"Year 1 and Year 2 took part in a 4 week skipping programme this term. We asked for the children to be involved in improving their individual skipping skills and to learn to skip in a big rope.

The progress which the children made in the 4 week programme was phenomenal! 

All children were fully engaged throughout; it was  a lot of fun and the children improved both their skills and their stamina. They became very enthusiastic and asked to skip every day with the skips provided as part of the programme.

Our aim was for every child to do 100 skips to raise money for our school charity: Malawi.

I did wonder at the beginning if we had been a little ambitious and I wondered if some children would be able to complete the challenge. All children did improve their skills and for those who found skipping alone tricky Liz and Linda were able to develop their skills or skip in a pair with them so that they could achieve the goal. 

There was a noticeable improvement in children's fitness, confidence and self-esteem as a result of this wonderful programme. My only regret is that it came to an end! However, the skills and enthusiasm which the children have developed will remain with them. The children will take their skips home for the summer holidays so that they can continue to develop their skills.

Thanks a lot Liz and Linda!"