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History, research and know-how from a quarter of a century of skipping in schools.
Lee’s Suggestions for Teaching SEND Pupils and Young Skippers
Children who are struggling to skip, and pupils with SEND, can make huge progress with face-to-face partner skipping. Lee’s step-by-step method, what children will do, and the next step.
Read the articleHealthThe Benefits of Skipping: What the Research Says
What the UK Chief Medical Officers, Sport England and the latest scientific studies say about skipping for the heart, bones, coordination, focus and mood.
Read the articleSkipping in schoolsThe Benefits of Skipping for Primary School-Aged Children
Fitness, bones, movement skills, focus, confidence and inclusion: seven reasons skipping belongs in every primary school, with the evidence behind each one.
Read the articleCase studyHow Moseley Primary Became the School on the skip-hop Skipping DVD
The children in the skip-hop skills video are from Moseley Primary School. How one workshop day led to a skipping festival, a DVD used across the UK and Ireland, and a team on CBBC Jump Nation.
Read the articleInclusionFit the Activity to the Child: SEND, Inclusive PE and Skipping
One pupil in five has SEND, and only one disabled child in four can always join in school sport. What the Youth Sport Trust and Activity Alliance ask for, and how we have built skip-hop around it.
Read the articleHistoryThe History of Rope Skipping or Jump Rope
From early Chinese cord-jumping and Dutch drawings to Victorian trick books, playground rhymes, boxing and modern sport: the documented story of skipping.
Read the articleHistoryEngland can produce an 1878 reference to skipping with double rope. Does America, the Netherlands or anyone else have an earlier dated source for two ropes turned around the same jumper?
England has a dated 1878 reference to skipping with a double rope. America has the earliest clear instructions. Can anyone beat 1878?
Read the articleHistoryRead All About It!! – Double Dutch Skipping Invented in England
Our original 2021 article on where Double Dutch came from: the New Amsterdam story, the 1803 “double Dutch” phrase and Alice Gomme’s Victorian book.
Read the articleHistoryThe History of Skipping
Our original 2020 article on where skipping came from: Chinese rope makers, Egyptian athletes, Double Dutch, competitive skipping, rhymes and who was allowed to skip.
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