I took a small group of students to the Sainsbury's School Games Final held at the Olympic Stadium. We had a fantastic day and all the students really enjoyed it and were massively inspired to try a little harder within their PE lessons back at school. The Olympic Stadium was an awesome venue and my students felt previleged to be in there before London 2012. There were unfortunately a couple of issues that did dampen the day a little. One was the cost of food and drink at the venue. The instructions sent to us prior to the event stated that it would be like airport security with no food or drinks allowed past check in. Therefore I informed my students of this and it turns out there were a number of other schools all with their own pack up and drinks inside the stadium. My students had to go and buy drinks which were very expensive. The other issue was parking the mini-bus. This took us over an hour. The address we were given for parking was a building site, every steward we asked didn't know where we needed to be. I ended up finding the right car park and the the fence gate was locked and they wouldn't let me walk my students along the road (which I agree with) but I then had to drive them back to Westfield, leave them with my 1 member of staff on her own, go back and park the bus and then walk back to meet them.
The overall day was brilliant, just two factors that could of made it even better.