GIVING ALL THEY'VE GOT Westover Community schoo! pupils go through re routine in “Cross Canada ! Run” which

began May 2. Runners in the program, headed by Jane Baynham rear] have been doing SO » welll that plans to fly
them home in 2 747 have been abandoned. IG. Lam photo]. .

By Guillermo Lam

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when Jane Baynham, teach-
er for Grades 2 and 3,
proposed a ‘‘Cross Canada
Run.”" after hearing of a
similar program at a school
‘in London, Ontario. Since
then 250 North Vancouver
children from Westover’s
kindergarten to Grade 7,
along with teachers
parents have been puffing

| and jogging their way across.

what will be from St. John's,
Nfld... to Vancouver -- a

distance of 6.509 kilometres
.or 4,068 miles.

We started in Newfound-
land because we felt it would
be more fun arriving in
Vancouver after counting up
those kilometres,"' explains
Baynham, whose pupils like
others at school are speaking
in terms of' metres and
kilometres instead of feet
and miles.

’

Although the cross country .

venture is only true as far as

and.

- dians
. ability.

the running goes. coordina- |

tor Baynham, has managed
to generate unexpected inte-
rest. ‘‘It
enthusiasm for jogging,"
says Principal Andy Neu-
man, whose awesome 6-foot-

1-frame dwarfed about 85
ankle biters joining him in
the initial kilometre on May
2. immediately following a
public school assembly des-
cribing the run.

Apart from getting pupils
to think metric as their
kilometres inch toward Van-
couver, Baynham says that
the other major purposes are
to promote physical fitness in
view of reports that Cana-
have low physical

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PINT-SIZE RUNNERS

the _ pint-size
who have been

To assist
ahtletes, -

- trotting during recesses both

We accept

individually and in groups.
coordinator Bavnham has
marked off a one kilometre

_track with.lime on the school

grounds.

’. She also has driven around
the Wesiover community,
measuring off kilometre

tracks to guide participating

parents.

" For example. one track
covers the area from West-
over at 3467 Duval to Peters,

through Lynn Canyon Park,
back to Peters, Duval and to
. school.

‘Each morning Baynham,
and other room ‘teachers,
asks the children for the total
kilometres run. Participating
members of the family
combine their distances

which are recorded on a huge’

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located near the’ school’s
entrance hall.

INTEGRATE SUBJECTS

Before things began to
look favorable Baynham had
insured that no matter how
far it was going to go she had
planned several ways of
integrating the efforts with
subjects.

The pupils were to learn
the spelling of provinces,
cities. industries, and pro-
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class. Whea they reached
Quebec, we sung ‘Oh
Canada’’ in French, she
adds.

Initially, Baynham_plan-
ned the run to officially end
in June with a celebration
marking the arrival of our
runners at Westover. But

now it looks like they'll arrive
by the end of this month with
all participants receiving a
pin of the Canadian flag. On
May 16 they were already at
the foot of the rockies.

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