And we ask why sports are declining...
Football in the School Grounds
Our school grounds are very busy thoroughfares in the mornings before school starts. We would like to ensure that everyone enjoys a safe and calm environment and therefore would kindly ask that football is not played in the grounds before the school bell in the morning or for a few minutes directly after the bell at the end of the day. The top grass is a great place to run about before school starts if you arrive early with your child. P3 to P7 pupils have had this discussion within assembly this week.
Not as bad as my sons previous school - no one was allowed to take a football in to school
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17-11-2017 03:28 PM #1
Football in school grounds - could be any school in Scotland...
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17-11-2017 03:35 PM #2
Nothing changes really..I went to Trinity Primary between about 1973 - 1980 and we weren't allowed footballs throughout Primary School. We had to make our own sock balls...that was a real dark art !
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17-11-2017 04:01 PM #3
We had 4 "pitches" in our (primary) school grounds, permanently used before school, lunchtime and playtimes. That was the 60's, golden era.
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17-11-2017 04:12 PM #4
Corstorphine primary don’t allow football at all in the playground.
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17-11-2017 04:14 PM #5
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I've known of schools banning tig so schools not allowing football doesn't surprise me
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17-11-2017 04:33 PM #6
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Sad and terrible decision. In this day in age when kids need every encouragement to step away from electronics etc, we have have schools blocking time that's perfectly suited to a kick about or tag or whatever else. Nanny state that's lost the plot. I agree there has always been silly no ball rules in certain places but kids should have areas that ball games can be played. It's a sad state
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17-11-2017 04:37 PM #7
To be fair, they're asking football is not played AT ALL before morning bell and for the few minutes after afternoon bell until folk disperse,,,,that's better than a total ban.
I wouldn't imagine many kids play football before morning bell as MOST kids get dropped off at the last minute by their parents, that's why they have to park on pavements and the zig-zags obviously (as witnessed most mornings at South Gyle PS).
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Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s waiting to be passed by the Council...but suppose the kids will have to wait their turn until the masses are finished at Tynecastle!
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17-11-2017 04:45 PM #11
[QUOTE=VivaPalmeiras;5222062]And we ask why sports are declining...
Football in the School Grounds
Our school grounds are very busy thoroughfares in the mornings before school starts. We would like to ensure that everyone enjoys a safe and calm environment and therefore would kindly ask that football is not played in the grounds before the school bell in the morning or for a few minutes directly after the bell at the end of the day. The top grass is a great place to run about before school starts if you arrive early with your child. P3 to P7 pupils have had this discussion within assembly this week.
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It’s about safety for nursery and/or P1s, nothing to do with banning fitba. Most schools have a ‘no ball’ policy as it can cause real issues. The school should provide fitba’s If this policy is enforced.
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At Stockbridge (albeit the 70s before it became the postcode hotspot) we played before, during breaks / lunch and after school on concrete.
We were still crap and never won a game in 2 years but competitiveness in Stocky during the 70s wasn’t what it was all about :)
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17-11-2017 05:15 PM #15
Football in school grounds - could be any school in Scotland...
At least they’re allowed on the grass, my kids headteacher used to ban them from going on the grass if it was wet which was most days.
She hated Football until she realised they had loads of good players that could actually win the league and cups so started turning up when cups were being given out.
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17-11-2017 05:49 PM #17
When I was at college in the weege, St Al... (no idea how to spell it) boys played every day on a very small patch of ground in the city centre around twelve games of football at the same time. Was quite uncanny how they never overlapped.
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17-11-2017 06:06 PM #19
I went to Longstone primary and there was (IIRC) 3 acres of well cut grass we could play on - there was often 4-5 matches at any given time.
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17-11-2017 06:12 PM #20
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3 pitches for me in the 90s all on gravel no complaints the p7 had top pitch. They now have a AstroTurf pitch where we used to play so not all bad.
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17-11-2017 06:13 PM #21
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No football pitches, but my wife tells me that Jim McArthur was her PE teacher at her Primary.
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17-11-2017 06:21 PM #22
Wallyford primary had a small concrete football pitch. There used to be about 3 or 4 games going on at any one time.
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Don't think it's too unreasonable as there are a lot of little P1's , not to mention their younger siblings who often tag along on the drop off, who could get knocked flying by a random ball if they're not paying attention as little ones do.
Plenty of time at break and lunchtime to hone the skills, i know there's plenty games going on as my daughter often joins in.
Just recently they had a coach from the Hibs taking them for PE for a few weeks (P2), not football, just general gym class, she enjoyed it.
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From memory he was back up to Mike McDonald when he started the role at Royal High, but he took over as number 1 keeper during his spell at the school, so that was exciting for us.
Very nice bloke and good teacher, took us for rugby, football, whatever was needed.
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