Olympic fever at Colegrave Primary

Teacher Katie Parks from Colegrave Primary School in east London emailed World Class to let us know how they are twinning for 2012:

“We are all very excited about London 2012 at our school – we are the closest primary school to the Olympic Village and can see them building it from our playground!”

Pupils in year 3 are linked with Derara Elementary School in Ethiopia through BBC World Class partners Link Ethiopia.

Letters to the students there from Colegrave are now in the post. One Colegrave pupil said: "Our link with Derara Elementary School is so interesting. I have written to my pen pal, I would like him to be my friend. I am learning, and my friend is learning too."

Colegrave has made local, regional and international links across the school with an Olympic theme. Here is a flavour of what each year is up to…

Pupils in foundation stage are in the process of linking with a primary school in Sydney, Australia.

 Year 1 students are in the second year of a link with a school in Atlanta last year and wrote letters, group emails and sent photographs to the school.

Year 4 have made a local link and will be working on researching Stratford to create a visitor leaflet for the 2012 Olympic/Paralympic games.

Year 5 have made a regional link with a school in Darton Primary in Barnsley as part of the Newham-Barnsley Partnership –developed in preparation for London 2012.

And Year 6 have been set a challenge to make their own international link and are currently deciding what they'd like to do.

It sounds like Colegrave Primary have been hit with Olympic fever! Nice work!