Elaine’s running scheme is getting pupils fit fast

Source: The Scotsman
Date: 29-Oct-2015

WHEN a school volunteer told headteacher Elaine Wyllie her pupils were unfit, she decided to do something about it.

The 60-year-old, then in charge of St Ninian’s Primary in Stirling, took her P6 class outside and asked them to jog around the school playing field .

Many of them struggled to make it all the way around. It was then that the Daily Mile was born.


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Could a ‘daily mile’ be the answer to Suffolk’s growing obesity issue?

Source: East Anglian Daily Times
Date: 9-Oct-2015

Cruel? Or is it the answer to the childhood obesity epidemic and even a way to boost academic performance? Richard Porritt investigates

Junk food. Computer games. Car rides to school.

Whatever the reasons, our children are bulging around the belly – and experts are predicting a public health crisis.


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Head’s fat burner set to run and run

A teacher whose primary pupils run a daily mile has gained fit, slim children, an award and a trip to the White House.

A SIMPLE, 15-minute mile-long run round the playground, pioneered by a Scottish teacher and hailed as the biggest ever breakthrough in childhood obesity, is set to make it to the White House after capturing the imagination of Samantha Cameron and chef Gordon Ramsay.

Elaine Wyllie, head teacher of St Ninians Primary School in Stirling, believes she may have cracked the growing childhood obesity crisis with a simple, virtually cost-free solution which is set to go global.

The Daily Mile initiative was devised by Wyllie in February 2012 after Nigel Buchanan, a regular volunteer at the school and owner of the historic Touch Estate in Stirlingshire, remarked that the children were surprisingly unfit.


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Good Morning Britain – Thorner School – Daily Mile

Thorner Primary School featured on Good Morning Britain on 2/10/2015 promoting the ‘daily mile’.


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Daily mile idea for pupils will run and run

It’s a scene swirling back from the mists of time. Children wrapped up in school uniform hareing around the school playground on a drizzly, foggy morning. There’s bustle and noise. Red cheeks and hot breath on the cold air. But there is also purpose to this excited scene.

The pupils of St Ninian’s Primary in Stirling have all run or walked one mile every school day for the past three-and-a-half-years. only heavy rain or icy ground has stopped them.


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Good Morning Britain – Thorner School – Daily Mile

Thorner Primary School featured on Good Morning Britain on 2/10/2015 promoting the ‘daily mile’.


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October 2015

Elaine Wyllie won a Pride of Britain award for her efforts growing The Daily Mile.

The Universities of Stirling and Edinburgh began scientific studies on the effects of The Daily Mile.

Pupils ‘daily mile’ scheme improves health

Source: BBC News
Date: 2-Oct-2015

A primary school in Stirling has pioneered a scheme to ensure all its pupils walk or run a mile every day.

Children at St Ninian’s take the daily exercise on a specially-built circuit outside the school’s playground.

The “daily mile” scheme is credited with improving the health of pupils, and a number of other schools are now looking at copying it.

BBC News asked pupils what they thought of their exercise regime.

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St Ninians headteacher Elaine Wyllie is the pride of Britain for Daily Mile initiative

Source: The Daily Record
Date: 2-Oct-2015

The Stirling teacher was nominated for introducing the pioneering health and fitness idea.

A Stirling primary head was this week named teacher of the year at a national awards ceremony.

St Ninians primary head Elaine Wyllie was nominated for the the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Awards 2015 for introducing to her school the `daily mile’.

It’s an initiative she pioneered in her own school almost four years ago and which has now been adopted by over 20 other schools in the Stirling area.


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