Peer culture of Kyle's group Kyle was part of a group of boys who interacted and played together on a very regular basis, engaging mostly in imagi- native action-adventure play and constituting one of the groups of boys that carried out this type of play in the playground. Like other groups, Kyle's peer group used narratives from the action-adventure films they watched, in the course of the research listing the names of over 30 different games (see Figure 1). The children's interest in the theme of action-adventure was evident not only in the play ground, but in much of their talk on and off the playground (see Figure 2). In lessons. for example, the boys brought ideas from their games, for example, choosing to do karate chops during movement work in PE. An extremely impor- lant cultural routine within the play, evident in Kyle's group and other groups of boys playing these games, was the extensive and enthusiastic use of non-verbal gestures, sound effects noises, spoken phrases and special poses borrowed from media sources. The children showed great affection for their play. In the child conference sessions, where chil- dren were asked to describe their games, many of them mentioned the name of a game with a smile and made comments such as, "I really love that game' or 'I really enjoy playing that game