OLYMPIC-inspired sporting activities are getting Weymouth pupils geared up for the Games.

Each pupil at Royal Manor Arts College has the chance to get involved in a host of Olympic inspired activities. Year 10 and 11 students will kick start the sailing events when they take part in seafaring voyages during the Easter holidays.

The sail training voyages will last for seven days with Year 10 students on the tall ship Morning Star and Year 11 on Weymouth’s very own Tall Ship, Pelican.

Headteacher Paul Green said the trip would provide an excellent opportunity for students to understand sailing ahead of the Games.

He added: “I am proud of the Year 10 and 11 students, who have worked hard to raise the necessary funding to take part.”

Year Seven pupils will take part in an Olympic sports day hosted by the college’s BTEC sports students at the end of March.

Cycling is being encouraged as part of a bike repair project, which is teaching pupils how to repair and maintain their bikes.

Staff and students of the dance department are getting involved in the Maritime Mix Cultural Olympiad by the Sea celebrations, including the Moving Tides children’s procession, which will be heralding the start of the Torch Relay evening celebrations on Weymouth Beach on July 12.

Mr Green said: “The manner in which individual teachers have developed new and exciting opportunities for the students is truly impressive.”

Deputy Headteacher Rob Russell said: “The Olympics has inspired both staff and students to engage in a wide range of activities and to adopt the key Olympic values.”

Role models and former students are also inspiring the pupils ahead of the Games.

Former student Justin Setterfield visited to talk about his job coordinating Olympic photography.

Portland’s Adam Greaves will work as a runner during the Olympic sailing events from July 29.

Mr Russell added: “From outstanding individuals such as Adam Greaves, who is a credit to his parents, school, town and himself for his desire to be a part of the Games to the teams of students engaged in Olympic activity, I feel they all live up to the Olympic Motto ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’, which means ‘higher, faster, stronger’.”