Choose Gymnastics lessons starting November 2024!

Choose Gymnastics

Our lessons are based on the Rise Gymnastics programme Explore.

Explore offers fun, diverse, and engaging activities helping to build key foundation skills in young children. These lessons work on moves such as rolls, balances and going upside down, developing physical skills progressively throughout the programme, allowing gymnasts to move forward at their own pace and ability.

Class Details:

When: Every Friday between 4pm - 8pm & Saturday 9am - 1pm

Who: We are currently only delivering the Explore programme aimed at 5-11 years.

Choose Gymnastics Membership:

Cost: £25.50 per month via direct debit (50 weeks a year)

Lessons: An hour class per week

Rewards: Gymnasts can achieve medals and certificates

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Choose Gymnastics membership

Lessons follow the Rise Gymnastics programme Explore. Rise Gymnastics is an exciting, fun packed programme that provides a progressive journey through recreational gymnastics.

The Choose Gymnastics membership includes:

£25.50 a month direct debit payments (50 weeks a year)
An hour class per week
Gymnasts can achieve medals and certificates

You will be able to track the progress of your child through a parent portal to see the progress during every level. Each strand has four levels through which the gymnast can progress, with each award achieved by completing 8 of the 12 skills.

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CORE SKILLS 1

- Walk with rotation
- Run
- Hop
- Key shapes
- Dish/Arch
- Turn in support
- Choice of one-foot balance
- Shaped jumps
- Half turn on one foot
- Dish to arch roll
- Side roll
- Bunny jump

APPARATUS 1

- Walk with rotation on a bench
- Shaped jump on a bench
- Squat or straddle onto a raised surface from stand
- Shaped jumps from a raised surface
- Hang from apparatus with shapes and support
- Travel in hang along apparatus
- Rotate a hoop on the hand/Skip through a hoop
- Roll a hoop and travel creatively
- Skip through a rope forwards/Rotate a rope with Core Skills 1
- Bounce a ball with Core Skills 1/Throw and catch a ball with Core Skills 1
- Roll a ball and travel creatively
- Ribbon coils and/or snakes with Core Skills 1/ Run through a large ribbon circle in mirror plane

CORE SKILLS 2

- Aerobic steps
- Grapevine
- Chassé step forwards/Chassé step side ways/Chaînés
- Hurdle step, rebound jump
- Shoulder stand
- Japana/Pike fold
- Press up
- Arabesque
- Straight jump with half turn
- Cat leap/Scissor leap –perform one sub skill: a. Cat leap b. Scissor leap
- Teddy bear roll
- Forward roll

APPARATUS 2

- Arabesque on a bench/Half turn on one foot on a bench
- Cat leap on a bench/ Scissor leap on a bench
- Forward roll using a bench
- Squat or straddle onto a raised surface/Forward roll onto a raised surface
- Rebound shaped jumps from apparatus
- Leg lift using apparatus/Forward circle to stand using apparatus
- Rotate a hoop on the hand with Core Skills 1/ Cat leap through a hoop
- Boomerang a hoop with Core Skills 2
- Skip through a rope backwards/Figure of eight rope rotations with Core Skills 2
- Bounce a ball with Core Skills 2
- Throw and catch a ball with Core Skills 2/Roll a ball with Core Skills 2
- Ribbon coils and/or snakes with Core Skills 2/ Chassé step forwards with a large ribbon circle in wheel plane

CORE SKILLS 3

- Chassé step into a choice of skill
- Supported levers
- Splits
- Bridge
- Frog balance/Headstand
- Y balance
- Straight jump with full turn
- Tuck jump with half turn
- Full turn on one foot
- Backward roll
- Cartwheel
- Handstand

APPARATUS 3

- Y balance on a bench/Full turn on one/two feet on a bench
- Kick towards handstand on a bench
- Cartwheel using a bench
- Straight jump with full turn from a raised surface/Tuck jump with half turn from a raised surface
- Tuck lever using apparatus
- Circle up on a bar
- Rotate a hoop on a body part with Core Skills 2
- Boomerang a hoop or roll a hoop backwards with Core Skills 3/Throw and catch a hoop with Core Skills 2 or 3
- Skip through a rope with singles and doubles/ Chassé step with a choice of skill with figure of eight rope rotations
- Bounce a ball with Core Skills 3
- Throw and catch a ball with Core Skills 3/Roll a ball with Core Skills 3
- Ribbon coils and/or snakes with two Core Skills 2 and/or 3/Rotating jump with a large ribbon circle in table plane

CORE SKILLS 4

- Perch
- Levers
- Advanced jump
- Advanced leap
- Backward roll to a creative finish
- Cartwheel on both sides
- One-handed cartwheel
- Cartwheel-snap
- Handstand forward roll
- Bridge kickover
- Handstand to bridge
- Acrobatic sequence with Core skills 2, 3 and/or 4

APPARATUS 4

- Leap and/or jump sequence on a bench
- Handstand on a bench
- Squat through or straddle over a raised surface
- Advanced jumps from a raised surface or rebound from apparatus
- Cast into backward hip circle on a bar
- Levers using apparatus
- Rotate a hoop on a body part with Core Skills 3
- Boomerang a hoop or roll a hoop backwards with two Core Skills 3 and/or 4/Throw and catch a hoop with Core Skills 4
- Skip through a rope with singles, doubles and crossed/ Chassé step with figure of eight rotation to leap through a rope
- Bounce a ball with Core Skills 4/Throw and catch a ball with Core Skills 4
- Roll a ball on the body unassisted
- Ribbon coils, snakes and/or large circles with two Core Skills 3 and/or 4

Choose Gymnastics FAQs

For your child's first lesson, turn up Fifteen minutes early and speak to a member of staff, who will be able to direct you.

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Comfortable clothing that can ensure your child can move and perform the activities. This may be something like a school PE kit, or a leotard. Shorts and a T-shirt/vest is ideal.

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You will receive a link via an e-mail directing you to the Home Portal. This will give you your options for the next Level. Once you have selected your option your child will move to this new session automatically.

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You will receive an e-mail once your child has been awarded a certificate this email will contain a link directing you to the website to purchase a certificate, we will then post them out to you.

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Inform the Staff on Site and The Gymnastics Instructor

If you have not already done so at the point of joining lessons, you can inform us of your child's medical condition, please inform the teacher on your first visit. This will assist our teachers when delivering lessons and this information will remain confidential.

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Please let us know if your child is ill and they will not be attending their lesson. If they have had diarrhea or sickness in the 24 hours prior to their lesson they MUST not attend their lesson. They may still be able to pass on this illness to others during this period.

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You can continue to pay for their lessons and retain their space or cancel and join again once they have recovered. Please note refunds will not be given for lessons you are unable to attend.

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Yes, the monthly subscription paid for lessons covers fifty weeks of the year, allowing for two weeks when there are no lessons.

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You will need to book via the DCLT website, using your child's DCLT account. Your username will be the email address you used when signing your child on to lessons. You will then need to request a forgotten password to set up the account.

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5 years old for explore sessions.

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We allocate 60 minutes to complete the lesson and change overs from one lesson to another. During the lesson children will warm-up, undertake their activities and cool-down.

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