A statement on the petition website states: “Enable and empower children’s right and freedom to run freely through spontaneous, child led play, in the playground during lunch time break.
“Do not allow “health and safety” to remove the liberty to spontaneously run in the playground during imaginative and child-led play.”
The petition has since been removed after the organiser spoke with head teacher Tim Cook.
Dr Cook has defended the ban and said it had led to an 80 per cent drop in first aid incidents at the school.
He wrote on the school website: “Some parents are concerned that we have banned all running from lunchtimes, this really is not the case.
“What we have done is to stop running directly across the playground where some children had been hurt by others running into one another."
