The DASP Olympic Torch
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DASP Celebrates the Olympics in style!
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On Thursday 20th October 2011, St Mary's Charminster Olympic Ambassadors, collected the Torch from the East Dorset Education Partnership.
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The Schedule
DASP Olympic Torch Relay
Thursday 20 October 2011– Thursday 9 February 2012
Click on the school name to see photos of the handovers.
In February 2012, the Torch was returned to the East Dorset Partnership, after a fantastic few months in Dorset. Now it is time to look forward to the actual Olympics!
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Download a Word file of background information about the Olympic Torch by clicking here.
Download a Word file of information about the Cultural Olympiad by clicking here.
Download a Word file of information about the Jurassic Coast Activities linked to the Olympics by clicking here.
Download the Powerpoint Presentation from the DASP Student Voice Day. (Note this is a 14mb file)
And there is another torch as well!
The details of the Olympic Torch route are out and can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13391986. The torch will be passing directly by many of our schools so you can start planning how you will get the children out to see the action.
Mel Lane explains the DASP Olympic Torch Project to the Student Voice Meeting, July 2011
Useful Links
See the Olympic Dreams webpage.
And don't forget the Get Set website:
http://getset.london2012.com/en/home
BBC Teach 2012 (includes resources for assemblies etc.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/world_olympic_dreams/9405838.stm
The Olympic Truce is something that can cross all age ranges - and is good for anything from an assembly to a class discussion at the end of the day - why is it such an amazing thing? what can we learn from it?
http://getset.london2012.com/en/get-set-goes-global/get-set-for-the-olympic-truce4
The NCETM (National Maths Organisation) has put together a lot of maths resources relevant to the Olympics and Paralympics. They can be found at
https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/11669
Big Jurassic Classroom - If you haven't yet signed up for the FREE 2 hour twilight training session on offer this year, please contact the Jurassic Coast Team by calling (01305) 224401 or emailing
BJC Newsletter.(December 2011)
BJC Newsletter.(January 2012)
The training is excellent and offers lots of useful information about the Jurassic Coast and how to incorporate learning about our World Heritage site with the Olympic and Paralympic Values. You can also book the National Trust BJC Van to come to your school - it comes complete with staff and activities for children of all ages.
As part of the SW Cultural Olympiad a group of arctic experts and philosophical thinkers have claimed a new piece of rock, which has now been officially recognised as Nowhere Island. The team will travel the SW, including visiting Weymouth from 25 July 2012. The project is designed to highlight the issues involved in setting up a community, agreeing rules for the island, etc, which is another issue easily accessible by all ages.
More information at:
www.nowhereisland.org
World Sport's Day - Monday 25 June 2012 - is a national day to celebrate the arrival of overseas teams to the UK - there are so many different opportunities that come out of this and there will be loads of resources to help you celebrate in school. It takes place in the school term too, rather than the Summer holidays.
Find out more here:http://getset.london2012.com/en/get-set-goes-global/london-2012-world-sport-day
Support a Team - Finding out about the athletes, their countries, their training, their diet, etc... again has masses of potential. If you click here http://getset.london2012.com/en/get-set-goes-global/nation-information you can download resources including a world map of competing countries. There is also info on work you can do with children helping them to promote the paralympic games.
Mandy Burrow, the creator of the brilliant ‘Woodlands Junior’ website, has created an Olympics 2012 website which contains information and links suitable for children, and educational resources and ideas for teachers. The Olympics 2012 website is part of her Project Britain website which has lots of information about what life is like in Britain today. There is masses of useful stuff on there in the traditional Woodlands style.
Take a look at http://projectbritain.com/olympics/
link below to book the National Trust Jurassic Coastin' Van which will come to your school with lots of resources for investigating the Jurassic Coast - suitable for KS1 and KS2
http://www.jurassiccoast.com/420/educational-resources-34/big-jurassic-classroom-265/national-trust-jurassic-coastin-van-863.html
This website has some good dinosaur information and some '3D' dinosaurs that you can rotate to have a good close look at them. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/dinosaurs-other-extinct-creatures/dino-directory/
This one has some background infor and activites based on Mary Anning
http://invigorate.royalsociety.org/
This is the Paralympic Athletes website and it has pages of teacher resources you could use
Lots of activities and opportunities for our region.
Student Voice Minutes
Where the DASP or Thomas Hardye Student Voice meetings cover the Olympic Torch Relay, we will make Minutes available here for download.