Athlone Gymnastics Club

Wishing all our members a very Happy Halloween and even though Trick or Treat is on hold this year, there’s still lots of fun to be had with pumpkin carving, spooky games and tricks. We’d love to see some photos of your Halloween costumes and pumpkin creations or decorations. Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

With all of our classes now back in action, we would like to remind parents when their child should NOT attend training in the gym :-

• if your child is unwell
• if your child has been in contact with a case of Covid 19
• if you have been contacted by a member of public health about a recent case of Covid 19
• if any member of your household is displaying symptoms or awaiting a test result of Covid 19
• if your household have been advised to restrict their movements/isolate
• if your child has a new cough
• if your child has a fever
• if your child has shortness of breath or breathing difficulties
• if your child has excessive fatigue, more than normal
• if your child has experienced loss or change to their sense of smell or taste
• if your child has returned from a country that is not on the ‘green list’ in the past 14 days
• if you are unsure or have any concerns

We are asking parents to please be vigilant and follow the HSE and public health advice at all times. It is the responsibility of parents/guardians to accurately complete the self-screen form before each training session, you have a duty of care to our staff and our members and we, in turn, have a duty of care to each child. Please consider the wider community and let’s all make a special effort to keep our gym Covid free!

We would like to extend a very warm welcome back to all our gymnasts who will be joining us over the next few weeks. It’s been a long time ……………….

As we embark on a new season, our Advanced Coach Aoife has kindly designed a poster of the Values that we hold in the Club. Gymnastics is much more than just a sport! As the gymnasts return they will see these throughout the gym and coaches will be chatting to them during the year about the importance of each one of them.

Our office will be closed next week and will reopen on Monday, 31st August.

If you have any queries, please email administrator@athlonegymnasticsclub.ie and they will be dealt upon return.

A sincere ‘Thank You’ to our members who returned to Summer Training or Summer Camps since we reopened on 29th June.

We were delighted to see so many of our gymnasts back in action. To all our amazing, happy, funny and wonderful gymnasts, you are what our club is all about!

A very special word of thanks to parents for believing in us and trusting us in these uncertain times, we hope the gymnasts had the best fun despite the many, many times they were asked to sanitise their hands and feet!! Thanks for your co-operation and compliance with the new regulations we have had to put in place to ensure we all stay safe.

Our staff have worked very hard over the past 8 weeks and we are extremely grateful to our coaches for their dedication and commitment to the sport and the club.

We are taking a break from all activities for now in preparation for our restart to weekly classes. Our office is closed next week but we will be back on 31st August.

We hope to resume weekly classes from early September, in line with public health advice at that time, and provisional dates and times will be communicated to you shortly by text message.

In the meantime, enjoy the remainder of the Summer, stay safe and we look forward to seeing you all soon.

Due to the current restrictions that are in place, unfortunately, we will not have any spaces available for new members starting in September. Any new spaces throughout the year will be advertised on our website on a first come basis only.

A very big welcome back to the small group of competitive gymnasts who returned to training last week. Thank you to parents and gymnasts for your patience and support over the past few months, we really appreciate it.

Thank you to our multi-talented coach Aoife for her fantastic artwork to remind all of us that we have a personal resposibility to keep our Club healthy.

We would like to wish all our gymnasts, staff and their families a very Happy Easter and we hope the Easter Bunny pays a visit!

Everybody has been sent worksheets, videos, programs, etc., etc., so please encourage the gymnasts to keep up with the training, we have provided the resources but sadly we can’t be with them in the gym for now.

A very special shout out to all our Parents who are part of the frontline team, whether it’s in Healthcare, Emergency Services, Retail, Community Volunteers or whatever the role, you are all doing a fantastic job and we applaud you for this.

We are also thinking of all the grandparents who are cocooning and missing being with their grandchildren at this time, we have lots of them dropping and collecting the children throughout the year and we would like to wish them all well.

Please Stay Safe and Stay Home and we look forward to being back in action in the gym soon.

We have now finished processing all the refunds for the Easter Camps.

• You should have received an email from PayPal stating that we have refunded your payment and the last four digits of your card where it was refunded to.
• If you have not received this email please check in your junk mail as well as your inbox, it is automatically generated and sent to the email address you used when paying the fee. If you have not received the email, please contact us next week and we can check it out for you.
• The refund should be in your account in a few days, if it takes longer please contact your card issuer directly as this is outside of our control.

Hope everyone is staying safe and keeping well and we look forward to welcoming all the children back to another Camp soon! Take care

It is with the heaviest of hearts that, unfortunately, we have to cancel our Easter Camps this year. We are so disappointed for all the children who were looking forward to it but as the situation is ongoing, there is no other option.

We will issue a full refund to everybody in the coming week. This will be processed through PayPal and will automatically be returned to your account or bank debit/credit card that you paid with. You will receive an email confirming when this has been done and the refund may take a couple of days to show up in your account. Please bear with us while we are carrying out this task, we promise we will endeavour to get it all done as soon as we can. We would like to thank all of you that support us at Camps and throughout the year.

Please stay safe, keep active, keep your physical distance, observe all the guidelines and we will be back in action again very soon!