On your marks…get set…go!
The boys at The Mall School are aiming to swim the same distance as swimming the English Channel THERE AND BACK for Sport Relief. If they complete the challenge, they’ll have covered 66.6 kilometres or 41.4 miles. The first part of this particular challenge was completed for Sports Relief by David Walliams in 2006 and we think our boys can do it too and go even further – in our own swimming pool!
Sport Relief is encouraging the nation to get their kit on to tackle a variety of good causes. Last Sport Relief, schools and nurseries helped raise £4 million; and once again we are being encouraged to go all out to help smash that total this year.
The Mall boys will join thousands of fundraisers across the nation in kick-starting their challenge for Sport Relief. The idea is simply to swim as many lengths (or widths) as possible in their allocated swimming lesson.
All boys from Reception to Year 8 will try and swim as far as they possibly can during their swimming lesson on the week beginning Monday 9th March. Our pool is 20 metres long, so to swim the English Channel, we need the boys to swim a combined total of 1665 lengths, but to go there and back it would mean the massive total of 3330 lengths.
Using the amazing power of sport, the challenge will help people get active whilst raising life-changing amounts of money for Sport Relief. The money raised will help to take on some of the biggest issues right here in the UK and around the world, such as child poverty, homelessness, domestic abuse and mental health support.
Sport Relief week will culminate in an unmissable night of live TV from Salford on Friday 13th March on BBC One.

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