THURSDAY, 31ST MAY 2012
Flag procession.
Year group performances.
Olympic choirs.
Speech from Headmistress.
Olympic Torch Procession.
Equality Values.
Paralympics.
Equality of the world and people in it.
THE OLYMPIC BROMSGROVIAN The pupils of Bromsgrove Preparatory School in Glamorous Opening Ceremony to Special Olympics! By Sarah Chapman This morning the pupils in Bromsgrove Preparatory School had an opening ceremony to an „Olympic day‟ that the children were all taking part in, they were all dressed in clothes that reflected the colors of the flag of the country that their form was given. These flags were paraded around the Sports Hall, starting with the year three forms and ending with the year eight forms. These flags included 26 of the 205 countries participating in the London Olympics. After the flags were paraded, the children had a surprise „visitor‟, the Olympic torch! This was walked around the outside of the hall by Beck Cutting, the Head Boy of the school. The children were all very excited as they found out that during the day the torch would be taken around the school and they would be able to see, or even touch it. The torch had been brought into the school by a student from South Bromsgrove High School, called Ellie. She is a young ambassador for the London Olympics. The girls‟ Olympic choir performed their song „Raise me up‟. This choir was created by Head of Music, Mrs Edmonds, to support the Olympics. There was a boys and a girls choir who battled it out for the special prize of chocolate, the girls won so they were allowed to go first in the ceremony. Then the year group performances happened. Year 3 showed us the history of the games, they put on a performance and sang a song. They had some representatives acting some of the Olympic sports, four were showing the horse riding activities , with wooden horses, two were showing the running and two were showing gymnastics. The children thoroughly enjoyed their experience. The next year group to perform was Year 4, they sang about the Olympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandevile. Mrs Richards, the organizer of the ceremony, particularly congratulated the pupils as the first time they had seen that song was on Monday. Years 5 & 6 combined to sing an Olympics orientated song, called Proud. They included the English sign language actions for the most important words, Feel Proud. These actions were; running your hands up your body to symbolize „feel‟, and jolting your hands up your chest in the thumbs up position to symbolize „proud‟. After this, Yr 7 contributed a song to the ceremony; the song was about the long wait from the last time the games were in London to now, 64 years. The year 8 contribution was to teach the younger pupils about the Olympic and Paralympic values such as determination and fair play. Year eight had six representatives; Callum Stirrat, Prashanta Rai, Oliver Hall, Eleanor Moss, Lidia Poshideva and Paige Corcoran. After the last contribution, the boys‟ Olympic choir sang their song, Champions. This was the last performance of the day, but the headmistress, Mrs Deval-Reed said a few words about how proud she was and finished the ceremony with, „Let the Bromsgrove Olympic Games commence!‟