What schools say

We had so much fun on Friday. Thank you for coming to us and sharing all your skipping techniques. The children and parents were still talking about it this morning as I welcomed everyone into school which was wonderful.

Dear Lee. What an amazing day - thank you. Our staff and children thoroughly enjoyed (the workshops) with you today, you were really inspirational and oh so positive! It was great to see some of our children who don’t yet see themselves as ‘sporty’ perform in front of the whole school.

Hi Lee, You will be pleased to hear that Stalyhill are ‘Skipping’ mad! It’s fantastic to see them all at lunchtime and playtimes with their ropes.

Lee, Thank you so much for delivering your fantastic workshop. We followed up today and found out just how much the children here at Normandy enjoyed it and I will be doing an assembly to further follow up on your teachings and how skipping is a great way to have fun and keep fit and healthy next week. … We have had people asking for skipping ropes and being VERY enthusiastic about it. Once again, thank you for delivering such a brilliant 3 days on skipping.

WOW....skip-hop were fantastic, every member of staff made a note of thanking me for arranging the event and how brilliant skip-hop was. Your coach was in huge demand at lunchtime with the children, even the Ofsted inspector thought he was great and mentioned him to me! A huge thank you and please pass on to your coach how happy we all were. Again a massive thank you, we would certainly recommend your company to other schools.

Thanks Lee, The children (and teachers) had a great time, as usual. Yes - it is always great to see unlikely children rising to your challenges - if only they could do this every week.

We all had a truly inspirational day with much fun and laughter.

Hi Lee, Just a quick message to say thank you so much for today! Every teacher had brilliant feedback and the children seemed to absolutely love it. Thank you for being so prompt and organised - I know it was a busy day. Hopefully we can work together again in the future.

Thank you for your visit to our school on Wednesday. The children and staff thoroughly enjoyed themselves and it was great to see the skills that they had learnt by the end of the day. There has been continued interest since your visit, with a number of children showing their new skills in the playground at break and lunchtimes!

Worth every penny!

Everyone really enjoyed the sessions (staff and children) and there’s lots of skipping every play time.

Thank you for the skipping workshop. We have been skipping ever since. It was the best thing that ever hit St Louise’s enjoyed by everyone. It is wonderful for lunchtime - everybody enjoying themselves - no squabbles.

Dear Lee. Thank you for a very successful skipping day. Everyone enjoyed the day with really good feedback from staff and parents, and there has been lots of skipping in the playground!

Hi Lee, Just to say a massive thank you regarding the workshops. Everyone had great fun and it is lovely for us to take part in a joyful experience.

Hi Lee. Just wanted to say a huge thank you to the “skipper” we had today, I didn’t get a chance to say thanks to him at the end of the day. The whole school had a fantastic day and enjoyed the skipping. The teachers also were very impressed at how good your coach was with the classes.

Hi there Lee, Thank you so much for doing workshops... kids and staff love it..... I’ll definitely talk to staff about next year.

Just to say thank you so much for the workshops delivered by your coach last week. We had a fantastic day! It was so well organised and your coach’s manner with the children was excellent. We will definitely be booking again in the future.

Amazing workshops

I’m excited to hear the kids talk about their day and to watch them skip hop during recesses through the rest of our school year! Always an exciting time! Thank you, Lee, it’s always a pleasure to work with you!

Hi Lee, Thank you so much for coming in, the kids had so much fun!

Hi Lee, Thanks for a cracking day on Tuesday!

I am writing to thank you for the fantastic day that we spent with your coach. … From the moment he arrived, he was polite, with a very infectious and up-beat personality, which inspired everyone who worked with him. His ability to adapt his teaching skills and techniques for each of the age groups (from 4-11yrs of age) and his management of the children was superb. He had the balance of good humour and excellent control of his classes and was very quick to spot the more challenging children knowing exactly how to respond to their individual needs. … I don’t know how he managed to fit in so many skills, but we’ve certainly got a lot to go at! … It was an extremely enjoyable and productive day, enjoyed by all who took part.

Just a quick message to say a huge thank you for a fantastic day. Your coach was great. The kids and teachers thought he did a fantastic job and I just wanted to pass this message on.

Your coach was absolutely fantastic, he did a workshop with reception-year 2 children and they all had a fantastic day. All the teachers said how good the sessions were and how good he was at assessing the children’s ability. He was fantastic at explaining skip-hop to the children and was really patient with the children who didn’t get the hang of it first time. The demonstration at the end of the day was really enjoyable for the teachers and the children…

I’m writing to thank you for a wonderful workshop delivered in our school last Thursday. Before the workshop, a lot of my staff were unsure of what the day would involve and some were probably thinking how could we fill a whole day with skipping! … But the feedback I got on Friday after the workshop was unbelievable … it was the talk of the whole school and every single member of staff were so impressed by the workshop and how much the children enjoyed it! They’re all mad to get skipping now and practise their skills!

These two days are probably the best two days of the school year.

Both your coach and the content were brilliant. He has a lovely way of encouraging and praising the kids. It has taken the school over with skipping fever.

Everyone at Annyalla National School had a great day skipping with skip-hop. The kids are still skipping on the yard during play times. Your coach had a fantastic way of engaging all the children and teachers during the day.

We had a fantastic day on the 30th April. I filmed the floor show and photographed the skills, so we are working away on them. We could really see the difference in how the children approached their second workshop. They loved it and learned so much.

Your coach was here last Thursday and the workshops went brilliantly. He was excellent with the kids. He kept them all on task and made sure they all enjoyed the activity. Feedback from teachers was excellent.

Your coach was (as expected from your company) an absolute star and I was so impressed with his enthusiasm and interaction with the schools and especially the children. I and my schools were highly grateful and impressed and he had even turned around the opinions of some of the hardest children and teachers!! The children absolutely loved it and the impact was massive. Higher enthusiasm within school, willingness to try more new things, better self esteem and confidence, and very importantly in my opinion, they are keeping active in playtime and after school by bringing in their skip-hop ropes! As you know we also hosted the teacher training morning in which we had 24 teachers and coaches and again they were so positive when they left and highly enthusiastic about incorporating skip-hop into playtimes, afterschool and curriculum! Please pass on not only my gratitude and thanks to your coach for a job well done, word of mouth goes a long way to promote things and your company have already got a fantastic name with us on the Isle of Wight. Again thank you- another excellent week.

Just wanted to say a big thank you for yesterday, everyone really enjoyed the workshop. You got the delivery spot on with reference to impact on young people, benefits to schools and ensuring it was delivered at the right pace and fun for everyone. I haven’t laughed so much for ages - how sad!

Both Lee and Scott have run taster sessions for me within DC Leisure and the response from the site managers has been overwhelming. … any age or ability would benefit and enjoy from the fun and effective way to keeping active … not just because it keeps you fit....but because it is FUN!

We have held several skipping workshops in primary and secondary schools run by skip-hop. They are fantastic and I have had nothing but brilliant feedback from them. They can take large groups, they relate the activity to health and the curriculum, it’s fun, interactive and educational. I can’t recommend it enough.