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An initiative organised by LiveArgyll’s Active Schools and Sport team has been deemed a huge success. The School Strava Challenge was aimed at encouraging young people in secondary schools across the area to keep active and healthy while in this current lockdown, and not having access to regular school activity.

Staff and pupils in every school, were given the challenge of walking, running or wheeling as many kilometres as possible over a five week period. The schools were pitched against each other to offer a competitive element, and pupils vied for top spot in their school community.

A total of ten schools, 378 pupils and 112 school staff amassed an incredible 29,670 kilometres over the course of the challenge.

Dunoon Grammar School was the winning school for the highest number of kilometres travelled. They won £200 worth of new PE equipment. Tobermory High School were victorious in the title for the average number of kilometres per pupil, followed by Tarbert Academy and Tiree High School.

At DGS the top performing boy was Finn Hurrell and top performing girl was Rachel Reid. Both were awarded a fitness tracker watch for clocking up the highest number of miles.  Pictured below

The Active Schools and Sports team are working on a number of projects in order to restart extracurricular activity when this allows, and have already produced some online resources for school pupils to keep them active at home, which can be found on the liveArgyll website www.liveargyll.co.uk

Please contact the Cowal Active Schools Co-ordinators, Robbie Kelly on Robbie.kelly@liveargyll.co.uk or Paul Beautyman on Paul.beautyman@liveargyll.co.uk for further information.