Articles Tagged: sport
Harry Potter's Quidditch introduced at Essex school
A school in Essex has revived pupils' enthusiasm for PE by putting Harry Potter's favourite sport on the curriculum!
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What should you do when your child wants to give up a sport, hobby or instrument?
Your child begs and pleads to be allowed to learn how to play the piano or to take up a new sport, and you happily indulge their enthusiasm, shelling out a small fortune for all the necessary kit, only for your budding Olympian or concert pianist to fall spectacularly out of love with it, begging and pleading to be allowed to give it up.
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Girls put off exercise because it's 'unfeminine' to be sweaty in front of boys
Schoolgirls are turning their backs on sport because they are embarrassed to exercise in front of boys and think “getting sweaty” is “unfeminine”, says a report.
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President Obama coaches daughter's school basketball team
You'd think that President Obama would probably have enough on his plate, running America and all that, but no, seems he just wants to be like any other dad when it comes to helping out at his kids' school...
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Table tennis playing tot is an internet sensation!
Whilst most eighteen-month-old babies are just getting to grips with their hand-to-eye co-ordination and busy smacking themselves in the face with building blocks, little Jamie Myskova-Buddell is showing off his amazing bat and ball skills!
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After school classes: Exhausted children and stressed taxi parents?
When I was growing up in the 70s my extra curricular activities amounted to begging local horse owners for the chance to muck out their stables in exchange for a pony ride. That was it; no music lessons, no extra maths, no ballet, or exotic foreign language, no drama classes or judo sessions.
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Children need to be taught that losing is part of real life
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with all this encouragement, but children are competitive creatures. They smell a rat when they see undeserving classmates getting rewarded for simply knowing how to put their pants on the right way.
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Schoolgirl gives goalkeeper two fingers
PA A young schoolgirl joined a pitch invasion at a football patch in Chesterfield, and has been photographed abusing ...
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