Wibble wobble, jelly on a plate. Even the audience joined in with the familiar childhood rhymes as youngsters from Thorpe Greenways infants school put on an impressive display of nifty footwork to promote healthy hearts.

Over the last three years, the Thorpe Bay school has raised nearly £6,000 in the British Heart Foundation's popular Skip Rope for Heart.

Every pupil and member of staff takes part in the event, which involves skipping forwards, backwards and sideways, performing rope tricks, using long ropes and speed skipping.

Alexandra Rollings, seven, Rachel Cary, six, Charlie Say, and Naomi Anderson, both seven, showed grown-ups the ropes at an evening with the British Heart Foundation at the Cliffs Pavilion, Westcliff.

Watch us - Alexandra Rollings, Rachel Cary, Naomi Anderson and Charlie Say

Picture: STEVE O'CONNELL

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