Friends of Tushingham School appeal for help on Tesco funding

Source: Whitchurch Herald

Date: 30-September-2017

The Friends of Tushington School, which raises funds, has made an appeal to help the school reach its goal of building a running track, as they believe it will help progress the school’s improved physical education output.

Children at the school complete The Daily Mile in all weathers; however, they face spatial restrictions during periods of wet weather. The Friends wish to build the all-weather track to ensure pupils can take part in The Daily Mile, consistently.

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Students miles better off with regular excercise

Source: Tes

Date: 29-September-2017

The Daily Mile programme begins in its first college to boost fitness nation wide. Borders College has won plaudits for becoming the first institution in the further education sector to take up The Daily Mile challenge.

The initiative, that started in primary schools as a way to make young children more active, has received praise for the positive behavioural, health and well-being benefits that have been clearly demonstrated from student’s engagement in regular exercise.

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The race to get children fit is a marathon, not a sprint

Source: Tes

Date: 29-September-2017

The Daily Mile initiative is proof that more can be done to improve people’s health at schools and colleges. And now, more-than-ever, it is implicitly important to grow the scheme in colleges as we prepare these young learners for their working lives, post education.

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‘Sausage roll patrol’ at Shirley Manor Academy, Wyke, sparks heated debate as new figures reveal district’s childhood

Source: Telegraph & Argus

Date: 28-September-2017

Upon the release of the latest figures portraying the district’s childhood, the Shirley Manor Academy want to ensure their children eat well and grow up understanding the importance of a healthy diet and lifestyle – However, the school’s decision to ‘police’ children’s packed lunches, through the introduction of a new food banning policy, has sparked a heated debate.

Bradford Council is urging primary and nursery schools across the district to join The Daily Mile scheme, in a bid to improve pupil’s health and academic performance by walking or running for fifteen minutes per day.

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Daily strolls are good for you, says Dr Andrew Murray

Source: Express

Date: 26-September-2017

Research reveals that being active for as little as 10 minutes a day could save millions of middle-aged Britons from an early death and a myriad of illnesses.

The Daily Mile scheme has been praised for improving attention levels and behaviour in children’s classrooms, and is now being introduced into workplaces with the goal of improving nation-wide health and well-being.

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3000 taking on the first Simplyheath Great East Run

Source: Athletics Weekly

Date: 22-September-2017

Team GB Olympic runner, Andy Vernon, joined the children of St Matthew’s Primary School in Ipswich in doing their Daily Mile and offered them some final words of advice, ahead of the first Simplyhealth Great East Run.

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3,000 lace up ahead of inaugural Great East Run

Source: Great Run

Date: 22-September-2017

Team GB Olympic runner, Andy Vernon, visited a host of schools across the region to celebrate their commitment to encourage physical activity into the children’s daily lives, through programs such as The Daily Mile and the Great East Run 2017.

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Press Release: Over 45,000 children celebrate The Daily Mile in Greater Manchester!

CHILDREN who run a mile a day are this week hoping to inspire pupils from other schools to follow in their footsteps.

So far pupils from 82 schools in Greater Manchester regularly run “The Daily Mile”™ – the initiative credited with making primary school pupils fitter, more resilient, happier, healthier and more focused in lessons – but there are thousands who haven’t yet had the opportunity to take it up.

“We need to change that,” said Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who showed his support by running The Daily Mile at Oakfield Primary School in Hyde. “It would be great if all children across Greater Manchester were active for at least 15 minutes every day.”

GreaterSport, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership and Greater Manchester Headteachers’ Alliance have now joined forces to actively encourage all schools to implement this profoundly simple, but effective initiative.

“We love The Daily Mile because it’s fun, energising and inclusive without being competitive,” one school commented when asked why they like The Daily Mile. “Everyone takes part with a smile on their face.”

On Friday (September 22) Elaine Wyllie, who founded The Daily Mile, and Olympic gold medallist Nicola White will be in Manchester to celebrate what has been achieved so far – and inspire some of the 700 plus schools, which currently don’t run The Daily Mile, to sign up.

“It really is so easy,” said Elaine. “Children love running. All they need is somewhere to do it. So we are hoping Friday will be a catalyst for change and encourage more schools to give it a go.”

So far more than 40,000 children from 155 schools, representing all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester, have signed up to run The Daily Mile in their own playgrounds on Friday as part of a Daily Mile celebration event in Manchester.

“Although all the schools won’t be in the same venue, it will be brilliant to have the sense of thousands of children doing the mile on the same day,” said Matt Stocks, Senior Development Manager at GreaterSport.

More than 250,000 young people – an estimated 68% of 5 to 15 year olds – across Greater Manchester currently are not getting enough exercise every day, according to guidelines set by the Chief Medical Officer.

“We need to get Greater Manchester moving,” said Mr Burnham.

Scotland was the birthplace of The Daily Mile: a daily, 15-minute burst of physical activity that’s been shown to improve children’s physical, mental, social and emotional health and wellbeing.

Since that first, 15-minute run in 2012, about 600,000 children in more than 3,000 primary schools worldwide now run almost two million miles a week.

“The Daily Mile has been described by so many as a ‘no brainer’ because it offers a wealth of health and well-being benefits to children at a critical time in their development,” said Elaine. “My hope is that this initiative will be formally endorsed for all UK schools just as it has been in Scotland.”

INEOS, which owns a manufacturing site in Runcorn in neighbouring Cheshire, is a proud supporter of Elaine’s campaign, and has been quietly investing its time, energy and money since 2016.

And that support is paying off.

Children from more than 3,000 UK schools now run The Daily Mile, and, thanks to support from the Belgian and Dutch Governments, so do pupils from more than 700 schools in Belgium and 155 in The Netherlands. The scheme is also being championed by teachers in Sweden, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the US – and its appeal is being felt in far-flung places such as Kuwait, Hawaii and Indonesia.

Schools wanting to be a part of the Greater Manchester event on Friday should sign up to do their mile on September 22 at www.greatersport.co.uk/dailymile

In doing so, they will also be in with a chance of winning money for sports equipment and a school visit by a top athlete.

ENDS.

Read more: Schools urged to sign up to GM Daily Mile celebrations

 

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Great East Run in Ipswich should grow into international event ‘in no time’, Team GB’s Andy Vernon says

Source: Ipswich Star

Date: 22-September-2017

Team GB Olympic runner, Andy Vernon, visited St Matthew’s Primary School in Ipswich to promote the Daily Mile scheme and Great East Run 2017.

The Daily Mile has been credited with improving children’s focus, behaviour and attainment, reducing obesity levels, and helping with mental health issues.

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The Daily Mile Workplace

CHILDREN in Scotland have inspired one of the biggest energy firms in the UK to help make their staff healthier, happier and more productive.

From today (September 19), ScottishPower will become the first company to sign up to “The Daily Mile”™ – the free initiative credited with making primary school pupils fitter, more resilient and more focused in lessons.

Scottish Minister for Public Health and Sport Aileen Campbell was among the VIPs at ScottishPower’s headquarters in Glasgow to launch the company’s ‘Walk The Daily Mile’ initiative.

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‘Daily mile’ scheme comes to workplace

Source: BBC News

Date: 19-September-2017

Businesses across Scotland have been asked to encourage employees to walk a mile a day – following a scheme started by a Scottish primary school in 2012.

The “daily mile” scheme was pioneered by St Ninian’s Primary, Stirling, but has been copied by many other schools.

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Bid to make Scotland a ‘Daily Mile nation’ after pupil scheme

Source: The Scotsman

Date: 20-September-2017

It’s now a common sight in school playgrounds across the country as pupils are put through their paces each day.

The successful Daily Mile scheme, which encourages children to walk, jog or run the distance every day of the week, has been hailed for aiding concentration and behaviour in class as well as fitness.

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