"The best thing was the mud, because it was all squishy and gooey and Mrs Walters went surfing down the mud on the hill," says eight-year-old Callum. Along with fellow pupils at St James the Great Primary and Nursery School in East Malling, Kent, he's just finished a four-week health challenge where pupils decided to walk the equivalent of Land's End to John O'Groats between them.
That's 875 miles, which Harry, 10, didn't think they could do. Using a trundle wheel he and his friends worked out how far a mile was. "We went through the woods, onto the field, then round the playground into the car park," he explains. "There are 1,600 metres in a mile and half of that is 800 metres, so we had to do it twice."
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