The 'Daily Mile' has now spread to five million children globally - after first being thought up at St Ninian's Primary in Stirling in 2012.
Former Stirling headteacher Elaine Wyllie MBE, whose Daily Mile initiative has inspired children across the world, was given a lifetime achievement award at Pride of Scotland on Monday night.
The Daily Mile involves classes heading outside to run, “wheel” or walk around their school grounds for 15 minutes every day. It has now spread to more than five million children in 20,000 schools in 96 countries. In 2019 Elaine was herself made an MBE, for services to the fitness of children, having come up with the idea of getting children out of the classroom for 15 minutes every day to walk or jog at their own pace.
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