Some practical ideas for using the London 2012 Games as the launch pad for creative enterprise projects linked to PE and Healthy and active lifestyles.
Many of the schools and colleges registered with Get Set have already run highly successful sports projects and events that also deliver on enterprise objectives for example, organising a partnership or county-wide Olympic and Paralympic event including dancing, skills workshops, making flags, selling friendship badges to raise money for charity etc. Go to our case studies section to find out more.
In 2009 over 10,000 schools took part in Lloyd’s TSB National School Sport Week.
You can add an enterprise dimension by suggesting the students take responsibility for organising and running stalls that sell healthy drinks and snacks – maybe even with a few international dishes. You’ll find lots of ideas and recipes in Get Cooking Around the World
Encourage the students to find out about SmallSteps4Life.
Steps4Life is about encouraging young people all over the country to make small, manageable steps to eat well, get active and feel good. The project and support resources will grow right up to 2012.
As an enterprise activity, students could review the current content and ideas of Steps4Life and carry out market research amongst their peers to identify what else they would like the programme to include. They could prepare a short presentation to explain to others what the project is about and how they could get involved.
Older students may be interested to find out more about the Y“oung Ambassadors programme(Young Ambassadors programme)”:http://2012.youthsporttrust.org/young-ambassadors/index.html. PE and sport Young Ambassadors are aged between 14 and 19 years old. They promote the 2012 Games to other young people by advocating the Olympic and Paralympic ethos and values. They also act as sporting role models to young people in their own communities and encourage a healthy and active lifestyle.
What qualities and skills do the students think the ideal ambassadors for London 2012 should have?
