Sports Day going ahead with parents?

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Following the delay in the lifting of restrictions, what’s your school doing? DfE guidance says parents can attend but in separate groups of 30. Interested to know how schools will manage that.

We're not. It's impossible to restrict numbers to 30 fairly, what do we do for separated parents when both want come, those with younger children they would need to bring, the classes with more than 30 children in, a whole host of problems! We are videoing the class events and making the video available to parents.

Our school have confirmed that sports day will go ahead but without spectators - they will video events and announce placings etc. Secretly quite pleased as it's normally boil bing hit and I have terrible hay fever!

Ours is. 90 children, only 1 parent each, large field and encouraged to distance ...

Each class having a separate event, with 1 parent per child allowed to attend to limit it to 30

So no silblings. Separated parents can swap over half way. It's a full morning with activities. I'm quite impressed tbh.

Ours already happened, they usually have it early but it avoided this dilemma!

Our school have confirmed that sports day will go ahead but without spectators

Same here.

Ours is going ahead for the kids but no parents.

Ours is cancelled....big event normally ....Year 3 to 8 ..family picnics ...tea tents etc
The kids still doing their events ...just no parents ....and in a different way.

No parents allowed at ours. Most kids quite pleased tbh.

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No parents allowed at ours. Most kids quite pleased tbh.

No parents allowed at ours. Most parents quite pleased tbh

Going ahead in bubbles, but no parents. I'm not that bothered (I don't have sporty children so find it all a bit of a trial).

No parents for ours, my son isn't sporty so not bothered.

No spectators at my school.

Going ahead without parents. In year group bubbles I expect. DS2 is sporty but would rather it went ahead even without parents. We have been able to watch him in a few club cricket matches at least.

Seems to be fairly consistent approach across schools.

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/consider-holding-proms-outdoors-dfe-tells-schools-after-freedom-day-delay/

Ours did it without parents and didn't even tell us it was happening :(

We're having parents at ours. Groups of 30 separated by at least 2m..

Our very small primary school (less than 200 pupils) have done their sports days this week, in bubbles, with parents allowed to attend. We were told to social distance and had to bring our own chairs / picnic blankets, but we didn't have to wear masks once we were sat down.

Going ahead in year group bubbles (2 form entry) split into 4 "teams"
1 adult per child.
It's kicking off on class WhatsApp about how unfair it is, strongly worded emails, more people at pick up (which is a germfest) etc.
I'm just really hoping school don't cancel after deciding it's not worth the grief

Disclaimer - single parent and exh lives 2hrs away and won't attend so no impact on me.

Ours is going ahead as normal, sadly.

Parents allowed. Nursery and KS1 in the morning, KS2 in the afternoon.

Wish they’d stop, it’s a misery for everyone.

"The DfE say that sports day events can go ahead but “pupils and students must remain in their bubbles, and early years children should remain in their consistent groups as is usual for your setting.”
The government say sports equipment should be cleaned regularly throughout the day and “spectators must adhere to current social distancing requirements”.
Spectators can gather in separate groups of up to 30. Multiple groups are permitted."

We have 21 classes in my primary school. Doing a separate event for each class would take a month, longer if some were postponed because of rain. Plus it wouldn't feel the same if only one class at a time was there.

We're having our usual 4 sports days (Foundation, Key Stage 1, lower juniors and upper juniors) and holding them without parents.

As a teacher, it takes a hell of a lot of pressure off. No worries about children having fun and having to be seen having fun but still having to have perfect behaviour because you are being watched by parents and the headteacher. No tears when children have to say goodbye to parents. No parents arguing with the result of races. I'm actually looking forward to it instead of dreading it.

I did wonder if shools might be using covid as a reason because its "easier." Understandable perhaps but hope for the kids that's not a reason used forever...