Jump Rope For Heart : Heart Foundation : 5-Week Program

For teachers running the program for the first time, or those who are squeezing it into a busy schedule, the 5-Week Program helps make it easier to get students moving.

Get parents and guardians onboard by sharing this message and image through email, apps, social media.
Download the 2024 Prize Poster to display around your school.
A week before your launch announce the program in your assembly update. Ask teachers and students if they are up for the challenge to log 20 hours of skipping together.

Show the Launch Video to your students and announce your fundraising goal.
Hand out the forms and stickers from your Jump Rope for Heart Kit to each student.
Use this message to get parents registering their child online, you can use these images in your update:

Jump Rope for Heart has started!
We started skipping this week and we need everyone’s help to reach our school fundraising $xxx and skipping 20 hours goal.
Visit jumprope.org.au/parents to register your child and set up your own secure fundraising page. You’ll get access to additional skipping trick videos, post updates to your page so family and friends can follow their progress and easily raise funds online.

Share the Skipping Activity Guide with students, so they can work through the skipping tricks and mark their progress over the coming weeks.
Use this message to get the word out to students and parents on the new skipping challenge:

Attention parents and students: New Weekly Skipping Challenge!
We have our first weekly skipping challenge, this week Casey from Jump Rope for Heart is challenging you to see how many skips you can do in a row.

Watch Casey’s Challenge: https://youtu.be/NyyJgYXahpA

Learn the skill of skipping and see how many you can do in a row. Record how many skips you get in your Skipping Activity Guide, and log your skipping minutes on your fundraising page.

Keep an eye out for more challenges over the coming weeks! There’s still time to retergister online to log skips, raise funds and earn prizes. Visit jumprope.org.au/parents

Give certificates to congratulate your top fundraisers and top skippers at assembly
Use this message to update students and parents, and share this week’s skipping challenge, use one of these images in your update:

Our second Weekly Skipping Challenge!
Monique & Casey from Jump Rope for Heart are back with our second Weekly Skipping Challenge. Watch Monique & Casey’s Challenge: https://youtu.be/nuLpTuTFtGk
The skipping challenge this week is to master the Criss Cross!

Well done to the following students for their wonderful effort so far:
Top fundraiser:
Top skipper:
There’s still time to register online, log skips and help our school reach our fundraising goal of $xxx. Visit jumprope.org.au/parents

Ask a student from each grade to perform their favourite skipping trick at assembly (get some teachers involved too!).
Use this message to update students and parents, and share this week’s skipping challenge, use one of these images in your update:

Our third Weekly Skipping Challenge!
Monique from Jump Rope for Heart are back with our third Weekly Skipping Challenge. Watch Monique’s skipping challenge: https://youtu.be/BFTye7d7bdI
The skipping challenge this week is to master the Side Swing Criss Cross’ or create your own trick combination – the most creative new trick at the Jump Off Day will receive a prize!

Allocate one hour of the day to running skipping stations. This is a fun way to celebrate the achievements your students have learnt throughout the program!
Download your run sheet.
Use this message to update students and parents!

School Name has currently raised $(000) for the Heart Foundation and our Heart Heroes have logged a total of ___ of skipping hours online.

This is your final chance to log onto your portal page, log any activity and collect your final donations as we celebrate out Jump Off Day on _____.