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Spring 2007

JUNIOR NEWSLETTER SPRING 2007

Happy New Year. We hope you have all had a great Christmas and have been putting in lots of tennis practice down at the club. Junior Social starts again on Friday 23rd February.

Dates for your diary

Friday Tennis Social:

23rd Feb – 30th March	Easter Party
20th April – 25th May
8th June – 17th August	EXTENDED DURATION OF FRIDAY SOCIALS
7th Sept – 19th Oct
2nd Nov – 14th Dec	Christmas Party

You will notice that we are now intending to run the Friday social during the summer holidays, as this is a better time for tennis and encourages the juniors to play during the summer holidays.

Junior Closed Tournament 8th July and 14th July - This is the tournament just for members of the club. Details of how to enter will follow later.
BBQ and prize giving 14th July

Open Tennis Tournament 20th-24th August - This is a huge tournament where lots of very good players come from all over the country. Do feel free to come and watch and be inspired.

We thought it would be useful to let you know what you get for your membership:

Full Junior Member and Full Mini Member:

Tennis all year round
You are entitled to come and play tennis at any time during the year. You can bring friends or play with another member of the club. If you bring a friend who is not a member, remember that they will need to pay the visitors fee of £2.50 to play. You can do this by buying a stamp costing £2.50 (£1, 50p, 20p and 10p coins accepted) from the machine in the foyer opposite the office and sticking this into the visitor’s book which is on the shelf below the machine. If you want to play on the courts during the winter when it is dark you will need money for the lights. £1 gives you 15 minutes of light. You will need to change the £1 for a token from the machine in the foyer and then put the token into the lights machine for the court you are going to use. The light machines are located on the wall opposite the office. Remember to ask any adult for help if required. Just remember that on Courts 1-6 priority is given to adults and to organised lessons/club activities, so you may be asked to vacate these courts for the outside courts if it is a busy time.

Friday Tennis Social
You are entitled to join the coach led tennis socials on Friday evenings. Younger members up to and including year 6 have the earlier session from 5-7pm. Older members ie those at secondary school have a session from 7-9pm. These sessions are free to members. Guests are permitted on an occasional basis (up to a maximum of 6 times) on payment of the £2,50 visitor fee and signed in by a member, but are expected to join as club junior members if attending regularly as the socials are provided for club members.

Saturday Tennis Social
You are entitled to come and join the family social playing, tennis on a Saturday afternoon between 3-5pm when there will be a helper available to play tennis with the juniors while the adults are playing tennis. Juniors under 11years old must not be left at the club alone during Saturday social as we do not have a signing in and out procedure or any supervision arrangements. The Coach on duty will integrate junior members into doubles matches when they feel that the junior has reached the standard to enjoy these games.

Junior Squash
You are entitled to book a court online £2.50 for 45mins. Probably best to get your parents to do this for you as the money is taken by Direct Debit each month for courts used.
Sunday afternoon from 1.30pm-5pm 3 sessions. £4 to play. Contact Julian Craxton on 07711 748557 for times of groups and read the newsletter sent out by the club.
Wednesday 3.45pm -5.15pm 2 sessions. £4 to play. Contact Derek Thorpe on 07887 560601 for further details.

Improve your tennis and squash by having lessons with our coaches. Contact Gee on 07793319847 for tennis or Derek Thorpe on 07887 560601 and Julian Craxton on 07711748557 for squash. They can give you advice on lessons available and costs.

FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD

We have had lots of requests to provide food again during the Friday socials, so with a little help we hope to be able to have pizza and possibly other foods, available each week. Remember to bring some money.
In order to provide the food consistently we felt it best to make the food provision part of the Friday night social parent helper rota. This is of course a new arrangement and we are asking for everyone’s help and co-operation to see if we can get it to work.

Parent Helper / Food Rota

The parent helper rota, which includes a parent allocated for the responsibility of providing food, has been sent out recently and can be viewed on the notice board in the foyer. If you are unable to do the allocated time then please could you swap with another helper. A list of all members and their telephone numbers can be found in the foyer of the tennis club.

Details of what is involved were included with the rota and just for clarification we are hoping that the parent on the food rota will not mind buying the pizzas for their session and reimbursing themselves from the float /takings. Please remember to bring your receipt as this helps our accounting procedures.

Mini Tennis

Ever wondered what mini tennis is all about, then take a look at the mini tennis website which explains the Red, Orange and Green levels. http://www.minitennis.com. RLTSC will be adopting the full mini tennis programme from Easter this year. This will include the introduction of the awards for each level. In addition to this Gee will be arranging Mini tennis match play for Friday nights.

Minutes

Minutes of the last junior committee meeting, held on the 25th January, will be posted on the board at the club. If you have any comments about the issues raised and would like to take a more active role in the running of the junior section, please feel free to come and join us at the next committee which will be held at the club on the 6th March at 8pm. You do not have to be an adult member of the club to join the junior committee.