Our School Feature- St George’s Perry Vale
Source: South London Press
Date: 29-Jul-2016
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Month: July 2016
Get up and go this summer!
Source: Evening Express (Aberdeen)
Date: 28-Jul-2016
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West Cheshire children urged to stay fit and health during summer holidays
Source: Chester Chronicle (web)
Date: 27-Jul-2016
A new fitness initiative aimed at primary school children in West Cheshire and designed to improve both their health and performance in the classroom is to get an extra boost through the summer holidays.
Brio Leisure, the community interest company behind leisure and sports venues such as the Northgate Arena and Northwich Memorial Court, is offering free junior memberships at its centres through July and August to the schools in the Daily Mile pilot programme.
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Nearly a third of people in parts of South and West Wales are couch potatoes who do no exercise at all
Source: Wales Online (Web)
Date: 27-Jul-2016
One in three people in parts of South and South West Wales do virtually no exercise at all, a conference has heard.
And one in five deaths in the region could be prevented if people were more active, delegates at the Promise to Move You More conference held at Swansea University heard.
The event, hosted by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University (ABMU) Health Board’s Physical Activity Alliance, discussed moves to encourage the region’s half a million people to build exercise into their everyday lives.
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New Strategy To Get Us To Exercise More
Source: The Wave (web)
Date: 27-Jul-2016
Planning for a fitter, healthier future is all about team work – that’s the message coming out of a special event aimed at finding out how to get people in the ABMU area moving more.
More than 120 delegates representing sporting groups, businesses, charities, health, education, voluntary sector and emergency services united to share their views on ways to encourage physical activity.
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Forest Hill pupils enjoy their daily mile
Source: Mercury Today
Date: 26-Jul-2016
FOREST Hill youngsters are loving a scheme in which they run or walk a mile every single school day.
The “Daily Mile” has been so enthusiastically embraced at St George’s CE Primary School in Perry Vale pupil’s have collectively clocked up enough miles to reach Australia
Head teacher Geraldine Constable introduce the activity last September after seeing is impact in other schools. The scheme was created by Elaine Wyllie, a primary school headteacher in Scotland, who wanted to tackle poor levels of fitness in her school.
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Moving messages to help us live longer
Source: Western Mail
Date: 25-Jul-2016
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PICTURES: Cherry Bear officially opens school’s new running track
Source: Bournemouth Daily Echo
Date: 20-Jul-2016
A NEW £13,500 running track was unveiled by little children with the help of Cherry Bear yesterday.
Pupils from all years of Stourfield Junior School, on Stourvale Road in Southbourne, got the chance to test out the new grass-topped facility in the playing fields which they can use for The Daily Mile activity.
Laura Rawson, head teacher at the school, said: “We had an amazing morning and the day went without a hitch.
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Sheriff’s bid to get primary schools running
Source: My Nottingham News
Date: 18-Jul-2016
Thousands of primary pupils in Nottingham are being urged to run 100 miles over the next school year in a bid to get fit and healthy – and complete the Sheriff’s Challenge.
Children aged five to 11 will be encouraged to run a one-mile course around their school playgrounds at least twice a week to hit the 100-mile target – that’s the equivalent of running four full marathons each over the 2016/17 academic year!
Schools are being asked to sign up to the Sheriff’s Challenge, which is being organised by Nottingham City Council as part of the Opportunity Notts initiative to encourage more young people to get active and broaden their horizons.
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Royston children keep fit with Daily Mile challenge
Source: Royston Crow
Date: 15-Jul-2016
Children at Tannery Drift First School in Royston invited their parents and teachers to join them for their Daily Mile last Thursday, as part of One You Day, a day when people across Hertfordshire were invited to do one thing to improve their health.
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A Daily Mile
Source: Gill White Blog
Date: 11-Jul-2016
A Daily Mile is a series of short films currently in production.
Commissioned by Creative Stirling, with Stirling Development Agency and Stirling Council they are part of co-created Augmented Reality public artwork for the new Seaforth Place building. The new artwork will use integrated augmented reality (AR) technology and in featuring content made by artists working with the local community as part of a public engagement strategy.
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