Forest School Olympic Committee
It is only 67 days or 1619 hours until the start of the Olympics!
The Forest School Olympic Committee (F.S.O.C.) has been created to provide the School with a lasting legacy for all the Pupils, Parents and Staff of Forest School in the run up to 2012 London Olympic Games and by the start of the Games, create an all-rounder 2012 scholarship for Forest School to support the education of a child from one of the five London Olympic boroughs.
"Forest School is a large, diverse school in East London, with 1250 pupils between 4 and 18 from a very wide range of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Our pupils are open, friendly and unpretentious and are proud of being Londoners. We are the nearest independent school to the Olympic site and have been involved with the Olympics since the bid was accepted; each year, pupils from our Sixth Form have acted as ambassadors for the Borough of Waltham Forest. We have just launched an active and ambitious Olympic Committee and, as a school, are determined to do what we can to ensure that the 2012 London Olympics is something our pupils will never forget but also that we can establish something important as a lasting legacy."
Our Task: To innovate, to coordinate and to deliver the school's response to the London 2012 Olympics and provide for the School a lasting legacy from the Games.
Our AimsThe Olympic and Paralympic Games are about much more than sporting excellence.
To provide Inspiration
To promote Sport & Cultural Activities
Build New Partnerships
Make it Fun & Exciting
Leave a Lasting Legacy
To excite a generation!
Underpinning the Games is the philosophy of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the Modern Olympic Movement. He saw in the Games an ideal opportunity to develop a set of universal or values that could be applied to education and to society as a whole, as well as to sport itself.
These Values are:The Paralympic Values are based on the history of the Paralympic Games and the tradition of fair play and honourable sports competition. They are courage, determination, inspiration and equality.
respect - fair play; knowing one's own limits; and taking care of one's health and the environment
excellence - how to give the best of oneself, on the field of play or in life; taking part; and progressing according to one's own objectives
friendship - how, through sport, to understand each other despite any differences
