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"Last year, an average of 10 schools a week adopted clip-on ties, after rumours that guidelines stated knots posed an injury risk."
Or maybe not heh?
[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8237820.stm ]Not as exciting as jerking your knee about though[/url]
And the true story isntead of the blatant lies on the South Tynside School.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3679162.stm
Pete you'll be able to clarify this then! A mate who's a pe teacher was telling me he has to use you tube videos to show how a scrum is set in rugby, therfore removing the need for him to actively place his hands anywhere near the kids!! I was amazed. You're a pervert before you've even started these days if that's the case!
This is true to a point. There are guidelines that suggest that laying hands on pupils whilst demonstrating techniques can be misinterpreted, but ultimately a YouTube clip showing kids how to scrummage does not prepare them for contact.
Jesus, in my last school in Batley, my Yr 11's would kick the living sh*t out of me, and I them. I even had a kid's parent apologise for his some getting a broken arm in a game and subsequently letting the team down....!
Hehe.. facts FAIL for Mat.
I reckon that an instructional video in scrummaging could be a lot easier than trying to explain it to kids. After all you need only show it once and each kid can watch their own position.
"Mum... a PE teacher showed me a video of lots of groaning men's bums today and showed where I need to put my hands and head....":)
Batley? How did he apologise? Bet it wasn't in English (dons flameproof suit)
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molgrips - MemberPublic schools are traditionally good at rugby, are they not?
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My brother's small Hampshire private school alone has produced the following in under a decade:
# Jonny Wilkinson OBE, rugby union international[1]
# Peter Richards, rugby union international
# Ugo Monye, rugby union player, who has represented England in the Sevens and has also been capped at full international level.[2]
# Charlie Amesbury, rugby union player
As a safety officer I always get slightly grumpy at this point...
sure it's already been done as I can't be arsed to read all posts sorry...
[url= http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/ ]H&S Myth information[/url]
Personally, I blame Richard ****ing Littlejohn and the rest of his Daily Mail reading twunts..
here's [url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/elf-and-safety-stories-should-carry-a-warning-1921337.html ]another interesting read[/url]
an earlier poster was right, it's usually the fear of Claims rather than Safety that stops things going ahead..
and breathe 👿
my wife is a pe teacher at the local secondary. She gave all her pupils advanced notice of doing cross country running and being winter she was happy for the children to wear leggings and sweater/long sleeved t-shirt if they wanted. one pupil convientently forgot the extra clothing but was still made to run. My wife received a letter of complaint from the girl's parent - ironically the childs surname is Frost. when will kids harden up?
My wife received a letter of complaint from the girl's parent
That's another thing - when I was a kid, if I went home crying because I had been made to run in shorts and a teeshirt because I had forgotten the warmer clothing I had been told I could wear would only ensure I got a bollocking from my dad for forgetting it in the first place, not a whinging mum writing letters of complaint to the school.
Toughen TF up.
I remember one winter whilst running out to play rugby. Me and few others decided to roll around in a huge puddle of mud to just get on with it. The PE teacher looked gobsmacked but it was either that or the gradual rain and mud 😀
LOL
I used to roll around in mud too - to make it look like I had been getting stuck in when playing for the school football team (aged around 8).
One time my dad was watching and thought I had gone stark raving bonkers making imaginary tackles. 😀
would only ensure I got a bollocking from my dad for forgetting it in the first place
Sounds unpleasant. There must be nicer ways of encouraging someone to m/wtfu than issuing bollockings.
And the true story isntead of the blatant lies on the South Tynside School.
South Tyneside District Council cut down six chestnut trees to stop children playing popular playground game conkers in 2004.
Please point out the difference between your article and the line I pasted?
The stalker nerds are up to the usual tricks again trying to be clever.
You see what a lot of you do is go to any lengths to try and prove someone wrong when actually you agree - but you CANNOT agree because that would prevent you from trying to smartar5e your "foe."
It's pathetic beyond belief.
FAIL.
MF we should meet one day- come along to Pooks Pootle.
On a recent trip to Warwick Castle 2 of my sons class ended up with a broken leg and a broken finger, after rolling down the grassed moat...Kids aren't growing up soft, really they're not, they still act like kids.
Minimising risk to vulnerable members of society is not necessarily a bad thing per se.
My son's school offer archery as an after school activity. It is massively oversubscribed.
It is easy to get these things out of proportion sometimes
Some of those are facts, some are opinions
I reckon that an instructional video in scrummaging could be a lot easier than trying to explain it to kids. After all you need only show it once and each kid can watch their own position.
It's not.
Batley? How did he apologise? Bet it wasn't in English (dons flameproof suit)
(sigh...) 😕
Mat, you said the trees were cut down to stop kids playing conkers. The BBC article said that kids were throwing sticks at the trees and causing danger to motorists.
What about the others where we shot you down?
"The stalker nerds are up to the usual tricks again trying to be clever."
As opposed to reporting supposition,opinion and agendised rumour as fact?
I suppose though in PR, if you did have to simply report fact as opposed to salacious tat,massaging the truth or disinformation, they'd all be out of a job.
Oh and I am clever, that's why I dont have to work in PR 🙂
if I went home crying because I had been made to run in shorts and a teeshirt because I had forgotten the warmer clothing
We were only allowed to wear shorts though long sleeve tops were OK.
You "shot me down" did you? No actually a few geeks expressed a difference of opinion. Maybe it's a victory to your strange self worth but I couldn't give a stuff.
As for the one I pointed out - Drac stated "lies" - no lies there. He also fits the usual profile - IT geek with an armchair "knowledge" of cars (and a Golf he bangs on about all the time - no doubt a 2.0TDI...) and a tendency to try and smartarse anyone he can. He's probably either overweight or a skinny geek too... 😆 Funny what upsets some of you here - just tiny little things and you turn into obsessive oddballs.
Thanks Jah but I suspect if you were a genius, you wouldn't be making guitars, you'd be running a big guitar firm wouldn't you? And you'd have a nice pad in the Home Counties, not grotty Islington.
Mat if you can't see the difference then there is no hope for you but I'll try. The council stated it was the reports if kids throwing objects landing on and in the path of cars. Then they stated if kids wanted to hunt for conkers other places in the area were available. Not once us it mentioned that they don't want kids to play conkers.
This happened not too far from me I remember the story at the time hence I knew it was a lie.
Wow matt has had to try and get personal. Pathetic.
No actually a few geeks expressed a difference of opinion. Maybe it's a victory to your strange self worth but I couldn't give a stuff
Jesus Mat, turn it down! There's absolutely no call for that kind of nastiness in a discussion like this. You're being very deeply insulting there.. line crossed.
Mat if you can't see the difference then there is no hope for you but I'll try. The council stated it was the reports if kids throwing objects landing on and in the path of cars. Then they stated if kids wanted to hunt for conkers other places in the area were available. Not once us it mentioned that they don't want kids to play conkers.This happened not too far from me I remember the story at the time hence I knew it was a lie.
That is a crap article though, because the first paragraph implies something (by associating conkers and kids getting hurt) that the rest of the article contradicts (by stating pretty clearly it was actuallly to do with things being thrown into the road and the police being called). So if you only read the first paragraph you might think it was indeed about H&S gone mad.
They also quote somebody from another school as saying "Initially I understood the concerns over health and safety, but this is just common sense gone out the window" as if that is indeed what the story's about. So a very casual reader could probably come away with the H&S angle.