The Heart Foundation’s Jump Rope for Heart initiative looks set to bounce its way into the Guinness Book of World Records this year.

In an effort to make the most of this year’s popular charity event, Jump Rope for Heart attempted to break the record for the greatest amount of people skipping at the same time at different locations around the country, for three minutes, with no longer than a 10 second interruption.

It might be an ambiguous record, but that meant nothing to the children from in and around Maitland as they did their bit to contribute.

More than 200 primary school students converged on Iona Public School on Friday and took part in the national jump-fest.

Iona Public School held an interaction day, inviting Mount Kanwary, Martin’s Creek, Largs and Glen William Public Schools, and made a combined effort to the national total.

Given that the current world record stands at 7632 and the event has attracted around 30,000 jumpers from NSW alone, primary school kids across Australia will be quietly confident as they await a result in the coming fortnight.

At precisely 11.30am on Friday morning, primary school headmasters and teachers at more than 2000 Australian schools blew their whistles and set their pupils jumping.

Iona Public School headmaster Joan Hart said while the 200 children was a lot for the Iona campus to handle, it was a worthy cause.

“Just in the 41 students here we have raised about $12,000. I was amazed when the children came back and told me what they had raised,” Ms Hart said.

Money is raised by children gaining sponsors when they join the program. This system has seen more than 700,000 sponsorship donations being forwarded to the Heart Foundation each year.

As well as primary schools, thousands of children and teachers attended state wide gatherings. Participants from across NSW made their way to the State Sport Centre at Sydney Olympic Park.