Daily Mile Nation target for Scots

Source: The Edinburgh Reporter

Date: 25-August-2017

Schools, nurseries, colleges and universities are being urged to help Scotland become the first Daily Mile Nation.

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Press Release: Daily Mile Founding School Honoured with Queen’s Baton Relay Participation

Scotland’s Deputy First Minister John Swinney visits the first school to take up The Daily Mile, to welcome the Queen’s Baton Relay and show support for this world leading initiative.

The Queen’s Baton Relay today visited St Ninians Primary School in Scotland – the school where in 2012 headteacher Elaine Wyllie founded the internationally-acclaimed children’s health and wellbeing initiative, The Daily Mile.

Pupils and staff were joined by Elaine along with para-athlete Sammi Kinghorn, Minister for Public Health and Sport, Aileen Campbell, and Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education, John Swinney, to welcome the baton. Children at the school participated in a very special Daily Mile as part of the world-renowned Queen’s Baton Relay.

John Swinney said: “I’m delighted to be back at St Ninians Primary School, where The Daily Mile began back in 2012, to encourage every school in Scotland to take part and fulfil our ambition of being the first Daily Mile nation.

“We have written to headteachers, heads of early years establishments and principals of further and higher education institutions to highlight the benefits of The Daily Mile, not just to physical and mental health but to raising attainment levels and improving relationships between pupils and teaching staff.”

The Scottish government are firmly behind The Daily Mile movement, and have pledged to roll it out across all primary and nursery schools in Scotland. The initiative has already been adopted by more than 1,000 primary schools across the country. With the benefits including increased physical fitness, and even raised attainment, this can only be a good thing for the future of the nation.

The initiative has been so well-received that the Scottish Government has pledged to make Scotland the world’s first ‘Daily Mile nation’ with the movement making its way into universities and workplaces, too. This morning, heads of Early Years, Higher and Further Education received a signed letter from the Deputy First Minister, John Swinney, the Minister for Public Health and Sport, Aileen Campbell, and Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, Catherine Calderwood, encouraging them to take up The Daily Mile initiative, and confirming the involvement of Sir Andy Murray as an ambassador of UK movement.

Following on from the success of The Daily Mile in her own primary school in 2012, Elaine went on to win a Pride of Britain Award for her inspiring efforts to increase children’s health and wellbeing, and then founded The Daily Mile Foundation with the help of sponsor INEOS in 2016. The Daily Mile sees children run or jog for 15 minutes per day at school, at a time of the class teacher’s choosing, in which time most children will average a mile distance. The initiative has spread across the UK and the rest of the world with over 3,000 schools now taking part – that’s more than half a million children moving more and feeling better every day.

Minister for Public Health and Sport, Aileen Campbell, commented: “This simple and effective concept can help us to reduce health inequalities and to reduce the impact on our NHS.

“It’s brilliant to see the children here doing their Daily Mile with the Queen’s Baton, and I hope the run up to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games – as well as the Glasgow 2018 European Championships – will inspire them to try out different sports and activities.”

Delighted by the presence of the baton at her former school, Wyllie commented: “I’m honoured that St Ninians Primary School were selected to take part in the relay. This is where it all started and I couldn’t be more proud of Scotland, and our other international partners, for embracing The Daily Mile so wholeheartedly.

“Because of this, children will grow up with healthier habits and it’s going to change lives.”

St Ninians Primary School is in good company; as an iconic symbol of the Commonwealth Games, the Queen’s Baton Relay begins at Buckingham Palace before making its way some 142,915 miles around the world. The baton arrived in last year’s host city, Glasgow, on 22 August and will be spending five days in Scotland before continuing on its long journey to Australia to mark the beginning of The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

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Scotland: The Daily Mile Nation

Scotland’s Deputy First Minister John Swinney visits the first school to take up The Daily Mile, to welcome the Queen’s Baton Relay and show support for this world-leading initiative.

The Queen’s Baton Relay today visited St Ninians Primary School in Scotland – the school where in 2012 headteacher Elaine Wyllie founded the internationally-acclaimed children’s health and wellbeing initiative, The Daily Mile.

Around 1,000 Scottish primary and nursery schools already take part in The Daily Mile, which encourages children to walk, jog or run for 15 minutes every day.

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Scotland: A Daily Mile Nation

Daily Mile Founding School Honoured with Queen’s Baton Relay Participation

 

Press Release: INEOS raises £1,000 for The Daily Mile Foundation

The Daily Mile Foundation’s primary sponsor, INEOS, has raised £1,000 for the charity as part of their Tour de France-style cycling challenge this summer.

INEOS employees cycled a combined distance of an astonishing 321,000 kilometres – equal to a distance of over seven times around the globe. A total of £41,000 was raised for various children’s charities by INEOS teams in their respective worldwide locations.

The teams aimed to match the distance travelled for each stage of the 21-day Tour de France in July. Not only did they achieve this, but they also more than doubled the kilometres required. The kilometres were racked up by employees cycling both in their leisure time as well as for their daily commutes to and from the INEOS offices in Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, the US and the UK. One employee, Stéphane Frigiolini from Tavaux, France, completed the entire distance of a staggering 3,540 kilometres, in 23 days.

Each team was able to donate £1,000 to a children’s charity of their choice, with the London team choosing The Daily Mile Foundation. Elaine Wyllie, founder of The Daily Mile, said: “I’d like to thank all those who took part in the recent INEOS cycling challenge and, in the process, helped to raise £1,000 for The Daily Mile Foundation – all very impressive!”

John Mayock, Project Manager at INEOS’ headquarters in London, commented: “The response we’ve seen from our employees has been inspiring. We never expected the sheer scale of riders taking up the challenge, and I am so proud of everyone who has contributed and taken part. Not only have we raised a huge amount for charity, but many participants have been encouraged to take up cycling for the first time in many years. It has been an enormous team effort.”

The Daily Mile is an initiative that encourages children to run or jog/walk for 15 minutes in their nursery and primary schools during class time. The profoundly simple and free initiative has been shown to increase fitness, concentration and overall health and wellbeing in pupils. So far, the grassroots movement, that officially took off as a foundation in 2015, has been taken up by over 3,000 schools worldwide. Money raised for The Daily Mile Foundation will go towards assisting the charity to encourage new schools to begin the initiative at the start of the upcoming school year.

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More Suffolk primary schools wanted for Daily Mile as just 19% of leavers get regular exercise in England

Source: East Anglian Daily Times

Date: 06-August-2017

Suffolk education chiefs want more headteachers to pledge to take up the scheme to get hundreds more primary school children running, jogging or walking a mile at school every day.

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Barely one in 10 Scottish children at end of primary school do enough exercise every day

Source: The Telegraph

Date: 01-August-2017

The majority of children in Scotland are not getting enough exercise – initiatives such as The Daily Mile are being implemented in order to change children’s health and wellbeing habits for the better.

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Vast majority of Scottish children not meeting exercise guideline

Source: The Scotsman

Date: 01-August-2017

With vast amounts of children not meeting daily exercise guidelines, Scotland are implementing The Daily Mile in hopes to tackle this growing sedentary crisis and instil lifelong health and wellbeing habits in children.

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