East Midlands Legacy - Children & Young People
Make best use of educational opportunities offered by 2012
Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games presents us with terrific learning possibilities for our children and young people. LOCOG has responded by producing an exciting educational resource called Get Set which can be found at http://getset.london2012.com/en/home The resources and associated projects are not intended to be a curriculum as such and are grouped according to age ranges but not linked to Key Stages or National Curriculum as this is a UK wide resource.
Many of the resources are meant to be fun and most are interactive but it is the use of the seven Olympic and Paralympic values which really marks out Get Set. Many of the resources such as assembly presentations link directly to the values and the values form the basis for connection with something called the Get Set Network, a fairly exclusive group of schools pledged to commit fully to the Olympic and Paralympic values.
East Midlands recruitment to Get Set stands at around 35% (April 2010) and the region currently has 14 Network members, including one primary school and one FE College. The Coordinator is encouraging schools to sign up for Get Set, begin blogging about the impact of London 2012 on the life of the school and then join the Get Set Network. Case studies of Network schools’ activities and successes are included in the Coordinator’s monthly updates
Get Set has also led to several linked projects such as Get Enterprising which includes some tremendous resources and ideas for use by secondary schools especially those with business and enterprise remits.
London 2012 has also led to the creation of some other exciting resources. Small Steps 4 Life http://smallsteps4life.direct.gov.uk/ is all about sustainability and healthy living. Championed by gold medal winning oarsman James Cracknell, the site provides ideas and challenges for pupils from both primary and secondary schools. Another good resource which focuses upon Citizenship is Who Do We Think We Are? http://www.wdwtwa.org.uk which also touches upon the fifth strand of Internationalism. 21st – 27th June has been designated as WDWTWA week and provides a focal point for work on diversity, identity, community cohesion and global issues.
The Coordinator has been working with partners to develop some bespoke East Midlands projects which have achieved the Inspire Mark. The first of these is Musubi a project inspired by Loughborough University becoming a Pre Games Training Camp for Japanese athletes. South Wolds Community School from Keyworth in Nottinghamshire is a key partner in Musubi. Its pupils study Japanese and they have linked with the Coordinator to produce a series of Musubi Days to be held at the University.
Two days have taken place to date for Language Colleges from Campion School, Northamptonshire and Aldercar Language College from Derbyshire. The days consist of sport, music, customs, language and food from Japan. At the last Musubi Day the pupils met four members of the Japanese 400 metre hurdles squad. They were able to ask questions in Japanese, take photographs and have autographs signed. It was a great day.
Staff and pupils from Get Set Network school Joseph Whitaker from Nottinghamshire receive their plaque from LOCOG staff
L - Pupils from Aldercar Community Language College meet Japanese hurdlers
R – South Wolds pupils plan the Musubi Day, including Taiko drumming
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