Hounslow Hold On to Sports

This is a collection of a few of the posts. The project ran from September 2009 to the completion of London 2012.

Most information can now be found at: http://www.thehots.co.uk/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-vpEBeB-UI

Inspired by the successes of Teaching and Learning Scotland - using computer games-based learning to promote successful learning, effective contributors, confident individuals and responsible citizens,

we are planning a cross-borough Wii Challenge.

Each school will enter a team from their own school heats
Each team will need to research how to be the best team. They will need to find out about:
· The trainer
· The dietician
· The Physio
· The press / pr manager
They will need to complete some paperwork:
· a description of muscles which may be used during the Wii Olympics
· a training schedule for the athletes
· an eating plan for the athlete
· a press release/ biog of the athletes
· training timetable to compete in the Wii Olympics
Entrants can choose to compete in any Wii Sport. The team will practise their sport in school, to the agreed timetable. They can compete for a place in the finals, hopefully at the Watermans Theatre, if they have completed the paperwork.
It would be really good to get some professional athletes / trainers on board to advise our students
In terms of timeline- Project Starts in September/ Deadline for submission December/ First Heats begin in January/ Finals in Summer Term
This project aims to fit with the Cultural Olympiad that the Watermans Theatre is involved with.

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Hold on to Sports is hotting up in anticipation for the London Olympics and in its third year. This year we have primary, secondary and special schools taking part as well as the Youth Service. Over 2000 young people. Next month we take 65 enthusiastic young people on a double decker bus around the stadiium ending up at the View Tube making models of the stadium. Prizes for the best one.

We took this photos during our risk assessment tour last week.
If we can get the funding we are planning a torch bearing walk with all our participatng students through Hounslow.

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Brilliant day yesterday.

We took 50 young people from Hounslow as part of the HOTs project for a trip around the Olympic Village. They included primary school pupils, secondary school students, youth council members and scouts. All earned their places through great sporting achievements, services to Hounslow and fantastic work on HOTs

A number of features made an impression. For example the self ventilating velodrome with rain catching roof - most eco friendly bulding - and the constrution of the largest Macdonalds in the world

We then went on to the View Tube for lunch and teams constructed their own designs for stadiums. They had to support at least 60,000 people - each clay ball represents 10,000 people.