This could include stage their own World Sport Day Opening Ceremony and profiling the sports, music, dance, languages, flags and food of the world and will give thousands of young people in schools and colleges across the UK the chance to take part in the final UK-wide Get Set event before London 2012 begins. 

The plans for London 2012 World Sport Day were announced today at the Copper Box - previously the Handball Arena before it was controversially renamed - in the Olympic Park.

Get Set Network schools Ripple Primary School, Jo Richardson Secondary - both from Barking and Dagenham - and Bannerman High School - from Glasgow - took part in the announcement as well as Sydney 2000 Olympic gold medallist Jonathan Edwards, weightlifter Zoe Smith and sitting volleyball player Charlie Walker, Fijian athlete Sisilia Nsigia Rasokisoki and New Zealand equestrian rider Jonathan Paget.

London 2012 will provide resources for the day, which will open National School Sport Week in England and Wales, through the official London 2012 education programme "Get Set", including tips from its Ceremonies team of producers on how to host an Opening Ceremony for World Sport Day.

World Sport Day, which is sponsored by Tier One London 2012 sponsor Lloyds TSB, will be delivered by the Youth Sport Trust, which yesterday announced former UK Sport and Rugby Football Union chief executive John Steele is taking over as its new head. 


"With the Games almost here, World Sport Day presented by Lloyds TSB is a fantastic opportunity to bring the young people of the UK together on one day to celebrate our amazing athletes from all over the world, and their nations and cultures," said Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012.

"The day will showcase all the work young people are doing on the teams they have been supporting – whether as a class, a year group or a whole school community.

"We want to encourage schools to involve parents, governors, members of the wider community and other local schools to join together on 25 June for what will be a great celebration of sport and cultures of the world."

Schools can download a planning guide to help them to prepare for their day by clicking here.

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