Teachers, bring the joy of Jump Rope for Heart to your school!
The Jump Rope for Heart program is easy to run and customizable for your unique student body and their abilities. Through Jump, your students will learn healthy habits for life and fun ways to get active while helping others and raising funds to beat heart disease and stroke.
Once registered, you will receive a free registration kit that includes skipping ropes, prizes, a poster and paper hearts. We provide all the resources you need to run a simple and engaging event.
How Jump works
1. Register your school.
2. Encourage fundraising by sharing your event details with students and their families.
3. Promote heart and brain health with our EASY Healthy Habits tools.
4. Jump into a fun-filled event day! Celebrate and redeem rewards.
Teachers' Resources
Ready to plan your Jump Rope for Heart event?
Check out our step-by-step planning guide and many other resources to help you along the way.
Fundraising Tips
Parent Letter:
After you host your kick-off, send the parent letter to your student's families so they know your school is participating in Jump and how they can register their child online.
Spread the word:
Promote Jump Rope for Heart on your school's sharing channels. Use our templates or create your own social media posts, school announcements or emails.
Spirit boosters:
Get your students excited about their chance to earn a spirit booster as an individual, class or entire school. Here are some fun ideas.
Fundraising boosters:
Create additional opportunities for all students to fundraise in a way that works best for them. You can host a healthy bake sale, promote a fundraising challenge, or encourage families to donate $5 or less on Event Day.
Giving Back to Schools
Schools can receive 5% of their fundraising back! The Jump Give-back Program is our way of saying thank you to schools for putting students’ hearts and brain health first.
How it works
- Collectively raise $1,000 or more
- Select one of three ways to receive the 5% give-back funds
1.
A cheque for 5% of fundraising to spend on what the school needs most.
2.
A Wintergreen Learning Materials gift card preloaded with 5% of fundraising revenue to put toward physical education supplies.
3.
A donation back to Heart & Stroke to help beat heart disease and stroke.
Get students involved for your chance to win!
We are excited to announce our 2024/2025 School Contest.
Thanks to our generous partner, Desjardins Financial Group, we will be awarding five schools a $2,000 gift card of their choice, plus 50 bonus Desjardins skipping ropes. To enter, simply encourage your students to take part in your school's Jump Rope for Heart event by creating a personal fundraising page online. When 5%* or more of your students create personal fundraising pages, your school will be automatically entered to win. When students create their page, they get extra support and information including:
· Resources to help them succeed in fundraising
· EASY Healthy Habits to help them avoid heart disease and stroke later in life
· Information about Heart and Stroke’s lifesaving work
What other teachers are saying
"Our Jump Event was fantastic, and our students had a great time. It was a perfect way to start our March Break! We are planning to have our Wrap Up Assembly where several of our staff members will be taking a pie in the face from our top fundraisers, our school secretary and principal will be dressing up as Mario and Luigi, and our students will be receiving some well-deserved extra recess time! We are looking forward to sharing this exciting donation number with our students. It is amazing that we are fourth in all of Canada!!”
Christine, Grade 6 Teacher
“Jump does such a wonderful job providing phenomenal resources and ideas that added so much excitement for our school community! It was such an amazing day! Looking forward to hosting the event again next year!”
Jessica, Grade 1 Teacher
“Every day in our announcements we are linking a story from your website about a person who suffers or suffered from a heart attack or stroke. We also sent home paper hearts to all our families and asked them to place a name and/or picture on it to help us think about those in our lives that are or have been impacted by heart disease or stroke. The halls are filled with hearts.”
Sue, Grade 7 & 8 Teacher
“Our Jump fundraiser is going really well! We still have a week and a half left until our Jump day and we have surpassed our goal! As a reward for their fundraising efforts the students have already earned a bonus recess and will also see our principal, vice-principal and PE teacher kiss a goat!”
Diane, Grade 3 Teacher
Jump in and sign up today!
We collect your personal information as part of your involvement in Jump Rope for Heart. We may maintain a record and share details of your interaction and contact information to run Jump Rope for Heart and for donor-related, promotion, follow-up, administration of prizes and tax receipting purposes, where required. Please see www.heartandstroke.ca/privacy for more information. Occasionally, we may contact you with mission-related or program related communications. If you wish no further contact or have any questions or concerns regarding the privacy of your personal information, please contact the Privacy Officer at 1-888-HSF-INFO (473-4636) or ON_privacyoffice@heartandstroke.ca.
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