A BATON being passed between 43 schools across Bradford will cover 70 miles in five weeks.

The Bradford School Games baton relay started at Fearnville Primary School and is gradually working its way around the district to celebrate the forthcoming Bradford Summer School Games which takes place at the University Academy Keighley on Friday, June 24.

Bradford School Games organisers from across the district are organising the baton relay as part of the National School Games Programme - an opportunity to motivate and inspire millions of young people across the country to take part in more competitive school sport.

Schools were invited to use the baton to promote the school games values; passion, determination, honesty, team work, respect and self-belief in their schools as well as to celebrate sport and physical activity, and are encouraged to be as creative as they wish in how they transport the baton from their school to the next.

The last school with the baton will be Burley Oaks who will bring the relay baton to the games as part of the opening ceremony.

After the games, two pupils will be selected to represent Bradford in the West Yorkshire Summer Games Baton relay on July 5 at Leeds Beckett University.