Submitted on Saturday 9th July 2022
Rejected on Wednesday 13th July 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Make sports day none mandatory in all schools.
To look into opinions and affects of sports day on children and to make sports day optional in all schools.
Especially children with mental health, on the autism spectrum and disadvantaged/less-abled children.
So many children suffer terrible anxiety about sports day. This results in them either missing school and being marked down in attendance or feeling shamed or ridiculed by having to take part. It's no different to making every child sit a maths/science test while everyone else (including other family members) watches who struggles and comes last. Please make sports day optional for those who want to take part.
I want the government to make it optional so that children can confidently remain in school and chose to do something else that day. I hear over and over again the stress caused for so long beforehand and afterwards from sports day. There seems to be only the "sporty" children that enjoy it.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about how to deliver the national curriculum on physical education, and whether to hold a sports day, are a matter for individual schools, not the UK Government or Parliament.
Schools, as with all public bodies, are required to make reasonable adjustments for people with a disability, and the Equality and Human Rights Commission has published guidance on the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 for schools in relation to the provision of education: www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/technical-guidance-schools-england
If you are unhappy with your schools approach to sports day, you should raise this with your school or the relevant local authority.
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