Olivia McEvoy, 11, made a bid to get out of sports lessons that backfired badly when she asked her mum to write a note excusing her
A schoolgirl who tried to bunk off PE saw her cunning plan backfire when her mother mischievously packed her off to classes with a sicknote admitting she had ''Bone-idle-itus.''
Little Olivia McEvoy, 11, hated sport so much she would repeatedly beg mum Sam to write her a note saying that she was too poorly in a bid to get her out of the lesson.
Eventually Mrs McEvoy was so fed up of Olivia's pestering she gave her daughter the sealed note and asked to give it to the headmaster and even agreed she did not need to take her kit with her to school.
But unbeknown to Olivia, mother-of-two Sam, 27, had in fact written a very truthful but tongue-in-cheek note to staff which revealed the schoolgirl's plan in full. It read, "Olivia has requested that I write her a note for PE.
''Here it is... Olivia is perfectly fit and well to take part in her PE lesson today. The only thing she's suffering with is a severe case of Bone-idle-itus!
''Olivia's complaint is, it's too cold to participate. Might I suggest a few extra laps to warm her up? Please return to Olivia after reading."
The Year 6 pupil unwittingly limped into class at St John's C of E Primary school in Sandbach, Cheshire, citing that she had a bad leg and even giggled to pals that she had got out of PE.
The bombshell was dropped when the head - who was in on the joke - read the letter and called Olivia into his study where he told her: ''There are things in life we don't enjoy but have to do them.''
Olivia then discovered her PE kit had already been dropped off at reception after her scaffolder dad Wayne, 34, had secretly given it to a classmates mother who was taking them to school that day.
Needless to say Olivia did take part in the lesson and even scored three goals in football. Sam said: "Unfortunately she didn't have to do the extra laps but she actually really enjoyed PE and had a good lesson. But she wasn't speaking to me at all - not for the rest of the night.
"When she got picked up by Wayne she had a face like thunder. She didn't speak to him. It was parents evening that night and all the teachers thought it was hilarious.
"It was like an episode of Absolutely Fabulous, I call her Saffy because she is so clever and sensible. When she came home she said, 'mum I do not know why you think it's so funny' which made it all the more amusing.
"We couldn't stop giggling when we wrote the letter. We had to search the house top to bottom for an envelope to keep their plan secret."
Sam of Sandbach, who also has three-year-old Kaylan said she and Wayne played their prank after Olivia came downstairs no fewer than a dozen times to nag her mum.
She said: "She has tried every trick in the book to get out of PE. In the run up to this she has left her kit at home, only taken one shoe to lessons, has a tummy ache, her foot hurts - the teachers know her very well.
"She doesn't like to move at all. She'd rather sit on her i-Pad or games console. It was about 10-30 p.m. and she was up and down the stairs, 'please write me a note, I'll do anything, I'll make you a brew, I'll clean, I'll look after Kaylan' her younger brother.
"I kept saying, 'you are not having a note' and sent her back to bed. We were watching a film and it must have been on pause for about an hour. In the end when she came down again I shouted, 'get me a pen and paper then'."
She added: "I said 'so what's wrong with you ?' and she told me to write she that had a bad leg. She just didn't want to move and said it was too cold."
She said that upon agreeing to say that she had a sore leg, Olivia's face lit up before she tottered off to bed none the wiser and feeling proud as punch.
Sam added: "She thought she was a winner. Wayne and I were literally sat there wetting ourselves writing this letter. Then I realised we'd need an envelope so she couldn't read it.
"It was 11pm and we were running around the house looking for an envelope. It was like we were the kids."
Sam then took to Facebook to disclose to a few of her friends and fellow friends what she had done, posting a picture of the note before it went viral.
"Everyone was saying I was terrible and couldn't believe I was going to send her with it. I can't believe how many people have shared it but I thought it was absolutely hilarious."
She added that her friend was due to take Olivia to school but before they set off Wayne sneaked her kit into the car and the school's reception was notified of the devious plan.
Sam a stay at home mum added: "She got into my friend's car and my friend said she was dying to laugh because Olivia was sat in the back of the car saying, 'I'm not doing PE today, I've got a note'."
"Even the school was in on it. She didn't know a thing until she walked into the headteacher's office and he explained.
"She'd even walked into the office with a limp. She'd handed in the note and gone back to class and then got called in. He gave her the note and said that there are things in life we don't enjoy but have to do them and that when she goes to the girls' school PE is a bigger thing and she is not going to get out of it."
"There's no chance she'll be doing it again in a hurry. It's a lesson to her that she can't get out of things she doesn't like."
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