Wisconsin Dairy News: Jump with Jill
Posted: Jan 23, 2012 6:54 AM EST
By Tiffany Yapp
DE PERE (WKOW) — Kids are jumping and pumping at Heritage Elementary School in De Pere. Kids are also being inspired to make healthy choices.
Performance and registered dietitian Jill Jayne packs a whole lot of nutrition into her long traveling stage show and she’s rolling it out to youngsters worldwide.
Now, enthusiasm is catching on in schools across Wisconsin. A recent stop at Heritage Elementary in De Pere brought the crowd to its feet, literally.
The Jump With Jill events get kids up and moving with catchy songs and fun movements. Catchy lyrics and cool dance moves prove more effective than simply stating facts. The strategy is empowering kids to make healthier choices.
Jill Jayne and twelve Bills players joined over 300 excited elementary school students at the seventh annual Play 60 Challenge Fitness Party for youth on December 6, 2011 at the Bills Healthy Zone Fieldhouse.
The Play 60 Challenge Fitness Party is an interactive fitness event that rewarded approximately 360 students (3rd – 6th graders from ten Buffalo Public and two Orchard Park elementary schools) that participated in the Play 60 Challenge this school year.
Enjoy the video from our day with the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. We kicked off the day with a professional session for FUTP60 student ambassadors, ran drills with Detroit Lions coaching staff, lunched, then closed the day by dancing to the Jump with Jill Beat of Our Body flashmob on the 50 yard line. Jill is on stage with current wide receiver Nate Burleson and Roary the Lion. On the sidelines, there’s retired players Luther Ellis and Herman Moore. On the field, there’s 400 teachers and students from Detroit schools. And yes, that is Beat of Our Body playing on the jumbotron at Ford Field!
From November 14 – 21, 2011, The Rockstar Nutritionist Jill Jayne performed her live nutrition rock concert, Jump with Jill, for seven Department of Defense schools in Southwest Germany. This interactive show teaches nutrition through music and movement. Jump with Jill is an innovative answer to childhood obesity prevention, formatted as a kid-appropriate rock ‘n roll concert with healthy eating and exercise messages.
“The show is a great way to establish healthy habits while the kids have a great time. They almost forget that they’re actually learning something,” says Jayne, a Registered Dietitian (RD) and accomplished musician. “Jump with Jill tours all over the United States and we are so excited to perform it for our service member’s families and communities.”
For our first Jump with Jill International tour, we played Department of Defense schools in Southern Germany. Our story was picked up by the Armed Forces Network.
Twelve Bills players joined over 300 excited elementary school students at the seventh annual Play 60 Challenge Fitness Party for youth on December 6, 2011 at the Bills Healthy Zone Fieldhouse.
The Buffalo Bills partnered with BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, the American Heart Association and Tops Friendly Markets and celebrated the accomplishments of the randomly selected students that participated in the season-long fitness program.
The Play 60 Challenge Fitness Party is an interactive fitness event that rewarded approximately 360 students (3rd – 6th graders from ten Buffalo Public and two Orchard Park elementary schools) that participated in the Play 60 Challenge this school year.
Bills players that attended the party and ran fitness stations included; George Wilson, Bryan Scott, C.J. Spiller, Marcell Dareus, Dwan Edwards, Brad Smith, Alex Carrington, Naaman Roosevelt, Mike Caussin, Mike Jasper, Garrison Sanborn and Tim Toone.
“It’s great to see all the kids having such a fun time and learning about fitness and nutrition,” said Wilson. “The Play 60 program is an outstanding community event that we, as players, believe in and enjoy helping with, and the kids worked really hard to get here and deserve this kind of recognition.”
On Monday, October 17, 2011, Jill Jayne attended a special reception with first lady Michelle Obama at the White House for her work with Community School District 300’s Healthier US School Challenge run.
LANDSTUHL, Germany — Getting a gymnasium full of middle school students fired up about drinking milk is a tall order.
Jill Jayne, the self-billed “Rockstar Nutritionist,” made it look easy this past week at Landstuhl Elementary-Middle School.
The registered dietitian and musician from Pittsburgh, had a crowd of fifth- to eighth-graders, along with their teachers, dancing a silly jig and singing about bone health.
The students ate it up.
Earlier in the morning, Jayne performed her “Jump for Jill” show for the elementary school. After each performance, the students pursued her for autographs: She signed scraps of paper, a notebook and a lunch box, but turned down requests to sign clothing.
“It was awesome,” said fourth-graders Monica Lawson and Briana Kohl, in unison.
Jayne brought her nutrition rock show to about half a dozen Department of Defense Dependents Schools in Germany this week, marking the first time Jayne and her entourage have performed at U.S. military schools overseas, according to her communications manager and brother, Mark Jayne.
Stateside, Jayne has performed about 750 times for 170,000 kids, according to a news release about her show.
ROCKIN’ NUTRITION SHOW HEADED FOR GERMANY Department of Defense Schools Rock Out in the Name of Healthy Eating!
From November 14 – 18, The Rockstar Nutritionist Jill Jayne will perform her live nutrition rock concert, Jump with Jill, for six Department of Defense schools in Southwest Germany. This interactive show teaches nutrition through music and movement. Jump with Jill is an innovative answer to childhood obesity prevention, formatted as a kid-appropriate rock ‘n roll concert with healthy eating and exercise messages. See below for full schedule of events.
Jill Jayne, MS, RD, Rockstar Nutritionist, meshes her credentials as a dietitian and her experience as a musician to teach nutrition through entertainment. As President and Creative Director of Note to Health, Jayne creates interactive programming that fuses health education with music.
