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Healthy Highlights at
Williamson County Schools
Scales Elementary
Run Club – The annual run club
continues with both a fall club and a spring club.
Each club runs for six weeks, twice weekly
for a total of twelve sessions each. Meetings
are after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 30
minutes. Students walk, jog or run as many
laps as they can for 30 minutes. Laps are
marked off on a lap card. When the card is
complete the student receives a toe token.
Grades K – 2 students must complete 15 laps (3
miles) and Grades 3 – 5 must complete 25 laps (5
miles) to receive a token.
The club started five years ago
with about 100 students participating.
In the fall of 2008 there are 330 students or
53% of Scales’ students participating. In the spring
the run club is tied into the Kids’ Country Music
Marathon. The club has grown so large that the
Scales’ PTO paid to have the track widened and
repaved. Parents help to mark lap cards and
are also encouraged to come participate with their
child. On Run Club afternoons, there is a sea
of children on our track, an unbelievable sight.
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