It's a poor thing seeing kids being deprived of play nowadays huh?Recess leh...such a good time to relax after spending half a day in a tiny little room together wif 40 others breathing in recycled air and doing brain-cell-killing-activities. Schools should not stop kids from playing purely on the basis tt they may injure themselves...Tt's total crap. I believed tt most parents will not hold the school responsible for injuries...besides kids should fall and injure themselves so tt they can 'eat bitter' nxt time...
I still remember my pri sch days when we played like mad during recesses and after school while waiting for the school bus..Tt was so FUN lor!WE played regardless of the weather..whether it hot like mad or cool after the rain(of course we were not stupid to play in a thunderstorm)We played until we forgot all about lessons and schoolwork and the mean-looking tchers...
When recess starts someone will run to the field to 'chop' court...usually vincent or zhi heng haha...or someone go toilet just b4 recess starts then run to the field..We need to chop becos only got 2 courts quite a number of teams..haha...
We use a tennis ball to play soccer...many of us each had one so tt in case one nvr bring, still can play..haha...but in extreme cases where we haf no ball, we simply used deflated bottles..
After sch on weds we usually haf to wait a long time for the bus...me and zhixiang then run to the field play the monkey bars or run around..can see many pple play the zero point or five stones..
In P5 we got to come to sch early for HCL lessons...then b4 lessons started we will play..haha..
IN P6 the tcher(Mrs Janet Lee!haha) came down to the field and forbid us to play...but i tink in the end we still played right?haha...
And oh ya...after the afternoon lessons me zhi xiang and kai wei haf to wait for bus at the bus stop near the rubbish collection point beside the temple there...then we climbed up and down the railings, take sticks throw here throw there and ran around..haha..and all those crap...
PLaying really relaxes a kid after a day of stress at school...kids able to strike a balance between the two are the ones able to work most effectively...so schools should let kids play!