WES 33rd JUMP ROPE FOR HEART

Everybody say, “Jump! Jump!”

On Wednesday, February 16, our grades 4-6 students celebrated our 33rd annual Jump Rope for Heart Day. The provincial Jump Rope for Heart celebrated its 40th Anniversary so they sent out extra prizes to go along with our annual 25 extra prizes through our bounty.

The day started early as we organized and prepped the gym for a day of jumping, fellowship and fun. Huge salute to Mrs. Munn, Mrs. Rhodes along with a few Grade 5 helpers for assisting with the preparation. The Grade 4s started the jumping off at 10:30 and performed some individual skipping techniques until 11:00 and then the long ropes and double ropes took over. Students could be seen laughing, tripping, falling, singing and dancing to loud music all the while watching a tribute video.

Grade 6s jumped in their last jump rope at 12:30 and had a blast jumping with their friends in their third annual event. We had the younger grades come to the stage to watch the older students and cheer them on. The younger grades donned sombreros and did their Mexican Hat Dance to add to the atmosphere and excitement in the gym.

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.

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, extra Jump Rope for Heart prizes and frisbees were also handed out to the fabulous skippers.

WES bounty prizes were handed out in the gym for the Grade 5s while Grades 4 and 6 classes zoomed in via video to avoid mixing cohorts as per Co-Vid protocols. We were able this year to hand out via random draws based upon one ticket per $10.00 pledge.

Huge WES salute to the following partial sponsors Canadian Tire Wainwright and Armstrong’s Clothing and Sports. Full sponsors of items were Sportfactor Inc. (Edmonton) Huxley Hockey Conditioning, Mrs. Boxell WES Library and Mr. Mitchell WES Phys. Ed. Department.

Thank you to our secretarial staff Mrs. Boychuk and Mrs. Wells, WES admin for their continued support of this worthwhile program in our school. Thank you to Mrs. Munn, Mrs. Chaulk, Mrs. Koroluk and Mrs. Rhodes for their continued leadership in assisting me with this project. If I missed anyone in the process, just remember thank you and your assistance is greatly appreciated.

All in all a great day and super energy release for our students. Our 33rd annual Jump Rope for Heart was a huge success and we were able to reach our goal of $10,000.

As of the end of the day we were at $10,606.00.

We want to thank the Wainwright community and any and all grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts and neighbors for pledging our students. It is through citizenship and community that we build leaders for tomorrow.

We always want to remember and pay tribute to our former colleague Mrs. Charlene Turnbull each and every year. She is truly missed but never forgotten.

See you in the gym

Mr. Mitchell