Working on the Olympic Park
Qualifications are an important part of working life. Different qualifications will lead you to different jobs. Find out about the types of qualifications and jobs that people have on the Olmypic Park.
ODA Construction Kit resources provided:
- Fact sheets about six workers on the Olympic Park
- Get Set features a film of two workers, Shelley (administration and core support) and Cyrill (ground worker)
- The London 2012 website has five films featuring construction workers
Browse the fact files and also to watch the film about the construction workers. Talk about the qualifications and experience needed for each of the jobs. Do you agree that different personalities might be suited to different jobs? Which of the jobs you’ve seen are they most attracted to and why?
Outcome
Using the fact files and film footage as a starting point, write ‘a day in the life of’ a worker on the Olympic Park site. To help you structure the writing think of five or six questions a reporter might ask someone doing that job on the Olympic Park.
Download pictures from the image bank to illustrate the articles.
Extension
Draw up a list of jobs for work that needs to be done during a particular week at one of the venues and to write the title of the worker responsible next to each task.
For example:
Deliver timbers to venue – Drivers from rail depot
Begin fitting timbers to track – Carpenters
Second fit: power points/light fittings changing rooms – Electricians
Excavate area north of Stadium – Drivers: long arm digger, dumper trucks
