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One of Britain’s most successful Master's swimmers, Jane Asher is back to deliver another Master Class at Highbury Pool on Sunday 28th June 2009.

Jane will deliver a series of 90 minute Breaststroke Master Classes, providing you with technical feedback and plenty of tips & advice to help improve your stroke. 

There will be a variety of sessions to suit all ages and abilities, but spaces are limited.

To make a booking click here 

  

If you would like to book any master class with London swimming please see www.londonswimming.org.uk for further information.

  

London Swimming are creating a Synchro Development Squad. We expect to have a squad of approximate 20 swimmers 10-14years old. (31^st December 2009)

Training could be all over London depending on where we get pool time, with pool work and dry land training. We hope to have a specialist come to the sessions to work on specific items each session.

Click here for full details.

 

The newly formed Development squad are looking for committed individuals with experience and an interest in synchronised swimming. Positions include coach, assistant coach and team manager. If you are interested in any of these positions please click here for more details.

London Swimming presents “An Introduction to Officiating at Events which include Swimmers with a Disability” at East Ham Leisure Centre, on 19^th September.

Please click here for all details.

 

To be held on 19^th September at East Ham Leisure Centre,

Click here for full information, including entry forms, conditions and timings.

 
Water Polo competitions at Youth Games and Mini Youth Games

Water Polo competition for U14- Sunday 5th July

Mini Polo competition for U11- Thursday 2nd July

Mixed competitions, Schools, clubs and boroughs may enter

Closing date: Wednesday 17th June

For more info please look here or contact Chris

Saturday 20th June 4.30-7.00pm

Acton Baths, Salisbury Street, Acton, W3 8NW

Invited teams: Fulham, Hillington, Enfield, Watford and Ealing Marlins

Free gallery available for supporters.

Registration form available here

For more info please contact Nik

  

You will be pleased to hear that the Everyday Swim Good Practice Centre learning programme is now online! In this unique opportunity a programme of workshops, visitor days, phone support and more has been developed in order to effectively share the learning from Everyday Swim across the industry to help you get more people swimming!

To find out more click here please and view the Good Practice tab.

Masters News needed - Christine Goodair, Masters Rep on the Board is currently compiling the Masters Annual Report for London Swimming so if you have broken records as an individual or relay team or have any other news of club successes please email them to csquared@madasafish.com by June  27th.

 

27 & 28 June - L1 Coaching Diving Unit 2 - Wardown Swimming and Leisure Centre,

                        Bath Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU3 1ES

10-18 Aug – Units 1&2 Teaching Aquatics - Hornchurch Sports Centre, Harrow Lodge Park, Havering, RM11 1JU

14–21 Aug – Units 1&2 Teaching Aquatics - Hornchurch Sports Centre, Harrow Lodge Park, Havering, RM11 1JU

  

16-19 Jun – L2 Teaching Aquatics Units 1-3 - Oasis Sports Centre, 32 Endell Street, Camden, WC2H 9AG

22-26 Jun – L2 Teaching Aquatics Units 4-6 - Oasis Sports Centre, 32 Endell Street, Camden, WC2H 9AG

 10-14 Aug – Units 1&6 Teaching Aquatics - Hornchurch Sports Centre, Harrow Lodge Park, Havering, RM11 1JU

17-21 Aug – Units 1&6 Teaching Aquatics - Hornchurch Sports Centre, Harrow Lodge Park, Havering, RM11 1JU

  

For more information on courses, dates and venues, to download booking forms, or details of funding opportunities please visit www.londonswimming.org

 

IOS CPD Course - Land Training for Swimming

Bracknell Sports Centre Berkshire - 5th July 2009

Full details and application form available here 

 

UKCC Level 1 Certificate for Coaching Waterpolo

August 3^rd – 7^th, Millfield School, Somerset

Full details and application form available here.

  

UKCC Level 2 Certificate for Coaching Waterpolo (Units 4-6 ONLY)

August 2nd – 7^th, Millfield School, Somerset

Full details and application form available here

 

 

This week Colin Brown (RD) has had a very productive meeting with Nova International who are running the ‘Great London Swim’ which takes place over a mile in the Royal Victoria Dock (next to the Excel Centre) on August 15^th Click here for details. 

This event will hopefully encourage people into open water swimming and potentially into joining clubs. Colin has also had a number of positive meetings with Barking & Dagenham Council and PCT as we benchmark almost a year of the ‘Get Wet Swim for Free’ project. At this stage it is really important to look back at the lessons learnt before embarking on this next critical year. The latter part of the week includes meeting with GLL and Camden Council and Club over developing Aquatics in the Borough. Colin will be attending the Championships at Crystal Palace on Sunday.

Next week: Colin has Aquatic Strategy meetings in Greenwich, Barking & Dagenham, Hackney and Westminster. Colin will also visiting Ealing to look at potential venues for a mobile pool in September 09.

 

Ben Campion (Investment Manager) Ben will be leaving London Swimming on the 22 June at the end of three years of excellent service. Ben has been appointed the National Development Manger for British Fencing and will start that post in July. I know that many of you have worked with Ben over his time with London Swimming and he will be sorely missed from Aquatics but we would like to thank him for all his hard work and wish him the very best in his new job.

 

This week Jo Calvino (Aquatic Development Programme Co-ordinator) spent the first half of the week completing paperwork from another successful Super CPD weekend in Barking & Dagenham, and confirming meetings with Education and Synchro to look at ways of improving and developing both programmes in London. Bookings for the Adult Diving@Putney, Jane Asher Breaststroke Master Class, Disability Camera Class, Young Aquatic Organisers Award – Tutor Training &  Jo Jackson 5 day Camp  are all available now but spaces are limited so visit www.londonswimming.org.uk to book now!!

 

This week has seen Jo Melchior (Project Manager) has been working on documentation regarding the Mayoral Pool programme. This has included meeting the GLA / Mayoral representatives responsible for delivering the project from a political standpoint. Jo has also had meetings with Job Centre Plus to work up an Induction process for potential Level 1 candidates that will empower and enthuse people looking to train / re-train for a new career in Aquatics.

 

This week Jemma Konuralp (Swim21 Quality controller) had a very thought provoking and exceptionally positive meeting with Ealing SC who have confirmed they aim to accredit at all four levels plus masters.  This week she starts her assessment of Camden Swiss Cottage which she is very much looking forward to.

 

Last week Nik Jovanovic (West London Waterpolo coach) was working on May half term water polo Camp in Barnet. It was great to see 16 UKCC Level 1 water polo candidates and more than 20 young water polo players having 3 sessions a day for full 2 days. Feedback was great we will try to organise Water Polo Camps like this more often.

This Sunday Nik was at Barking and Dagenham delivering mini polo CPD to swimming teachers, while during the week Nik has back delivering regular mini polo and junior water polo sessions, and  organising the U13 West London water polo tournament.

Tournament info: Saturday 20th June 4.30pm - 7.00 pm in Acton Baths, W3 8NW.

Invited teams: Fulham, Hillington, Enfield, Watford and Ealing Marlins

This weekend Nik will be in Bolton attending the water polo meeting for RTC coaches, and Sunday afternoon he will be in Watford at the U13 water polo tournament where the young Ealing Marlins WP team will participate for the first time.

 

Since touching down last Friday, Bastien Wallace (Project Manager - Barking & Dagenham) , has been on the go following up on Apprenticeship issues, digesting & preparing reports for the Steering group, chasing summer timetable content and so on. The highlight has been attending the FlipNFun, Mini-Polo and Aqua-Fun courses last weekend.  Given how much fun the candidates had learning to teach these courses, Bastien can’t wait to see what Barking & Dagenham’s children think of them this summer!