Coaching News Gymnastics Support Another term over and we are feeling happy with the outcome. Denise and I have been working with children from F1 to year 6 and it is obvious that the children have thoroughly enjoyed their gymnastics with the enthusiasm and determination they have shown. We enjoy working with all age groups, but have been particularly been impressed with year 5 and 6 children with a large number of boys, over the last half term. It has been a pleasure to support them and to see the improvement in their skills over the six weeks. The staff have also commented on how much they have learned. Often it’s those simple tips which aren’t always obvious until you see them in action. 
It is great to have the links with schools, which has generated a lot of interest from children and already some of those children have joined us at Retford Gymnastics Club.
Pam and Denise Coaching News, 12th December 2007 End of Term Report. I can't believe that it's already the end of a thoroughly enjoyable year! Beginning in September at Valley and Portland Comprehensive schools, I was a bit nervous as ithad been six years since I had been working and had previously always taught primary age children. I was therefore unsure as to whether I would be able to teach dance to secondary age girls. However, I immediately found the classes both exciting and rewarding with many of the girls wanting to get involved with dance outside of their P.E. Lessons as well as being eager to performoutside of school. My next schools were Retford Oaks and Serlby Park and these were equally as rewarding and alsoinvolved the move to a new school at Retford Oaks with a fantastic new dance studio with mirrors which enabled a higher standard of teaching and learning as the students were able to evaluate their performances as they worked. For the last term I worked in Elizabethan High School, Retford and Tuxford School.The reception at Elizabethan was fantastic, especially with the extra curricular clubs where the high numbers forced us out of the smaller dance studio into the much larger gym. This also involved a small dance festival where the girls performed in front of visitors from various primary schools aswell as parents and teachers. They also had to stand in at the last minute to fill in time for Johnny Ball who was late for the science fair which was being held in the school. All the girls performed to a very high standard and were highly praised by all those who watched. My body is now enjoying a well deserved rest after six hours of dancing each day but I am also eager to begin with a new set of students in September as well as hoping to work with some of the girls I have worked with this year. The Girls from Valley and Portland have worked particularly hard as they expressed a wish for me to set up a class outside of school and have since performed in two shows at The Acorn Theatre (CLICK ON http://www.bassetlawssp.org/photo-gallery.php )inWorksop and we are hoping there will be more to come. To say the majority of girls had little dance experience at the beginning of the year, they have worked hard to develop their own style of danceand have gained confidence to both perform and produce their own choreography as well as the taught routines. I look forward to next year being as exciting and rewarding as this! Rebecca Wingfield. Coaching News, 12th October 2007 | 
