Every Child Skips is a Vale Royal SSP campaign to encourage every child to take up skipping (or push their existing skills even further) in order to help improve their fitness, coordination and above all confidence!
We are pleased to be working in partnership with ‘Dan the Skipping Man’ to develop suitable content and support schools with skipping ropes.
ECS will start with an introduction to the skill of Single Bounce Skipping and we will then release more skills and challenges each week. These tasks will then remain accessible via the members area of the website.
THE SKILLS
Teachers can use the following videos to help them understand the basic skipping skills before the children are asked to attempt the challenges which help you understand how they are getting on.
The young people can be shown these skills by their teacher (or an experienced leader) or they can watch these videos before trying them.
Key Stage 1
Teacher Introduction
Children’s Welcome
How to Skip
How to Single Bounce
How to Double Bounce
How to Run on the Spot
Key Stage 2
Teacher Introduction
Children’s Welcome
How to Skip
How to Single Bounce
How to Double Bounce
How to Run on the Spot
How to Slalom
How to Speed Skip
Trick Skipping
Introduction
How to ‘Alternate Foot’
How to ‘Cross Over’
How to ‘Rodeo’
How to ‘Turning Rodeo’
How to ‘Side Swing’
How to ‘Pretzl’
*NEW* Team Skipping
Introduction
How to ‘Team Skip’
The CHALLENGES
There are a number of challenges for each group and each challenges is broken down into three progressive stages (Bronze, Silver and Gold) so that all children are able to develop the skills at a rate appropriate to them.
As the children successfully complete a task they can mark it on their own ‘Record Sheet’ and once they’ve completed a task 7 times they can move on to the next stage.
Click here to download the KS1 record sheet
Click here to download the KS2 record sheet
Click here to download the Trick Skip record sheet
*NEW* Click here to download the Team Skip record sheet
If schools wish to track the progress of all children then can download the class record sheet here.
Key Stage 1
Single Bounce: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Double Bounce: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Run on the Spot: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Key Stage 2
Single Bounce: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Double Bounce: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Run on the Spot: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Slalom: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Speed Skipping: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Trick Skipping
Alternate Foot: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Cross Over: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Rodeo: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Turning Rodeo: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Side Swing: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Pretzl: Bronze, Silver & Gold
*NEW* Team Skipping
10 second Freestyle
20 seconds Double Bouncing
30 seconds Hopping
30 seconds Rodeo
40 seconds Speed Skipping
40 seconds Crossovers
Long rope game – How many in
Further resources and support
As part of our partnership with Dan the Skipping Man, schools within our Partnership can take advantage of great discounts on bulk orders of skipping ropes (#RopestoPupils). Due to the size of our partnership, orders from our schools will receive a discount of up to 15% – just email dan@dantheskippingman.com mentioning ‘Vale Royal School Sport Partnership’ to order or click here to view the #RopetoPupils flyer.
These ropes are excellent quality and will help our pupils develop and improve their skipping using this series of videos and all the future offerings from the Dan the Skipping Man.
See more from Dan the Skipping Man at their YouTube channel www.YouTube.com/dantheskippingman