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Skipping for heart health

27/03/2018

Highest fund-raiser Sweeney shows his skipping skills. 178873 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS

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By Casey Neill

Noble Park students jumped for heart health on Friday 23 March.
St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School raised $1017 for Jump Rope for Heart.
Teacher Ashlee Doyle said students in Grades 5 and 6 formed a heart leadership team who brought out skipping ropes at lunch time and helped younger students to learn new skipping tricks.
National Heart Foundation CEO Adjunct Professor John Kelly said participants looked after their own hearts by being active.
“They are also looking after the hearts of every Australian by raising funds to help the Heart Foundation continue its life-saving work,” he said.
“The students and their families learn the importance of keeping their hearts healthy through regular physical activity and eating a healthy diet.”
More than eight million school children and 95 per cent of all Australian schools have taken part in the Heart Foundation Jump Rope for Heart program since it started in 1983.

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