Staff and pupils at Dean Trust Wigan take part in the Race to the North Pole event, as they run, walk, dance or cycle, inside on sports equipment and outside on school grounds, to complete 2518 miles (the distance from Wigan to the North Pole), to raise funds for charity.
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00:00Hi, my name is Aaron Loftus. I'm an assistant teacher in charge of Key Stage 3 and today we're doing our first ever whole school charity day
00:06Which is our Race to the North Pole. We are racing
00:092,518 miles which is equivalent from here to the North Pole in aid of our three main charities
00:15which are Daffodil Dreams, Mission Christmas and Storehouse
00:19We are trying to raise two and a half thousand pounds to split between those charities and we are doing treadmills
00:24We are running, we are cycling, we are dancing our way to two and a half thousand miles
00:28And we start at seven o'clock this morning, and we'll finish at half past three