Win a visit from a top athlete for your school!

This January, Change4Life and SmallSteps4Life are launching a new competition, supported by Olympic Gold Medal winner Jonathan Edwards, for schools across England to receive a visit from a top athlete.

To win this prize, Change4Life and SmallSteps4Life are calling upon all primary, secondary and special schools to get 2012 off to a healthy start by thinking like an elite athlete. The competition involves individual classes keeping a diary and recording details of how they lived like an elite athlete – by organising a healthy activity together each day, eating well and reporting back on how it made them feel better.

The competition will encourage teachers to work with their class to pick a “2012 Games” themed event they feel inspired by and to think about how they would train for it. Perhaps they’ll run each morning to be a sprinter, throw bean bags or balls as far as they can - for the javelin, or practise a routine each day to be a gymnast. Once they’ve chosen their ‘sport’, classes then need to create a four week ‘training  plan’ and submit a four week diary showing off their hard work and its benefits.

Inspired by the SmallSteps4Life principles of ‘Eating Well’, ‘Getting Active’ and ‘Feeling Good’, the challenges need to be imaginative, original and effective. The winning diaries from a primary, secondary and special school will win a visit from a top athlete.

Inspiration and further information about the competition can be found on the Change4Life website at: http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/Pages/SmallSteps4Life-competition.aspx

The competition is open to all schools across England and will run for approx 8 weeks. Important dates are:

• 9th January – Competition Launch
• 9th March– Competition Closes
• April – Winners Announced
• April / May /June – Winning schools will receive a visit by a top athlete

SmallSteps4Life is part of the healthy and active lifestyles strand of Get Set, the official London 2012 education programme, and supports Change4Life.  All schools that enter the challenge will be given the opportunity to join the Get Set network – for more information visit http://getset.london2012.com/en/join-us/register.

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