It has been a very busy couple of days here at Irvine Bay GC. I spent yesterday sorting out some admin-y type stuff and writing lesson plans for Wednesday night classes. I had a meeting to attend at 3pm so had a lot to sort out before getting to Kilwinning Academy. As I left the meeting at 4pm, the phone went and there was Pete's smiling face flashing up at me. News not so good however. 4pm, Pete stuck at East Midlands airport, next flight at 7.55pm and his freestyle class starting at 8pm. Argh........
So a quick sort out of babysitting and re-arranging of coaches and we're off. 5pm class - wow! 14 new starts in 1 class. 5 new boys and some girls who had previously gone to Heather's club. A really nice mix of kids. The last 10 minutes was gymnastics musical statues - BRILLIANT!!!! A wee bit of Bruno Mars and some basic shapes, kids loved it. 6pm - Teamgym - those girls are soooo impressive. They work hard, they listen and they obviously enjoy it. The notion of streaming seemed to work well until we tried to go backwards. Lol, good fun though trying to work out whether it was nodding, clicking, counting, great fun. However, I love this class and the girls just really fit together, their sync work is fabby.
So about halfway Katherine arrives and I drive (fast) to the Magnum for the Ayrshire Development Forum meeting. These are really good meetings facilitated by Sarah from Scottish Gymnastics and bringing to the fore any issues we face in Ayrshire that either SG can help with or new policies, opportunities available etc.. As usual we agreed on most things and hopefully new and exciting things will continue. High on the agenda was schools - links, floor and vault, gymfest - it's something we're quite passionate about so watch this space for more IBGC involvement in schools in future.
Back to Kilwinning Academy and time for Freestyle. Discussed with the boys the possibility of them being in involved in a Freestyle workshop as part of the schools workshop at Gymfest. Think they might have been quite up for it. The chance to "perform" in front of a large audience - oh yes!! Freestyle class is a lot of fun, the boys (and girls!) work hard and enjoy what they do. An absolute pleasure to work with. The janitor standing over us as we move equipment back into the cupboard not so much fun and then shouting at us to leave the car park immediately. Yeah, cos we're going to leave a gymnast out in the street by themselves - Numbnut! Home before 10.30pm bonus!!!
Thursday
Spent the morning working on the registers and ever-growing waiting lists. Then phoned around for bus prices for Sapphire and Perth. Done, jobs a good 'un. Pleased with the results, and hopefully everyone else should be pleased with the results too. Made some good progress in getting a Freestyle class into Greenwood, world domination blah blah blah..... The only fly in the ointment at the moment is the fact that there is not enough money available to buy new costumes for the display team. We will have some money come Perth but not in time for Sapphire. The rat race money will go towards costumes but its amazing how not very far the money goes when you have to multiply everything by 40!!! Will take the rag bags to Kilmarnock tomorrow and hopefully secure another £100 from that. Until fees start coming in, money is tight. Had to pay the deposit on May Gymfest upfront!! 8 months in advance!!! At the moment lots of money going out and not as much coming in.
Start of term has actually been a bit of a mare, administratively. We have gone absolutely stellar, membership wise. This is brilliant but there is just so much to do in such a short space of time.
Anyway, enough blogging for now, there's lesson plans to write for tomorrow night and a whole lot more paperwork. Was at a very interesting funding workshop tonight though, lots of good ideas.
Sorry, no honestly that's it I've finished, goodnight, a bientot xxx
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