Kent Welcomes the Olympic Torch

Schools' - Feedback from Visioning Event

How

  • Schools' group facilitatorJet ski holding torch
  • Hot air balloon
  • On a fleet of boats each one holding a part of the Olympic symbol
  • Submarine with cruise ships either side celebrating 2012 (the idea was that the flame was the only bit above water and that crowds would sing “we all live in a yellow submarine” but with new words)
  • Torch being carried by a monkey
  • Cover white cliffs with fabric (union jack) or have abseilers who create union jack by being dressed in red / white / blue and being positioned correctly.
  • By plane
  • Paint cliffs – colours of Olympic rings
  • Channel tunnel
  • Rocket man
  • Cross channel swim in stages (relay)
  • Saxon boat
  • Viking boat
  • Being carried on donkey
  • Hang gliders
  • Red arrows
  • Ferry or smaller boat (a flotilla)
  • Life boat
  • Kayak
  • Rowing boat
  • Man-made power (walking on water...like those globes that people can get into and walk on water)
  • Bring onto beach
  • Carnival weekend

Where

  • Go along pier
  • Shakespeare cliffs - cross channel swim
  • White cliffs – going up (when it arrives across water use hot air balloon to get t up cliffs)
  • Across channel on a Viking ship
  • Via Castle
  • Hoverport

Memories

  • New young athletes
  • More people taking part
  • Atmosphere
  • Country celebrations
  • Teamwork and community spirit
  • How Dover’s changed
  • The Games
  • Crowds – different people
  • How there are more sports opportunities than before
  • Opening and closing ceremonies
  • Different cultures – food, song, art etc
  • New sports
  • The torch welcoming festivals
  • New records
  • Police securing the crowd
  • The brightness of the torch from the cliffs
  • Magnificent spectacle of the torch arriving through Dover
  • England top of the gold medal table
  • Crowd went wild
  • Big fireworks
  • Seeing the Olympic torch in front of my eyes

 

 

Looking Back at the Torch

  • Environmentally important
  • Schools involved in new sports
  • New sports facilities for schools
  • Look back when I was eating the picnic with my friends watching people carrying the torch through Dover
  • Supervised swimming in the sea
  • More people were attracted so all my favourite restaurants are in Dover – Subway, KFC and more
  • Proud of my home town now on TV
  • Try new things
  • New sports
  • Remember monkey carrying Olympic torch
  • Have you own impression of Dover
  • More tourists
  • Inspiration of young people
  • Small villages like Shepherdswell will no longer be small
  • A comic book to remember the torch on sale when it comes through
  • People inspired by sports
  • More people visit Dover
  • People proud to live in Dover
  • People are happier because they’ve made more friends and learnt new things
  • More shops in Dover
  • Remember being on boat singing ‘Well all live in a yellow submarine’
  • Green/eco friendly
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