It will soon be the end of the summer term again – only a matter of weeks – and with it all the problems of what to do with the kids.

But first there’s the old standby of school sports day for the youngsters.

In your school days, there was a sack race, a bean bag race and the good old egg and spoon.

Have streetwise youngsters come to expect a more sophisticated day on the playing fields, or is there still a place for the mums and dads’ race at the end of the proceedings?

Get to your local infants’ school and see if they’ll let you join in.