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Negotiating the Daily Mile Challenge; wider health considerations

Title
Negotiating the Daily Mile Challenge; wider health considerations

Research Area
Health; Education   

Author
Ward, G. University of Wolverhampton

Summary of Findings
Rather than address unfounded concerns about fitness and risks of obesity the DMC in this school inadvertently highlighted an important need; for pupils to have an outside break from pressurised classroom performances and have more opportunities for quality social interactions.

Implications
Consideration of pupils’ existing and on-going health resources would have recognised the pupils’ on-going embodied physical, mental and social health.  More specifically, how these ‘healths’ are derived and what the school may do more effectively to strengthen these ‘healths’.