Planning a Festival of Sport – Lesson 1

Aim of lesson 1

- To work out the benefits to the community from running a festival.
- To think about all of the information that will be needed in order to plan a sports festival
- To work with others to plan the festival
- To realise that people will bring different strengths and weaknesses to a team
- To be able to realise your own strengths and weaknesses for the success of the festival
- To set realistic and achievable targets

Resources:
- Flip chart paper and pens

Starter
- Brainstorm reasons for running a festival of sport. These might include benefits to the community, encouraging fitness,
- Working in groups of 4/5 ask students to write down on the flip chart paper all of the information they think they will need in order to plan their sports festival, what details they will have to decide upon and which questions they will need to get answers for
- Ask groups to feedback and collate all decisions to be made/questions on the board. Groups write down any that they have missed. (See Resource Sheet 1 (24 KB))

Main Activity
- Working in the same group, write down any answers that are already known (for example; the date, time and working area may be known)
- Make a separate list of questions that they don’t have answers for (e.g. age and number of participants or equipment available may be unknown)
- For each questions without an answer, write down how they will get the answer (e.g. Age and number of participants – write to primary school to ask)
- Turn lists into an action plan and allocate people from the groups to do each job ( Resource Sheet 2 (38 KB))

Plenary:
- Each groups makes sure they know what they have to do/find out before the next session
- Groups share any problems they have and ask for advice from the rest of the group.

Homework:
- Each group member to do the job(s) they were allocated in preparation for the following session.

Go to Lesson 2

Downloads

PE Festival of Sport Lesson 1 (, 33 KB)
PE Festival of Sport Resource Sheet 1 (, 24 KB)
PE Festival of Sport Resource Sheet 2 (, 38 KB)