Olympic fever has spread to Jindera, with St Johns Lutheran School hosting two-time Albury Olympian, Pat Scammell.
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Mr Scamell dropped in to see the school's kindergarten class with the former 1500m runner sharing his Olympic stories and taking students for some training drills.
He is ecstatic the Toyko Olympics were able to go ahead this year despite COVID factors weighing heavily against it.
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"After such a difficult period trying to get the Olympics on I'm just so pleased that it's on and for the kids to be able to see the Olympic ideals and Australia have gone so well across the board," Mr Scammell said.
"Kids at this age to be able to see new heroes that will inspire them to be happy and healthy and fit is fantastic.
"I'm just so happy that we can get the Olympics on in the midst of a global pandemic.
"There are so many great role models for kids this age and they go on and remember the Olympics for a lifetime."
Mr Scammell competed in the 1984 Los Angeles and went on to make the 1500m semi-finals in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
"It's great to see the kids and to be able to share my Olympic experiences," he said.
St Johns kindergarten students have been immersed in the Olympics this year, as a unit in the school's new project based learning program.
Teacher Hollie Kinning said it was the first year the program has been integrated across the whole school, with the pilot program being run in 2019 on the year five and six class.
"Since then we've undertaken lots of professional development opportunities and now excitingly we're implementing project based learning across the whole school," Mrs Kinning said.
"It's a really exciting approach to learning, it tries to integrate things across the curriculum, so those key learning areas."
Project based learning also helps students develop real world skill and problem solving capabilities, while also giving them a certain degree of autonomy in how and what they learn.
"It's all about solving real world problems, so it makes it really meaningful and relevant to students," she said.
"It builds on their creativity, encourages curiosity, inquiry, collaboration and communication.
"All those skills that they'll need now and into the future.
"They love being able to direct their learning a little bit and having a bit more ownership of it."
Fletcher Barber and Eva Allen-Cameron are two of the school's kindergarten students who both agreed that their favourite part of the Olympics were "the sports".
