GYMNASTICS CANADA CHOOSE WAVENEY FOR THEIR LONDON 2012 TRAINING CAMP!
The club are delighted to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Canadian Gymnastics Federation and WGC.
Official London 2012 Gymnastics Equipment Supplier announced as GYMNOVA!
The club are delighted at the news that the equipment manufacturer for the London Olympics will be GYMNOVA. As members of our club will be aware, we have a world class GYMNOVA equipped training facility and this will certainly give any teams who train with us before London 2012 an advantage.Watch this space to keep updated on possible team visits!!
In 2009 following intense international promotions, Waveney Gymnastics Club were delighted to host training camps prior to the World Championships for both the Canadian Men’s Artistic and British Men’s Artistic Teams in September and October 2009.
These teams included amongst their numbers the British gymnasts Louis Smith who won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics and Daniel Keatings who took the silver medal in the All Round Competition at the World Championships in London, and gymnasts from Canada who had competed at the Beijing Olympics in 2008!
Centre Manager Vikki Rogers said ‘We are thrilled to welcome teams of such a high calibre to visit us and hope that they will provide an inspiration for everyone connected to the club and the local community’.
The Canadian coaches described the facility as one of the best in the world, at which they had trained, and praised the welcome and hospitality they had received from Waveney. A visit from the BBC to broadcast live from the club as they trained, proved to be one of the highlights of their stay.
Visiting for the first time also in August was the Scottish National Women’s Team who enjoyed a week long training camp at Waveney. Sandy Richardson National Coach for the Scottish Squad said ‘An excellent venue and great support from the club made it easy for us to have a successful pre-season training camp‘.
A delegation from the Japanese Institute of Sports Science have also visited the club recently to view the facilities and assess their suitability as a training camp for the Japanese gymnastics and trampolining squads as a Pre London 2012 Training Camp.
The club are optimistic that following these successful visits the teams will be returning to Waveney in the not so distant future!
Bob Blizzard lends his support to our bid to attract an international team to Waveney!
Click here to view our page in the official London2012 Training Camp Guide.View Suffolk Pre Games Training Camp Site here
WGC 'LONDON 2012 OPEN WEEKEND' FUN DAY!
Join us on Sunday 25th July from 1pm to 5pm to celebrate the London 2012 Open Weekend, with free taster sessions, displays from our competition/
development gymnasts, a BBQ, face painting and much more....!!
Please book your space in advance by contacting us on: 01502 501419
Choose from:
1pm Gymnastics or Street Dance
2pm Trampolining (6yrs +) or Cheerleading
3pm Gymnastics or Street Dance
4pm Trampolining (6yrs+) or Cheerleading
Minimum age of 5 years (6 years for Trampoline sessions)
Come and have fun in our state of the art facility, everyone welcome!!
CANADIAN GYMNASTS CHOOSE WAVENEY AS THEIR LONDON 2012 TRAINING CAMP VENUE!
The club are delighted that Gymnastics Canada has chosen them as their final preparation camp for the London Olympics.
A memorandum of understanding has between signed between the Federation and the club, and the announcement was made public on Monday 28th June by BBC Look East. Click here to see the broadcast.
We will be taking part in Lowestoft Fun on the Green 2012 Open Weekend on Saturday 24th July click here to visit their website!
SUFFOLK SHOW 2010
Well done and thank you to everyone who took part in, supported and helped us in our displays at the Suffolk Show on 2nd June!
Many people from the club came and supported us on the day, and we hope you had as fabulous a time as we did!
WGC drew the biggest crowds of the day, and it was great to see so many members of the public and some of our gymnasts dad's getting up and joining in the Cheerleading workshop!
Suffolk Sport have passed on their thanks to WGC and also added
' Suffolk Sport has received a great deal of positive feedback from the Show, a direct consequence of the fantastic demonstrations and displays that your Club supported, inspiring people to get involved'
Everyone who attended was a credit to the club and special thanks go to Jess, Alex, Kerri, Glen, Nicki and Wendy for all of their help on the day.
BADGE WEEKS
Every term we hold our Badge Week, a chance for all of our recreational gymnasts to gain a British Gymnastics Proficiency Award (awards for Trampoline groups are ongoing).
The dates for each week are on our notice boards and the two weeks leading up to the Badge Week will be spent practising for their next award.
The awards start at Level 7 and become progressively more difficult until they reach Level 2 where they will also receive Level 1, and a medal as well as the usual badge and certificate.
After Level 1 there are Bronze, Silver and Gold awards in different disciplines and our own Trampette awards, all of which are much more difficult than the Level 7 to 1, and may take the gymnasts more than 1 or 2 attempts to pass!
Your child will be given a slip to indicate if they have passed the award, and if you would like to purchase this please go to the Conference Room either after the session, or ask at the Front Desk for the award the following week. You must provide the slip to confirm your child has passed in order to get the award, and to keep our records up to date!
The awards are designed to develop the skill of each gymnast and to be fun at the same time! Your child will be given a slip with the moves on which they will be tested in the two weeks leading up to Badge Week, so that they may practise at home.
Our Pre school children also take part in Badge Week, and have two sets of awards, Fundamentals and Pre School Proficiency Awa
rds which will be alternated throughout the year.
Notice Boards
We have two 'Coming Soon' notice boards at the club to keep you up to date with general info and events at your club. They can be found just inside the main entrance doors, and in the cafeteria area next to the toilet facilities. They are updated regularly so please check them each time you come in for news and up and coming events, displays, competitions etc.
At the end of the main viewing area next to the Changing Room door we have a large green notice board with an allocated area for each of the disciplines and groups where we display competition results, posters, general info and our class plans for Recreational Gymnastics, Trampolining and Pre School, as well as our 'Important Dates for your Diary' posters.
Please make sure you check these boards regularly!
Competition/
Development Groups Parents Evenings
The week commencing Monday 12th July up to 17th July there are slots available for all parent/carers to make an appointment to speak to their childs coaches to discuss their progress and future development individually.
Please see Gordon or Tadhg on the front desk who will make the appointment for you.
Don't forget if any parent/carer of any group has a coaching query they would like to discuss at any time, you may make an appointment to speak with the relevant coaches through Gordon or Tadhg at the front desk.
SUMMER 2010 CLOSEDOWN WEEK.
This year our annual closedown week will be from Monday 19th July to Sunday 25th July 2010. There will be no classes during this week as we shut down to service all of our gym equipment and heaters.
Classes resume on Monday 26th July with a reduced programme for the Under 5 years classes for the duration of the summer holidays, and normal Recreational sessions for our 5 years+ after school, Saturday and Street Dance classes.
Please contact the club on: 01502 501419 more information on Early Years Summer programme.
(Please note this week is not charged as part of the monthly standing order fees). Thank you for your continued support!
SPONSORED EVENTS WEEK 2010!
Thank you to everyone who took part and who has helped support us as a registered charity by raising sponsorship money. Please return any money raised along with your sponsor forms to the club by 30th May 2010.
All prizes for those who raised £25 and above will be ready for collection from 1st June at the front desk.
Thank you once again for all of your support and generosity.
PRE SCHOOL RISING STARS COMPETITION
Well done to everyone who took part on Sunday 23rd May in our Pre School Rising Stars Competition.
Our 3-5 year olds took part in a friendly competition to show off their skills. Thank you also to everyone who has made a point of coming to tell us what a great day they had, and how well organised the event was! We will be holding another comp closer to Christmas due to the success of our very first one!
Well done and thank you to everyone who took part in and supported our Easter Event on Saturday 17th May.
All of our gymnasts, Street Dance and trampolinists did fantastically well, some of them competing for the first time ever. Well done from all of the WGC team!
British Gymnastics National Veterans Competition to be held at WGC on Saturday 9th October 2010 (please note the change of date).
Put this date in your diary as the largest Veterans Competition in the BG calendar comes to Waveney!
Scottish Camp Great Success!
A very successful camp was held for the Men's and Women's Scottish Gymnastics Teams over the second week of the Easter holidays, as part of their preparations for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
The teams stayed at the Broadland Holiday village making full use of their great facilities.
Their National Coach presnted the club with a commerative flag signed by all of the gymnasts and thanked all emmbers of the club and staff for helping them make the most of their stay.
T shirts were given to all of the gymnasts and delegates to makrk their visit, kindly sponsored by Pakefield Flowers.
Waveney Gymnastics Club Mini Bus Arrives!!!
We are delighted to announce the arrival of our club mini bus, kindly sponsored by John Grose. A brand new 17 seater bus, fully sign written, it is a great opportunity for all of the gymnasts to travel together, and to reduce transport costs for parents/carers.
The bus can be used for transporting all of our gymnasts and users to their competitions, squads, displays events, and to take supporters to competitions etc, as well as for local schools as part of our Schools Community Coach project.
Also if anyone would like to volunteer as a driver, please see Tadhg or Gordon.We hope that you will enjoy using the bus and seeing it around town!
Just quote Ref: WGC to receive a 10% discount on your orders!
Contact them on: 01502 700514
Waveney Success!!
Well done to all of the boys in the Waveney team who took part in the British Teams Competition at the end of March!
The 13th and 14th March saw a great weekend of competitions for the Waveney GC boys and girls. The boys were competing at the London Open and Development Open, and all did incredibly well. Competing on Saturday Declan finished in 13th place and Clark 24th, competing on the Sunday Carlos finished in 23rd place, Henry in 4th, Ryan in 35th and Jack 1st all in their respective age groups!
The girls were competing in their Grades at Ipswich, in Grade 8 Maisie finished 11th, Loz 12th, Emily 17th, Ellie 23rd and Annabel 26th. In Grade 7 Caitlin came 9th and Laurn 12th, in Grade 4 Farrah finished13th and Philippa 15th, both girls have now qualified for National Finals!
Well done to all of our gymnast who have made their club very proud of their acheivements!
Scottish Squads Come to Waveney!
The club are delighted to welcome the Scottish Commonwealth Gymnastics Teams to train at Waveney GC from 12th April to 16th April for their preparations for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
We look forward to their visit and will announce Open Training Session times, when you will be able to come along and watch them in action!
The squad will be sponsored by Gymnastics Expr
ess who have provided all of the chalk for the squad to use during their visit.
SUFFOLK SHOW!
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