SPORTS DAY

Our first Sports Day since the onset of the pandemic was a hybrid event involving an Opening Ceremony on Zoom and a combination of traditional and modern sporting events in the school garden and at the bedside on wards.

Pupils designed their own GOSH Games logos and mascots and prepared dance routines to teach each other at the Opening Ceremony as part of the warm-up before the games began.

In the school garden, pupils took part in long-standing Sports Day favourites such as the egg and spoon race and squirting teachers with water pistols but also got to programme a Sphero to navigate a table-top obstacle course.

Bats, balls and hoops were taken up to wards for throwing, catching and target practice activities and iPads were used to test reaction times on the Active Arcade app.

Pupils achieved either bronze, silver or gold in each event and kept track of their achievements in a special Sports Day passport. Medals and trophies were awarded for achievement in the events as well as for good sportsmanship, friendship and determination.