The parallels between top-level Olympic sport and learning
With the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo mere weeks away, Sophie Barber, headteacher of leading independent Highfield and Brookham Schools in Hampshire, has drawn parallels between top-level sport and learning.
While the pupils at Highfield and Brookham Schools in Liphook are in the final throes of the academic year, the Olympic athletes are making final preparations for the start of the Games in Japan on July 23, while the Paralympians get under way a month later on August 24. Sophie Baber, headteacher at Brookham School, knows the correct mindset is crucial to succeeding ? both on the sports field and in the classroom.
?The people competing in these Olympics and Paralympics are truly inspirational figures and we will have the privilege of watching them show off their skills and talent and demonstrate their steely resolve to earn a place on the winners? podium,? she says.
?But what catapults these amazing individuals into legendary status is not their innate ability or physical prowess ? these attributes alone don?t make a winner. Putting in the hard graft, maintaining a singular focus and complete determination will be required to ensure they earn their gold medals. And there is much our children can learn from these individuals. By making the learning behaviours explicit to children, we give them the tools to go for gold no matter what the subject or focus.?
Not only this, but the vision of the Olympic movement ?resonates? with the ethos of Highfield and Brookham ...
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