{"id":443,"date":"2021-05-11T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/?p=443"},"modified":"2021-07-29T09:32:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T09:32:46","slug":"the-daily-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/2021\/05\/11\/the-daily-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Mile<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 10th<\/sup>-16th<\/sup> of May is Mental Health Awareness Week, as promoted by the Mental Health Foundation (a registered charity). Please see link below<\/p>\n

Mental Health Awareness Week 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

As the focus is on “Nature” and we place a great importance on being outdoors, we wanted to share on our blog, the \u201cDaily Mile\u201d initiative, one that is very important to us at Stornoway Childcare Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Daily Mile is a fully-inclusive, free and simple initiative which improves the physical and mental health and wellbeing of children.\u201d \u2013 The Daily Mile Foundation (2021).<\/p>\n

At the Centre, we have been participating in the \u201cDaily Mile\u201d initiative for several years now where the children go for walks within our local community and they get a Daily Mile sticker for their great efforts. We initially signed up online, through the Daily Mile Foundation (a registered charity). Please see link below<\/p>\n

The Daily Mile | UK<\/a><\/p>\n

The Scottish Government promotes this initiative by encouraging schools, nurseries and families themselves to join in, in order to \u201chelp Scotland become the first Daily Mile Nation\u201d \u2013 The Scottish Government (2017). Please see link below<\/p>\n

Scotland: a Daily Mile Nation – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)<\/a><\/p>\n

There are a great deal of benefits for the children in our early years setting through getting out for these walks. These benefits include: developing physical strength, gross motor skills and coordination; promoting good health and wellbeing; building confidence and self-esteem; encouraging a sense of wonder in the world around them; developing knowledge of the local community; improving outcomes for all children; and encouraging the development of a sense of personal achievement.<\/p>\n

Our Little Explorers (0-2 year olds) are beginning to experience walking outdoors (where age appropriate) with the \u201cDaily Toddle\u201d. Our Little Ramblers (2 year olds) and Little Adventurers (2-3 year olds) are achieving their \u201cDaily Mile\u201d target and sometimes surpassing it! This is a huge achievement for these young children to be proud of and hopefully it is something that will develop and grow with them, as they do.<\/p>\n

All children and families are able to participate in this initiative and we encourage our parents to take the step and join the challenge too! We will be looking into a Home Link Activity moving forward in order to create a joint vision with children, parents and families.<\/p>\n

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The Daily Mile The 10th-16th of May is Mental Health Awareness Week, as promoted by the Mental Health Foundation (a registered charity). Please see link below Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 As the focus is on “Nature” and we place a great importance on being outdoors, we wanted to share on our blog, the \u201cDaily … Continue reading The Daily Mile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/stycc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}