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Thought this was interesting...holidays would give kids more time to spend at the playground, wouldn't they?

http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=36957&hilite=

The research shows that

• more children (96%) aged 12 do more exercise during their summer holidays than during school term time (see Table 1)

• children find term-time exercise more boring

• eight out of ten (79%) getting enjoyment from their exercise during the summer holidays

• over half (57%) describing it as ‘more fun’

• 22% saying it was ‘more exciting’ (see Table 2)

• There was a strong trend in the data (see Table 3) to show that increased exercise is proportional to the kind of holiday the students took

• the highest exercise levels were found in students who went abroad on holiday (78% did a ‘lot more’ exercise)

• as opposed to those who holidayed in the UK (33%)

• and those students who did not have a holiday at all (37.5%).