: That’s true. So, do you work hard when you go to sports camp now?
Son: Now it doesn’t matter if you work hard, because they don’t give out trophies or medals anymore.
Mum: But DO you?
Son: A little bit.
Winning the trophy – Feb 2013
D: I won a trophy for real. That’s me at one end [right], and that’s all the children on the benches. I walked past all the children and did high fives and that’s Mr G giving me the trophy at the other end [left].
Me: What did you do at Sports Camp today?
D: Dodgeball, and inflatable football – do you know what inflatable football is?
Me: Is it where you play with an inflatable football?
D: Yes, well, you know the big football pitch that I told you about before?
Me: The one outside?
D: Yes – we played on that and I got gold for my team! I was the only one in our team to get a goal – and so I got 159 points!
Me: Well done! That’s a lot of points for a goal – it MUST have been special.
D: Yes, I was the ONLY one, so it was – how many points did I say?
D: You can wear slippers to Vikki’s in half term – you really CAN, because I saw some of the other children wearing slippers. But… I’d better wear my trainers because I’m going to Sports Camp and if I put my slippers on to go to Sports Camp I’d kick the ball and it would hurt my feet. Or I’d kick the ball and my slipper would just fly off.
Me: Yes, playing football in your slippers wouldn’t work very well would it?
D: No.
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!
From Becky and Dylan.
Half-term trophy! Nov 2012
D: I won the trophy at Sports Camp!! I dreamed about winning the trophy every night! It’s for doing my best and helping other people… I didn’t just help the just small children, but the big ones as well and EVEN the oldest one there – she was WAY more than ten!
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.”
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