Jump Rope for Heart – The Practice of Skipping

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

• adaptability
• creative thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• empathy
• reflection
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions 

Health and Physical Education, Foundation:

Students learn to

• practise fundamental movement skills in minor game and play situations (AC9HPFM01) 

Health and Physical Education, Years 1 and 2:

Students learn to

• practise fundamental movement skills and apply them in a variety of movement situations (AC9HP2M01) 

Relevant parts of Foundation achievement standards: Students identify how health information can be used in their lives. Students apply fundamental movement skills to manipulate objects and space in a range of movement situations. Students identify the benefits of being physically active and how rules make play fair and inclusive.

Relevant parts of Year 1 and 2 achievement standards: Students apply fundamental movement skills in different movement situations and explain how they move with objects in space effectively. They describe factors that make physical activity beneficial. Students develop and apply rules while collaborating with others in a range of movement contexts.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student

• demonstrates fundamental movement skills and participates with others in physical activities (PHE-MSP-01)
• demonstrates fundamental movement skills and fair play in physical activities (PH1-MSP-01)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – The teacher must facilitate class discussions, scaffold students’ learning and model movement techniques.

UN SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all ages 

Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.

• activity station equipment, such as basketballs, small balls, chalk, hula hoops
• bean bags (small) 
• device capable of showing a video clip and playing music 
• device for timing
• skipping ropes (appropriate size for younger students)

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.

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