About
Welcome to the Tesco Great School Run - a 2k fun run staged at schools across the UK encouraging children, family, friends and teachers to take part in exercise for fun, and to help make physical activity part of each school’s and every family’s lifestyle.
The Tesco Great School Run is now in its 8th year and our aim is to involve over 1 million children from all across the UK. This year's event will be better than ever...
As well as the run itself we have a host of online resources for teachers to use in their classrooms in the build up to the event. These encourage healthier lifestyles and positive attitudes towards physical activity.
Throughout the campaign, we have a fun national UK Tesco Great School Run tour visiting schools featuring celebrity guests to help create excitement and drive the key messages of the project.
Access to three great school assemblies on DVD by TV presenter, Jamie Rickers along with 400m Olympic medalist, Katharine Merry are based around the campaign's three themes:
- READY - the theme is motivation: how to get children enthused and kept on track
- STEADY - the theme is nutrition: eating for energy and well-being
- GO - the theme is active leisure: activity for health and fitness
Every school that signs up will receive a free teachers' pack that consists of:
- a set of race numbers for all children taking part in the event
- a poster to hang on a school notice board
- a teachers' booklet - a guide to help teachers to get the most from the event, the campaign and the supporting web-based education programme. It's a resource that can be kept in the staff room for reference purposes so that everyone involved will know what's available and how it can be used to get children ready for the run. The booklet also includes an interactive school assembly DVD based on the programme's three key themes.
This year’s Tesco Great School Run is up and running. You can do your run anytime from 8th May 2012 to the 23rd July 2012.