Getting set for the Olympics

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Getting set for the Olympics

Donaldson's are preparing for the London 2012 Olympic Games by participating in a collaborative project with local schools.

The Lin'Olympic Games (short for the Linlithgow Olympics) incorporates the Olympic and Paralympic theme into the curriculum. Each primary and secondary school has chosen a country to investigate for the year and will represent this country at the Linlithgow version of the Olympic and Paralympic Games on 9^th May 2012 at Linlithgow Rose ground.

Each school is developing a range of activities across the stages to develop the theme, and adopt the values of the games to meet experiences and outcomes in health and wellbeing, literacy, numeracy, expressive arts and social subjects. This includes:

• Adopting and developing the values of the Olympic Games to meet the experiences and outcomes of Curriculum for Excellence, capturing the excitement of the games and increasing levels of participation in sporting and cultural life of the community;
• Through PE and other departments of the school we are supporting the interdisciplinary activities/themes through Donaldson's chosen country of the United States of America (USA);
• The Lin'Olympic hosts, Linlithgow Academy (Team GB) and Lowport Primary School hope to create strong, effective, sustainable communication links, developing international school partnership with Ergenekon Okulu in Turkey;
• Work together towards the development of resources for their adopted country and these resource will be shared with local schools as a sustainable resource for the future.

The Olympic values already underpin much of our daily ethos at school, however, being part of this project and the Get Set network community will create new and unique opportunities to attain the qualities aspired to form these values:

• Olympic values of Friendship, Respect, Excellence
  
• Paralympic values of Courage, Determination, Inspiration, Equality

Donaldson's will be launching this exciting collaborative project by planting an oak tree donated by the Central Scotland Forest Trust.

The programme has been successful in its bid to achieve the official London 2012 Inspire Programme which recognises outstanding projects and events inspired by the London Olympic Games 2012 across the themes of sport, culture, education, volunteering, sustainability and business. The Inspire Programme offers non-commercial organisations across the UK the chance to link their organisation and events to London 2012.