PET and Community Games
Requirements
A group of students from the Warwickshire PRU came together to take part in a programme which would engage and inspire them as well as giving them a way to complete their 2.25 GCSE equivalents through the Wider Key Skills course.
Our solution
We chose to run this course through the medium of the 2012-inspired Community Games programme in order to benefit from the community focus along with the qualities of inspiration, fairness, respect and innovation.
Young people worked on a number of skills vital to their future career as well as raising money for the Snowball Appeal, contributing to the community as well as working towards essential qualifications.
Community Games aim to bring communities together by exploring culture and heritage through sport, art and music. It is a tremendous way of engaging young people whilst working on essential skills. All students completed the intensive, ten-day programme – and each gained the equivalent of two-and-a-quarter grade B GCSEs.
The Modern Olympic Games was founded on the principles of Inspiration, Fairness, Respect for Others and Innovation. The Community Games initiative, launched out of London 2012 and supported by the Legacy Trust, is the delivery tool for these principles and PET’s role in bringing the programme to the young people they deal with is the perfect use of the tool.
By creating and implementing their very own Community Games the young people were able to deliver a specific London 2012 programme; when the question is asked “what has the Olympic Games done for us?” the kids involved and PET should have a ready-made answer..
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