SJF Sports Day 2025
A reminder that the date of this year’s event has changed, and will now take place on Friday 6th June 2025. On the day, all children must wear their SJF PE uniform. The timings mean that we will not provide hot lunches on that day. Instead, children must either select a sandwich option from the school menu or come to school on the day with a suitable packed lunch prepared at home. Please note that the cold dinner/sandwich menu set for the original date for Sports Day will remain.
Sports Day Morning Activities
In the morning it is our 'Festival of Sport'. The children will be divided into teams and take part in a circuit of different sporting challenges led by different staff members and volunteers staff. This is a closed event.
Afternoon Competition for Younger Children
We invite parents/carers with children in FS2, Y1 and Y2 to join us from 12.45pm. Please queue outside school until it is time to enter. Once in school, please remain on the field and do not try to enter school. Please supervise any pre-school children closely and do not allow them to use our playground equipment. If you need anything, including the toilet, please go to the school office and ask. Do not try to enter school yourself. Obviously, there is no entry in to the buildings from the field, in line with safeguarding rules.
Events for children in FS2, Y1 and Y2 will take place between 1.00pm and 2.00pm. When they are finished, the children will go back to class. Parents/carers then have an option to stay and watch the older children’s competition, or to take their children straight home. To do this they should go directly to the school office to collect them. Younger children with older siblings competing in the later competition will remain in class. They cannot be collected and taken up to watch the older children race.
Afternoon Competition for Older Children
Parents/Carers with children in Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6 are invited in from 1.45pm. Please queue outside school until admitted. The events for older children take place between 2.00pm and 3.00pm.
End of the day
Everything is scheduled to finish by 3.00pm and parents and carers are asked to wait on the main playground for their children to be released. Please do not try to access the school building at any point.
Social Media and Sports Day
Staff will take lots of photographs throughout the day, including from the Festival of Sport in the morning. These will be made available on our website to view and download, and will exclude images of those children who cannot be photographed or filmed for different reasons. Whilst parents and carers may photograph/video their own children, from their places, we ask that these are not uploaded to social media if they include images of other children whose parents have not given permission, anywhere in the photo.
Important Reminders:
- Please stay in your places and be considerate of other spectators.
- Please do not smoke or vape on the school site (you can leave the site if you need to smoke or vape).
- Please supervise younger children and do not use any school playground equipment, or let them use it.
- Please do not bring dogs on to the site!
- Please ensure that all litter goes in the bins or is taken off site with you.
- Please, do not enter the building unless you have permission from the office team to use the adult toilet.
- Please wait by the school entrance if you want to take younger children home after their competition.
- Please to not try to collect younger children after their competition if you are not going straight home.
- Please do not post to social media any photographs/videos that include the images of other children.
Thank you for your cooperation and support.
