: Skipping Ropes
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Approach: Open space Level: Year 4 and year 8 
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Focus: Skipping
Resources: Single skipping rope, 1 long skipping rope
Questions/instructions:  

Using the short skipping ropes:
1. Everyone practise skipping on your own. (Allow 1 minute)

2. (One at a time) Show all the types of skipping you can do. (Allow 1 minute)

Using the large skipping rope:
3. Jump for 10 counts from side to side as the rope swings.

4. Skip inside the rope for 10 counts. Stand beside the rope to begin, or you can run in.

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% responses
2006 ('02)
y4
y8
Short Rope: Overall performance:
(variety, skilfulness, fluency)
very good/excellent
11 (9) 24 (23)
good
 26 (22) 33 (36)
fair
 43 (40) 33 (28)
poor
20 (29) 10 (13)
Long Rope:
Ten jumps –
continuous and fluent
65 (55) 78 (77)
continuous but not fluent
10 (16) 8 (8)
completed - one restart needed
14 (13) 11 (11)
any other response
11 (16) 3 (4)
Ten skips –
continuous and fluent
64 (59) 76 (77)
continuous but not fluent
1 (4) 4 (5)
completed - one restart needed
17 (19) 14 (13)
any other response
18 (18) 6 (5)
run-in start to long rope task
22 (22) 38 (35)
Total score:
10–11
14 (11) 30 (25)
8–9
36 (29) 39 (47)
6–7
20 (24) 20 (18)
4–5
19 (22) 8 (7)
0–3
11 (14) 3 (3)
Subgroup Analysis:
Year 4
Year 8
Commentary:
Many students managed skipping better with the long rope than with the short rope. Girls performed markedly better than boys, on average. There was little change between 2002 and 2006.
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