Jasmine’s First Sports Day

Well Jasmine had her first Sports ‘Day’ today. She has been freaking out about the race that she had to do. The prep kids were only doing an exhibition run and a bit of a ‘march’ and then returning to their class as it would be too big a day for them.

Jasmine was telling me a couple of weeks ago that she didn’t want to run because she wouldn’t be able to win, because some of her friends are much faster than her. She also seemed to really be stressing about running and we have been explaining to her that all that matters is that she has fun with it and that she gives it a go, she doesn’t have to ‘win’. In the end it eased her mind a lot to know that if she wanted to she could walk or jog if she felt she needed to. She was very relieved when her teacher told her she was allowed to do that if she wanted to.

Well this morning finally the run came and you could tell she looked a little nervous but she did a WONDERFUL job and ran beautifully.. no jogging or walking involved at all. We are both very proud that she tried her best and she did such a wonderful job.

They did the races in groups of four and I think it helped that she was one of the later groups and she got to see a lot of the other kids run. Some of them had to have a teacher help them along the way, but she did just fine without the teachers.

Anyway.. here is a little pic, hopefully I will get a chance to scrap this one soon….