St. Edward's National School Sligo

Skipping during Active School Week

On the 28th April, Aidan Tuomey from Skip Hop UK came to our school to teach us how to skip as part of our Active School Week.
First all junior and senior infants went to the hall. They were taught basic skipping as some of them had not skipped before.

After that the middle classes went to the hall. They learned how to do the backward skip, the cross skip, the figure of eight and pair skipping.
Then it was our turn. We practised all different types of skipping even skipping on one leg and putting the rope under the other. The double dutch and the figure of eight was our favourite.

Finally, all the classes came back into the hall for a demonstration on all the different types of skipping we had learned. It was an excellent day. We had great fun and we have learned a new way to stay fit and healthy.