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People Fixing The World: Running and Singing to Improve Maths and English

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Running and Singing to Improve Maths and English

18/09/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - People Fixing The World, Running and Singing to Improve Maths and English

The schools changing lives through running and music

Two simple ideas to change the lives of pupils at school: a daily run and putting music at the heart of the curriculum

This week we go back to school, with two simple ideas that involve changing the day-to-day lives of pupils to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. The Daily Mile is an idea developed in a Scottish school by an enterprising teacher, which is now being adopted worldwide. It gets pupils to run a mile at a surprise moment during the school day, to break up their learning and burn some calories. Meanwhile, in Bradford, in the north of England, a previously failing school has found salvation through music. To improve its performance in core subjects including maths and English, it promoted music in the timetable and embraced a music-teaching philosophy pioneered in communist-era Hungary.

Presenter: Dougal Shaw
Reporters: Shabnam Grewal and Dougal Shaw

Photo Caption: A pupil playing drums and singing
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