January Birthdays

Birthday wishes for January go to:

Abbie Aitchison, Robyn Beecham (18), Max Brough, Abbey Close, Ewan Dyche, Ryan Evil, Ryan Fuller, William Giddings, Flynn Gillott, Haylee Jenkins-Weller, Harry Jervis, Jake Keightley, Ewan Lester, Holly Lewis, Jay Lord, Elliot Mansfield, Eve McGrenaghan, Lauren Moore, Vinay Newbould, Florence Orme, Ruby Pocock, Harrison Reed, Adam Rounce, Nya Sanderson, Evie Scott, Lauren Shipley, Matt Shipley, Georgia Stevens, Owen Thatcher, Cameron Thorpe, Georgia Tomlinson, Molly Townsend, Nathan Venn, Sachin Verma, Ava-Rose Walls, Georgia Warhurst, Grace Watt, Jake Welbourne, Evie Wharton, Caitlin Worthington, Harry Yorston and the over 18’s, Philippa Blackburn, Chris Hemstock, Emma McGrenaghan, Russel Pink, Peter Pink, Leon Scott, Shirley Taylor and Neil Williamson.


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Happy New Year

Kimberley Swimming Club wishes you all a happy, healthy and successful New Year.


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No.1

Matthew Shipley is currently ranked No.1 in the U.K for 10year old 50m Freestyle. At the recent Northampton Swimming Club winter festival he recorded a time of 30.06 which equals the all time 50m Freestyle record for this country.

Woooooosh go Matt!!

He is also No.1 in the country for 100m Free, 400m Free and 100m Back and in the top five for 100m Breast, 200m Breast, 200m Back, 200m and 400m I/M.

Well done Matthew.

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Membership Renewal

MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS - 2013

January sees the time for everyone to renew their membership of the club. Please assist us by renewing as soon as possible.

THE DEADLINE FOR RENEWALS IS 28^th FEBRUARY [should your fees not be paid by this date your membership will be lapsed and the £10 joining fee charged again]

We have kept our fees the same as last year and these are detailed below.

These are ‘full year’ memberships. Reduced rates apply to new members joining after March.

Category 1 members	Squad,improvers and small pool swimmers	£33.50
Category 2 members	Those registered to do Counties, Open Meets etc	£50.00
Category 3 associate members	3rd and subsequent members of the same family	£16.50
Category 3 associate non-swimming members	Staff (committee and poolside) and registered officials plus any adults who wish to become members	£13.75

The fees for our swimming sessions are as follows:

All main pool sessions (including Wednesdays)	£2.75
Teaching Pool (monthly)	£13.50
Extra session e.g. Diving/Turns	£1.75

Letter from Santa

1Reindeer Place

The North Pole

14^th December 2012

Dear all the Swimmers, Parents and Teachers at Kimberley Swimming Club

I thought I would just drop a note to you all to say thanks for letting me pop into your Swimming Presentation Evening last week, It was lovely that so many of you came to visit me and give me some last minute hints about what you would like for Christmas.

I have also opened all of the letters that you posted to me last week now and I spent a very nice afternoon with Mrs Claus drinking hot chocolate and reading through your notes on Sunday.

Everything is very white and sparkly here at the North Pole because it’s been snowing again. Some of the elves are outside throwing snowballs and Rudolph and the other reindeers are building a snowman. I wonder if I will be able to find any room in my sleigh on Christmas Eve to bring some of that snow with me when I visit Nottinghamshire It would be such fun to sprinkle a little on you all for Christmas day, although I have to say I don’t think I will be able to drop any in Tenerife, for Ellie, Chloe and Hollie Bis, as I am sure it would have melted by the time you wake up on Christmas morning.

I have a special message for Kaine Priestly – Kaine - I recall I did not have your name of my list of good children last Saturday, but I have double checked with my chief elf and he assures me your name is definitely on the good boys list so you can expect me to visit on Christmas Eve, sorry I missed you from the list last week.

Now, a few words about the things you wrote on the letters you posted to me.

·         It seems that a lot of you boys are hoping to get “Skylanders” this year, so, Corey, Drew, Daniel, Joe, Tom, Oscar and others, I will see what I can do.

·         There are a number of you who seem to especially enjoy reading, that’s really great news and Heidi, Joshua who loves Percy Jackson and Macy I might have just what you are hoping for on Christmas Eve.

·         I am relieved to say I have a good stock of CD’s DVD’s Nintendo DS and Wii games for Emily, Dominic, Courtney, Katie, Coral and Georgia

·         Evie Poxon and Lee – I don’t think I will be able to manage what you have asked for since neither of you are on the good children list AGAIN this year. Try harder next year.  

·         I have checked in my toy workshop and spotted that I have Gumball Machines, Baby Annabel Dolls, Charlie Bears,  All kinds of Hello Kitty stuff, Paint Boxes, Barbie Dolls, Disco Lights, Chocolate Coin Makers, Sequin Art Kits, Tatty Ted’s, and Racing Cars (any particular colour Tyler?) so that should keep Dana, Eve, Evie, Charlotte, Faye, Ellie, Ciara (not sure about high heel shoes, as you didn’t mention what size you need) Hollie, Freya, Mollie, Kelsie, Catherine, Zara, Saskia, Nina and Grace happy.

·         Josh who wants a Porsche 911 GT3 – I will do my best but I might need a lottery win to get one of these for you

·         Mobile phones, i.pad minis and i.pod touches are quite hard to get hold of this year, but I will keep trying Lauren, Ethan and Amy G.

Some of you didn’t actually mention what you would like to receive at Christmas so I think I will just bring some nice surprises for you Thomas, Amelia, Imogen, Chloe, Ella, Caitlin, Annie, Connie and Ellie K

Finally before I say goodbye to you all until Christmas Eve I need to let a couple of you whom I haven’t mentioned yet that your presents are too ambitious for me to attempt to get for you this year, so you need to re-think  what you would like, and you only have a few days to get your revised lists through to me.

Elliot C – I am not made of money and cannot afford to get you a soft top Mercedes, a private gym or a fancy house in Spain, and I am pretty sure you don’t need a “Hot House Maid,”  Think again sunshine!!

And Alan P – I would love to get you some new hair for Christmas, but I don’t think it would grow very well, so how do you fancy a few days off from swimming instead, and a bottle of beer.

Anyhow, now I must dash I have more presents to check and need to make sure the sleigh is shining as brightly as Rudolph’s nose before Christmas so I will say Goodbye for now and wish you all a very Happy Christmas    

Lots of love and Christmas sparkle from

                       Santa Claus

Presentation Night

Thanks to all who attended the presentation evening. We hope you all had a fab time.

Here are some links to the photographs that the disco people took on the night:

Promo Disco Service WebSite

You Tube Gallery


KSC


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December Birthdays

Birthday wishes for December go to:

Holly Appleby, Ben Barsby, Courtney Butters, Jessica Buttress, Chloe Cheetham, Charlotte Chester, Amelia Giles, Lauren Gill, Oliver Halford-Maw, Caira Herrett, Joseph Hodgson, Katie Horner, Tanisha Howell, Melanie Jenkins-Weller, Shaun Manchester, Holly Mansfield, Ben Marshall, Georgia Money, Lily Orme, Felix Orme, Ben Rockley, Amy Sheldon, Phoebe Skellett, Ciaran Smith, Paras Sohal, Lauren Thorpe, Jodie Vickerstaff, Ria Walker, Aston Walls, Tom Williams, and the adults Dawn Campion, Graham Cheese, Helen Reddish, Karen Worthington.


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AGM Reminder

A reminder that the clubs AGM takes place this Sunday Evening (2nd December) at 7.15p.m in the community room of the school.


Your views and opinions on the running of the Club are important and we hope you will come along to air these.




There will be a general swim only in the main pool on that evening.  Small pool sessions will go on as normal.


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Help Needed For Presentation Night.

If anyone can help “prepare” the awards on Sunday we can get into the mens dry side changing rooms to work from 10am on Sunday this week (2nd Dec) No idea how long this will take but any help is appreciated.
•    On the date of the presentation next sat (8th Dec) we can have access to the sports hall from 1pm to set up. Again any and all help is appreciated. please no small kids as there will be stuff everywhere and it could be dangerous, we will need help with the following.
o    Moving tables and chairs into place
o    Hanging drapes (if helpers have a small step ladder they can bring along with them it would be helpful)
o    Tables to decorate with covers etc,
o    Santas Grotto to put up
o    Awards to put out in correct order for presentation to winners.
o    “Christmas Props” to put in place and test to check they work.
o    Raffle to set up
o    General dogsbody work etc etc.
•    We will also need help at the end of the evening to remove all stuff from the sports hall as the Leisure Centre have a booking in there 1st thing on Sunday morning.


Thanks in advance.

KSC

Two requests from Nottinghamshire Sport

Dear All,
 
For the Nottinghamshire Sports Awards 2012 we would like to celebrate all the people from Nottinghamshire that have been involved with or were lucky enough to get tickets to go to the London Olympics and / or Paralympics.
 
To highlight the support that Nottinghamshire has contributed to the Games, we would like you to send us your pictures from the games so that we can use them as a backdrop for the awards. If there is anyone in your club who has been to the Olympics or Paralympics as a Gamesmaker or Official and have a picture in their uniforms or any members that have simply had tickets and got a photo in their Union Jack clothing, with flags or any merchandise at an Olympic venue or event, we want them!
 
Please send photos to the Nottinghamshire Sports Office email address sports@nottscc.gov.uk




Dear all,

There is just under a month left to nominate for the Nottinghamshire County Council Sports awards.

There are awards in the following categories:

Young Coach of the Year
Community Coach of the Year
Performance Coach of the Year
Team of the Year
Club of the Year
Young Volunteer of the Year
Volunteer of the Year
Junior Sportsperson of the Year
Junior Disabled Sportsperson of the Year
Junior Team of the Year
Sporting School of the Year
Roll of Honour Inductees
Disabled Sportsperson of the Year
 
Here is the link to nominate if you could take time out to do so like so many volunteers within clubs have done for you or to recognise someones achievements who's dedication and training you have seen first hand along with great sporting success achieved by a coach, school, team or club!

www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/enjoying/sport/sportsawards/


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Pantomime

Hello everyone

We have booked 50 tickets to the Nottingham Playhouse Panto - Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood - on Friday 28th December for the 7.30 p.m. performance.

Tickets will be allocated on a first-come/first-served basis on receipt of a £5 deposit per ticket so if you want to go, please see the desk or e-mail me [jean.granger@o2.co.uk] with your requirements.

The tickets are priced @ £20 per adult and £15 per child (0-15)

WE NEED A QUICK DECISION ON THIS AS THE SEATS ARE ONLY RESERVED UNTIL 23RD NOVEMBER 


Thanks
 Jean

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