The Daily Mile is going from strength to strength with schools in 30 countries now participating, including Kamalii Elementary School in Hawaii and schools in Indonesia, Honduras, Egypt and Dubai. The Daily Mile Foundation will keep working on expanding internationally, supporting schools from around the world to join the movement.

Over the last few months, The Daily Mile has had many exciting successes. Here are some highlights:

• Alongside GO Run For Fun, the world’s largest children’s running initiative, The Daily Mile Foundation brought together 5000 primary school children from London and across Britain to take part in a 2 kilometre fun run in June. VIP guests including Olympians Denise Lewis and Colin Jackson cheered the children on at the event at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
• The Scottish government will work with The Daily Mile to look at increasing participation in schools and nurseries across the nation, with a view to help the Scottish Government achieve their ambition of becoming the world's first 'Daily Mile Nation'. "Our ambition is for Scotland to be the first ‘Daily Mile’ nation with roll out to nurseries, schools, colleges, universities and workplaces across the country, " states the SNP policy for encouraging physical activity. "Every school will be offered help to become a Daily Mile school."
• A recent study revealed that children who do The Daily Mile do better at school. Sports scientists Fitmedia Ltd monitored 76 year six pupils at Coppermill Primary School in Walthamstow for 12 weeks as they started The Daily Mile. Children who ran The Daily Mile performed up to 25 per cent higher than expected in reading, writing and maths SATs. They were also fitter, more confident and better behaved.

The Daily Mile is a popular health and wellbeing initiative, brainchild of former headteacher Elaine Wyllie, encourages children aged 2-11 years to run or jog/walk for 15 minutes every day in their schools and nurseries. In this time, most children average a mile or more distance. The idea is simple and profoundly effective; every child can take part, regardless of their age or personal circumstance and it's not competitive, so every child succeeds. It's free for schools and, most importantly, the children love it!

Parents of children who take part in The Daily Mile comment that their children are eating and sleeping better, are stronger and more resilient, and are calmer and more content. Teachers report that challenging behaviour is reduced, that the children are concentrating better and are quicker to settle into their schoolwork.

View our case study on Woodfield Primary School (Wigan Case Study) and how The Daily Mile is working well in the Wigan area. The school is a fantastic illustration of the difference The Daily Mile can make.

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