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An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games
Dominic CollinsPartnerships Manager
2012 Legacy and Strategic Sport
• 17,000 Olympian and Paralympian Athletes
• 6,000 Coaches / Officials
• 5,000 Olympics Officials
• 2,500 Paralympics Officials
• 22,000 Journalists
• 120,000 Staff
• 9.7 million tickets
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
The Scale of the 2012 Games
• 7,000 Full time equivalent jobs in the construction industry
• 10,000 workers on the Olympic Park site at peak times (next couple of months)
• 12,000 jobs as a result of legacy development of the Olympic park site alone
• 2-3 million cubic meters of soil to move
• 170,000 seats to fix in 9 venues
• Recruitment and training of 70,000 volunteers
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
The Estimated Impact of the Games
The mountain biking event is
coming to Essex
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
The canoeing is coming to Hertfordshire
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
The Essex Legacy
1. Increasing Physical Activity and Sports Participation
2. Delivering a Successful Cultural Olympiad
3. Maximising the Economic Impact of the 2012 Games in Essex
4. Pre Games Training Camps: leveraging Essex’s existing infrastructure
5. Learning and Development
6. Supporting Volunteers
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
What are the Games about?
“To reach young people all around the world, to connect them with the inspirational power of the
Games”
The Olympic and Paralympic Values
Olympic
Friendship
Excellence
Respect
Paralympic
Courage
Determination
Equality
Inspiration
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
What is our opportunity?
• Use education to maximise Children’s and Young Peoples awareness and engagement with the Games
• To use the 2012 programme in its widest sense to inspire
• To light a spark and encourage a change that can help Children and Young People to fulfil their potential
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
How can you engage?
Get Set• Official London 2012 education programme
• Aimed at 3-19 year olds
• Learn about the Olympic and Paralympic values and the London 2012 Games
• Range of flexible resources
• Regular newsletter and 2012 competitions
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
Explore the values
• films
• online games
• fact sheets
• activity sheets and ideas
• teachers notes
• image bank
• meet the athletes
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
Find out what else is going on across the UK
• Case studies of other schools
• Opportunity to blog what you are doing and show off!!
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
Go further
• Internationalism
• Citizenship
• Practical learning
• Sport and PE
• Enterprise
• Sustainability an regeneration
• Culture and creativity
• Healthy and active lifestyles
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
Join the Get Set Network• Network of schools and colleges across the UK demonstrating their commitment to the Olympic and Paralympic Values
• Children led
• The Values, what they mean to your school and explore what you can do to increase your commitment to them
• Apply for the Learning Mark
• Access to exclusive competitions, resources and opportunities
• Plaque and certificate
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
Things you can get ready for…..
• 1,000 days to go until the 2012 Paralympic Games 3 December 2009 – resources and film
• Link your school across the globe to another school FREE, with support AND FUNDING
www.globalgateway.org/2012
• National School Sports Week 28 June – 2 July 2010
www.schoolsportweek.org
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
What are Essex doing?
• Essex Carrying the Flame• Primary school cross curricular resource pack launched June 2008
• More resources to come
• Developing into a framework of sporting and classroom based activities for primary and secondary pupils
• Build into an annual festival
• Priority 8 in the CYPP
• Identifying 2012 leads in every school in Essex
Your help
Register for Get Setwww.london2012.com/getset
Tell us who your 2012 link staff member is [email protected]
Let us know what you are doing – lets celebrate
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
Dominic [email protected]
01245 431 490www.essex.gov.uk/london2012
An Essex Legacy from the 2012 Games
