Movement Skills

: Skipping

Approach: Open space

72k

Resources: 1 medium and 1 large skipping rope, timer.

% responses

1. Practise skipping on your own, forwards and backwards without rebounds. (30 seconds)

2. Skip on the spot — moving the rope forwards no rebounds — until you have done 10 skips.

Number of starts:
1
2
3–4
> 4

55
23
13
9

81
12
6
1

Co-ordination & elegance:
high
quite high
moderate
low

34
32
20
14

64
24
9
3

3. Skip on the spot — moving the rope backwards no rebounds — until you have done 10 skips.

Number of starts:
1
2 21 26
3–4 29 19
> 4 29 11

21
21
29
29

44
26
19
11

Coordination & elegance:
high
quite high
moderate
low

14
29
32
25

39
30
21
10

4. Show all the types of skipping you can do. You have 1 minute.

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Commentary:
On average, about 25 percent more year 8 than year 4 students scored at the highest level.