End of Term 3

15th September

School holidays

18th—29th September

Term 4 starts

2nd October

Food Fiesta

28th October

Dates to remember

Gymnastics News

This term in Kindergym we've found the green sheep,

rescued puppies with Dora, and were super heroes

flying around the gym!

Our tots are working on their balance on the high

beam, their grip strength swinging on the bar, and their

jumping on different types of trampoline and boards.

If you have a three year old that's ready to be more

independent and step away from mum Tots Plus is the

class for you! While we do the same circuit as the Gym

Tots class our Tots Plus class gets kids ready for Mini

Gym once they turn 4. Instead of going around the

circuit with your little one, you stay at one station and help the kids go around.

If you're interested, ask your Kindergym coach for more details. Our big kid Mini Gymers

have started working on backwards rolls, handstands and bunny hops for our cartwheels.

"Kindergym - learning through play"

Kinder Gym

Child Care News

Pre-Kindy

Playschool

Childminding

Don’t forget our Childminding area is also open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from

8:30am – 10:45am. No bookings required.

Vacation Care

September/October 2017

Wow it’s September already!!

Term 3 is nearly behind us with

Term 4 just around the Corner.

We’ve had some real highs at

Y-West over the past few

months – HUGE CONGRATS

to our wonderful Gymnasts

who took part at the YMCA

Brisbane Sherelle Graham

Challenge. This Challenge is

very important to us at Y-West as it’s named after our very

own Sherelle Graham who steered the Gymnastics Program

for 30 something years. Well Done Y-West gymnast you

made us proud!

Centre Director News

Westside Dance News

Let’s dance!

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Our mailing address is:

YMCA Jamboree Heights

Phone: 07 3376 4266

76 Andaman Street

Jamboree Heights, Qld 4074

Australia

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PrYme Movers Launch

We have just completed our second 12 week

Cancer Survivor Program with great results

amongst the participants.

Many improved their cardiovascular fitness,

strength, flexibility and overall health over the

course of the program and will now enter our

phase two program.

Our phase two program is an ongoing mem-

bership which gives our Cancer Survivor Pro-

gram graduates the opportunity to continue

to train as a group as they return to health.

Our latest 12 week Cancer Survivor Program started on Monday August 28 and we are

looking for more participants! This program is free for anyone who is currently or has in the

past experienced cancer.

Training sessions are at 10am on Monday and Thursday mornings. These sessions include a

mix of cardio, strength and flexibility training and are designed so that participants can work

at a pace that is comfortable for them.

Please contact the centre if you would like more information or to sign up!

Cancer Survivor Program

We want to train you!

Make 2017 your year and achieve the health, fitness and body you want!

Our personal trainers are ready and willing to train you to help you achieve your goals. Our

trainers will design a training program specifically for you, your needs and goals and use a

variety of training techniques to help you achieve them.

Please visit us at reception or call 3376 4266 for more information.

Sporting Schools at Y-West

Gym Free Play Classes

Looking for a way to engage your child in an exciting environment?

Want to develop your child's balance, coordination, strength and

social skills?

\YMCA Jamboree Heights now offers a one hour unstructured gym

play class for kids under six years of age!

Casual classes, pay on the day, no commitment necessary!

All kids must be accompanied by a parent.

This Class focuses on strength, flexibility, balance and coordination and it is a great oppor-

tunity to keep fit in a fun and alternative way developing skills on all gymnastics apparatus

(Rings, Pommel, Bars, Beam, Vault, Trampoline and Sprung floor).

It improves posture, body awareness and range of motion.

Leave the routine, try something new! Our Adult Gymnastics classes are running on

Wednesdays 6:30pm to 8:00pm, call us on 33764266 to book your class!

YMCA Sherelle Graham Challenge 2017

Adult Gymnastics Classes at Y-West

We would like to thanks all clubs participating in the 3rd YMCA Sherelle Graham Challenge

carried out last weekend at Y-West. This is an event aimed to promote team spirit, celebrate

participation in the sport and highlight the YMCA Values. This is a YMCA Inter-Club Competi-

tion.

Bowen Hills, Acacia Ridge, Caloundra, Victoria Point and Stafford were the YMCA clubs pre-

sent in this competition bringing together around 200 gymnasts.

All gymnasts had a great time not only competing but sharing their skills with the YMCA gym-

nastics family.

Y-West proudly took the cup once again with great results in both MAG and WAG disciplines

(Results can be found on our website and on the gymnastics hall printed)

Our PrYme Movers program kicked off for our community members who are 50 and over.

Health and wellbeing is very important as we move into our retirement years and YMCA is

passionate about providing health and fitness to all ages, including our over 50’s. We have 6

dedicated classes per week for our PrYme Movers Community. Thank you to Barbara Marks

who is driving the program and for all the work she has put in, this includes taking a trip down

to our YMCA Manningham Centre in Victoria to view their PrYme Movers program that has 44

classes per week which are dedicated to their Senior Community.

We are very excited for our 2nd Annual Food Fiesta coming up on Saturday 28th October.

Our goal is to raise $10,000 for our Cancer Survivor Program. We almost all have a loved one

who is fighting or surviving Cancer. At YMCA we are helping those who have crossed paths

with Cancer both Physically and Mentally with our FREE Cancer Survivor Program. Our Fiesta

will have live entertainment on stage from 3pm to 9pm, we will also have in our Gymnastics

Hall a Disco for $5 per child – children over the age of 7 are able to be left for an hour and a

half supervised, so mum and dad can go an enjoy the fiesta kid free. Being that it’s Hallow-

een we will also have a Halloween Hub that will have Face Painting (only $2) and Sand Art ($5

per child) for all kids to enjoy. All monies raised will go towards providing special equipment

for our survivors and to help us offer survivors Health and Wellbeing at no cost to them. We

will also have lots of yummy food stalls from all over the world.

From the 3 October we will be running a raffle to be drawn at our Fiesta towards our $10,000

goal. 1st Price will be $1000 for 2018 Recreational Programs (Dance, Gymnastics, Limited

Hours Care, Playschool and Judo), we also will have other prizes like family pass to Australia

Zoo, Family pass to Aussie World, Family Photo shoot by Alive and Clicking Photography to

the value of $600, one term of Recreational Program fees (to the value of $200). We will be

sending out a book of tickets to all our families, please help support our program.

Spreading is Caring is back!! We are asking for donations of Strawberry Jam, Honey and

Cornflakes for our YMCA School Breakfast program, we have been providing our SE QLD

Kids with breakfast – their most important meal of the day since 2006. We have a table at

reception for your donations.

During the last year, Y-West has been delivering gymnastics programs to the local communi-

ty through the Sporting Schools programs. Students from different schools such a Brisbane

Independent School, Australian Islamic College and the Good news school have enjoyed

gymnastics as a part of their sport education classes at the school. More than 230 students

between 4 to 16 years old have been beneficed with Y-West programs through around 30

gymnastics sessions at the school.

Y-West is a registered provider of the Sporting Schools program, an initiative of the Australi-

an Sports Commission. We are proudly committed with bring the sport to the community.

Gymnastics, a sport for everyone!

We are very proud here at Jamboree Heights to have started the PrYme Movers program.

The classes are designed for participants 50 years and over. As a large percentage of

members at YMCA are in this age bracket and we feel we can offer a specific type of fitness

and training in a safe, friendly and motivational environment.

Our classes are designed to suit a range of fitness levels and incorporate strength, cardio,

and flexibility, balance with benefits of bone strengthening. The program is designed to

reduce risks of many conditions such as osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes, dementia to

name but a few.

We have had a good response on our launch week with many members coming to our sam-

ple classes. We also had 2 seminars. On Monday it was on benefits of exercise, followed

by morning tea. The other on Wednesday was on bone health.

We hope you can come along and join us soon. Some classes will be in the group fitness

room, and others upstairs in the main gym area. We will include social outings on a regular

basis with some exercise component and food of course!

See reception for details on PrYme Movers or have a chat with myself or Travis at the gym.

Look forward to moving with you soon!!

Barbara Mark

Team Leader PrYme Movers

Term 4 will resume on Tuesday the 3rd of October and will be full of exciting activities, more

gymnastics and as the weather heats up there will be lots of water play! Towards the end of

the term we will prepare for our annual Christmas concert which will see us performing songs

with actions to a room full of adoring parents. This will be followed by a party and a visit from

someone very special in a red suit. I wonder who that could be!

Playschool have had a fantastic turn out this term! Parents and children have formed lasting

relationships and have been able to enjoy each others company whilst learning and playing.

The theme for Playschool has been "Let's read a book" and has been a great success. Next

term is going to involve more arts and craft, water play and loads of Christmas craft.

Vacation care is right around the corner from Monday 18th of September through to and

including Friday 29th September.

We have an action packed program ready to go with 4 days dedicated to Gymnastics an

excursion to Robelle Domain Water Park with a sausage sizzle for lunch plus our Incursions

which include Hungerball inflatable soccer, Karaoke 4 Kids holiday idol workshop and a Hip

Hop and Breakdancing workshop with one of our very own dance teachers from Westside

Dance. Not to mention loads of crafts, games, sports and activities to keep the children enter-

tained throughout the holiday break. Book in quick to secure your spot in this amazing pro-

gram especially designed to keep your children active and entertained.

Fitness News

Vacancies are limited, please ring the Child Care Director on 3376 4266 to find out

more about these fantastic Children's Programs!

KIDS ART GALLERY

September is here and it has been a busy term, we had so much to do!

Pre-Kindy have had a wonderful term investigating story books, building friendships, creating

artwork and engaging in dramatic play. We have also been learning new moves in our Dance

lessons with Sarah and building on our strength and co-ordination in our Jumping Joeys

Gymnastics classes with Maike! In these last two weeks of term we will be finishing off our

literacy rich unit with ‘STOP, Elephant, Stop’ by Andrea Shavick and ‘Teddy Bears Picnic’

by Jimmy Kennedy. In week 9 we had superhero activities in our Gymnastics lesson and then

finished off the term in week 10 with a Teddy bears picnic party lunch. Class photos also were

taken in the last week of term to document the wonderful year we have had!

We have had a busy couple of months preparing for some

of our performances. Most of our classes performed at the

Jindalee State School Fete a couple of weeks ago. This

was our second performance this year and the students

did an amazing job. It was wonderful to see how much they

had improved on stage since our last performance earlier

in the year. Our next performance will be our end of year

concert which will probably be at the end of November. We

are still seeking a venue so if anyone knows of a great local

auditorium or school hall please let us know.

Our next holiday workshop will be on the 18th-21st of Sep-

tember and we are looking forward to meeting lots of new dancers and seeing many familiar

faces. We have organised a variety of themed dance days such as street styles, Broadway

and circus skills. It will be a lot of fun!