By Ava Mason. From looking at the get set London 2012 Olympic website. I have researched the main...
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By Ava Mason. From looking at the get set London 2012 Olympic website. I have researched the main Olympic values. These include respect, excellence, friendship,
From looking at the get set London 2012 Olympic website. I have
researched the main Olympic values. These include respect,
excellence, friendship, courage, determination, inspiration and
equality. By respect, the value means taking care of your healthy,
knowing what your limits are and playing with others fairly. Also,
one of the most important Olympic values is excellence which means
taking part in activities and giving everything your best ability.
It also means setting goals for yourself, and trying to progress
and achieve those goals. The other most important value is
friendship, this means being able to understand others despite of
any differences you might have. You must have friendships through
doing sporting activities or just through playing games. Get set is
a programme that helps children and young people have the chance to
use these values throughout there lives, in local communities or
places of learning. For my challenge card, I have included the
Olympic value excellence as a caption. This way it can encourage
the pupil to focus as much as possible when doing the challenges,
so they can increase there progress and become healthier.
Slide 3
Some questions I researched that were asked on the section for
11-14 year olds are how using one or two of the values in your own
life would help you now. Also, what value you would use to help you
make a difficult decision. Some questions asked on the section for
14 -16 year olds are how relevant the values are to your own life
and whether life would be different if you used the Olympic values.
Some of the games you can play about Olympic values are playing a
game where you solve every day dilemmas. After playing this, you
will discover how you are rated for your decision making, against
the Olympic and Paralympic values.
http://getset.london2012.com/en/resources/educators/the-olympic-and-
paralympic-values These photos have been taken from the website
provided above
Slide 4
I researched the different sections for my information point
using the Small Steps for life website. They were Feeling good,
Getting Active and Eating Healthy. I researched these by going on
the Small Steps 4 Life website and looking at the valuable
information. On Feeling good, I found out different ways you can
feel good, as well as the fact feeling good is about emotional
health, as well as physical. Some of the ways to feel good are
getting rest, staying upbeat, talking to a friend, trying the 24
hour rule and staying in control. I included some of these ways, in
my information point, and I will explain what they mean, by using
the information I have gathered, about the different activities.
http://smallsteps4life.direct.gov.uk/en/secon
dary/3-ways/feeling-good-inside.aspx These pictures have been taken
from the website named below
Slide 5
I researched reasons why we eat unhealthily using the Eat
Healthy sections on Small Steps 4 Life. I researched that our food
choice is influenced by how we are feeling, how much money we have
and who we are with. Other reasons also contribute such as our own
likes and dislikes, for different food groups. Also, on the Small
Steps 4 Life website, some ways they advise to keep healthy are
through eating breakfast, eating more fruit and trying new things.
Eating breakfast is said to promise larger concentration levels
throughout the day. The description of the challenge to eat more
fruit, is to set a target with friends, of a amount of fruit to eat
in a period of four weeks. The trying new things challenge I
researched, says that you should set a target to try one new things
a week (something healthy of course). Apart from challenges, other
tips I researched to keep eating healthy are snacking on fruit and
drinking more water. Another thing I researched was the amount of
different portions of food we should eat from different food
groups. I learnt this from looking at a attachment from the Small
Steps 4 Life website that showed me a diagram of the amount of
different food groups I should eat. The smallest portion we should
eat is of fatty foods and the biggest is of fruit and vegetables ad
well as of carbohydrates, like bread and rice.
http://smallsteps4life.direct.gov.uk/en/secondary/3-ways/healthy-
eating.aspx These pictures have been taken from the website named
below
Slide 6
I researched different ways of Getting Active using the Small
Steps 4 Life website. Different ways include, having a healthy
heart, maintaining a healthy weight, having more energy, having
strong muscles and bones as well as having fun. Some of the
challenges I researched are Pacing yourself, this is walking 1000
paces at lunch each day. Another challenge I researched is get
dancing, this is getting a group of friends together and making up
a dance routine, with a minimum of two practices a week. Outside
Gym is taking a adult friend to a local park to set up a outside
gym, then spending 15-20 minutes on the different kinds of
equipment you have brought. This will encourage you to enjoy
getting fit because you are with your friends and in a nice outdoor
area. Tools required for this are gym equipment such as matts and
weights, although some of the ways to get fit can just involve
using a matt to lie on when muscle stretching.
http://smallsteps4life.direct.gov.uk/en/secondary/3-
ways/getting-active.aspx These pictures have been taken from the
website named below
Slide 7
Finally, I believe I have researched many Olympic Values and
many challenges and tips of becoming healthy using Small Steps 4
Life. I think I have enough information to use for other
publications such as in my Information Point.