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London 2012

Based in Stratford, East London A New Direction lives on the doorstep of the biggest opportunity for championing London and its young people.

We programme work to give young people living in London the opportunity to connect creatively with London 2012. This is an opportunity to explore local pride, whilst opening doors to welcome the rest of the world to our city and learning from the experience.

Download Raising the Game	Other Olympic resources: The Biggest Learning Opportunity on Earth: How London’s Olympics could work for young people in schools Olympics literacy resource pack Making Your Own Rules Tag

Download Raising the Game

Other Olympic resources:

The Biggest Learning Opportunity on Earth: How London’s Olympics could work for young people in schools

Olympics literacy resource pack

Making Your Own Rules

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Next academic year, our Creative Partnerships Enquiry School programme will focus entirely on the theme of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Around a hundred schools will collectively celebrate this moment in time, exploring what that means to them individually and collectively.

This year a number of boroughs are focusing their Enquiry School projects around the Olympics, and we expect this to lead us into some exciting work next year.

Welcoming the World

Welcoming the World was a pilot education and culture project from London 2012. It has been funded and developed in collaboration with A New Direction (formerly Creative Partnerships London East & South) and delivered in conjunction with the Five Host Borough Education leads for 2012 Games.

With the eyes of the world increasingly turning to London, the Welcoming the World programme has been designed to encourage students in the five host boroughs, who are living and studying close to the heart of the London 2012 Games preparations, to document and showcase their local area to the rest of the world. Young people were at the heart of the London 2012 bid and ‘Welcoming the World’ showcases the immense creative talent of youth in the 5 host boroughs of Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. The project involved around 500 young photojournalists, filmmakers and music makers from 19 schools across the host boroughs., and was designed in collaboration with creative and education partners to enable the students to represent and reflect on what they think are important or unique about their local area. Partners included Gideon Mendel, Marysa Dowling, Crispin Hughes, Mike Dixon, D Fie Foe and Kali Films for facilitating the students’ work.

With the eyes of the world increasingly turning to London, the Welcoming the World programme has been designed to encourage students in the five host boroughs, who are living and studying close to the heart of the London 2012 Games preparations, to document and showcase their local area to the rest of the world.

Young people were at the heart of the London 2012 bid and ‘Welcoming the World’ showcases the immense creative talent of youth in the 5 host boroughs of Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.

The project involved around 500 young photojournalists, filmmakers and music makers from 19 schools across the host boroughs., and was designed in collaboration with creative and education partners to enable the students to represent and reflect on what they think are important or unique about their local area. Partners included Gideon Mendel, Marysa Dowling, Crispin Hughes, Mike Dixon, D Fie Foe and Kali Films for facilitating the students’ work.

CREATE Programmers

CREATE Programmers enables young people (14-19) living in the 5 Olympic host boroughs to develop the skills, confidence and experience needed to plan, promote and deliver a creative event, as part of the CREATE Festival, a celebration of creative and cultural activity around the 5 host boroughs.

The Story of Stratford

This is a two-year artist commission project with schools, supported by Westfield Stratford City and managed by A New Direction. The project documents the progress of the Stratford City development as a major part of East London's redevelopment in the run up to London 2012. Local schools are tracking progress from a building site in 2009 to an operational retail centre upon its opening in 2011, and will explore how the history and subsequent regeneration of Stratford will change the lives of the students and their families.

We will be regularly updating this page as we develop other strands of work around the Olympics.