No math, language or geography lessons for a day, but sports in an orange outfit. Traditionally, today were the King’s Games. A sports day in which more than one million primary school children from more than six thousand schools throughout the Netherlands participate. Also at OBS Gieten there was fanatical sports.
“Groups 1 to 4 play games in the schoolyard and around the school and groups 5 to 8 follow various sports clinics. Such as softball, tennis and volleyball,” explains gym teacher Suzan Wüstefeld.
As a gym teacher, Wüstefeld naturally finds sports fun and important. “But the King’s Games is also the annual party. Children are looking forward to it. We all make it an orange party.”
Children were allowed to enroll in sports, but they were not allowed to choose something they were already on. “That way they also discover new things.”
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