Wymondham College Library underwent a transformation this week as a group of Yr 10 Gifted and Talented students took part in an enterprise of Olympic Games Day.
The first session of the day was based around estimation and target setting. The students had to estimate their performance in a number of activities including the speed at which they could kick a football, their reactions and peripheral vision in touching lights on a BATAK board, sprinting over 5metres and rowing – not activities that usually go on in the Library!
Later in the day the course was classroom based with activities focussed on business strategies, cash-flow forecasts and advertising and the final activity of constructing an Olympic Stadium model from 12 sheets of A4 paper.
The teacher who had co-ordinated the course Mrs Mary Quinton, said "these students will be seventeen when the Olympics come to Britain in 2012. They may well be thinking of going off to university or into the world of work but the germ of an idea at the age of 14 could be all they need to start of a successful career when they leave school. Days like this challenge them to think strategically and use their skills to come up with solutions to problems."
Today's course was the starter activity in a full programme for gifted and talented pupils which will take place over the coming months.
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