[nikkival]

I was under the impression that Cross Country was no longer in the PE curriculum as it poses a health & safety issue? The teachers can't supervise all the children as they generally spread out over the course and only have checkpoints at a few places, so if a child stumbled and hurt themself or had an asthma attack, there is no responsible adult present to deal with it.

If I were you Tinks, I'd ask to see their H&S policy on cross country and see what reaction you get! I may be wrong but I'm sure this came up when I was a school governor, as we had to do H&S assessments before any activity which was off the school premises, even before walking the children down Union Road for a Geography lesson to see what the hazards where or how things could go wrong.