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In April 2010, Essex Carrying the Flame awarded grants to 10 Schools to allow them to run projects which link with the Olympic and Paralympic Values and Explore Culture One World Festival.  Schools and School Sport Partnerships across Essex were invited to apply for a one-off grant to enable the development of new cultural projects that embrace the Olympic and Paralympic Values and that link to the Explore Culture One World Festival. The scheme was aimed at Schools and School Sport Partnerships who wanted to run cultural projects for the benefit of people in the County of Essex. Essex carrying the flame is a Learning and Development framework set up by Essex County Council to use the inspiration of the London 2012 Games to include sport and cultural activities in cross curricular activity. 

The following schools in Essex were awarded Essex Carrying the Flame small grants to deliver the following projects:

Quilters Infant School Multicultural week 5th July – 9th July. 

The week will be a culmination of the Schools Olympic Seasons.  The week will involve each year group choosing a country that represents some of the cultures within the schools and celebrate their diversity.

Highwood Primary School

Raising achievement and celebrating diversity through photography

Exhibition date TBC

 Shorefields Special School

Courtyard Café Mural

Children will create a mural in their playground based on people’s backgrounds, nationalities and cultures.

Date TBC

 The Plume School

Taxi Day Carnival

Wednesday 7th July

Year 9 students will be decorating carnival floats which will be paraded in Maldon High Street as part of the ‘Taxi Day’.

Canvey Junior School

World Week

7th – 18th June

Each class from the School will be assigned a country taking part in the Olympic Games. The children will research the country’s traditions, lifestyle, beliefs, sports and art.

Honywood Community Science School

Year 9 Discovery Week

5th – 9th July

Year 9 students will be investigating the opportunities for teenagers in developing countries which include China, Brazil, and India, not only in terms of employment and education but to include the opportunities in sport and how an elite athlete would be identified and supported to achieve their full potential.

 The Robert Drake Primary School

Olympic Multi-sensory garden

Date TBC

Each class will create sculpture/planter representing part of a cultural heritage from the local area.

Barling Magna Community Primary School

African Arts Week

21st – 25th June

Children will take part in African drumming and dance workshops as well as art workshops. Members of the community will be invited to a join in session for a hands on community workshop.

Great Clacton CEVA Junior School

Olympic themed Cultural Mural

Date TBC

The pupils will be creating an outside mural which will be celebrating the sights and sky line of London and the diverse sports within the Olympics and Paralympics of 2012.

Mildmay Infant and Nursery Week

Carnivals Week

Pupils at the school will be researching countries that hold carnivals and their diverse backgrounds. Pupils will design and make masks and then take part in a carnival procession at the school.

 Click here for more information about Essex Carrying the Flame projects