May 2010
New 13-City Concert Tour Announced for Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
JiggiJump has grown every year and is being seen by more kids, teachers, and parents than ever! This coming year JiggiJump will tour its full scale show to theatres and concert halls in 13 cities across Ontario and its smaller show to schools in many more communities, reaching tens of thousands of kids in total. JiggiJump Rock is a fun musical workout which will take a closer look at diversity and teamwork through the metaphor of a rock band. It's the most entertaining, high-octane, physically active 55 minutes you can imagine!
Information for schools click here.
Spring 2010
JiggaJump Gets a New Name!
JiggaJump (with an "A") is becoming JiggiJump (with an "i"). We recently discovered some unintended connotations of our old spelling, so bye bye "A" and hello "I". Besides, in the age of iPods and iPads, why not iJump? It's a good iDea!
Note: JiggaJump.com will now become JiggiJump.com (please adjust your bookmarks).
2009/10
RECORD CROWDS FOR JIGGAJUMP HEALTHY EARTH!
Thousands more kids enjoyed this year's JiggaJump tour. Together we jumped, ran, stretched, laughed and sang while learning about how to make the planet and ourselves healthier. Every class that attended received a free special pre-release CD with the new JiggaJump material, taken from the upcoming new JiggaJump Healthy Earth CD. Representatives of both federal and provincial governments came out to see the shows and loved what they saw... hundreds of kids excercising and moving just for the fun of it. Now there is even interest in a new JiggaJump TV series! Stay tuned!
November 2008 - May 2009
Fall 2008
New concert tour announced!
With the resounding success of the JiggaJump Alive and JiggaJump Beach Party concert tours, Judy & David have announced an all-new JiggaJump concert tour for 2008/2009: JiggaJump Snack Attack. Concert dates will include cities across Ontario. Information for schools is here. Information re public tickets will appear on the Judy & David concert listing page here.
JiggaJump program evaluation
"off the charts"!!!
Sept 2007
Ophea's final evaluation report shows unprecedented level of support for JiggaJump
Ophea (Ontario Physical Health Association) conducted a formal evaluation for the JiggaJump program in schools and daycares (specifically, the JiggaJump Adventures CD and JiggaJump Leaders' Guide). The response was "off the charts" according to Ophea:
98% of respondents (124/127) rated JiggaJump as either “very good” (68% - 86/127) or “good” (30% - 38/127).
98% of respondents (124/126) rated the children’s response to JiggaJump as either “very positive” (56% - 70/126) or “positive” (43% - 54/126).
93% of respondents (118/127) would either “definitely” recommend (68% - 86/127) or would be “highly likely” to recommend (25% - 32/127) JiggaJump to colleagues.
May-June 2007
JiggaJump Alive concert tour a huge success!
10,000 children and educators across Ontario joined Treehouse TV's Judy & David on an extraordinary adventure of music and movement... a live concert version of JiggaJump. Click HERE to see video clips from the tour.
March, 2007
The JiggaJump Adventures CD and Leader's Guide are here! It's a brand new enhanced CD with 55 minutes of fun, active musical adventures.The CD and Leader's Ghide has been developed and tested with experts in the field of physcal activity to get children moving, stretching, singing-along and having fun! 5000 copies are now being distributed to Ontario schools and daycares (see here for more info). The CD will be available for public purchase soon.
June 28, 2006
Hon Jim Watson, Ontario Minister of Health Promotion, joins in the fun with David and members of the Lakeside Players Theatre Troupe at a press conference announcing funding for an Ontario-wide launch of JiggaJump in schools, daycares and community groups in partnership with Ophea, the Ontario Health and Physical Education Association.
CLICK HERE for the press release from the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion web site.
