Our Sports Days are next week!  The students have been working well during their Physical Education lessons in preparation for it. Due to the unavailability of SA Athletics Stadium, Sports Day will once again be held on the school grounds and at Mega Courts over two days.

• Junior Primary Sports Day (R-2 classes)  Thursday 21st October
• Upper Primary Sports Day (3-6 classes)  Friday 22nd October

Our Year 6 students will be involved on both days. The whole school will then come together for the opening and closing presentations. 

Please ensure you have completed and submitted the permission form distributed via the SZAPP.

Sports Day is typically an event where students are able to showcase to parents and carers some of the activities they have been learning during Physical Education and Daily Fitness lessons.

Over the last few years our school has been fortunate to receive regular grants from ‘Sporting Schools’, a Federal Government initiative, enabling us to give additional PE sessions to all students. These lessons will also be on display showing skills acquired in Physical Literacy Daily Fitness, Tri-Skills Gymnastics and Miss Fit Dance & Movement. We will also be trying to connect to our history by including some of the traditional Sports Day events that many of you may have performed during your own school years.

Nev’s Canteen will operate as normal over the two days, however, there will be no lunches sold over the counter - all lunches must be ordered via the Qkr! app.

Students can wear a coloured shirt and their regular school shorts. Coloured hair spray and coloured hair ties are acceptable but must be applied at home.  However, please NO coloured zinc or body paint as we will be using the equipment at Mega Courts and this will damage these surfaces.

Spectators at Sports Day

You would recall that the 2020 Sports Day was severely restricted, and no spectators were allowed due to COVID-19. We have received some updated advice from Department for Education on the possibility of staging school sports days on school sites with spectators. That advice is general in nature, but does allow at the leader’s discretion, the staging of this type of ‘in-house’ events so long as:

• the broader density advice is followed
• all COVID Safe measures are in place

The presumption being made here is that Sports Day is an event for the children and families of the school and not for the broader public to have access to the school grounds.

Based on Level 1 restrictions, we have calculated that we can allow our parents and carers on site if we maintain a ratio of 1 child: 2 spectators over the duration of the event. Therefore, providing current restrictions remain the same, we would ask each family to organise so that there are a maximum of 2 adults per child attending at any one time. For example, parents could stage their time so that parents are spectators in the morning and grandparents in the afternoon. We understand this is difficult but if this arrangement is complied with, we will be able to have spectators at our 2021 Sports Day.

This same ratio of 1 child: 2 spectators apply at Mega Courts. With one class group in our Gym, we can have 60 spectators in that space. The school oval and courts will be the site of more activities and allow us to stay within density requirements.  In order to do this successfully and meet all our legal obligations we also must ensure

• all visitors sign in using the COVID check-in app or the sign in sheet.
• social distancing is maintained and
• all visiting adults must wear masks

We are excited about the prospect of a Sports Day with spectators cheering on our children. Let us pray that tougher restrictions are not applied in coming weeks.