Dear Parents and Carers,
There have been a number of parents enquiring about sports day and the decision made by the school to close this event to spectators. We absolutely understand that not opening the day up to parents isn’t what you want to hear, however our main aim is to ensure the children have the best possible day and that our community is kept safe. The decision was made based on Government restrictions (no more than 30 people meeting outdoors socially) and our belief that managing this event and keeping everyone safe would be extremely difficult if spectators were able to attend. If a positive case were confirmed amongst our spectators, we would be required to inform everyone who attended to isolate, which would be a difficult and time consuming task. There have been references made about parents being allowed on school grounds when picking children up and that they are gathering in groups. As a school, we are encouraging everyone to socially distance whilst on school grounds and expect that parents should be on the school grounds for no longer than 15 minutes when dropping off or collecting children. If parents were to attend sports day, they would be gathering for over two hours and as there would be over 30 spectators, we would be breaking Government restrictions. We were unable to hold a sports day for the children last year due to lockdown and therefore this year, we want to make sure that the children experience this and have a great day. We will be taking lots of videos and pictures that will be shared with parents during and after the event, to ensure we capture the day for you.
We know this isn’t ideal and hope that you understand why we have made this decision. Hopefully next year things will have resumed and we will welcome you into school as we have done before.
Thanks CS Crew