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Current Vacancies

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:50:43 GMT

We have some positions within the club that may interest you.

Our current open vacancies will show in the drop down section at this link: Current Vacancies . While these are live on the site, they are available to apply. If there are no drop down options, then please assume that we do not have any open vacancies.

Please review the requirements in detail and send information in line with the application to the relevant person(s).

Should you have any questions, or concerns on our roles or recruitment processes, please do not hesistate to contact Chairman, Jamie Farwell on chairman@ekgc.org

Tumble Trial

Sat, 13 May 2023 13:50:43 GMT

Tumble Section Trial - 20th May

We have a limited number of spaces for gymnasts to trial for, so not all triallist may get a permanent space. Please see the details in the picture for the skills involved for each age group.

Acro NDP at Deerness

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:28:40 GMT

Acro NDP at Deerness Competition

Well done to our Acro NDP2 squad who competed in the Deerness Acrobatics championships. Lots of great scores and routines. Well done girls

A special mention to our medal winners

Millie, Rebecca Ann & Mila GD2

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Artistic Grades Weekend

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 10:15:11 GMT

Artistic National and Compulsory grades weekend

We have 2 new Scottish National Grade Champions!!

Angelina won National grade 2 with a fabulous score of 61.634

Kira won National grade 1 with a great score of 62.084, placing 1st on all pieces of apparatus.

Savannah and Karina had an amazing competition in National grade 4 passing with distinction. Karina was awarded top score on range and conditioning with 13.1.

Savannah won overall silver medal with a huge score of 62.47

Olivia and Zoe competed in the National grade 3 with fantastic scores looking fabulous and passing their grade with flying colours

In National 5 prep grade

9yrs cs Esther won silver medal, Freya silver and scarlet 4th place ribbon.

10yrs comp. Cleo won bronze medal and Niamh 4th place ribbon.

Compulsory elite grades

Rona competed in the Compulsory 4 winning 4th place ribbon passing her grade with flying colours

Catherine 8yrs competed in Compulsory 5, passing with a distinction winning 4th place ribbon

Angelina, Kira and Savannah will represent Scotland in the British grades finals in Stoke in May

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Artistic Celebration of Life Competition

SMK06721 — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 22:39:10 GMT

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Well done to all the artistic gymnasts who competed in the Celebration of Life competition this weekend in Cumbernauld Gymnastics Club. All our gymnasts looked fabulous. We won many medals and overall categories. Well done to everyone.

Special mention to Freya Smith winning the Zinc 8 yrs competition.

Isla Sim who won the Bronze 10/11yrs competition

Kira Sharp winning the Silver competition

Olivia Fielding who won the Gold competition

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Acro Partnerships in Budapest as part of Team Scotland

SMK06721 — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 22:32:21 GMT

Well done gymnasts!

Massive well done to our two trios :

Eve, Nieve and Ellie 12-18

Caitlin, Eva and Abbie 13-19

Who were selected to compete for Scotland in Budapest at the weekend.

Both trios performed amazingly. We are so proud of them.

Eve, Nieve and Ellie - 6th

Caitlin, Eva and Abbie - 5th

Well done girls

AGM Minutes

SMK06721 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:20:04 GMT

2021 AGM Minutes

We've emailed all members with the minutes of the 2021 AGM. We discussed/agreed various aspects of the club, but probably most important to members was the changes to fees that will be implemented from 1st March 2022. As ever please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions. More details on www.ekgc.org/agm2021

Acro British Champions

SMK06721 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:46:24 GMT

We have two new British Acro Champion Partnerships

It’s time to celebrate some fantastic news!

We have 2 new British Champion Acro partnerships at the club! We also have partnerships that gained silver and bronze at the British Finals yesterday! It was a fantastic weekend for the all the Acro partnerships that took part. The coaches were proud of absolutely every one for giving it their all!

In the Womens Pair - 12-19yrs, Anna and Maia came away with gold, as did Eve, Nieve & Darcey in the Womens Group - 12-19yrs category. Both partnerships are now British Champions!!

Abi and Zara got silver just beaten by 0.06 away from gold in the Youth Womens Pairs category! In the Womens Pair - 12-19yrs, Alex and Maisie came away with the Bronze medal in this category.

Well done gymnasts for making your club and coaches so very proud of you all!

Our Fantastic Gymnasts

SMK06721 — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 22:16:16 GMT

Our Fantastic Gymnasts

What fantastic gymnasts we have at the club!! Here are our gymnasts who qualified to compete for Scotland at British finals. Olivia competed last weekend and won 2 gold and 1 silver in artistic, Lauren & Phoebe and Abi and Zara will compete in the Acro British Championships this weekend, good luck gymnasts!

Fantastic Achievement for Olivia!

SMK06721 — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:17:26 GMT

Well done Olivia Fielding and Coach Wendy

Olivia Fielding competed in British Bronze Challenge Championship today in London as part of the Scotland team. She competed against 80 gymnasts and won overall silver!! Scotland won gold in the team event.

Olivia won gold on beam, which is a fantastic and amazing achievement. Olivia was also awarded most memorable beam routine certificate

Huge congratulations to the Scotland team, and even greater congratulations to Olivia and Coach Wendy. We are very, very proud of them!

2021 AGM Date

SMK06721 — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:24:28 GMT

2021 AGM to be held on the 14th November

Annual General Meeting 7.00pm 14th November 2021

The AGM will take place in the club at 7.00pm on the 14th November.

All members should have received an email regarding the meeting and are encouraged to attend this meeting.

IT’S YOUR CLUB, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO VOICE YOUR OPINION

Changes to COVID Guidelines

SMK06721 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 11:39:35 GMT

Changes to take effect from 14th August

Changes from 14th August 2021

Social Distancing:

The latest Scottish Gymnastics guidance is that there is no requirement to physically distance from each other. However, the club would be grateful if you would apply a “give people space” attitude when in or around the gym. We won’t be enforcing a strict distance policy, but please be mindful that not everyone will be comfortable about being in close proximity of others just yet. Please don’t be offended if others still want to keep a safe space from other parents, coaches or officials.

Face Covering:

All gymnasts aged 12 years and over will still need to wear a face covering when not actually participating in a class. This includes when they are coming into or exiting the gym, and when they are moving around in the gym if for instance going to the toilet. All parents that are coming into the gym should wear a face covering please. This will not apply when you are outside the gym, but we would ask that you wear a face covering as soon as you enter the doorway.

The above will obviously not apply should anyone be exempt due to medical or other conditions.

Coaches will have to wear a face covering at all times in the gym, even during sessions.

Sign-In/Sign-Out

We will still be signing in/out the gymnasts using the current procedures of the tick in/out sheets, reducing the need for parents to sign the gymnasts in and out. Gymnasts will still be required to have their hands sanitised on entry and exit. We will however be taking away the need to do the temperature checks on entry.

Cleaning Regimes.

We will not be changing any of our cleaning and sanitising regimes. We will still be sanitising chairs and equipment after each session to ensure that everything is as safe as it can be for each new class coming into the gym. We will still be employing the contract cleaners on a daily basis to ensure that all public areas/toilets/corridors and high touch points are clean for the start of each day and easier to keep clean throughout the day.

Reception Area/Changing Areas:

We will still be keeping the reception area as a restricted access area other than for some essential classes such as the pre-school classes. Gymnasts will still be required to attend the club changed and ready to participate in the classes. We will not be reintroducing the changing rooms at the moment and will continue to use the seats/doocots in the gym for gymnasts to store coats, shoes etc as we do at the moment.

Water Fountain

We may shortly be reinstalling the water fountain in the gym. We will not however be supplying gymnasts with cups. The water fountain will only be for refilling water bottles, so please ensure that your gymnast comes to class with their water bottle.

Coaching with Contact

Some competition sections had already reintroduced coach contact with permission from parents. We now aim to reintroduce coach contact to all sections and classes. If you do not wish coach contact, which can be a vital part of coaching, you can opt of this. If you do wish to opt out, please email admin@ekgc.org to let us know and we will note this on your child’s record. This will let the coaches know your wishes. Please note that we will assume permission until otherwise notified.

We think that the above changes will continue to ensure the health and safety of everyone in the gym whilst taking into account the changes to guidance from both the government and our own governing body, Scottish Gymnastics. None of this will hopefully take away the enjoyment that every gymnasts should have while taking part in our great sport at our club, nor compromise their health and safety.

Many thanks in advance for your continued support and co-operation.

Coach Contact Opt-In

SMK06721 — Sat, 29 May 2021 15:41:18 GMT

Coach Contact Opt-In

The club intends to reintroduce Coach Contact with gymnasts as part of the Scottish Gymnastics Coach Contact Framework as we move towards “normal” training. Everyone at the club aims to ensure that EKGC provides as safe a training environment as is possible with the agreement and co-operation of everyone involved. As part of this move towards training sessions with coach contact, an opt-in document must be completed and returned to the club by every gymnast (or their parent/carer) and coach. Without a completed opt-in form no gymnast or coach can take part in a training session with coach contact.

We have put a copy of the opt-in on the club website as we cannot email documents via Class4kids, apologies. The link to the opt-in document is https://irp.cdn-website.com/0d6c4cca/files/uploaded/Scottish%20Gymnastics%20-%20Opt%20In%20agreement.docx

This should be completed and returned to the gym no later than the 4th of June please.

The website has full details of the Coach Contact guidelines and has the risk assessments associated with it. http://www.ekgc.org/reopening

There is also a self-assessment that needs to be completed prior to EVERY session. Gymnast and coaches should carry out the self-screening survey at home prior to every gymnastics session. The results of this will determine if the gymnast/coach could/should attend their session. There is no requirement for this survey and its results to be brought to the gym. The link to the screening document is: https://irp.cdn-website.com/0d6c4cca/files/uploaded/Gymnast%20self%20screening%20survey.docx

The club is following the Coach Contact Timetable as laid out by Scottish Gymnastics as below:

Phase 1 – No coach contact (3 weeks) until 17th May

Phase 2 – Rescue spotting is permitted from 17th May to prevent serious injury.

Phase 3 - From the 7th of June, coaches may then implement a phased return to coach contact and manual support activities. Coach contact for multiple groups for a maximum of 15 minutes per group per day. Rescue spotting also permitted to prevent injury.

Phase 4 - from 28th June Coach Contact can resume for all pre-planned activity. It is the responsibility of the club and coach to review the programme, understand the increased risk, and ensure manual support activities are kept to a minimum.

Coaches will only provide manual support if through assessment and professional judgements it is deemed to be required.

Guidelines we will follow:

Prior to activity

• All gymnasts and coaches must complete a self-screening survey to determine whether they can attend the training session. https://irp.cdn-website.com/0d6c4cca/files/uploaded/Gymnast%20self%20screening%20survey.docx

• All gymnasts and coaches are made aware of the increase in transmission risk associated with the return of manual supporting activities.

• All gymnasts (parent/carer) and coaches must complete an opt-in agreement to return to manual support activities.

• Clubs and coaches must ensure all gymnasts (and parents/ carer) are aware what manual support activities they are opting into and that they can withdraw at any time.

• The club will inform the head coaches of any gymnast or coach who has not agreed to returning to manual support. The club must be sensitive to those individuals who may not return to manual support and ensure they can still participate fully in the session.

• It is the club’s responsibility to inform relevant coaches and parents of any changes to the opt in agreement.

• All coaches must actively observe Covid-19 secure measures within the Step Forward Framework for a minimum of three weeks prior to commencing any activities involving manual support.

• After 6 weeks OR once the local authority area the club is in has now entered level 1 (whichever is first), coaches may then implement a phased return to coach contact and manual support activities:

Phase 3 - Coach contact for multiple groups for a maximum of 15 minutes per group per day. Rescue spotting also permitted to prevent injury.

• After 9 weeks post opening or local authority area enters Level 0 (whichever is first):

Phase 4 - Coach contact can resume for all pre-planned activity. It is the responsibility of the club and coach to review the programme, understand the increased risk, and ensure manual support activities are kept to a minimum.

• It is the responsibility coach to review the programme, understand the increased risk, and ensure manual support activities are kept to a minimum.

The club will:

• Communicate and make available all plans regarding the resumption of manual support activities.

• Make available the relevant outcomes of risk assessments and agree procedures and actions with staff, coaches, volunteers, gymnasts, and parents/guardians.

During Activity

• All gymnasts and coaches to be educated on the importance of staying with their contact groups and ONLY performing planned manual support activities.

• No additional assistance from another coach (double supporting) is permitted at any stage of the phased return.

• All gymnasts and coaches should wash/sanitise their hands before, during and after sessions. Coaches to sanitise between supporting gymnasts.

• Prior to the session, and before any manual support, coaches must clean their hands and arms for 20 seconds.

• Hand sanitiser should be used at all breaks in training and before and after consuming any food or drinks. Food and drink must not be shared, including their containers/bottles.

• If utilising manual support, all coaches must hand sanitise before and after each individual gymnast’s turn on the activity with soap and water or hand sanitiser.

• All coaches must wear a face mask during manual support activities with each gymnast. This must remain on at all times.

• It is important that all coaches wear, maintain and dispose of facemasks appropriately.

• Before, during and after all manual support activities, the coach and gymnast must avoid touching their mouth, eyes and nose.

• Social distancing should be maintained when not taking part in coach contact activity.

• Coaches must only provide manual support for as long as required to deem the participant’s individual performance safe.

• Planning should be sensitive to only allow working on manual support activity for the necessary length of time.

• Coaches should avoid hand to hand manual support during any supported activity and use appropriate body parts or training aids where possible.

Competition Section Trials

Mon, 03 May 2021 18:30:33 GMT

Have got the drive and passion for our competition sections

We will shortly be hosting trials for all of our competition sections. In these sections, gymnasts will be expected to train multiple days a week with the expectation of full commitment to training and competitions. Details of the commitments for each section, and some details of skill requirements can be found below. If you are unsure about the different disciplines, please follow these links for some details of them:

Display - Display | Scottish Gymnastics

Tumble - Tumbling | Scottish Gymnastics

Acro - Acrobatic | Scottish Gymnastics

Women’s Artistic - Women's Artistic | Scottish Gymnastics

We have a video that shows the differences between Acro and Women’s Artistic for those that are perhaps not so familiar with these: https://youtu.be/tZbKhlG20IQ

Please have a look at the descriptors for each discipline and if interested book a place in that trial if you meet the criteria.

Any questions or queries should be directed to our Senior Club Coach Nicky, seniorcoach@ekgc.org

Tumble

We are looking for girls and boys age 7+ interested in joining our tumble section.

Gymnasts will train between 4.5 – 10 hours a week depending on level.

Gymnasts 9 and under – no set skill restrictions,

Gymnasts 10-11 must be able to backflip,

Gymnasts 12 and older must be able to perform minimum of 2 flips.

Trial time 5.45-6.45pm Sunday 23rd May

Free trial - https://east-kilbride-gymnastics-club.class4kids.co.uk/camp/35

Artistic

In Women’s artistic gymnasts perform on 4 pieces of apparatus – bars, beam, floor & vault.

We are looking to identify girls with gymnastics potential to join the women’s artistic section. If you are starting school in August up to age 7 and can commit to 2 days a week initially – this can increase to 20+ hours at the highest level. Must have good listening skills and a willingness to learn. Girls older than 7 with previous gymnastics experience will be considered.

The trial will cover strength, flexibility and coordination exercises.

Trial time 5-6pm on Sunday 16th May

Free Trial - https://east-kilbride-gymnastics-club.class4kids.co.uk/camp/33

Acro

Acro gymnastics is a mix of balance and dynamic floor routines with partners in pairs or groups.

We are looking for boys and girls who are going into P1 up to age 8 interested in joining our acro development section. Gymnasts over 8 with previous experience will also be considered. As this is a partnership discipline commitment to training and competitions is especially important. Training will be 2 or 3 times a week initially – this can increase to 16+ hours at the highest level.

We are looking for gymnasts to be both tops and bases so strength and flexibility is very important. Gymnasts are expected to perform routines to music so if you love to dance and show off this could be for you.

Trial time 5.45-6.45pm on Sunday 23rd May.

Free Trial - https://east-kilbride-gymnastics-club.class4kids.co.uk/camp/34

Floor & Vault

We are looking for boys and girls age 6-10 looking to compete in a 2 piece section, floor & vault. The floor routines here are not performed to music. Gymnasts over 10 will be considered if they have previous gymnastics experience and can cartwheel, walkover and have 1 set of splits. This section trains twice a week (Wed or Thurs and Sunday)

Trial time 5-6pm on Sunday 16th May

Free trial - https://east-kilbride-gymnastics-club.class4kids.co.uk/camp/32

Display team

We are looking for girls age 10 and over interested in joining the display team. Some gymnastics experience required but the ability to dance is important as the team perform choreographed routines. The team train on a Sunday 2-4pm

Trial time 5-6pm on Sunday 16th May

Free Trial - https://east-kilbride-gymnastics-club.class4kids.co.uk/camp/31

If you choose Acro or artistic squads and are successful you may not train with any other discipline due to the high level of commitment required. However it is possible to be in the tumble section, display and floor & vault or a combination of these.

Gym to reopen soon!

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:33:32 GMT

Reopening on the 26th of April

Have you heard the news? We will be reopening 26th April, hooray!!!

We have spaces in some of our general classes age 5+ and in our weekday 3+ classes. There is limited space in our weekend preschool classes but are working hard to put on more classes, please join a waiting list and we will get you in as soon as possible. Have a look at our schedule to see which days/times may suit you best:

https://east-kilbride-gymnastics-club.class4kids.co.uk

Emails will be going out to current members over the next few days, make sure we have your up-to-date details on Class4Kids.

Gym Closed Again Sadly

SMK06721 — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:51:34 GMT

COVID Update

Unfortunately we have had to close the gym again due to the current COVID restrictions. We anticipate that we will be able to reopen after the 1st of February assuming that the guidance that has been issued from the First Minister doesnt change.

Taking bookings again!

SMK06721 — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:48:45 GMT

Please look at our schedule for suitable days and times.

We had temporarily stopped taking new bookings until we were sure of how all our new processes and procedures were working. Now that we have been successfully running for a couple of weeks we can start to add new gymnasts to our classes.

If you are looking to join the club please add your details to our online schedule https://east-kilbride-gymnastics-club.class4kids.co.uk

Working towards a Safe Restart

SMK06721 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:34:04 GMT

What we are doing to ensure a safe restart.......

You may not realise it but we are working hard behind the scenes to ensure that as soon as we get the go ahead that we are in the ideal position to open up as safely as we can.

We have been following all the Scottish Government guidelines as well as the guidelines from Scottish/British Gymnastics. To date we have carried out risk assessments, looked at responsibilities for all gymnasts, parents and coaches as well as producing Isolation Policies in case someone should unfortunately become unwell during a session in the gym. These documents can be found at http://www.ekgc.org/reopening

We encourage every member to read these documents so that you know what needs to be done when coming back to the gym. These documents are there to help ensure the health, safety and well being of all gymnasts, coaches, officials and volunteers.

We are currently developing a revised timetable that will ensure that we build in time to allow for cleaning between sessions, again to ensure everyone’s health. This is based on the situation as we currently know it, and is obviously subject to change as things develop. Once the guidance from both government and Scottish Gymnastics has been finalised and we are sure of the timetable, we will circulate this to everyone. The gym has also been reorganised so that we can socially distance gymnasts both when they are training and getting changed before and after sessions. There will be different accesses for each of the sections, the documents will show you what applies to you.

At present we don’t have a date for restarting the classes, but we will shortly be asking you to complete a short survey on your thoughts about returning to the gym. We will circulate this once you have had some time to read the reopening documents.

This is just a short update for the moment, we will keep everyone fully informed as we go but please do read the documents at http://www.ekgc.org/reopening and if you have any questions or queries please get in touch with us.

Stay safe, fit and healthy and hopefully we will all be back doing what we love best – GYMNASTICS!

No New Bookings at the moment

SMK06721 — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 22:52:15 GMT

Bookings during the Corona pandemic

Unfortunately we have suspended all new bookings while the gym is closed due to the Corona Virus. Our schedule is still available at https://east-kilbride-gymnastics-club.class4kids.co.uk if you want to see what should be available once we restart. If you see a class that you are interested in just add your childs name to the waiting list and we will contact you as soon as the classes restart.

Artistic Level 4 Champions!!

SMK06721 — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 22:29:12 GMT

Fantastic results from Olivia, Angelina, Emily, Mairaed, Niamh and Kira

Six of our fabulous Artistic gymnasts took part in the Team Championships in Bells Sports Centre, Perth on the 27th October. The girls performed fabulously, winning the Level 4 team title. What a performance and huge congratulations to the gymnasts and coaches!!

Visit from Sports Minister

SMK06721 — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:05:09 GMT

Sports Minister and Scottish Gymnastics CEO came EKGC

At the start of October we had the great honour of having Joe Fitzpatrick the Scottish Governments Sports Minister and Doc McKelvie the CEO of Scottish Gymnastics. This was as part of the Girls and Women in Sports Week. The club was being held up as a great example of what can be done to encourage girls into sport and to retain them in sport. We were also being used as a great example of what can be done with the subsidies that SportScotland provided to buy equipment in the new gym.

Mexico Here We come

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:54:33 GMT

Great News for Brenna and Mia

Brenna and Mia have been selected to be part of the GB Team taking part in the PanAmerica Acro Cup in Mexico in November. We really wish good luck from everyone at the club. It's such a great honour for this partnership and their coaches Kellyanne and Eilidh who are going along with them. All the very best to them all.

British Champions

SMK06721 — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:36:44 GMT

Acro and Tumble British Champions

At the moment we have two British Champions in the club! Recently our Acro Trio of Eva Ross, Caitlin MacKinnon and Abbie Mailey became British Champions at Grade 5 (they're now competing at 11-16).

And just recently Izzak Fish became Tumble British Champion at FIG Development - Men 15+

Huge congratulations to Izzak. We are all very proud !

Opening Weekend

SMK06721 — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:19:29 GMT

Opening weekend, open sessions

We were lucky to be joined by Dan Purvis the Olympic, British Scottish Champion. Dan kindly gave his time t the club and to all the gymnasts that attended the two open days. He signed autographs, he displayed his talents amd was an all round good guy and great ambassador for gymnastics. Thanks Dan for coming along and helping to make the open days a great success.

Official Opening

SMK06721 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:34:20 GMT

We had the official opening of the new gym on Friday 14th June

We had the official opening of the new gym on Friday 14th June attended by Linda Fabiani MSP, representatives from Scottish Gymnastics, Gymnova, councilors, funders, friends of the club and some of our life members.