Jump Rope For Heart - Starting To Skip

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• communication
• social skills
• collaboration

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Foundation Year Health and Physical Education:

• Practise personal and social skills to interact positively with others (ACPPS004)
• Practise fundamental movement skills and movement sequences using different body parts (ACPMP008)
• Explore how regular physical activity keeps individuals healthy and well (ACPMP010)
• Follow rules when participating in physical activities (ACPMP014)

Years 1 & 2 Health and Physical Education:

• Explore actions that help make the classroom a healthy, safe and active place (ACPPS022)
• Perform fundamental movement skills in a variety of movement sequences and situations (ACPMP025)
• Create and participate in games with and without equipment (ACPMP027)
• Discuss the body’s reactions to participating in physical activities (ACPMP028)
• Incorporate elements of effort, space, time, objects and people in performing simple movement sequences (ACPMP029)

Syllabus outcomes: COES1.1, IPES1.11, MOES1.4, GSES1.8, GYES1.10, ALES1.6, SLS1.13, MOS1.4, GSS1.8, GYS1.10, ALS1.6, PHS1.12

General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability

Relevant parts of Foundation Year Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students perform fundamental movement skills and solve movement challenges. They demonstrate how to move and play safely. Students use personal and social skills when working with others in a range of activities. They describe how their body responds to movement.

Relevant parts of Year 1 & 2 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students identify areas where they can be active and how the body reacts to different physical activities. They demonstrate fundamental movement skills in a variety of movement sequences and situations and test alternatives to solve movement challenges. 

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Jump Rope For Heart: Jump Starters – Years F-2

Time required: 50 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – teacher facilitates skipping movements skills

• Basketball court, tennis court, stadium, or open outdoor area
• Skipping rope – long
• Skipping ropes – short – one per student

Jump Rope for Heart is the primary school skipping challenge that turns kids into Heart Heroes - everyday superheroes who are leading the fight against heart disease. In addition to moving more and having fun, our Heart Heroes raise money to help fund life-saving research that has the power to save Aussie hearts.