Jump Rope for Heart Week 8 Term 3

Congratulations to all the children who participated in the Jump Rope event last week! It has been wonderful to see all the skipping in the playground as children continue to improve their skills and get some terrific exercise!

So far, we have raised $2,835 as a school for the Heart Foundation and there is still time to sign up and add to this total.

If you go to this website https://www.jumprope.org.au/parents you can sign your child up so their efforts can be recognised. If you email all your friends and relatives about it, they can donate online and your child can record their skipping activity, even if retrospectively. It’s such a good cause and skipping is such good exercise!

Congratulations to the children who have raised this money so far! Our school account will remain open for two more weeks.

Here is a brief report from Grace about the Jump Rope event at school:

For the Heart Foundation I did a lot of skipping activities,
about 10 minutes each activity. Every time I did 10-15
minutes of 1 activity, I would get a little smiley face on my
hand, if I got 2 I could have some fruit. I got 6 smiley faces
so I did 60-90 minutes of skipping. I volunteered to do an
activity called helicopter where someone swings half a
skipping rope above their head and then let go 1 half of the
rope and spins it around on the ground. This needs about
12 or more people to jump over the rope, and if it hits
someone they are out, it keeps going until there is only one
person standing.