36th WES JUMP ROPE FOR HEART
36th WES JUMP ROPE FOR HEART
Gym was Rockin’ for our 36 th Annual Jump Rope for Heart
On Wednesday, February 12, our grades 4-6 students celebrated our 36 th annual Jump
Rope for Heart Day. Our school and community continue to support our jump rope day
and we were able to raise over $14,126.00 to the Heart and Stroke Foundation and took
our total to over $450,000. What an incredible total! Top three pledge earners were
14, 162.00 . Thank you, Wainwright and grandparents, aunts and uncles, neighbors and
students who pledged dollars and our students completed those pledges by jumping their
hearts out.
The day started early as we organized and prepped the gym for a day of jumping,
fellowship and fun. Huge salute to Mrs.Chaulk, Ms. Ledger and Mrs. Simpson for
assisting with the preparation. The Grade 4s started the jumping off at 10:50 and
performed some individual skipping techniques until 11:50 and then the long ropes and
double ropes took over. Students could be seen laughing, tripping, falling, singing and
dancing to loud music. A few prizes were handed out while the students jumped to
encourage them to keep going and fulfill their pledge promise to jump.
Grade 6s jumped in their last jump rope at 12:30 and had a blast jumping with their
friends in their final Jump Rope for Heart event.
Grade 5s finished off the jumping at 1:45 and in their hour of pledge jumping they had a
fun time – long rope skipping and developing connections with friends. They were
joined by former WES staff as well as a cheering section from the stage.
Guest skippers included: from the Wainwright Rustlers Jeremy Creasy and Nolan
Goodwin as well as Constable Roy from the RCMP.
Extra skipping incentive prizes were supplied by the Phys. Ed. Department and students
were pumped to get a prize whether it was a skipping rope, WES water bottle (courtesy
of WEPA) or other prizes supplied by the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Extra prizes were
also handed out to the fabulous skippers.
WES bounty prizes were handed out in the gym for all the students. It was sure nice to
have everyone back in the gym excited for the prize giveaways.
This was a special day as we celebrate 36 years of jumping and counting.
Huge WES salute to the following partial sponsors Armstrong’s Clothing and Sports
Canadian Tire Wainwright, Wainwright Bowling Center and. Full sponsors of items were
Sportfactor Inc. (Edmonton – Craig Neufeld) Huxley Hockey Conditioning (Adam
Huxley) , Wainwright Golf Club(PGA professional Josh Copeland), Wainwright Rustlers
(Josh Copeland) Mrs. Boxell WES Library and Mr. Mitchell Phys. Ed. Department.
Thank you to our secretarial staff (Mrs. Boychuk and Mrs, Wells), WES administration
for their continued support of this worthwhile program in our school. Thank you to Mrs.
Chaulk and Ms. Ledger for their continued leadership in assisting me with this project.
All in all a great day and super energy release for our students. Our students jumped their
hearts out and not one complaint could be heard as we wrapped up our 36 th Annual Jump
Rope for Heart.
See you in the gym
Mr. Mitchell
