A national skipping league that gets every child active, lets every class compete fairly, and writes your School Games Mark evidence for you. No prep, one rope, 30 seconds.
What schools tell us gets in the way of PE and school sport, and how the league helps.
No special kit: just a rope and the skipping timer.
Sign up in a few minutes. We check your school, then you invite your teachers.
Upload a class list or type names. Only first names and a surname letter or two are kept.
In PE or at playtime, count 1 every time the rope passes under the feet. Record every go: they all count as activity, and each pupil's best counts in the league.
The class average of the best 80% decides each half-term round, so small classes can beat big ones.
Read the step-by-step getting started guide → The 30-second challenge: rules and scores →
Event now running: 30-second speed · five more events coming soon, all free
How the league compares with the usual ways schools buy PE competition and evidence.
Pick the one that's you to see what the league does for you.
Not just free to sign up. Everything in the Virtual Skipping League is free for every school, including the five new events as they arrive. No subscriptions and no paid upgrades.
Two short how-to videos anyone can watch, a skipping video for league schools, and the reports and certificates your school can print.
Real pages from the teacher area, made from a sample school’s scores.
School Games Mark reportParticipation, girls and boys, least active, competitions with a purpose.
CertificatesFastest, most improved, effort, Young Leader and champion awards, signed by the adjudicator.
Letters homeTell families this half term’s aim and how their child’s class is doing.
PE premium evidenceYour league figures set against the five key indicators, ready to copy.
Each year group has its own table. A class's score is the average of its best 80% (see How it works).
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🏆 Hall of champions: the top classes from every finished round →
🥇 Area finals: results from School Games area skipping finals →
The Virtual Skipping League is run by skip-hop, the school skipping specialists. Scott Robert-Shaw is the league's adjudicator: his initials, SRS, sign every certificate.
Questions? Email support@vsl.org.uk and a real person will reply.
Yes. Every feature is free for every school, including the five new events as they arrive. There are no subscriptions and no paid upgrades. skip-hop ropes and lesson plans are optional extras.
Nothing changes. The league never needed the premium, so it carries on free after the premium stops in 2027.
It gives you the evidence the Mark asks for: participation, girls and boys, least-active pupils, competitions with a purpose, young leaders and active minutes. Your School Games Organiser checks your application, as always.
Your SGO area, your Active Partnership and the national league, plus any private leagues you set up with other schools. Each year group has its own class tables, and the School Cup compares whole schools. You choose which leagues you're in under League settings. If you hide your school from a table, the other schools in it are hidden from you too: you see their places and scores, but not their names.
Every go. Every attempt counts towards your school's activity figures, and only each pupil's best counts in the league tables, so recording more goes never lowers a score.
Thirty seconds a child. Put the timer on the whiteboard, skip, then type in the scores or tap them in on a phone (it can count two pupils at once). Young Leaders can run playground sessions and send scores for a teacher to approve.
Pupils’ names only ever appear inside your school, never to anyone outside it. Even inside the school we keep just a first name and the first letter of the surname (a second letter only if two pupils would otherwise look the same), so children can be told apart on certificates. If you’d like full names on certificates, a teacher can type them in when printing: they’re used for that print only and are never stored by the league. If you send home take-home cards, each QR code opens one private page for that child only, showing just their first name, surname initial and skipping nickname. Data is stored in the UK and your school stays in control. See our privacy notice.
Not all skipping ropes are created equal. The Virtual Skipping League recommends skip-hop speed ropes: they’re high quality, and every trick and skill in the league can be done with them. Signed-in schools can buy them at discounted school prices. There’s no obligation to buy, though. If your school already has skipping ropes, you can use the league for free with those. All we ask is that when it’s time to replace your school’s ropes, you consider ours. Sales of skip-hop ropes and our lesson plans are what pay for the Virtual Skipping League, which is free to schools and has no advertising.
School Games Organiser? Get your free SGO login and invite your schools.
