Playground entertainment?

[Northstander]

When at school, what did you do to entertain yourselves whilst on the odd school Class break?

 

[Scarface]

Where's the option for wall/fenceball?! That was a great game!

 

[Louisjpbacon]

i gave a fit girl in my year a kit kat

 

[Northstander]

what two fingers?

 

[Scarface]

what two fingers?

Or was it a KitKat Chunky?!

 

[zefarelly]

At Steyning we wherent allowed footballs at lower school so we used to play with tennis balls

at Primary school we used to play war

 

[Starry]

I forget what it is called, but elastic round two friends ankles then you hopped/jumped over it. Or wrapped around your wrists/fingers for cats cradle (? I think that is the name)

I went to a girls school so we never played kiss chase! lol

 

[Yorkie]

French skipping Starry.

At St Nicholas we had segregated playgrounds and then the Grammar school was all girls too.

Cat's cradle, skipping with a long rope and Jacks (5 stones)

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

At St Johns the Baptist in Kemp Town - we played British Bulldog. The game started by arms around shoulders "Who wants to play ...... British Bulldog" - when we had enough - and anyone who got in front of the line was flattened - the "game" began.

We also played a game that involved flicking girls skirts up to see their knickers.

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

ive gone for footie but was probably all of the above ( apart from french skipping - urgh girls ......how times change

 

[rool]

I seem to remember some kid would always start a chant saying 'who want's to play cowboys and indians'. then kids would join, a bit like a conga, until you had enough to play. You'd then sort out who's on each side and what the rules were and then the bell would go to go back in.

happy days

 

[Yorkie]

Yo-yos and hula hoops were popular too.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Wembley pairs, a simple knock out tournament with "D" (or "dirty") day on Fridays, when hacking people down senselessly and knee-high was permitted.

Due to my own Ashley Nealesque footballing ability, I'd sometimes get matched up with the slightly more talented Ian Chapman who was in my year and had the good grace to indulge my chubby hoofing. Great times. Fancy a game now.

 

[perth seagull]

You can't beat a good old game of footie.

Sadly I wasn't at an age to recognise the merits of kiss chase when we played that.

 

[Eggman]

Singer!

Bloody marvellous. Especially when the ball struck an unsuspecting girl in the face.

STRIKE

 

[Scarface]

Singer!

Bloody marvellous. Especially when the ball struck an unsuspecting girl in the face.

STRIKE

One of the dinner ladies got hit in the face by a sodden sponge ball once and she had to go and lie down cos she felt faint! If it had been a leather one it probably would have killed her!

 

[Dawsey]

Kiss chase before that was banned, then British Bulldog before that was also banned ohmy: ), then we resorted to swapping football stickers, and once those went out of fashion we played marbles. I was the King at marbles, I just kept on winning and winning until people refused to play me anymore

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Football tennis at Fairlight. Lots of footy sing alongs as well. Mainly Peter Ward based.
In juniors we used to play a game that basically consisted of running at a wall, jumping up to a ledge on the wall and perching parrott stylee for as long as possible. Completely pointless, but top fun.

 

[Dawsey]

I was at Fairliight as well, but if you were singing Peter Ward songs I think you might have been there a little earlier than me

 

[Cian]

Bulldog minus the Britishism, before it was banned. Then a variaty of attempts to get around it resulting in playing generic cops and robbers.

We'd have teams and manage to keep score of who was where, in prison, etc for WEEKS at a time. Even over the summer holidays once.