Why Britain is Great: British Sports

October 19, 2018
During Why Britain is Great week our pupils learnt about some different sports that were invented in our country. They tried their hand at two of them: table tennis, which begun as a parlour game in Victorian England and New Age Kurling, based on Curling which originated in Scotland over 500 years ago.




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