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.
This will be the tenth annual National Skipping Day organised by Skipping Workshops. This year we hope to have the biggest ever simultaneous skipping event, with over 50,000 children taking part.
By February 6th, we have 160 schools ( from 56 different LEAs) & over 39,500 children taking part
National Skipping Challenge, Autumn term 2011:
Please go to the 'skipping challenge' page for details of the Autumn term winners
National Skipping Challenge, 2010/11:
We are happy to announce our first newsletter.
Click here to read our newsletter.
PANASONIC SKIPPING CHAMPIONSHIP
Skipping Workshops were delighted to support this event which took place at the Montem Leisure Centre in Slough on January 17th. Congratulations to St Stephen's Primary School in Shepherd's Bush, London who won this year's event. In second place was Grand Avenue Primary in Surbiton, with St John the Baptist Junior from Richmond in third place. Many thanks to Panasonic for supporting skipping in the UK
Ropes for Sale:
Infant Ropes (age 5-7): £4Junior Ropes (age 8+): £4Adult Ropes: £5.50Family (4m) Ropes: £6
+10% for P & P
new, from March 24th, 2011,... a new 'solar' rope, Indoors the cord is colourless, but once you skip outside in the sun it changes to deep purple; an excellent gymnastic rope, but with the added fun of being the first 'solar' skipping rope in UK.... cost is £5 each + 10% for P & P
We also sell an excellent 'teach-yourself-to-skip' books, costing £9; 'Skip to it' is a 125-page beginners' guide with lots of ideas for those wanting to get started and improve
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.
Skipping Workshops now on youtube... just type 'Skipping Workshops' into the youtube search box....click here
or to view the Valley Primary School long rope team, click here
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 Day 2011
National Skipping Day 2011 was on April 1st.
51,075 children were registered for this mass participation event. We have schools taking part from the following areas: West & East Sussex, West Lothian, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Southwark, Merton, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Lanarkshire, Northants, Warwickshire, Wandsworth, Wokingham, Surrey, Somerset, Reading, Plymouth, Hillingdon, Glasgow, Norfolk, Islington, Ayrshire, Airdrie, Croydon, Bracknell, Lincolnshire, Bristol, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Sutton, Devon, Selsey, Richmond, Windsor, Worcestershire, Redditch, Watford, Bristol, Kidderminster, Abimgdon, Isle of Man, Cheshire, Hackney, Hampshire & Solihull.
any feedback on the day is welcome!!!!!!!!!!
Comments from Schools visited by Skipping Workshops
The Skipping Workshop was absolutely fantastic. The children and staff all enjoyed it. Thanks again for everything.
Chris Laker, Frant Primary School, East Sussex, February, 2011
Many thanks for the Skipping Workshop yesterday ( 14th February, 2011). It went down well and the children had a great time and were full of it still today. Again, many thanks.... another brilliabt day.
Pat Eastwood, headteacher, Newbold School, Bracknell
Thanks you so much for arranging fo Tom ( Skipping Workshops coach) to come to visit us. The children are enthused and excited about skipping as a resultof his visit. Both his sessions were fabulous
Jo Vizey, Northleigh Primary School, Malvern, Worvestershire, April 2011
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we often get feedback from children:
I am writing to you to say thank you for coming to our school and helping us with the lovely skipping that you showed us. I bought a skipping rope at the end of the day and I'm finding skipping really fun. After the skipping workshop people have been using the skipping ropes more and more, so it looks like everyone loved your skipping workshop. I really enjoy the fact that skipping makes me healthy and fit
Susanna Fisher, Year 3, Samuel Lucas Primary School, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, April 2011
for more comments, click here.
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: for more information, please contact us at info@skipping-workshops.co.uk
Skipping Workshops visit to the Isle of Man.... 2011
During the week of May 30th ( half-term week in UK) four Skipping Workshops coaches spent three days promoting skipping in the Isle of Man, visiting 11 schools, culminating in an exciting competition day at Rushen Primary School . The winning school was Rushen Primary in Port Erin; individual winner was Wilfy Kermode of St John's Primary School. Our thanks go to the Premier Group ( Isle of Man) Limited without whose generous support the event could not taken place.
Skipping Workshops would like to thank all the staff and pupils in the 11 schools ( Peel Clothworkers, Arbory, Rushen, Willaston, Ballsalla, Jurby, Andreas, Dhoon, St John's, Auldyn Infants and St Thomas's for the warm welcome, superb hospitality, and, especially, for the positive feedback.
Our next visit to the Isle of Man will be in 2012 when we are planning a different week.... details to follow...
Dave and Tina Westcott, who represent Skipping Workshops in the South West enjoying teaching children Double-Dutch at Instow Primary School, North Devon.
Skipping Workshops in Ireland:
We have been visiting schools in Ireland for over 10 years and our last visit was in the week beginning May 30th, when we visited schools in Enniskerry, Laois, Drogheda, Dublin and Tipperary. If any schools in Ireland would like us to visit later in the year or in 2012, please get in touch so we can discuss a convenient time to visit.
During the first week of February 2010, 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.
Update: Skipping Workshops have just completed their second succesful trip to Dubai ( early November, 2010) ; apart from another visit to the Deira International School in festival City, a first visit was made to the Sharjah English School.
If your school is interested in training older pupils to promote skipping on the playground, please click here.
Please look through our site for more information, or Contact Us to discuss your requirements.
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.
