How will you decide which students receive your London 2012 Ticketshare Tickets? Read on for some ideas…
From your London 2012 Ticketshare allocation, you will need to decide exactly who will get the tickets. How will you decide?
Working with a range of teachers the Get Set team has devised guidelines and ideas to help you shape your London 2012 Ticketshare distribution plans.
Don’t forget, all students who receive tickets must be aged 10 – 18 years on 31 August 2012.
Our guidelines
In line with the overarching aims of Get Set we would like your London 2012 Ticketshare distribution plans to:
- Recognise and reward students who are living the Olympic and/or Paralympic Values
- Be devised with input from your student body
- Give the widest possible number of students the opportunity to be in with a chance of getting a ticket.
Don’t forget to think about all students, not just the usual suspects – do you have students in care who would benefit from this opportunity? Or perhaps some of your students are young carers themselves and deserve a reward for their commitment?
After that…it’s up to you and your students to devise the plans. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Working with students to plan your ticket distribution:
- Members of the school council, young leaders and young ambassadors could take the lead in canvassing opinion across the school to inform your decisions about the fairest or most appropriate ticket distribution system. Try to include all members of the school community including teachers, support staff, parents and governors in the research
- Enlist the help of older students to tell others in the school or local community about the London 2012 Ticketshare initiative and to seek their ideas and opinions
- Ask young leaders to make a presentation to the school or a year group about the ideas and opinions they’ve discovered.
Linking your ticket distribution to existing school/college initiatives:
- Include a London 2012 Ticketshare element in existing activities, programmes and/or special London 2012 events that you already have planned. For example as part of PE, or health and personal development programmes, students could set themselves a new target – or take on a new challenge – and demonstrate over a sustained period that they are working determinedly towards their goal.
- Work with students to add a Ticketshare dimension to your participation in one of the Get Set + programmes, run by our partners. For example, working with the healthy active lifestyles goals in Small Steps for Life or establishing friendships and exchanging ideas with an international partner school.
Introducing new initiatives:
- Introduce a London 2012Ticketshare ‘passport.’ Students receive a stamp or signature to record when they have demonstrated a commitment to the Olympic and Parlaympic Values. Scores are totalled up over a given time and top scorers might be short listed or their names put into a hat.
- Set up a ‘Values totaliser’. Imagine a gauge such as you often see in communities that are raising funds for a new facility such as a swimming pool or new roof for the church. You could have a Values totaliser in school to which all students are encouraged and recognised for their contribution e.g. in being an excellent friend to someone, inspiring their peers to try something new or showing courage etc. Make sure you display your London 2012 Ticketshare totaliser somewhere prominent in the school/college and record individual names under each of the three Olympic and four Parlaympic Values. Each time an individual student demonstrates a commitment to a Value their names move up the scale. You could even take your London 2012 Ticketshare Values totaliser out to the community? Maybe the local library or town hall might display it, and the local paper might run an article about it.
- The London 2012 Ticketshare year group challenge! Give each class or tutor group one specific Value to focus on for a given time. Award Values certificates to individuals or a whole class, for their commitment to the Values and put their names into a short list of possible London 2012 Ticketshare ticket winners.
Integrating London 2012 Ticketshare across the curriculum
- Write or make a persuasive argument about the fairest system for deciding on how tickets should be given to groups of people or individuals
- Design a poster or leaflet inviting students to have their say about how tickets should be awarded
- Create a London 2012 Ticketshare competition for the whole school/college to enter with the chance to win London 2012 Ticketshare tickets e.g. design a logo to symbolise one of the Values and ask a governor or a local business to be the judge, or have a debate with students presenting arguments for and against the following motion:
‘We believe that the fairest way of giving out our Ticketshare tickets to students in this school is to put everyone’s names in a hat.’
- Ask a partner school, either in the UK or overseas, for their views on how London 2012 Ticketshare tickets could be given out fairly. Maybe they have some experiences to share with you.
