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No fun for kids as sports day cancelled

A school sports day has been cancelled over health and safety fears, because teaching staff are worried that the children could trip up on the uneven playing field. The head teacher of Holmbush First School in Shoreham, West Sussex, has written to parents to tell them that the annual event has been called off to avoid accidents.

Rebecca Jackson told them that the surface of the school’s playing field could be “too dangerous” for the traditional sack, egg-and-spoon, wheelbarrow and three-legged races.

Parents have said the decision to ban sports day, which was scheduled for July 14, is “ludicrous”. One mum told the Telegraph: “Part of the fun of school sports days is running about and falling over all over the place - especially the three-legged race. You are expected to fall over when you take part in a three-legged race, that’s almost the point of it.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .