THIS year the students at Bathurst West Public wanted Father’s Day to be less about socks and jocks and more about spending time with their dads.
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So the school’s P and C held it’s first Father’s Day breakfast in years, hosting around 75 dads and family members.
James Meares, who is on the school’s P and C, said the said the concept of the day was to give dads, uncles, pops and even mums who act as dads time with their children.
“Dads like to stand beside their children and do fun activities. Dads like to laugh, and be laughed at. Dads love good food,” he said.
“We had a dads’ joke display, non-competitive games such as table tennis and badminton, quoits and bocce, painted a mural of dads’ hands and their children on a giant canvas, ate hot bacon and egg rolls, sausage sandwiches and cereal.”
Mr Meares said the morning was great, and he received plenty of positive feedback.
“A lot of the dads were talking at the barbecue or while they were playing ping pong. It was a chance to have some conversations we wouldn’t normally have,” he said.
He also said the event, which got underway at 6am, meant that everyone, no matter their work commitments, was able to come, even for a brief period.
“We wanted to make it from 6am to give as many people as possible the opportunity to come,” he said.
“A lot of parents said to me it was great being able to make the event.
“They normally don’t get to come to these things because of their work commitments.”