Respect & Friendship Inspiration DETERMINATION & COURAGE Equality

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Kent Olympic & Paralympic Values: PRIDE Personal excellence Respect and friendship Inspiration DETERMINATION AND COURAGE Equality

How to use this pack: GET TO KNOW Focus on creating the informed spectator Focus on getting to know the Games and their Values CULTURAL CHALLENGE Focus on becoming a creative explorer Focus on exploring the Olympics through creation, investigation and performance SPORTING CHALLENGE Focus on becoming an active participant Focus on sporting activity and leadership TREASURED MEMORIES Focus on creating treasured memories Focus on recording, evidencing and creating a lasting record DELIVER YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PRIDE can deliver a 15 hour challenge For more information visit pack pack

In this pack: SPORTING CHALLENGE: RESPECT & FRIENDSHIP Showing respect & friendship as an Active Participant Online resources, discussion points, activities & more LASTING MEMENTO: CREATING MEMORIES Fun ways to record and evaluate your experiences Ideas and evaluation sheets NEED MORE PRACTICAL HELP? You’ll find guidance notes on printing & using the slides at the end of the pack

Sporting Challenge: The Active Participant

Introduction SPORTING CHALLENGE: THE ACTIVE PARTICIPANT Young people demonstrate the Values through sport – coaching, officiating, participating etc. You people develop knowledge of a wide range of activities that can contribute to a healthy lifestyle Young people develop leadership skills and self esteem through sport Young people understand how to improve performance through hard work, training and diet Young people experience competition with sport AIMS Young people will look at sportspeople who have shown great determination and courage in their careers. Young people will share their own stories of determination and courage and think about how these values can influence their attitudes to success whilst playing sports and in their every day lives YAA Online tasks and resources can be printed or stored electronically, art work, written word, video etc. can all be recorded and form part of the evidence for the challenge OUTCOMES Young people will think about the ways that they can use the values of determination and courage to improve their performance on and off the pitch

Online Resources Set resources for London sp Download Kent Sport’s FREE module ‘Teaching Values through Leadership’ website of the Kent 20in12 website involved in the Kent School Games in one of the Stage Your Games events unity-games/ Find out more about staging your own Community Games – start by downloading the toolkit olympic-moments The Guardian lists 50 extraordinary moments from the Olympic Games videos on Paralympic events and stories presented by Paralympians quotes.html Inspirational sports quotes to use as discussion starters around determination & courage

Aims, Objective & Outcomes Aims AIMS Becoming an active participant Objectives OBJECTIVES To become actively engaged with sport and exercise, to understand how sportspeople who embody the values of determination and courage can teach valuable lessons about life and sport and how they can use those values in their own sporting endeavours Outcomes OUTCOMES Thinking about how you can use determination and courage to inspire you to make the right decisions and do what you think is right

Icebreakers BUZZ RELAY Form 2 teams of 5-8 players each and sit them in 2 rows back to back, holding hands – now give a team member at each end a small object e.g. pen, coin. The object of the game is to send a pulse from hand to hand through the team to the person holding the object who then drops it into a wastepaper bin. The first team to do this wins. You can also play best of 3, or time the fastest run SNAKE Form the group into a circle and ask them all to hold hands. Now decide who is the head and tail of the snake and tell them to let go of each other’s hands. The head’s aim is to reach the tail and s/he can do this in any way they like –but the other members of the group must keep holding hands! Once the head has reached the tail, it’s up to the rest of the snake to try and untangle themselves BALL TOSS GAME Form the group into a circle – now throw a ball to one young person and ask them to say what courage/determination means to them. When they’re finished they throw the ball to another young person across the room. Continue until each young person has had their say. You could also use this as an evaluation where young people say something they enjoyed or learned in the session

Discussion Points PRINT THEM OFF! STICK THEM UP! GET PEOPLE TALKING! Need more ideas? Use the ‘Know Your Values’ quiz your-values to kick start some great conversations your-values

Do you think Oscar Pistorius – a Paralympian – should be allowed to run in the Olympics? If so, why? If you were a sportsperson and you knew your teammate was doping, would you have the courage to speak out about it? Which is most important in sport – the determination to succeed or the courage to try?

Why do you think Dame Tanni Grey Thompson has been able to overcome her disabilities to achieve such massive success in sport? "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face - you must do the thing you think you cannot do.“ Do you agree?

Light Bite Activities: Determination and Courage DETERMINED FEET: what can you pick up using only your toes? OVERCOME OBSTACLES: Can you wriggle round cones zipped in a sleeping bag? BLINDFOLD BALLOON: How many water balloons do you have the courage to catch blindfold? ORANGE SQUASH: how determined are you to get the orange from person to person using your chin? 4 LEGGED RACE: do you have the determination to win a 4 legged race – like a 3 legged race but with 3 people!

Determination and Courage: The Derek Redmond Story FIRST STEPS Familiarise young people with Derek Redmond’s story Print out a copy of the photo of Derek and his dad Joe and display on a noticeboard or hand round the group – what emotions or values does it make you think about? DO IT & THINK ABOUT IT Watch the video of Derek Redmond at the Barcelona Olympics Think about: 3 lessons that you could learn from Derek & Joe Redmond e.g. never give up Think about: examples of determination and courage in your own life and how you felt Think about: If you were interviewing Derek or Joe what questions would you ask them? WHAT NEXT? Find out what happened to Derek Redmond after his athletics career finished – does it surprise you? Jim Redmond will be carrying the Olympic Torch – why not find out where the Olympic torch relay is going to be nearest to you and cheer on the torchbearers?

The Derek Redmond Story Derek Redmond is a triple Gold medal winning 400 metre runner whose career was blighted by injury. He went to the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 hoping to win a medal but instead his hamstring ruptured in his semi final heat and Redmond collapsed on the track in agony. However, as the Red Cross workers approached with a stretcher, Derek picked himself up and started to limp towards the finish line. He said later "I said to myself: 'There's no way I'm going to be stretchered out of these Olympics’”. Derek’s father Jim fought his way onto the track to try and persuade his son to stop but Derek refused. "Well then," Jim said, "we're going to finish this together." And finish it they did, slowly, and with the younger man's anguish becoming visibly greater with every pace. The crowd responded to this incredible display of courage by giving father and son a standing ovation. It remains one of the greatest examples of determination and courage in the history of the Olympics.

Determination and Courage: Martine Wright’s Story Plan It - Familiarise young people with Martine’s story - Learn the rules of sitting volleyball g/sittingvolleyballrulesw ovd.pdf g/sittingvolleyballrulesw ovd.pdf Think about: how you would react in Martine’s situation Do It Play a game of sitting volleyball – you will need a net and net supports and suitable ball Think about: how you felt playing the game – was it easy? Did the restrictions make it difficult? Review It Ask each young person to stand up and say one key thing about their experience – could be how much they enjoyed it, what they learned, what they’d like to do next Think about: adapting another sport for athletes with disabilities

Martine Wright’s Story In a cruel twist of fate, Martine Wright was only travelling on a tube train on 7/7 because she’d been out the night before celebrating London getting the Olympics. Now, 7 years after she lost both her legs in the London bombings, she is due to represent her country at the Paralympics – as she says “I feel like I am meant to do this”. Feeling lucky to have survived, Martine was determined to make a positive out of a negative and joined a sitting volleyball team as a new challenge. Now she has been selected for the GB team that will compete at the Paralympics. She says “no one should underestimate what sport can give you”. She will wear the number 7 shirt as Team GB take on the rest of the world.

Young People’s Challenge: My Personal Best PLAN: Challenge young people to set a series of targets and goals – they could use the online planner at DO: Agree a period of time in which young people will set goals and targets and meet them. Agree ways that you are going to record and monitor their achievements WHAT NEXT: Evaluate young people’s progress at pre agreed intervals set before you start (could be weekly or monthly). Young people can also challenge staff to set some goals and targets for youth work provision agreed on by everyone and monitored by young people

Lasting Memento: Treasured Moments

Introduction LASTING MEMENTO: TREASURED MOMENTS The aim of this element is to ensure that: Young people record the journey and excitement of living through the Games in their country You people can reflect on the diverse learning experiences and opportunities generated by the Games Young people produce personal mementos tracking their individual development through the elements Young people achieve recorded and accredited outcomes Young people celebrate their personal experience of the Games EXAMPLES OF A MEMENTO: Scrapbook of press cuttings Photo album (online or hard copy) Badges, T-shirts and other memorabilia either official or produced as part of a cultural challenge Certificates Blog or website Video Use evaluation sheets from this pack or adapt ones from previous packs available at

Aims, Objective & Outcomes Aims AIMS Creating treasured memories and lasting memories Objectives OBJECTIVES To record and evaluate young people’s experiences and to create lasting mementos Outcomes OUTCOMES Self reflection, using a variety of styles to evaluate and record, using a variety of approaches to create mementos, reflecting diverse learning opportunities, recording the enjoyment of the journey

Creating Mementos: Overcoming Obstacles, Achieving Dreams PLAN: Get some stones (large enough to write on), some balloons – you’ll also need art materials LET’S DO IT! Ask young people to think about the obstacles that hold them back – use the stones to represent obstacles and decorate them with words or pictures. The balloons represent dreams so decorate them with words and images that represent hopes and dreams WHAT HAPPENS NOW? * Ask young people to tie their balloon(s) to their stone(s) and create a sculpture * Release the balloons and write the date of release on the other side of the stone – now decorate & use these stones to make a rock garden! THINK ABOUT: the courage and determination you need to overcome obstacles and achieve your dreams

Evaluation & Recording Go round the circle and ask each young person for their thoughts on the session – for each thought (or question) put a penny in a jar. Keep this going through the year and then give the collection to a designated charity! Penny 4 Your Thoughts Write up some simple evaluation statements on flip chart paper. Invite each young person to rate each one out of 5 using star stickers Star Ratings Place a hoop in the centre of the circle – ask each young person in turn to step through the hoop as they make a statement about the session Olympic Ring Young people post their thoughts, ideas & feedback – good and bad, in words or images – as postcards into the suggestions box. Review these later and then feedback to the group – good for anonymity Suggestions Box Sign any activity sheets, keep recordings of discussions and work out time sheets with young people to complete a 15 hour Challenge – for more info Youth Achievement Award Challenge For more ideas for evaluations see umpacks umpacks Written Evaluations Ask young people to rate various aspects of the session as Gold (great), Silver (OK) and Bronze (Least interesting/enjoyable) Gold, Silver, Bronze Give each young person a few minutes to think of their own evaluation question which they will then ask the rest of the group You Decide

Young People’s Challenge: Olympic Garden COLOUR PLANTS THEMES Plant an Olympic Garden: Choose one or all of the Olympic colours Choose plants from the 5 continents, or use vegetables or flowers Think about Olympic values and what plants and vegetables symbolise For loads more ideas: involved/local-leaders/garden-for-the- games/