St. Louis students about to get active without even knowing it
By Medicine Hat News on June 5, 2019.
Students from St. Louis School will be heading to Monsignor McCoy Thursday morning to get active. Lynette Pancoast, a McCoy teacher whose three kids go to St. Louis, says the students will be participating in a Spartan race to promote outdoor activity. “We’ve built these obstacle courses and lined them all up, and students from Grades 1-6 will be running the courses from 10 a.m. to noon,” said Pancoast, who sits on St. Louis’s parent council. “Some kids don’t like being outdoors, some kids don’t like the physical activity.” The goal is to get kids to exercise without them even knowing it because they’re focused on the obstacles. The older kids in the cohort – Grades 4-6 – will be running about three kilometres, she added. “They’re out, they’re running … interrupted by all these obstacles, so they’re not thinking about this three-kilometre race that they’re running, they’re thinking, ‘Hey, if we run we get to this next obstacle,’ then they have to climb things, they have to jump through things,” Pancoast said. This year, they’ve included an obstacle that has the kids soak a sponge and throw it at a laminated photo of their teacher. “These are fun things to get them out and doing stuff, and getting them active,” said Pancoast. 10-9
