THE BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION (BHF) is offering schools across the UK the chance to win a unique fun-filled workshop with a BHF-funded researcher to inspire pupils to learn about how their hearts work.
The competition is open to all primary and secondary schools, and is simple to enter. All each school need to do is sign up to one of the BHF’s school fundraisers; AllStar Games, Jump Rope for Heart, or Ultimate Dodgeball before midnight on Wednesday February 28, 2018.
By taking part in one of these fundraisers, you will be in with a chance to have one of the BHF’s cutting-edge researchers come into your school and lead a fun-filled, interactive day of activities about what the heart does and how it works.
The BHF runs three school fundraising initiatives which show children and young people how to keep fit and maintain a healthy heart through exercise. The money raised goes towards the BHF’s life saving research, and the school can also keep 20% of the money raised to put towards new equipment and resources to promote a healthy lifestyle for its pupils.
Last year’s winners enjoyed crawling through blood vessel tunnels, learning about blood clots through volleyball, cell activities and playing an operation game.
Schools can choose to take part in any of the following fundraisers:
AllStar Games
A brand new, high-energy fundraising event for schools that works at any time of the year, indoors or outside. With a range of sporting options ranging from track and field events to egg and spoon, the BHF AllStar Games sets up your class to smash it on the day and raise money to keep hearts beating. Schools receive start and finish lines, wristbands, certificates and everything else you would need to put on a fun children’s sporting event.
Jump Rope for Heart
The BHF’s exciting skipping challenge helps to get children more active, alongside fundraising for life saving research. The charity provides participating schools with over £100 worth of free skipping ropes and resources to help raise money for the BHF. Schools also receive an organiser’s pack, with lesson plans to help teachers introduce skipping either through the PE curriculum, the playground at lunchtime or in after school activities.
Ultimate Dodgeball
The BHF’s dodgeball tournament is a fantastic way to get children active and is also great for developing team-building skills and strategic thinking. If you can catch, throw and dodge – then you can play dodgeball. Sign up and receive £30 worth of official UK Dodgeball Association dodgeballs
In the UK, at least one in every 180 babies is diagnosed with a heart condition or defect, which is 12 babies every day. Last year school fundraisers across the country raised over half a million pounds towards research to help diagnose and treat heart disease.
Jessica Rose, Programme Manager for school fundraisers at the BHF, said: “Our school fundraisers are a great way to get pupils involved in energetic, heart healthy exercise whilst having fun and raising money for life saving research.
“We’re delighted to be offering a school the chance to win a workshop with one of our BHF-funded researchers, who work tirelessly to help fight heart disease.
“We’re calling on teachers across the country to get involved and sign their school up to AllStar Games, Jump Rope for Hear or Ultimate Dodgeball to receive a free organiser’s pack and lesson plans with everything they’ll need to arrange a successful event.
“The money raised will go to help support the seven million people in the UK living with heart and circulatory disease so we can fund more research to keep more families together.”
By signing up to one of these school fundraisers before the end of February 2018 you will automatically be eligible for a chance to win. The winners will be notified by email by no later than Thursday, May 31, 2018 and the workshop will be arranged during the Summer Term.
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