Free Olympics Topical Pack for Schools!
Please note: The blog and pack before 3rd July gave incorrect dates for the Olympic Games. The dates are now correct. Apologies for any inconvenience.
The Olympic Games are held every four years. This time around, they’ll take place between 26th July and 11th August in Paris, France, and be followed by the Paralympic Games between 28th August and 8th September.
To celebrate the games, we are releasing our very first Olympics Topical Pack for schools. We hope you like it!
What’s in the Olympics topical pack?
The pack includes:
- a fact sheet about the Olympic Games
- a word search centred around the Olympic sports
- an Olympic Games’ rings maths puzzle
- a sports report template
- a sportsperson profile template
- a flag matching activity
- an activity checklist including 24 things to do over the summer
Download it free here!
How can Busy Things help children celebrate the Olympic Games?
The Olympic Games is one of the one of the highlights of the sporting calendar. We are talking, after all, about 200 countries taking part in a 2-week long sports day! It brings the world together and celebrates sport in its many forms.
Sports focus
Talking about the Olympic Games is an easy way to talk about sports, and to get children to discuss their favourites.
Why not ask the children which event they would compete in if they were to take part in the Olympic Games. You could chart the results using Busy Things’ ‘Our favourite sports’ activity.
Country focus
To get in the competitive spirit, each class could adopt a country (other than Great Britain) to support. You could choose these either from the countries that you think will perform the strongest or from ones where your school has particular links.
Once your focal countries have been selected, your class’s task is to research the country you’ve been given and find out which sports it’s particularly strong at.
Scope of the Games
To understand the enormity of the Olympic Games, you could look at where the countries participating are on a map, globe or on our very own ‘Countries of the world’ activity.
Can you locate Paris in France?
Which country’s teams will have to travel the furthest?
Flags of the participating countries
Finally, there are the flags. Some children (usually the football fans) already have an extensive knowledge of country flags; other may know only the flags of the countries they’ve visited.
Our new activity, ‘Map of world flags (Olympic edition)’, developed specifically for the Olympic Games, is great for improving flag recognition.
Summary
We hope this blog has given you some ideas and resources to get the children excited about the upcoming Olympic Games.
As part of this blog, we’ve included our Olympics topical pack for schools (free to download above), as well as several of our activities.
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