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Get Set is the official London 2012 education programme for schools, colleges and local authority education providers across the UK.

The Get Set website offers a huge variety of opportunities, with resources targeted at 3 - 19 year olds.

There is a whole range of flexible, interactive learning resources designed to get you thinking about the Olympic and Paralympic Values - with games, factsheets, films, news articles and much more.

Get Set aims to:

- Provide young people in every school and college across the UK with the opportunity to get involved in the 2012 Games.
- Support the promotion of the Olympic and Paralympic values.
- Support and drive existing educational priorities and agendas.
- Enhance young people’s learning right across the curriculum – through sport, culture and education.
- Place young people at the heart of the process, involving them in project design, development and delivery.
- Offer one coherent structure through which schools, colleges and local authority education providers can engage and connect with Games bodies.
- Build excitement right across the UK in the lead up to the 2012 Games.

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Through Get Set you can also get access to other learning resources to support learning. These resources are being developed with our partners and will be based on themes including:

- communication, colaboration and citizenship
- healthy active living
- culture and creativity
- PE and sport
- internationalism
- sustainability and regeneration
- enterprise
- practical learning
Pierre De Coubertin

What are the Olympic and Paralympic values?

The founder of the Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, was really interested in education. He wanted the Games to be a celebration of mind, body and spirit and he developed a set of values. These values can be interpreted as:

- Respect - fair play; knowing one’s own limits; and taking care of one’s health and the environment
- Excellence - how to give the best of oneself, on the field of play or in life; taking part; and progressing according to one’s own objectives
- Friendship - how, through sport, to understand each other despite any differences

The Paralympic values are based on the history of the Paralympic Games and the tradition of fair play and honourable sports competition.

They are:
- courage;
- determination;
- inspiration; and
- equality

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