World Sports Day celebrated in
Dover

by Graham Tutthillgtutthill@thekmgroup.co.uk

With one month to go before the start
of the Olympic Games, children from schools in Dover have been
learning about some of the countries that the athletes will be
coming from.

Primary and secondary schools
throughout the district have been given their own countries to
study, from Australia to Zimbabwe, and the pupils have been finding
out about their culture, the sports and games they play, and they
have been learning their languages.

To mark World Sport Day, they all came
together in Dover’s Market Square to make presentations of the work
they had been doing and to take part in a series of sporting
activities. Some pefformed songs and dances while others spoke
about the achievements of Olympic athletes from those
countries.

The Dover pupils were among youngsters
from schools all over the country who gathered at Live Site
locations to take part in the event, linked by the Big Screen.

Unfortunately, a technical fault meant
that Dover’s Big Screen failed to broadcast the Opening Ceremony
and London 2012 Mascot Dance which the youngsters had been
preparing to join in with.

But a group of youth leaders came to
the rescue to teach them the dance and perform it themselves at
approximately the same time as all the other Big Screen venues.

The dance included moves which
represented many of the sports including in the Olympic and
paralympic games.

After the event, the pupils returned
to their schools to tell their classmates about what they had
learnt. And the Big Screen went back to showing Wimbledon.

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