Yangfangdian Central Primary School, for instance, staged a small-scale yet interesting activity resembling the Olympic Games, bringing Olympic joys to the students. Students at Huajiadi Experimental Primary School established a mini-Olympic organizing committee under the guidance of their teachers and experienced the Olympic preparatory work during the extracurricular activities.

The High School affiliated to Central Institute of Arts and Crafts launched a painting contest involving some 2,000 students who depicted their understanding and longing for the Olympics, while Yanhua High School affiliated to Beijing Normal University encouraged students to take part in physical exercises in the Olympic spirit underlining the importance of participation.

Beijing Guangqumen High School combined the Olympic sports with Chinese traditional sports to help students feel the Olympic spirit while doing exercises. The No. 2 Dayu Primary School in Mentougou District drafted a textbook on Olympics, enabling students to acquire Olympic knowledge through sports, art and other curricular activities.

Students of Beijing Jingshan School, on the other hand, communicated online with foreign students, informing them of the construction of the Olympic projects, thus helping open up new horizons for the students.

BOCOG and the Ministry of Education are jointly responsible for the selection of the Olympic education model schools, with a guiding team and an experts panel set up by the departments concerned to appraise the work of applicant schools.

According to the program, more than 500 model schools will be constructed and named across the country. In addition to the 200 already named in Beijing, the provinces and municipalities where Olympic co-host cities are located will each construct and name 20 model schools, while each of the remaining provinces has to name 10 such schools. The related appraisal and naming work will be carried out in the year.