Source: SheKnows.com
Date: 17-Mar-2016
Childhood obesity is a huge problem, but the solution needn’t be complicated. One Scottish school has the perfect answer, and it’s wonderfully simple: 15 minutes of exercise every day.
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Source: The Guardian
Date: 17-Mar-2016
I despised PE at school. I faked sick notes, had my period more frequently than was biologically possible – did anything to avoid the ritual humiliation of running around cones in the cold followed by an even colder communal shower. It was as if they were trying to put you off fitness for life.
Luckily it didn’t work and when I turned 20 I discovered running, which has enhanced my life in so many ways, which other people have described far more eloquently than I ever could. This is why I think the “daily mile” initiative to get schoolchildren to run or walk en masse for 15 minutes each day is ingenious.
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Source: The Sun
Date: 17-Mar-2016
A PRIMARY school which makes its kids run a mile each day has had such amazing results that the idea is now being rolled out nationwide.
Pupils at St Ninians Primary School in Stirling, Scotland, have completed a daily run on school days for the last four years.
Teachers claim the daily exercise has improved the kids’ behaviour, boosted their fitness, and kept their weight down.
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Source: Mail Online
Date: 17-Mar-2016
Stars including Chloe Lewis and Nicola Davis promote the Daily Mile launch to combat children’s fitness.
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Source: Women’s Health Magazine
Date: 17-Mar-2016
It’s been said time and again that the answer to the growing obesity problem in this country needs to start at a young age, and the Daily Mile is a very positive move in the right direction.
The idea was created to get school kids active before lessons by running one mile every day, it has since been rolled out across the whole of Scotland with strong encouragement to get it up and down the UK.
While the scheme is designed to get primary school pupils active, there’s no reason why the same principals shouldn’t be applied to your adult life.
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Source: Mail Online
Date: 17-Mar-2016
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Source: The Chester Chronicle
Date: 17-Mar-2016
BBC cameras visited a Helsby primary school to film pupils who now run, jog or walk a mile every day.
The One Show sent presenter Alex Riley along to Horn’s Mill Primary School to find out about the scheme aiming to get children healthier and tackle obesity.
Alex jogged a mile alongside an excited Horn’s Mill Year 5 class who have been piloting the project.
The Daily Mile, which is being launched at six primary schools across Cheshire West, gets pupils out of the classroom and their heart rates up for 15 minutes each day of the week.
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Source: UKMums.tv
Date: 17-Mar-2016
With yesterday’s announcement of the sugar tax there’s little doubt that kids’ health is in the news but another story that’s breaking through is the introduction of the daily mile.
The inspiration for this comes from a school in Scotland where the head introduced a daily mile walk or run into the timetable. Children at St Ninian’s Primary School in Stirling do their daily mile each day on a specially built circuit outside the playground. It only takes 15 minutes out of the children’s school day and is credited with helping to improve their health.
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Source: Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser
Date: 16-Mar-2016
NEWCASTLETON primary school health week was a sporting success as the pupils tried out different healthy activities.
Each day started with a healthy breakfast of cereal, fruit, fresh juices and bagels, served by school cook Pamela Young before the activities began.
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Tuesday 15 March 2016. Pupils at Leatherhead’s Woodlands School for children with physical and learning disabilities will be donning Sports Relief t-shirts to run the Sports Relief mile on Thursday 17th March as they celebrate completing their first term of 15 minute lunchtime runs.
The daily ‘chair to 1km’ initiative was introduced by the school’s nursing and therapy team in January 2016. They acted after reading increasing research about the lack of fitness and exercise among children with disabilities. They were also inspired by the success of a daily run that was introduced in a school in Stirling, Scotland, for which the headteacher won ‘Teacher of the Year’ in the 2015 Pride of Britain awards.
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Source: Yorkshire Evening Post
Date: 15-Mar-2016
YOUNGSTERS at a Leeds school got a run for their money when they were visited by a homegrown Olympic hero.
Triathlon star Jonny Brownlee dropped into Thorner Primary School to officially open their new running track.
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Listen to Elaine Wyllie, founder of The Daily Mile, explain why this 15 minutes a day of running or jogging in nursery and primary schools has had such a transformational impact on children’s health and wellbeing.
