Sunninghill's Spectacular Olympic Display

As part of the local celebrations of the forth coming Olympics, Sunninghill Prep School created a magnificent ‘human’ timeline, involving virtually every child at the school.  The demonstrations of each chosen event, to the theme of ‘Chariots of Fire’, made it a truly atmospheric occasion and it gave the children the opportunity to work as one team.

Each year group researched a number of sports that have been introduced since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896.   These included sailing, judo, archery, taekwondo, the marathon and rowing.  All of the children in each form group worked together to produce props to demonstrate each of these events as well as creating flags for the representative country of their chosen Olympic Games and a banner to explain each event.  Many of the models the children produced were truly outstanding.  Of particular note were the sailing boats produced by Form 6 with Charlie Cornick making his own version of a buoy! 

After this performance, four members from Form 8 carried the Olympic flag and torch, in ceremonial fashion, towards the children from Milborne Saint Andrew First School as part of the official handover.  This was then followed by a number of representatives from each year group traveling to this local school to share lunch as part of the overall celebrations.

The Olympic torch had previously been passed onto Sunninghill Prep School on top of Maiden Castle by Winterborne Valley First School.  250 children, staff and parents wore specific colours to recreate the giant Olympic rings. 

Sunninghill Prep School is in an enviable position due to its links with bother the state sector through the Dorchester Area School Partnership (DASP), where it is able to share resources and expertise as well as having strong links with the independent sector at the same time.  This is a new and exciting model which we believe is the first of its kind in this county.

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