Help the children explore the feelings athletes might feel at the start at the race using this senses grid. 

Explore six of the gods mentioned in Paul Mason's story with these Olympian god profile sheets.

These words taken from the Sports Day on Mount Olympus by Paul Mason are often misspelled.

Help the Olympian gods spot the errors in their writing using this spelling and grammar exercise.

Introduce or revise the term simile (a figure of speech that compares one thing to another). Ask the children to identify the similes the author uses in the story.

Divide the class into groups to research one these organisations; The Paralympics; The Deaflympics; The Youth Olympics and The Special Olympics. 

Because of the shortage of football fields, many children in South America play a version of football called futsal.

Explore what life is like for street children around the world and look at how the beautiful game is giving new hope to children such as Carlos.

Sports day at Mount Olympus Primary School is over for another year, but now it is time to sort out the results so that they can be reported in the school newsletter. 

A great resource for getting down to the nitty gritty of analysing numbers - in this case sports results.