Going for Gold or Quest for the Cup – classroom activities across the curriculum inspired by the Olympics, Paralympics, Commonwealth Games or major international sporting events. Whether it is the Olympics, Paralympics, Commonwealth Games, Football World Cup, Tennis Masters or other high-profile international sporting events, major events such as these with high media coverage can capture the imagination of your pupils, and that interest can be harnessed in the classroom in any curricular area.
The following are links to resources which link major sporting events to the curriculum, or inspire classroom activity ideas. Olympic, Paralympic or Commonwealth Games-inspired teaching resources Chris Leach has collated a series of challenges for a class of pupils, each challenge being inspired or loosely based on individual events within the Olympic Games.
Each activity is presented as a challenge which involves pupils in completing a task, the idea for which is inspried by an Olympic or Commonwealth Games sport but may be related to an area of the curriculum easily adaptable to be appropriate to the age and stage of the pupils. Football World Cup/International Events Rugby. Olympic Scheme. Welcome to the QAHS Cluster Olympics website! London 2012 - Get Set. The Olympic Day Run is one of the symbols of the Sport for All movement.
Great diversity in participants Every year since 1987, all over the world, the Olympic Day Run unites men, women and children of all age. Today more than 150 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) organise this great sport event. 1948, the story begins In January 1948 at its 42nd Session in St Moritz, Switzerland, the IOC approved the idea of an Olympic Day. Worldwide celebration More than 40 years later, in 1987, the first Olympic Day Run was organised over a distance of 10 km, with 45 NOCs participating. In 2008, after more than twenty years of global success, the Olympic Day Run adapted to the specificities of the NOCs by becoming the 'Olympic Day' again. Move, learn and discover Since its inception, Olympic Day has broadened its audience, adapting to the local specificities.
More than three million participants McDonald's on track Case Studies Olympic Day Case Studies 2010. Olympic Challenge 2012. Tours from Above – Aerial Virtual Tour Photography worldwide. Going for gold! resources. Going for gold - News. Last Updated:15 June, 2012Section:News The Cluster Olympics saw young athletes from Queen Anne High and 13 associated primaries begin an ambitious torch relay covering 28 miles.
The build-up to the event has taught pupils about the spirit of the Games and forged valuable links between the schools The Cluster Olympics at Queen Anne High in Dunfermline has been planned like a military operation. Any event that pulls together one secondary school and its 13 associated primaries has to be. But Scottish weather has no interest in plans devised by generals or teachers.
There is a chilly bite in the spring air as the Cairneyhill Primary pupils set off, cheered on by well-wrapped mums, dads and teachers, and accompanied by first-year runners from Queen Anne. “We’ve got two sets of runners today,” says high school depute head Peter Billington. Each school has been assigned a country, according to population, from the top 14 medal-winners at the last Olympics.
“The Primary 2s are Greece.