7 Competitive Sports Day Races!

The sports day (field day) season is fast approaching and PE coordinators and teachers are starting to wrack their brains for fun, exciting and engaging races and activities for their little athletes. The debate always comes up in Sports Day / Field Day planning: competitive or non-competitive? For this article our team have chosen 7 competitive themed races to make your planning a little bit easier.1. The Tunnel Adventure Race (or obstacle race)The race starts with a line of children behind a hoop. Inside the hoop should be 8-12 bean bags. The person at the front passes the bean bag under-over to the person at the back who then runs down the tunnel adventure track. The first challenge is crawling through a play tunnel. Next up is a climbing obstacle where the student has to climb up and over a gymnastics horse. Then they enter the swamp of spots, where they must step across the spots on the floor. Finally they move across the balance beam and deposit their bean bag in the basket. They...