For those few schools fortunate enough to still have playing fields – not having had them flogged off to some adventure capitalist, Gym and Health Centre or an Organic Juice Bar Emporium – a rare treat might well be in store.
Sports day.
It rivals the school play as the highlight of the year. The whole school is enthusiastically involved, the performers are fabulously erratic and there is an atmosphere of generous good cheer.
All human life is here.
There’s the serious stuff of course, well-honed athletes performing wondrous, graceful things. Moreover, it’s often a chance for the not always academic to shine, for Dave Mania to hurl a javelin an enormous distance, for Ronald Crumlin to zoom through the 100 metres in under 11 seconds.
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