SJF SPORTS DAY 2023

SJF Sports Day 2022

A reminder that our Sports Day is earlier than usual this year and takes place in the first week of Term6 on Thursday 8th June 2023. All children are asked to come to school wearing their PE uniform on that day.

Morning Activities & Lunch

In the morning our whole-school Festival of Sport will take place with the children working in 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. As it is a special day, the children will eat either cold school sandwich lunch or they can bring in their own packed lunch from home if they prefer.

Afternoon Events for Younger Children 

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

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

Younger children can only be collected after their races if they are going straight home. They cannot be collected early and taken back to watch the rest of Sports Day. If they are in school, they are in class - until the end of the school day.

Afternoon Events for Older Children 

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 they are 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 in class.

When they have finished their races, the older children will also be taken back in to class to gather their things, before being released on to the playground with the 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.

Social Media and Sports Day

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

A number of our parents/carers 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, and we must respect their wishes. Thank you, in advance, for your cooperation and support with this.

Staff will be taking photographs of all the races (and of children who are allowed to be photographed), and these will be made available to view and download via our SJF website shortly after the events.