Sadie

Winter Lifesaving Programme

January 16, 2014 by Sadie

The Rookies lifesaving programme is a great way for the groms to learn essential skills to keep themselves (and others) safe in the water. We are lucky to have Julia who is an excellent coach, to teach the rookies again this year. We’ll be running the bronze, silver and gold awards.

The sessions will be on Saturday evenings from 7-8pm in the Penzance Leisure Centre pool. Dates for your diary:

18 Jan
25 Jan
15 Feb
22 Feb
15 March
29 March
5 April
12 April
19 April
26 April

This is 10 pool sessions in total, there are a few weeks the pool is not available due to swimming galas, hence the gaps in the above list.

Beach Lifeguard Pool Training (& Assistant Beach Lifeguard)

The above programmes will be running at the same time as the rookies lifesaving. Qualified lifeguards are essential to keep the club going, The full lifeguard award is open to those age 16+ and the assistant beach lifeguard to those 14+

The initial pool training is 10 weeks, which will be followed up by some additional sessions on the beach / in the clubhouse.

Additional details to follow on these awards.

Club AGM – 5th February 2014

January 15, 2014 by Sadie

This years AGM will be on Wednesday 5th February 7-8pm at the clubhouse dryroom (so we have heating!)

We need as many of the 2013 members as possible to attend the meeting – particularly if you would like to ‘volunteer’ and be voted to ‘run the club’!

We also need ‘new members’ to attend who were not members in 2013 but would like to be in 2014. NB; These people can be either parents or everyday ‘local surfers’ adult age who would like to be involved in the club for 2014 and beyond.

Please do come along and let anyone you know who may be interested in the club and its activities – all are welcome.

End of Season BBQ

October 1, 2013 by Sadie

Thankyou to everyone for another great year for the groms club. All the groms have improved their surfing this year and had plenty of lifesaving practice thanks to the spate of flat days!

We had a great last session and being British continued on and had our end of season BBQ despite the mizzly foggy – we just relocated up to by the clubhouse incase we had to suddenly take cover – the groms kept themselves entertained whilst waiting for food with games of pool and surf DVDs instead of the usual beach games.

BBQ & Pool

BBQ

Big thanks to our coaches, assistant coaches and all our parent volunteers – without you we couldn’t run the club!

Winter programme

The winter rookies lifesaving programme and lifeguard training will commence in January as usual, dates of these sessions to follow.

The seniors surf nights on Wednesdays will continue until we lose the light in the evenings, and we’ll continue to surf on Sunday mornings and our older groms are welcome to join us (must be accompanied by parents as these are social surf sessions so we won’t necessarily have a lifeguard or full coach) so hopefully we’ll see you again soon.