Exeter Public School students got jumping for a good cause last Friday.
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Students have been practicing their skipping skills for months in the lead up to the Exeter Extreme Skipping team’s debut performance.
On Friday, October 27 the team visited Kangaroo Valley Public School and Kangaloon Public School for their first performance.
The children demonstrated basic skipping skills along with more complicated tricks and were well received by the children from the schools.
This year the school has shown enormous support for the Heart Foundation.
Earlier this term the children of Exeter raised funds through obtaining sponsors for their skipping.
At the end of a Jump Off day in September the children had raised in excess of $4000 for the Heart Foundation.
Students had to audition for the extreme skipping team, that then performed a wide variety of skipping skills in a routine to music.
While raising money for the Heart Foundation, students were motivated to be physically active.
The team at Exeter Public School had 17 children this year, ranging in age from Year 1 through to Year 6 and had both boys and girls.
The main aims of the Exeter Extreme Skipping Team is to raise the profile of Jump Rope For Heart in schools and the general community through performances.
They also demonstrate that exercise is fun and an important component of a healthy lifestyle and to assist in promoting the fundraising needed for the Heart Foundation.
Exeter Public School teacher Wendy Howard said the students were excited to continue their skipping.
“The Exeter Extreme Skipping is looking forward to further displaying their skills and promoting the Heart Foundation and the wonderful health and lifestyle benefits of skipping with a rope,” she said.