Source: Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
Date: 23-Nov-2015

Pupils and staff at a Peninsula school will run a mile a day to help children concentrate in class.

Kilcreggan Primary School has adopted the daily mile challenge, following a nationally acclaimed scheme at a Stirling primary school, which sees all pupils run a mile a day.

Frances Bretman, head teacher at the school, said she has considered introducing it since St Ninian’s school hit the headlines earlier this year.

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Source: Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
Date: 11-Nov-2015

Their mighty challenge was started by Commonwealth Silver Medallist Hurdler, Chris Baillie, who coaches at Helensburgh Amateur Athletics Club.

The daily mile initiative will involve all pupils in running one mile a day around the school playground.

The school is hoping to log all the miles run during November with the aim of running the distance of Rhu to Rio, the venue for the 2016 Olympic Games.

Head teacher Anne Milne told the Advertiser the initiative was to encourage pupils to have an active lifestyle.

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Source: Third Force News
Date: 4-Nov-2015

The UK’s most popular teacher says schools and politicians have to tackle problem of overweight pupils

The poor health of Scotland’s children needs to be tackled urgently, one of the country’s top teachers has begged.

Elaine Wyllie, who was voted Teacher of the Year at the 2015 Pride of Britain Awards, told Children in Scotland’s annual conference the situation has now become an “emergency”.

With some of the worst child obesity rates in Europe she called on Scottish politicians and those involved in education to do something quickly about the problem and to find ways to improve children’s mental wellbeing.

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The Scottish Government officially endorsed The Daily Mile for all primary schools.

Schools in Belgium began The Daily Mile, mentored by former Olympian and GO Run For Fun ambassador Tia Hellebaut.