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 * Canadian Olympic School Program **

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 * Canadian Olympic School Program’s (COSP) London 2012 curriculum**

Dear Educators, I am pleased to present the Canadian Olympic School Program’s (COSP) London 2012 curriculum. This year’s resources celebrate 24 years of bringing the excitement of the Olympic Games to Canadian classrooms. What began as a school program for the Calgary 1988 Olympic Winter Games, the COSP continues to provide inspiring and engaging resources to teachers and students of all ages. With the London 2012 Olympic Games just around the corner, Canadian athletes are preparing to take on the World. Medals will be won, personal bests set, and history will be made. Through it all, our Olympians will inspire us with their values and character that make them champions and role models. As educators, you have the opportunity to use the excitement of the Olympic Games to inspire your students to be their best. You can motivate them to be more active, persevere through challenges and difficult times, believe in themselves, be leaders, and respect diversity. The COSP provides you with the resources to take advantage of these potential learning opportunities. We are excited to share with you Athletes’ Stories from Jennifer Abel (Diving), Mary Spencer (Boxing) and Simon Whitfield (Triathlon). Exploring the values of leadership, respect, and healthy active living; your students will have the opportunity to exercise their mind, body and character alongside some of our finest athletes. Driven by their values, commitment, and quest for excellence, your students will be inspired by some of our nation’s greatest role models and ambassadors exemplifying these values. Faced by alarming childhood and youth obesity rates, the COSP wants to work together with Canadian educators to get students moving and as a result, adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles. Through the COSP Challenge, the Summer Sports Day, and the Canadian Olympic School Training Log, we aim to assist you in creating a readiness for change and motivating your students to live more healthy and active lives. We are releasing three new project packs for secondary students. All three components connect primarily to Language Arts curriculum, and emphasize producing creative Olympic-themed work through oral, digital and written form. Unlike previous years, each of these projects are available comes in both a junior and senior version. As the media experts begin to focus their attention of Canadians on this summer’s Olympic Games, we hope that you will choose to leverage this excitement to engage your students in dynamic and inspiring Olympic-themed learning. Sincerely, Marcel Aubut