posted by Jacqueline Smith, Head Teacher, Timmergreens Primary School

The staff, pupils and parents of Timmergreens Primary School came together to complete a challenge of seeing how many miles we could cover in one day. As it was the London Marathon weekend we wanted to see how many marathons we could complete and as some of the children have been learning about space, whether we could reach Tim Peake on the International Space Station.

We used our daily mile route and each class had to gather as many miles as they could, parents and the local community were invited to add to our classes totals by coming along and walking, running a mile as well. Our P7’s were the Stewards for the event and timed parents and pupils who wanted to compete for the fastest mile awards.

Having taken part in the daily mile for 9 months, the parents and school community were astounded at the levels of fitness our pupils have grown and their enthusiasm when participating. Our final total was 293 parent/community miles and a magnificent whole school total of 1,206.5 – this is the equivalent of 46 marathons and many times to the Space Centre! What a target for us to beat next year!