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- November 24th, 2011
Speakers for Schools 2012 Olympic Week – Live on Glow!
- mfarrell
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Jonathan Edwards, former Olympic and World champion triple jumper, is speaking to students at Wester Hailes Education Centre in Edinburgh, a member of the London 2012 Get Set network reward scheme for schools, on Friday 9th December at 9am as part of a London 2012-themed Speakers for Schools Week on 5 – 9 December. Education Scotland will be broadcasting the event live on Glow TV so have your questions ready for one of our most successful athletes…
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Don’t miss out on free tickets to the Olympic and Paralympic Games!There’s still time to claim free tickets to the London 2012 Games for your students aged 10-18 before Friday 16 December 2011 by visiting www.london2012.com/getset. Get Set is the official London 2012 education programme for schools and colleges across the UK. Once you’ve claimed your tickets you’ll also be eligible for a range of exciting rewards and opportunities for your students, and free resources to help you link learning to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Speakers for Schools is open for registrations from state secondary schools and colleges across Scotland, the official Scottish launch will be in early 2012, so register now to participate and get an eminent speaker to talk to students – about anything from arts to engineering – for free.
This new charity is the idea of BBC Business Editor, Robert Peston, who wants young people in disadvantaged state schools to have the same opportunities to hear from inspirational speakers as those who attend top independent schools.
740 people have so far registered to participate including many leading CEOs, politicians, media and arts people, scientists, entrepreneurs and academics. Speakers will address the big topical issues: technological, scientific, political, economic, historical, cultural, artistic, ecological and ethical. The aim is to broaden the horizons and raise the aspirations of disadvantaged young people.
Speakers for Schools is administered by small UK charity the Education and Employers Taskforce. Please visit: http://www.speakers4schools.org/
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Categories Get Set, global citizenship, health and well being, olympics, Paralympics
Hello! Just trying to organise an Olympics Week at our primary school in Kent. I was wondering if you know of any sports person that could come and inspire the children? (for a reasonable cost!!!!) Many thanks, Louise Brookman (Key Stage 1 Leader)
Hi Louise, we were lucky enough that ‘Speakers for Schools’ wanted to have a Scottish launch of their initiative and they organised Jonathan Edwards to come to this school. We have also managed to organise a number of athletes to speak to pupils online through our national intranet ‘Glow’. These have been organised at national level with the support of our national sports bodies, sportscotland and Scottish Disability Sport. Usually you have to go through the governing body of each sport to get access to the athletes, unless you have a personal contact of course! I would consider finding out who your local up and coming young athletes were and using them… Let us know how you get on…