Primary Sports Day 3rd June

Primary Sports Day - 3rd June

Please see the information email from Mr Skewers, the PE Teacher below for more information:

Dear Parents,

Primary Sports Day for Years 4, 5 & 6 will take place Friday 3 June 2016 on the ISL Campus. The school has decided to change the venue for the sports day this year for the following reasons:

·       °   ISL was unable to secure the Vidy sports facilities for the dates that we requested.

·      °    Since the facilities were not available it gave us an opportunity to bring sports day up to campus and in line with the rest of the school, Primary and Secondary sports days.

·       °  Sports day was traditionally at Vidy due to the lack of facilities that ISL had on their own campus in Pully and then initially in Le Mont; however, we now have exceptional facilities that we can use here at ISL.

·        °  By having it on campus we are able to set up new activities for the students to participate in since the logistics of transporting equipment will be easier.

·        °  Hosting it at Vidy has become an unnecessary cost.

·        °  The gym teachers are looking forward to having more of a sports day and not just an athletics day.

·       °   We will have greater flexibility if the weather is poor to reschedule the event or have activities indoors.

·       °   We also gain contact time with the students by not having to bus the students down to Vidy

Students will be placed in four separate teams that will compete for points throughout the day in seven different events and team competitions. Each team has a colour and students are strongly encouraged to wear as much of that colour on sports day. Feel free to accessorize with head bands, socks or baseball caps. Your child has been instructed on which team they are on. Parents are more than welcome to come to the field and sports hall to cheer on their child.

Team colours are; Zeus- Blue, Hercules- Red, Hermes –Yellow, Athena-Green

Equipment:

Children should have a water bottle, hat, sun cream, sunglasses, shorts, t-shirt and sport shoes.

Lunch:

Cafeteria services and recesses will occur as normal.

Volunteers:

I am still searching for parent volunteers to help facilitate events. No sport experience needed. Please e-mail me directly at thomas.skweres@isl.ch if you are available to help.

Schedule:

8.30 Classes as normal for years 4, 5 & 6

10.15 Years 4-6 assemble on ISL Football pitch and competitions begin

11.35 Recess

12.05 Lunch in cafeteria for 4, 5 & 6

12.35 Competitions resume

15.20 Closing awards ceremony on the field

15.40 End of the school day

Class and Event Schedule:

Please click here if you would like to view a detailed schedule of the events.

I look forward to seeing you at this year’s Primary Sports Day.

Sincerely,

Tom Skweres

thomas.skweres@isl.ch