A primary school in Preston took part in a national mini marathon last week.
The TCS Mini London Marathon in Schools initiative invites children across the county to run, walk or cycle 2.6 miles in their own school grounds and since launching in 2020, thousands of schools have taken part.
This year was the first time that Deepdale Community Primary School decided to take part in the national scheme, with all 690 pupils at the Preston school taking part across two days last week.
Speaking on the second day of the event, PE coach Mel Briggs told us: “The London Marathon has just happened, and Joe Wicks decided to spread it out across the country and offer it to schools as well so we decided to sign up.
“We have set up a running track over three of our playgrounds. The children are aiming to do two miles, which is roughly nine laps of the track, and the whole school is going to be doing it.
“We have children in nursery... reception is doing it, and each year group has three classes so here are 90 in each class, right up through to Year 6. Staff are doing it, the senior leadership team (SLT) is doing it, and governors hopefully are going to come and join us at some point. The fire brigade is going to come and cheer on the children.
“It is just a big school community event. They have all been excited, really excited about it. The parents have just come, they’ve joined in with the children, and done the running.
“It’s not about doing the two miles, I wanted to get the children, the parents, and the staff all together to just do some exercise for their mental health and just have fun together.”
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