It seems as though we got the price wrong for the skipping training sessions - they are proced at £12 per teacher or member of staff, not per child. Apologies all round and fuller details are here.
Once upon a time, writes Chris Johnston, children learned to skip (or jump rope if you happen to be American) from their parents, teachers or other kids.
Yet even such a basic skill has now been professionalised, it seems, as thousands of school pupils are being taught how to skip in workshops run by a company set up by a 59-year-old former primary school head teacher.
Critics have attacked schools for wasting money, but Harold Galley, from Epsom, Surrey, says children are spending more and more time on sedentary activities like playing computer games, and parents are reluctant to let them play outside or in the street. "I find many children have never even picked up a skipping rope before," he says.
Skipping Workshops was set up in 1997 after Galley started a skipping club at his school. He saw that pupils' fitness levels increased, playground behaviour improved and there were significant gains in PE performance.
The company now has 25 staff and its services are on offer to every local education authority in England. Many of its coaches are former primary teachers and most of its workshops are run in primary schools, though some have been conducted in secondaries, sports centres and even football clubs.
The sessions begin with the "basic skills" of skipping before moving on to new tricks and team skipping. Initial demonstrations are free and schools are charged £12 per pupil for group training.
Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, says it's "crazy" that schools are spending money on teaching pupils a skill that teachers and parents could convey themselves.
Skipping Workshops is organising a world record attempt for the biggest simultaneous skipping event on National Skipping Day on March 24. It hopes that more than 100 schools will take part.
Participants will have to complete a minimum of three minutes' continuous skipping with gaps of no more than 10 seconds, using their own rope.
And anyone wanting to, can always learn how to skip for free.
