Your school absolutely could have run sports day. The department for education came out and said to the NAHT four or five days ago that they were permitted to go ahead.
I’m afraid it is your school that doesn’t want to accept the risk.
Comparing it to Wembley, which is operating at a reduced capacity from 90,000 to 22,500 and is part of the events research pilot, is pointless. Those events are being designed to establish if we can open the doors, and what mitigation we must keep, and what mitigation we must scrap.
And on the subject of theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber lost a lot of respect from events peers when he came out and told Access All Areas that if stage three didn’t proceed he would continue to run shows at full capacity and not socially distanced, because the industry needs the income. He said he would happily be arrested.
It was an empty and idle threat that he would never have gone through with, and it’s putting people needlessly and selfishly at risk, along with the rest of the industry, for no reason.
A theatre I spoke to on Wednesday, said it had no idea how it was going to cope at operating 100% capacity with the level of requirements needed to meet Covid-Secure measures. This is why the pilots are important, because people like us, need to plan how to keep everyone safe, in a way that’s sensible and financially viable and that still gives you the same experience you expect.
Opening the doors at full capacity, is just going to leave some people very nervous, and they won’t come back. And some venues with outbreaks, that will have to close down for 72 hours for cleaning, and that will be even shorter staffed because they’re quarantining.
Whether you’re sick of it or not, whether you’re nervous about going out or not, whether the rules for some don’t make sense for others (and believe me, I’ve had to tell people they can have 40 guests inside but only 30 outside which seems crackers) just, be patient so that the rest of us can act with the best information.