Skipping helps develop co-ordination, co-operation and communications skills, and is an activity that boys and girls can do together! We believe skipping to be the best activity for today's children.
Skipping Workshops offer free skipping demonstrations for Primary Schools throughout the UK. For more details please click on 'Skipping Workshops' above and/or contact Harold Galley on 0208 786 7707 or h.galley@btinternet.com
National Skipping Challenge Award Ceremony at Seer Green
Left to right; Bronwyn Edwards, Lara Liebenberg, Alicia Western-Kaye, Georgia Toay, Ellie Hodgson, Fiona Thomson, Olivia Martin
for more Seer Green photos click here.
Other Certificate Winners
Congratulations to Highcroft, who came 2nd in this year's National Skipping Challenge.
Left to right; Emily Clark-Crangle, Shona Buckley, Molly Ashford, Olivia Smith, Lauren Chadwick
Congratulations to St Mary's, Ashford, who came third.
Special mention to Oliver Marsh who came first in Double Dutch.
Seer Green are National Skipping Challenge Winners!
Seer Green Primary School are winners of this years National Skipping Challenge with a score of 126. Congratulations to them, and well done to everyone who achieved a Top 10 score. We received 1150 entries from 70 different schools, and the top 10 schools are as follows;
SKIPPING COMPETITIONS:
Skipping as a competitive sport? There has been an increased interest in competitive sport in primary schools in recent years and Skipping Workshops offers a number of initiatives for schools interested in promoting healthy, inter-school competitions:
a) Our website competiton, the National Skipping Challenge has been a popular feature sinece its inception in 2003; for more information please click on the link above
b) During the summer term we run a popular inter-school competiton day, where the challenge is to see who can do the most crossovers, pretzels and double unders. Previous competitions have taken place in Kingston, Beaconsfield, Telford, Bristol, Plymouth, Dublin and Cork. This year's event was at Rushen Primary School in the Isle of Man on Thursday June 3rd
c) This year we are introducing a new long-rope competition. For more information about this competition, please contact Harold Galley on 0208 786 7707 or use the 'contact us' tab above
Pleaase note: a course planned for June 14th at Sewell Park School in Norwich has been postponed until next term.... details to follow
One new competitive skipping game we are encouraging is called 'rotation points'.... its fairly simple to calculate the score... from a standing start in the rope its the number of consecutive jumps, multiplied by the number of children in the rope..... best recent scores are: Sacred Heart, Henley-on-Thames: 292, Seer Green, Bucks: 252, St Gregory's, Ealing: 240, St John's, Richmond: 240, Byron, Croydon: 220, Bernard Heath Junior, St Albans: 215, & Kew Green Prep, Richmond: 212
Skipping Workshops visit to the Isle of Man
During the first week of June ( half-term week in UK) four Skipping Workshops coaches spent three days promoting skipping in the Isle of Man, visiting 9 schools, culminating in an exciting competition day at Rushen Primary School . The winning school was Fairfield Primary in Douglas; individual winners were :
1st: Yzyl Quintama ( Fairfield) 2nd: Simi Skelcher-Maxwell ( Fairfield) 3rd: Amy Richardson-Hall ( Rushen)
Skipping Workshops would like to thank all the staff and pupils in the 9 schools ( Peel Clothworkers, Arbory, Rushen, Willaston, Ballsalla, Victoria Road, Laxey, Fairfield and Anagh Coar) for the warm welcome, superb hospitality, and, especially, for the positive feedback.
Dave and Tina Westcott, who represent Skipping Workshops in the South West enjoying teaching children Double-Dutch at Instow Primary School, North Devon.
National Skipping Day 2010
National Skipping Day 2010 was held on March 26th. Over 45,000 children in schools across the UK took part. Skipping Workshops would like to thank all the staff, children and parents who supported this event, and especially to those who provided feedback about the success of the day. Any suggestions for National Skipping Day 2011 are always welcome.
Skipping Workshops in Dubai!
During the first week of February, our chief coach, Harold Galley spent the week promoting skipping at the Deira International School in Dubai. The invitation came from Nigel Ludlam, deputy-head of the primary school. Nigel had previously hosted visits from Skipping Workshops at two schools in Brighton and ( luckily for us) remembered how much the children and staff enjoyed the visits. The visit to Dubai continues a proud record of Skipping Workshops visits to schools outside the UK. So far we have presented skipping in schools in Luxembourg ( 4 times), France ( 3 times) Belgium ( twice), Ireland ( 4 times), The Isle of Man (3 times), as well as visits to Hong Kong and Australia. We have another visit planned for the summer term in Brussels and have had enquiries from schools in Budapest and Toulouse. If any International schools would like a visit, please contact us ( use the link above) and we would be pleased to explain how it works.
Infant Ropes (age 5-7): £4Junior Ropes (age 8+): £4Adult Ropes: £5.50Family (4m) Ropes: £6
We also sell two excellent 'teach-yourself-to-skip' books, both £9 each; 'Skip to it' is a 125-page beginners' guide with lots of ideas for those wanting to get started and improve; we also sell the 'Double Dutch Handbook', a comprehensive 120-page guide to double dutch skipping
+10% for P & P
To order, please go to our contact page and enter your details, including which rope(s), books or DVD you require. These will be posted promptly to your address, with an invoice enclosed.
Job Opportunities.....
Skipping Workshops has vacancies for part-time coaches in the Midlands and throughout Ireland. Although several of our coaches are teachers, a teaching qualification is not essential. Some experience of working with children and an interest in keeping fit are required. Prior knowledge of skipping is not required as full training is provided by the company. Pay rates are similar to supply-teaching rates. For more information, please contact our Managing Director, Harold Galley on 0208 786 7707 or h.galley@btinternet.com or simply use the 'contact us' facility on the website.
Skipping Workshops in High Schools
Skipping Workshops is run by experienced primary school teachers. Inevitably, most of our work has been in primary schools. However, there has recently been a significant increase in interest from High Schools. To find out more about our services for high schools, please click here.
Training for Playground Skipping Mentors
If your school is interested in training older pupils to promote skipping on the playground, please click here.
Skipping Festivals
In 2007/8 Skipping Workshops ran several successful festivals, and we are keen to make contact with schools who might host a festival in 2010/2011. For more information, please click here.
Ben Jeffrey, a Year 2 pupil at Hampton Wick Infant School in Richmond set a new record this week ( May 21, 2010) when he managed an amazing 540 consecutive junps in double dutch, a new Key Stage 1 British record. Ben is one of an number of children at the school who attend a weekly skipping club run by Skipping Workshops. Well done, Ben!
In May 2006 Guinness World Records confirmed that we have set a new World Record for a mass participation skipping event. They say: 'The most people skipping simultaneously was 7,632 at 85 different venues throughout the UK and Ireland for an annual National Skipping Day event organised by Skipping Workshops on 24 March 2006.' Well Done Everyone!
For guidance on how to enter, please click here.
For more information about the National Skipping Challenge click here.
Not Just for Kids!
Please look through our site for more information, or Contact Us to discuss your requirements.
The World Skipping Championship is coming to the UK in 2010..... watch this space for more details
For schools interested in promoting healthy lifestyles, Skipping Workshops could help by establishing a weekly after-school skipping club. For more details, please contact Harold Galley on 0208 786 7707.
