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CLUB NEWS

AVA, JEM AND MADDIE ENJOYING

AWARDS NIGHT

Great to have our new mezzanine

floor almost finished.

We are getting numerous

complaints from Fantastic

Furniture about our members

parking in their designated parks

under the covered area, please do

not park in their marked spots.

New uniforms in 2017

Launching our new app - School

Stream (check back page for details)

Check out the allstar news for all the latest gos, news, events, meet the athletes,

helpful information, p&f news...

Have you !!! checked the lost property lately

Let the office know if you are going to be

away

Paid your term or monthly fees

Entered the next event by the due date

Submitted forms for the holiday program

Latest additions to the website:

UNIFORM ORDERS

2017 CALENDAR

EASTER CARNIVAL ENTRY FORM

Sleepover forms & on the app

It never ceases to amaze me: HOW RESILIANT CHILDREN ARE, WE HAVE HAD OUR SHARE OF HOT DAYS AND OUR

AMAZING KIDS ARE STILL BOUNCING AROUND AFTER THEIR CLASS.

Just letting you know that I will be away during the last few weeks of February. I am sure the gym will

keep running well during my absence.

Allstar Gymnastics

PHONE 4632 4363 181 Bridge Street Toowoomba

enrolments@allstargymnastics.com.au

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The experts say that’s its never to0 late to

embrace exercise. Seniors who want to

stay strong, healthy and cut their risk of

chronic disease should get moving.

Aussies who embrace exercise in their later

years can reap a host of health benefits.

Wednesdays 9.30 to 10.30

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EVENTS Early years Open Day - 10th March 9.00 - 11.00am Please book in to help us cater. Easter Carnival - 12th March Times to be advised once entries are in. Entries close 25th Feb. MAG Sleepover - 25th March 3.30pm to 26th 10.00am WAG Sleepover - 12th April 2.00PM to 13th April 11.00 GK & KUKRI Uniform Orders close on the 14.4.2017

P & F News

Fundraising target for mezzanine floor

$30,000

$26,000

As you may have noticed work is

almost complete on the the new

mezzanine floor just the

cosmetics to do. What a great

effort by the P & F Group to get

this underway. We thank all the

parents for their commitment to

raising funds and supporting the

kids to have a better venue.

From the Presidents desk

The PnF held its annual general meeting this week and the incumbent office holders were reelected. Paul Randall is now in his second term as the PnF president and has four children currently attending gymnastics. Both the secretary Veronica McKeon and the treasurer Rhonda Hooper have sons in the MAG program and have been in their respective roles for the last two years..

Like many parents, we value the

lifelong skills and friendships that

our children acquire through the

challenging sport of gymnastics.

We are committed to creating a

strong Allstar Gymnastics

community through social events

and supporting gymnasts in

various ways. If you have any

ideas that you would like to

share with us, please leave a

message at the office.

P & F COMMITTEE Paul Randall (M)

Veronica McKeon (L) Rhonda Hooper (R)

EARLY YEARS NEWS

Our themes for Term 4 are

Weeks 1 /2 Up, Down, Through and around

Weeks 3 /4 Australian Animals

Weeks 5 / 6 Springtime

Weeks 7 / 8 Fairies and Wizards

Weeks 9 / 10 Christmas

You are most welcome to dress your child in

theme appropriate clothing if you wish.

Recently I attended a workshop called

Learning Connections. Aimed at anyone

who works with children, this course

stresses the connection between learning

and movement. The activities and exercises

shown to educators to use in the

classroom are exactly what we do here in

our Early years programs – spinning, rolling,

rocking, cross patterning, crawling,

balancing ec.

So……. Your children may look like they are

just having play time in our gym, but in

reality are learning valuable skills that will

assist them all future learning.

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Themes Weeks 5 and 6 – Space Theme. We will focus on Straight Shapes, Star shapes, Hang and Swing. Weeks 7 and 8 – Dinosaurs Theme. Gymnastics shapes using our favourite dinosaurs. Weeks 9 and 10 – Easter Theme. Roll like an Easter Egg. Hop like a bunny. Hang like a carrot.

Two fantastic Toowoomba parks you might not have visited for a while.

This weekend why not pack a picnic and head to Webb Park - it has 3 playgrounds, including a wonderfully long slippery slide and flying fox. A great chance to practice our strong hand grips ! There is a wonderful view and heaps of grass to roll about on.

Another great park is Newtown Park on Tor street. There is plenty of shade, a lovely balancing track made of wooden logs , a giant swing and climbing frame.

Early Years with Tania

What’s happening in

early years:

Movement and Learning

Studies have proven that physical activity contributes to

children’s ability to socialise, concentrate, cooperate and learn.

Fundamental movement skills are divided into three areas for

infants and toddlers.

Locomotor – moving from one place to another

Non Locomotor – where the body is stationary but different

parts move – eg balancing, spinning, pushing, reaching

Manipulative – using gross or fine motor movements to

engage with objects – eg throwing, kicking, catching

These fundamental movement skills need to be taught, and the

development of these skills offer many bonus’s such as muscle

toning, cognitive skills, special awareness, bone strength and

body awareness.

When your child attends a gymnastics class we focus on these

fundamental movement skills – balancing on beams, jumping on

trampolines, hopping on one foot, swinging around and hanging

from bars, catching and throwing, standing upside down and lots

lots more.

allstar kids love gymnastics

LIITTLE KIDS ROCK!

Meet: JEMMA FRANKE Age: 5 Favourite Apparatus: BARS, I GET TO DO MONKEY SWINGS What do you like about Gymnastics: MAKING NEW FRIENDS & JUMPING IN THE PIT.

MAG (Mens Gymnastics)

Welcome back to another exciting year with Allstar gymnastics. Thank you all for your patience during what has been a very busy rebooking time for 2017. I hope we are all settled into our new groups for term 1 and are ready for a big year. Competition season for our SNR boys is fast approaching with Regional championships at Brisbane grammar in 5 weeks. The Gymnasts are working hard on upgrading their routines in order to gain qualification into State championships and hopefully into the state team for Australian championships in Melbourne later in the year. Congratulations to Patrick Rudd on his competition performance with the Australian team over in Las-Vegas. Patricks team came 5th overall and he was able to achieve some apparatus placings as well. Due to popular demand the MAG program has organised a sleep over for All our Allstar members. 25th March 3.30pm to 26th March 10.00am $40.00 dinner and breakfast provided. Forms are on the website and the school stream app.

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The general gym program is having some

new things this term. We have welcomed

Lucy, Stacie, Alex and Helen to the

coaching staff and the boys have

welcomed them with open arms. Our

Gymnasts have been very receiving of

these new coaches and everyone involved

is loving the change.

Speaking of change, the Levels of General

Gym is in the process of an overhaul and

will see more skills and more

opportunities to perform these routines

and skills for spectators. All the boys

involved will be aiming to demonstrate

these new routines at the upcoming

Easter competition on the 12th of March.

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MAG NEWS

Meet: THOMAS RANDALL

AGE: 5

Favourite Appartus: RINGS

What I love about Gymnastics:

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Meet— Aidan O’leary 15 years old Training Level 7 open for 2017 competition season. Aidan has been a member of Allstar gymnastics for the last 10 years and has represented his club at state championships 8 times. Aidan’s favourite apparatus is rings and he enjoys learning new skills and pushing his limits.

FEBRUARY GIRLS GENERAL GYM NEWS

General Gymnastics with Tegan

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GYM FUN NEWS

Meet: Mia Callachor

Level: 6 General Gym Favourite Apparatus: Bars What I love about gymnastics: I love the way you work really hard while still having fun. Achievements: pullover, Handstand pop, dish to arch hang and cast on bars

Gymfun is an educational gymnastics program that incorporates elements of all gymnastics disciplines. It is relevant for children between the ages of 4-6 and offers the perfect complement to any sporting or lifestyle activity. Gymfun is inspired by the national “Gymnastics For All” program that encourages participants to enjoy a range of apparatus and activities including Trampoline, Bars, Beam, Vault and Floor. Gymfun focuses on fundamental movement patterns that help children to progress onto the more advanced skills or sports. Our Gymfun games and activities are safe and encourage children to work together as a team and to also build self esteem.

Welcome back to 2017 everyone—it has been a busy three weeks to start the term with lots of new faces joining us and many more known faces returning for another year of Gymnastics FUNdamentals, Fitness, and Friendships. At Allstars we pride ourselves on being able to focus on enriching the lives of all our members in many different ways. We primarily focus on the teaching of quality gymnastics however we provide the opportunities for our gymnasts to grow individually into confident, disciplined and adaptable people that are ready to tackle anything they set their minds to. One way we do this is by fostering the growth of friendships. Childhood friendships are incredibly important as they provide children so many benefits including (but not limited to)...

All of these things will in turn help increase your child’s wisdom, confidence, self esteem and adaptability to different situations. It also leaves them with some very special memories for when they are reminiscing about their childhood later in life. You may notice our Pre-Warm Up activities beginning at 3.20pm (or 8.50am on Saturdays); this is an excellent time for your children to get to know all of our coaches, as well as build friendships with their team mates and children from other classes in a fun environment. If you are finding your son or daughter is a bit shy at the beginning of the lesson or is having trouble making friends in their class this is a great time for them to have some fun and make friends, sit and watch to help feel a bit more settled or have a chat with some coaches or teammates without the pressure of needing to participate.

Relying on a support system and being able to provide support to those in

need

The value of true friendship

Team work Patience

Develops life skills

Increase sense of belonging and purpose

Increased happiness

MEET THE NEW CLUB CAPTAIN ALANAH BROOM

Level: 8 Favourite Apparatus: FLOOR & BEAM What I love about gymnastics: I LOVE LEAPING & TURNING, DOING SKILLS THAT DISPLAY FLEXIBILITY Goals: Compete Level 10, become stronger

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WHATS HAPPENING - Lots of Hot Weather

WAG Sleepover in the holidays

Senior Girls start their COMP season very soon…………………

Testing for our Junior Programs will be coming up soon

Make sure you have a training Leotard

Parent info night coming on the 9th of March

JUNIOR COMP TEAMS NEWS Term 1 is all about Physical Preparation and skill learning. Sleepover coming up girls, make sure you get your item ready for the x factor talent show. Our Testing day will be coming up soon, so work hard on that strength and flex.

VANESSAs COLUMN FEATURE ATHLETE AT TOP

MEET: NAOMI MCEVOY LEVEL 5 FAVOUTIE APPARATUS: Beam WHAT I LOVE ABOUT GYMNASTICS: Everything GOALS: Front Layout double twist HOBBIES: drawing, Touch, kung Fu and Ninja Kick

COMPETITION LEVELS NEWS

WAG NEWS (Womens Gymnastics)

It’s been a busy start to the year already and

we are only finishing week 3!

The senior gymnasts are in competition

preparation already with their first practice

event being held on 11th March in Brisbane.

The girls have been working hard trying to

master all of their new skills for this year.

There are always some “crash” landings

during this time but to their credit they keep

getting up and coming back for more. Keep up

the great work ladies - we are nearly there!

You may have seen that the 2017 competition

nomination forms have been sent out. Thank

you to those who have already returned this

but if you haven’t please do so asap as your

child will not be nominated for events without

the return of this form.

Even through we are only in February it feels like the girls in the Levels program have been in the gym and making achievements for much longer. It was great to see the girls pushing through the heat during the holidays to use their time in the near empty gym—this is such a great opportunity for the girls as it allows them to be a bit free-er with their training while they have the chance to spread out across apparatus and spend some extra time focusing on the areas they need to. Well done to all the girls who have been celebrating strength, flexibility and skill improvements over the last few weeks, we are all very excited to see how many more great things these Allstar Gymnasts can achieve in 2017!

MEET: UNA VAN HEERDEN

LEVEL 5 FAVOUTIE APPARATUS: BEAM WHAT I LOVE ABOUT GYMNASTICS: GOOD EXERCISE, ITS FUN, IT’S A GOOD WAY TO USE YOUR TIME

DOWNLOADING THE APP 1. From your mobile device go to The App Store (iPhone/iPad) or Google Play (Android), search for School

Stream and download the app to your phone

2. Once School Stream has finished installing, open the app, type your school name into the search THEN select

your school

If you are prompted to accept push notifications, you will need to select O

SETTING UP THE APP iPhone/iPad: Slide right and tap Setup Groups.

Android: Slide right and tap Setup Groups.

You can also find this feature in Settings > My Schools > Select your school > choose the groups you wish to view

LAUNGAGES School Stream translates into over 80 languages, you can access the translation feature from the slide-in menu under Settings > Translate Content. Then simply select your preferred language.

OTHER TIPS

School Stream uses Push Notifications to deliver you information. When asked be sure you say yes to push notifications.

If a new notification is received while using the app, you can view the recent notifications from the red badge icon in the top right.

The Recent Updates item in the slide-in menu will show all the recent notifications.

School Stream requires location permissions so we can provide map functionality for events. Enable location access so you have access to map directions.

iPhone/iPad: You can customise the way a push notification is delivered by opening your iPhone Settings > Notifications > School Stream and choosing an option.

If you are experiencing problems or feel you are missing notifications, try this quick process to refresh the app. Slide right to open the slide-in menu > Settings > Clear Data > Clear All >Back/Done. This resets your app and will refresh all content. Note: This will also remove your group notification preferences.

Smart devices are just like a computer, when too many apps are open performance is affected in many different ways. Force closing apps and occasional resets of your device will ensure the best performance and prevent some problems.

Allstars has a new app for 2017

All of our News, Alerts, information will be available on the app