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Olympics & Paralympics In this topic we will explore:  The Olympics Games – Ancient and Modern  The Olympic Spirit – taking part and being fair  Why and exercise is good for you – challenge yourself  Symbols of the Games – The Rings, The Flame and The Mascots  The Paralympics – Sport is for everyone The 2020: Tokyo, Japan 東京,日本 Every four years the best people from all over the world come together to compete at the Olympic Games. Lots of different sports happen at the Olympics including: athletics; cycling; gymnastics; boxing; judo; badminton; tennis; football; hockey; sailing; canoeing; horse jumping, and many more. The Games are held in a different country each time. This year they were meant to be in Tokyo, the capital city of Japan. In the News: The Olympics Games 2020 – What has happened? The next Olympic Games were going to be from 24th July to 9th August 2020. But they have been postponed until next year, 2021. Why did that happen? What has happened to the whole world to stop them? Why would running the Games be a big problem this year? Do you think it was a good or bad idea to cancel the Games this year? Geography: Olympic Cities Can to find these Olympic Cities on the World Map?

Where were the Olympics held in 1980?

Other Cultures: Writing Japanese Japan is where the next Olympics will take place. In Japan people speak Japanese. When Japanese is written, it looks very different to how we write English. Japanese can use symbols that mean different sounds in words like we do for English. But there is not one, but two different symbol alphabets for this: katakana and hiragana. But lots of Japanese words also have their own symbols too, these symbols are called kanji.

means means 猫 cat 犬 dog

So Japanese children learn three different writing systems at school!

Can you write the Japanese words for cat and dog?

Your name in Japanese writing (If you have a computer) Find out how your first name would be written in Japanese. Use this website to find out: https://japanesetranslator.co.uk/dictionaries/your-name-in-japanese/

Games: Invent your own Sport Can you invent your own sport? Will it be a sport with running or jumping? Will it be a throwing and catching sport? What equipment will you need? Is it a team sport or for individuals? Where will it be played? What are the rules? How long does it last? How do you know who has won? What will you call your sport? Look at the equipment you might have, the space you could play in and the people there to play it with you? Have a go at creating your own Sport. Sport: Take the Carwarden Olympic challenge  Can you win Gold, Silver or Bronze?  How many can you do in a minute?  Can you beat your personal best?

History: Comparing the Ancient and Modern Olympics Find out some the similarities and some of the differences between the original Ancient Greek Olympic Games and the ones we have now. Do this cut and stick task to show what you know.

Art: Olympic Mascots – Design Your Own Every Olympic Games has mascots – characters that represent the Games on posters, on TV, the Internet. You can buy them on badges, keyrings, soft toys, pencil cases, etc. They are a fun way to promote the Games. Here are some examples from different Games: Athens 2004 London 2012 Tokyo 2020 (2o21

If you have a computer – can you find out these mascots names?

Can you design your own Olympic Mascot? It should be friendly, fun and colourful. You could show it being active, like running or jumping. You can give your mascot a name. The Olympic Spirit: Bringing the World Together The Olympic Games lets sports people from all over the world come together to compete in many sports, to do their best, compete fairly, have fun and make friends. The Games want the people who watch the events at the stadiums or on their TVs at home all around the world to enjoy the sports, cheer on the sports people, celebrate those who win and those who don’t. Watching the Olympic and Paralympic Games helps us to realise that we are all sharing the World together no matter where we are from, whether we are male or female, rich or poor, whatever race or religion we might be, no matter the people we chose to love, whether we are young or old, whether we might have a disability or not. Together these ideals are known as The Olympic Spirit. People hope that it will make the World a friendlier, kinder, more peaceful place for all. PSHE: The Olympic Spirit – Being fair; Don’t Cheat Unfortunately because winning at the Olympics is so important for some sports people and countries, not everyone sticks to the rules. There are some athletes that are so desperate to win that they take banned drugs to improve their speed and performance.

Some questions to consider and discuss with an adult Is it ever OK to cheat? What would the consequences be if you get caught cheating at school? What would happen to you if you are caught taking drugs to make you faster in the Olympics. You may need to ask an adult or use the Internet to help you find this out!

History: The Ancient Greek Olympic Games Read about the original Olympic Games, then answer these questions. 1. How long ago did the original Olympic Games begin? 2. How often did they take place? 3. What were the Ancient Greeks meant to stop doing when the Games were on? 4. Were women allowed to take part? 5. Who did the Greeks believe lived on Mount Olympus? 6. How many events were there in the first Olympic Games? Your research: Who were the Ancient Olympics dedicated to? History: The Story of the Modern Olympics Read about the modern Olympic Games, then answer these questions. 1. Who started the modern Games? 2. When were the first modern Games? 3. Where did they take place? 4. How often do the Games happen? 5. How many athletes took part in Rio 2016? 6. What are the other events the IOC organise? Your research: Where did the Olympics take place in 1908, 1948 and 2012? Olympic Symbols: The Olympic Rings A symbol of the Olympics are the 5 Linked Rings. The athletes come from 5 continents: Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Oceania. The colours of the rings are found on the flags of the world. They are linked together because the Games bring the world together.

Olympic Symbols: The Flame Months before the Games begin, a flame is is lit from the sun on Mount Olympus and the burning torch is kept alight as it travels from Greece to the host country and then on a journey around that country. It is carried by lots of different people on the way, they pass the flame from one torch to another. Then at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games the torch is used to ligtht a caldron of fire that stays lit for the two weeks Games last. The flame links the modern Olympics back to the Ancient Olympics in Greece because the flame is lit there and the Ancient Greeks also had a fire burning during their Games. Sport: Favourite Sports Survey What are your favourite sports? Do you like football or rugby? What about WWE? In a normal summer you might play some . What are your favourite sports to play? Which ones do like to watch? Do you go to see them or watch them on TV? Do a survey of people’s favourite sports. Ask the people you are with for their top three sports. Make a tally chart of their answers, like this: Name of Sport Like to play Like to watch Badminton

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Sport: Why is Sport good for you? Can you think of 5 reasons why being active and doing sport is good for you?

Think about your heart, your muscles, your brain, your friends. Ask other people what they think about it.

Paralympics: Sport is for Everyone Everyone should be able to take part in sport if they want to. Everyone can benefit from being more active, learning new skills, challenging themselves, trying their best and making new friends.

People with disabilities want to be able to take part and compete against each other in sports. It can be difficult for them to do so. Sports centres are not always able to support people with disabilities to take part. Disabled people have organised and campaigned to improve the situation.

In Rome in 1960, the first Paralympic Games took place. Disabled sports people were able to compete in lots of sports. The Paralympic Games now take place every four years, a few weeks after the Olympic Games.

Paralympic sports people compete against other sports people with a similar disability so the events are fair. For example, there are different running races for athletes with different disabilities: athletes with vision difficulties race each other; wheelchair users race each other. Compare the Paralympic and Olympic Sports:

Which are the same? Which are different?

Paralympics: Great British Paralympians If you have a computer, find out about these British Paralympic champions: Ellie Simmonds Tanni Grey-Thompson Lee Pearson David Weir Natasha Baker Jody Cundy

Which Paralympic Games did they take part in? What sport did they compete in? How many medals have they each won? Sport: Getting Ready To Exercise Your muscles move your body. Before you get active you should warm them up so they are ready to work hard and they don’t get damaged. Try doing some slow stretches: reach up high, bend at your waist and point to your toes, do big slow circles with your arms. What other careful stretches can you do? Now, teach the people around you some good stretches. Make sure they are doing them right. Games: Organise your own family Sports Day Baron de Coubertin organised the first modern Olympic Games. Normally we would be having a Sports Day on the field at school.

Can you organise your own Sports Day at home? What games will you play? Who will be playing?

Organise the event: you will need to decide which games to play, what the rules are, the times of the games, get the equipment ready, set up the area for the games, have refreshments for the competitors, make sure you can keep the scores, have prizes for the winners.

Puzzle: Olympic Word Search Can you find the words hidden in the grid?

Puzzle: Olympic Crossword Can you solve the clues to fill in the words in the crossword grid?

Georgraphy: Olympic Countries – Know your flags Do you know which flag belongs to which country? Have a go at this worksheet. Then draw and colour this country’s flag and find out a fact about it.

Art: Design an Olympic poster Every Olympic Games has posters to advertise the Games. Here are some examples from the past Games. Create a poster for a Sports Day at school. Remember to use strong drawings, bright colours and clear bubble writing to get people’s attention.

If you have a computer – you could: Use it to create poster (You format it with the skills you have learn in ICT lessons). Use it to make a PowerPoint about this topic. Use it to do some additional research Interesting web links: Find out more about the Ancient Greek Olympic Games on this webpage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z87tn39/articles/z36j7ty#:~:text=The%20Olympic%20Games%20began%2 0over,gold%2C%20silver%20and%20bronze%20medals. Find out more about the Ancient Greek Olympic Games in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA6Y7gG3OLs&list=RDQQ9TdysXTt8&index=16

Sport: The Carwarden Olympic challenge

Exercise Gold Silver Bronze

Lunges 30 in a minute 20 in a minute 10 in a minute

Sit ups 20 in a minute 10 in a minute 5 in a minute

Press 15 in a minute 10 in a minute 5 in a minute ups

Star 35 in a minute 25 in a minute 15 in a minute jumps

Flags of Olympic Countries

Do you know which flag belongs to each country? Write the name of the country underneath the correct flag.

Now draw the UK flag in the box, then found out and write a fact about the UK flag.

History: The Ancient Greek Olympic Games

A Long Time Ago: The original Olympic Games began nearly 3000 years ago in Ancient Greece, so that’s before the Romans, before the Vikings and long before Henry VIII and all his wives. These original Olympics happened about every four years for over 1000 years.

War and Peace: Ancient Greece had lots of different cities that were often fighting each other. But when the Olympic Games took place, the Greek cities were meant to stop any fighting and send their best athletes to compete against each other in the different events. So the Greek cities were meant to be peaceful during the games. But sometimes they forgot and the fighting carried on!

Free Men Only: Women were not treated equally in Ancient Greece, only men took part in the games. And these male athletes had to be free men, in Ancient Greece there were lots of slaves who did most of the hard work without being paid and without freedom. When the Greeks fought each other and other countries, people captured often became slaves.

Ancient Celebrities: The winners of events in the Games were seen as Heroes, they became famous. Sometimes their home city rewarded them with lots of money.

Games on the Gods’ Mountain: The games took place at Olympia so they were called the Olympics. Olympia was on Mount Olympus. This was the most important mountain to the Ancient Greeks, they believed their Gods lived up on the mountain.

The Olympic Sports: The first few Ancient Olympics only had one event, a 200 metre running race. At the 14th Games they added another event, another running race – a 400 metre one. Eventually more events were included: more running races; the long jump; throwing the discus and the javelin; wrestling; boxing; chariot races. Most of these events are also in the modern Olympics; but we do not have chariot races now.

History: The Story of the Modern Olympics

In 1894, Baron Pierre de Coubertin from France knew about the original Olympic Games and he believed Sport could bring people from different countries together, so they would be friends. It would make the world a better and more peaceful place especially for young people. He started the International Olympic Committee and it organised the first modern Olympic Games.

These first modern Olympic Games took place in 1896. They happened in the home of the original Olympics, Athens in Greece. 14 countries sent 241 athletes to take part, but only men! There were 9 sports: Athletics, Cycling, Fencing, Gymnastics, Shooting, Swimming, Tennis, Weightlifting and Wrestling.

The Games were a success. Four years later, in 1900, the next Games took place in Paris, France. But this time, women did take part.

Since then every four years* the Olympic Games have been held in different countries around the World. They have got bigger and bigger. At the 2016 Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil there were 11,238 athletes from 207 countries, who competed in 28 different sports

And now, as well as the Summer Olympics, there are the Winter Olympics with sports like skiing and ice skating. And the Paralympics for athletes with disabilities. And a Youth Games for 14 to 18 year olds.

* The only times the Games have not happened every 4 years since 1896 have been in 1916, 1940 and 1944 when the World Wars stopped them happening. And now the Covid19 Pandemic has meant this year’s Games in Tokyo, Japan have been delayed until next summer, 2021.

Olympic Games events – Word Search

Olympic Games – Crossword

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