Weekly News
Welcome to the London Swimming News - if you are receiving this for the first time we hope that this weekly selection of news from us will inform, entertain and keep you in touch with what is happening across the capital in aquatics.
London Masters Swimming need to hire a central London Pool for a Masters Fun
meet in November. So if you run a pool and would like to help us please contact
Colin Brown (RD): This weekColin has been preparing funding bids and plans for Sport England and answering queries around the free swimming for over 60 years agenda. Colin has also spent time looking at the progress being made in Barking & Dagenham Industrial Scale Change Project
http://www.londonswimming.org/page/:Industrial_Scale_Change
At the end of the week Colin is meeting with Cannons Leisure and touring facilities in Hounslow.
Next week: Colin has meeting with Merton and Westminster Councils. Colin is also meeting with UCL and Imperial College Directors of Sport to look at how we can extend pathways into the education sector.
CPD Seminars
Mon 8 Sep 08 - Introduction To Breaststroke, Sutton Civic Offices, Sutton
Sun 14 Sep 08 - NPTS:Aqua kids, Vale Farm Sports Centre, Brent
Tue 16 Sep 08 - Teaching Turns - The Basics, Bancroft's School, Redbridge
Mon 22 Sep 08 - Safeguarding & Protecting Children, Finsbury Leisure Centre, Islington
Tue 7 Oct 08 - Introduction To Backcrawl, Bancroft's School, Redbridge
Mon 10 Nov 08 - NPTS: Competitive Swimming, Sutton Civic Offices, Sutton
Mon 10 Nov 08 - Safeguarding & Protecting Children, Vale Farm Sports Centre, Brent
Tue 25 Nov 08 - Introduction To Butterfly, Bancroft's School, Redbridge
Mon 8 Dec 08 - Introduction To Backcrawl, Sutton Civic Offices, Sutton
UKCC Courses
Level 1 Teaching Aquatics
Sat 13 Sep 08 - Bancroft's School, Redbridge
Mon 20 Oct 08 - Whitgift School, Croydon
Mon 27 Oct 08 - Finsbury Leisure Centre, Islington
Level 2 Teaching Aquatics
Sat 06 Sep 08 - JAGS Sport Club, Southwark
Sat 01 Nov 08 - Sylvestrian Leisure Centre, Waltham Forest
Tue 11 Nov 08 - Dagenham Swimming Pool, Barking & Dagenham
For more information, to download booking forms, or funding opportunities for any IOS course or seminar, please visit
www.londonswimming.org
This week Jo Calvino (Aquatic Programme Development Co-ordinator) has been looking into potential venues for master classes and workshops for the future, She's been doing some coaching at Putney and finalising the details of the Diving programme soon to be established. Jo also caught up with Janna Callan to gain more knowledge on synchro structures and how we can start move things forward for the development of the discipline, and also the Diving Manager, Stacia Szczerbiuk to look at plans and delivery
for diving. Jo continues to work on plans for the Annual Conference, which this year takes place on Sunday 14th September at St Paul’s School, SW13.
This week Janna Callan (RDO) has spent the week working in Barking and Dagenham on the summer and term time pool programme. Next week, Janna will be finalising the term time programme for Barking and Dagenham and meeting with the local clubs to up date them on the project.
Annabel Kehoe (EDS-Islington) is on annual leave.
This week Jemma Konuralp (Swim21 Quality coordinator) has been working on her presentation for the Annual Conference on 14th September 2008; she also attended her first Swim 21 National Panel yesterday. Next week she is continuing with her presentation along with actioning a number of points from the National Panel.
