Kent 20 in 12 Learning Programme

Overview

Aims of 20 in 12

To use the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to inspire learning across the curriculum for children and young people in Kent.

Ambitions

1) For schools / settings to work collaboratively through clusters, which will become the newly formed 23 local Children's Services Partnerships from September 2008.

2) To use education and learning to maximise children and youong people's engagement with the London 2012 Games, helping them to fulfill their aspirations.

3) To create a range of opportunities and challenges across the curriclum which inspire and capture and the imagination of children and young people.

4) To enable children and young people to take the lead in the development of creative and innovative learning activities linked to the values of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

How will the '20 in 12' Learning Programme be delivered?

Each academic year ‘5 Themes’ related to the Olympic and Paralympic values will be selected by a County 2012 Planning Group, consisting of representatives from each of the newly formed 23 Local Children’s Services Partnerships (presently known as Educational Clusters). All schools and settings across a Partnership will be invited to develop learning experiences for their children and young people in any of the selected ‘5 Themes’, which will change every year to keep the programme fresh and topical.

Schools/settings can put forward, at any time in the year, learning activities that have taken place around the ‘5 Themes’ and these will be showcased on the Partnership webpages to encourage the sharing of ideas and good practice.

During the sixth term of each year, the Partnership will select the best 20 activities related to each of the ‘5 Themes’ which will be showcased on the Kent 2012 website.

Hence 20 Activities in 12 months ‘20 in 12’

Special Awards will be made to individuals, schools, settings and Partnerships. These will be for the
most creative and innovative projects within each of the ‘5 Themes’.

Kent will then showcase selected activities to be put forward to the national 2012 website
which will be accessible to all schools in the UK

See here for more about the site >>