Team Ireland are getting ready for the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, and they want you to come along too! Primary Schools can get on the Road to Paris with the interactive Olympic Schools Challenge running until 10 May!!
news2day went along to Scoil Bhríde Cailíní with World Champion gymnast Rhys McClenaghan who told us all about it. Just press the image above to find out more!
Register your teams here now! And you can download an exclusive and unique Team Ireland Olympic Challenge map, by illustrator Fatti Burke here!!
Over the four weeks schools log their activities which in turn convert to distances on a map that brings them around Ireland and across the sea to Paris.
The journey includes five stops where videos and classroom challenges are unlocked, revealing messages and insights from some of Ireland's top athletes like Olympic Champion boxer Kellie Harrington, Olympic medallist in rowing Aifric Keogh, and World Champion gymnast Rhys McClenaghan.
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What you need to do...
- REGISTER - Teachers can register their school and create a team. Multiple teachers can register for the same school and create multiple teams. Each team has their own progress page which keeps track of all their activities.
- GET MOVING! Get the class and their families moving and leverege our resources to help with this.
- TRAVEL WITH TEAM IRELAND TO THE OLYMPICS - Students log their activity to their school or class team and travel virtually to Paris with Team Ireland with the chance to enjoy challenges on the way.
Apart from all the fun and activity, there are things to do sitting down too. Why not colour in some of our stars athletes?
The challenge is part of the Olympic Federation of Ireland's 'Dare to Believe’ programme supported by PTSB. It aims to open up the world of Olympic sports to Irish school children as well as teaching them about Team Ireland at the Olympics and celebrating French culture.
The challenge is modelled on previous Olympic Games challenges like "Road to Tokyo" which saw 55,000 school children get more active while also learning about the wider benefits of sport and the Japanese culture.
