IMPORTANT UPDATE: SJF SPORTS DAY 2024

Due to poor weather, arrangements for this year's Sports Day have had to change.

The events will take place on two dates and we would like the children to come to school wearing their PE uniform on both days:

(i)   23-05-24 Festival of Sport in the morning
(ii)  20-06-24 Competitive races


23-05-24: FESTIVAL OF SPORT
All children are asked to come to school wearing their SJF PE uniform.

The whole-school Festival of Sport will take place as planned, inside, if necessary. If there is a break in the weather, and it is safe to do so, some activities will be taken outside, on the playground and in the MUGA. 

A reminder that our annual festival sees our children working in mixed-aged teams as they participate in a circuit of different and exciting sporting challenges. Friends and family are not invited to this part of the day. 


20-06-24: COMPETITIVE RACES - FS2 AND YEARS 1 & 2

All children are asked to come to school wearing their SJF PE uniform.

Parents/Carers with children in FS2, Y1 and Y2 only are invited on to school grounds from 12.45pm, and are asked to queue outside school whilst waiting to be let in. Once in school, you are asked to remain on the field and not to try and enter school. If you need anything, please go to the school office only. Obviously, there will be no entry in to school buildings from the field, in line with safeguarding risk assessments.

The events for children in FS2, Y1 and Y2 will take place between 1.00pm and 2.00pm. When they are finished, the children will be taken back in to class. Parents/carers will then have the option to either stay until the end of the afternoon, and watch their older children race or - if they do not have older children taking part in the Y3-Y6 races - they can take their young children straight home. To do this they should go directly to the school office to collect them, if this is what they want to do. 


Important
Younger children can only be collected after their races if they are going straight home. They cannot be collected early from to go back watch the rest of the Sports Day. Thank you for your cooperation.

20-06-24: COMPETITIVE RACES - YEARS 3-6

All children are asked to come to school wearing their SJF PE uniform. Parents/Carers with children in Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6 are invited in from 1.45pm, and are also asked to queue outside school in the usual way until admitted. The events for older children will take place between 2.00pm and 3.00pm. Younger siblings who have not been taken straight home will be supervised back in their classes.

When they have finished their races, the older children will also be return to their classes in order to gather their belongings, before being released on to the playground with the remaining younger children. Everything is scheduled to finish at approximately 3.00pm and parents and carers are asked to wait on the playground for the children to be released at the end of the day.

Please do not try to access the school building during the course of the afternoon.

SOCIAL MEDIA 

We will allow parents/carers to photograph/video their own children from their places but we ask that any images captured are not then uploaded to social media, if the pictures include any images of other children - even images of children captured in the background.

The parents/carers of a number of our children have requested that their children’s images are not made publicly available online, whether it be on the school website or on other parent’s social media platforms.

We thank you for your cooperation and support with this. Staff will take photographs of races and of children for whom we have permission, and these will be shared.  

We respectfully ask that no dogs are brought on the school site and that visitors refrain from smoking and vaping whilst on the site. Thank you.