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ics has become a popular daily routine for students of Colborne Central School
ing all teachers. Here ,Lori Dykstra and Sharon Lomas perform the Hippocrates
e that was filmed for use in County schools. (staff photo)
Grade 1 teacher Linda Vamplew of Colborne Central Public School leads her
class in rhythmics, a series of isotonic, isometric and cardio -vascular
exercises set to music. Each day at 10:20 a.m. the pupils of Colborne School
participate in rhythmics and Principal John Kane said the program is more
than successful. (staff photo)
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130 YEAR -12
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20; 1977
SECOND SECTION
olborne shuts down daily at 10:20 for rhythmics
DAVE SYKES
Cardiff was too
ied with the puzzle
r questions of any
ble length, And
ecess was coming
s scanned the puzzle
the floor and with
er selections the
staking shape.
ah, I like it a lot," he
little enthusiasm or
in his facial ex-
pression. "But I don't like
jumping and clapping my
hands under my legs. That's
just too hard."
But Jeffrey participates
enthusiastically along with
his fellow classmates, the
pupils in the school, the
teachers, the principal, the
health nurse or any other
unsuspecting visitor who
happens to drop into Colborne
Central School at 10:20 a..m,
any morning of the week.
Ycs sir. Everyday at 10:20
a,m, Colborne Central School,
"shuts down the plant" as
principal John Kane puts it
and everyone gets involved
with rhythmics.
Rhythmics?
Rhythmics is a relatively
new concept in exercising
that was developed by Lloyd
Percival of Toronto. It is a
series of isometric, isotonic
and cardiovascular exer-
cises set to music, that was
specially composed for the
routines. The program was
introduced at Ontario Place
in 1973 by two figure skaters
and Colborne School. pur-
chased the tapes in 1974.
"We. bought the tapes a ncl
then left them on the shelf,"
Kane said, "The whole
program was a great idea but
.we really didn't know what to
do with it."
Then last year during
routine scoliosis. testing
(checking the curvature of
the Spine) Public Health -
Nurse Lori Ginn noticed that
most children in public school
lacked muscle tone and in
several ('Sts were just plain
flabby, A. problem that is
common in • most grade
schools,
With some insistence from
Lori and suggestions from
teacher Rol) Snell, who
witneSsud a similar program
in the Watia-loo County Board
of Education program, Kane
and- physical education in-
structor Clare Harman took
the tapes down from the shelf
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am, Pally Schoemaker, Cathy Schoemaker and Shelley Thom,
dents of Colborne Central School, perform a series of rhythmic
entitled Stop It Draggin. The girls performed the rhythmic routine
during a taping last week by the Huron,County Board of Education who plan
to make rhythmics available to all schools. (staff photo)
and dusted them off,
They started the exercise
program the first week- of
September and it was quite
successful right from the.
beginning. To demonstrate
the popularity of the
program, Harman cited an
example in which children
began doing the exercises in
their desks while he was
taping the music for home,
Rythmics is a seriesof
exercises performed to music
and the appealing, aspect of
the program is that it in-
volves all eh i Id re n i n
meaningful activity. Physical
education instructor Harman
noted that extra curricular
sports usually attracted sonie
athletes.
"It was basically the same
children that were turning out
for the teams all the time,- he
said. -But there were still a
number of children in the
school who didn't get any
activity. -
But the program ha',
reached the non -athlete in the
school told the fact that all
children are partu•ipating in
the some thing has made
them a more cohesive group.
The daily exercise routincls
not compulsory hot at 10:20
there is not one child in
the school not involx•ed in
rhythmics,
"Nobody has to participate
in the exercises and we are
not just trying to reach the
athlete in the 'school," Kane
said. "Everyone is not only
participating but enjoying
-rhythmics because everyone
in the school is doing the
same thing including the
teachers.."
The two_ rhythmic
programs have been toped•by
the Boron county Board of
Fducation for use in all
schools. One 12 -minute
segment of the 0N-4l'CI tie
program is the equivalent of
riding a ten -speed hicycle
three miles- in 15 minutes. The
program is tits() used in 15
schools in the Don Mills area
and in many cases more than
once a day.
Even childreli in the
primary grades are reacting
favorably and look -forward to
their. morning routine with
senior students who lead
them in the exercises. Grade
1 teacher Linda Vamplew
said her students enjoy their
daily exercise routine and
kindergarten instructor
Arlene MacMillan reiterated
those statements.
'1111.•ehildn'T1 fl OW (1,1-,
V% ere a hit sh-y• at first anti rh-
exercises were difficul.t.- ,111'
"But with the hol1. tit the
senior students \
particd ipate annow irs tun
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Grade I- student Glen
4Waliker says that a though•he
enjoys the program he
doesn't know why but lre kis!
lilses it despite The fact I, ha
mdkcs him very 1 ired.
' Classmate Angela Gillis
toitt"t' than willing to offer her
opietion said "I really like the
rhythMics and.' even do them
at home.-
liesidt.s.. Angela doesn't
to he a super athlete to
rhythmics. and for .a
...,,,rade 1 student it se -ems more
like fun than, a body con-
ditioner, And it heats the
st uffing out Of homework.
I ori Dykstra stretches through a rhythmic routine
during a daily morning exercise period at the Colborne
School. Rhythmics Is a relatively new concept that in-
volves a series of exercises set to a MUSICS!
arrangement. (staff photo)
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