sports day for key stage 1

[user1498142900]

I was wondering about peoples vies on this. My boys both go to the local school and up until last year the children all did sports day together as a whole school.
Last year this changed with key stage 1 children not taking part in sports day just having the year 5 children organising a few outdoor things for the children and parents.
This year yet again it has been the case and I attended with my youngest who is in year 1, he seems to have not enjoyed the afternoon and spent most of the time playing like he would at playtime.
What I was wondering is if many other schools have a sports day for the key stage 1 children.
The school are wanting feed back

[catkind]

Our school has a separate sports day for infants (R-Y2). Mostly it's a carousel arrangement of non-competitive activities. Can't remember all of them but there was balancing bean bags, throwing things, kicking a ball at a goal, stuff like that. They go round in groups and have a go at each activity, with some Y6 supervising each activity. Y2 do some running races at the end. The kids seem to enjoy it.

[Hulababy]

I work at an infant school. We have separate sports days for EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2. They last the morning, on the local park field and parents are invited to watch. They are run by a sport's company who already work with our school

The EYFS sports day is a carousel of activities which all children partake in, moving around the carousel with their parents watching.

After a few years of havingKS1 non competitive sports day, we made a change. We were finding that we didn't have very many parents watching and children weren't overly enthusiastic. Our new sport's specialist teacher spoke to SMT and Governors, consulted parents, etc and we now have a competitive morning for each year.

All children take part, volunteering for the various races. We have a mix of serious and less serious races, and give points for first, second and third. We now have many more parents watching and staying for a picnic lunch after. Children get excited as a class, and compete as a class team. They make banners and wear their team colour, etc. Its a fun morning.

[smellyboot]

We have a traditional sports day for each year group - school is too big to do all at once. Races of various types, ice cream after. Kids learn to win & loose in fun.

[BubblesBuddy]

My children did a carousel at that age with targets. All supervised by staff as it was an infant school. At junior school they had a traditional sports day with heats behind closed doors for team (house) selection. The sports day had house teams competing and some children did the traditional events and others did the body race or some other event, all of which gained points. In fact DDs team won the body race and with it the cup for her house. The body race team was mobbed! Children who are not sporty were cheered on and were fully part of the day. I think this is the best way to do a sports day. No-one is humiliated and all take part in a meaningful way.

[AliMonkey]

We have one sports day for whole school of 500 children except that reception only do two-thirds of the day. Each year group does one third races, one third competitive activities (throw bean bag in bucket, timed obstacle course etc) and one third sports games organised by local college students. All children take part, the races are split following heats in PE lessons so everyone is a similar level. Most children have a parent there for at least some of the day. All children get cheered to the line by parents teachers and their classmates whether they are the fastest runner in the school or are practically walking it. KS1 teachers and TAs help the slow ones by running the long distance races with the kids. Sometimes the kids stop and help each other finish particularly if one falls over or where there are kids with disabilities. It's a lot of organisation but works well even though the school is getting bigger. I hate being out on the school field the whole day in hot weather (they rightly keep the shade for the kids) but love the fact that everyone supports each other and it would be a real shame if some didn't get to take part.