Get Set is the official London 2012 education programme for schools, colleges and local authority education providers across the UK.
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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.
More than one in ten schools and colleges are already registered with Get Set, and more sign up each day. Visit the Get Set website to access the full range of inspirational resources and see what other young people have already started doing.
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.
- Showcase and celebrate examples of interesting, inspiring and innovative practice.
- Provide opportunities for committed schools, colleges, children and young people to be rewarded, recognised and endorsed for their hard work.
Go further
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
Visit Get Set to find out more