How to Give "Skipping School" a Good Name

How to Give "Skipping School" a Good Name

This Guy Fawkes Friday will have plenty of ups and downs for more than 300 students at Christchurch's Selwyn House School. November 5 is National "Push Play" day, which coincides with the culmination of the Year 5 and 6 integrated health/science topic, "Just Do It!". The girls have organised the "Big Bang Skipping Event" involving the whole school, between 2-3pm.
Every girl in the school has bought a skipping rope through the National Heart Foundation's "Jump Rope for Heart" programme and the playground has been humming with the sound of turning ropes over the last few weeks. The girls have been working hard to improve their skills, design new steps and rhymes, and work out choreographed moves.

Year 5/6 Team Leader, Sandy Hastings, says with the issue of overweight children leading sedentary lifestyles in the news once again, she hopes this Friday will reinforce the importance of healthy lifestyles.
"Selwyn House has always placed a great emphasis on physical exercise and making it enjoyable and relevant. The girls are looking forward to this Friday and I think after such a big day, there should be some tired "skippers" heading home at 3pm," she says.

The Year 5 and 6 girls will be providing a "Hearty Lunch" for every student on Friday; much planning also went into this element of their project. The girls approached a range of local suppliers who generously agreed to contribute the food, enabling Selwyn House to donate all the money raised, to the Heart Foundation.
Promoting the event is also part of their topic and a range of carefully designed posters, advertising the skipping event have been placed around the school. Each student has created a slogan for their poster, such as "Don't be a Lump - Go Jump!" and "Get skippingwise - do exercise". 5P's Soo Yeon Lim designed the winning logo for the "Big Bang Skipping Event". (see attachment).

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