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Here you will find a fabulous Event pack containing comprehensive guidelines, posters and lesson plans - in short, everything you need to make your Big Sports Day a success.
You can also download some of these materials, including Welsh language versions of the Event pack booklet and posters, letters, sponsorship forms and sample press releases. Select your downloads below.
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Your complete guide to holding a successful sports day.
Big Sports day Event pack booklet (English) [PDF, 191kb] |
Big Sports dayEvent pack booklet (Welsh) [PDF, 158kb]|
Use these fabulous lesson plans in the lead up to your sports day.
Big Sports Day lesson plans (English) [PDF, 188kb]|
Big Sports Day lesson plans (Welsh) [PDF, 83kb]|
Print out and personalise this poster to advertise your event around school and the community.
Big Sports Day venue poster (English) [PDF, 46kb] |
Big Sports Day venue poster (Welsh) [PDF, 46kb]|
Complete your school’s details and send these sample press releases to your local paper/ radio station.
Big Sports Day suggested press release – pre event [Word, 130kb] |
Big Sports Day suggested press release – post event [Word, 129kb] |
If you’re holding a sponsored teachers’ or parents’ race, then you can advertise the challenge by printing out and completing the poster – there’s even space for you to add your photo
Big Sports Day Macmillan Cup teachers’ poster (English) [PDF, 116kb] |
Big Sports Day Macmillan Cup teachers’ poster (Welsh) [PDF, 116kb] |
Use this sponsorship form in addition to the one in your Event Pack booklet.
Big Sports Day sponsorship form [PDF, 91kb] |
|Celebrate your pupils’ fantastic efforts with these stylish certificates.
Certificate (English) [PDF, 64kb] |
Certificate (Welsh) [PDF, 64kb] |
Want to talk confidently with your pupils about cancer? Looking to promote healthy and active lifestyles? Then in addition to our Big Sports Day lesson plans, why not download our comprehensive teaching packs| with links to all UK National Curricula?
You can order differentiated versions for 7-16 year olds. Welsh language versions of all our resource sheets are also available. We also have some fabulous sports day-specific trial lesson plans for KS4, which have been written with The Skills for Health to complement the new Diploma in Society, Health and Development, currently being piloted across England.
Help yourself to our teaching materials now >|
|World's Biggest Coffee Morning
Holding a World's Biggest Coffee Morning event| for Macmillan this September? We've got some inspiring curriculum-linked lesson ideas to support you - whether you want to link your cake creations to your Science lessons, or create healthy beverages as part of Food Technology, we have something for everyone. Download your coffee morning lesson plans|.
Walking events
Holding a sponsored walk| for Macmillan? We will support you every step of the way and with our fabulous Walk with us lesson plan ideas|.
Key-stage specific lesson plans
Finally, we have some new key-stage specific lesson plans and accompanying resource sheets, which focus on who Macmillan are, what cancer is and the treatments. Download your key-stage specific lesson plans|.
Interactive whiteboard resources
Help yourself to our curriculum linked interactive whiteboard resources from the autumn. Visit macmillan.org.uk/schools| for more information.
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Call 0845 601 1716
Email schools@macmillan.org.uk|
Write to The Big Sports Day, Macmillan Cancer Support, 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7UQ
Affected by cancer? Talk to our cancer support specialists.|
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