: Fair Play
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Approach: Station Level: Year 4 and year 8 
Focus: Relationships
Resources: Highlighter pen

Questions/instructions:

We should all try to show fair play when we are playing games.

In each circle below write a rule for fair play in games.

Using the highlighter pen, highlight the things that you think you do really well.

Fair Play Rules



% responses
2006 ('02)
y4
y8

Rules included:

obeying rules/don’t cheat
43 (43)
56 (49)
respecting officials/coaches/listening
9 (9)
19 (17)
helping/encouraging/being kind/cooperate
62 (60)
67 (60)
not being physically/verbally rude/nasty to opponents
53 (56)
55 (64)
accepting outcome appropriately
15 (22)
27 (20)
giving everyone a chance
43 (31)
33 (29)
Overall strength of set of rules:
very strong (5 different rules)
2 (0)
3 (5)
quite strong (3-4 different rules)
37 (38)
49 (39)
fairly weak (1-2 different rules)
52 (52)
44 (49)
little or no understanding shown
9 (10)
4 (7)
Total score:
6–8
9 (9)
14 (14)
5
22 (21)
35 (23)
4
19 (15)
10 (15)
3
29 (31)
28 (29)
0–2
21 (24)
13 (19)
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4

Year 8

Commentary:
About half of the year 8 students and 40 percent of the year 4 students generated three or more rules judged to be good and different. There were only minor differences between the subgroups and little change between 2002 and 2006.
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