JUNIOR TRAINING

Junior Training resumes from 8^th September – in a “Covid Secure Environment”

Under current government legislation and England Athletics guidelines, we are allowed to resume group training as long as we operate in a “COVID-19 secure environment”.

The latter involves us undertaking a COVID-19 action plan and risk assessments to help minimise risks of Covid-19 infection to athletes, coaches, parents & the public.

You may want to have a look at the current versions of these documents which can be downloaded from our website page here.

There will be some changes in the way we operate from 8^th September as you will gather from these documents.  In particular………..

• 0ur base from 8^th September until the 20^th October will be Settle College Playing Fields (behind the swimming pool). Giggleswick School are currently not accepting outside bookings
• we won’t have access to any indoor area including toilets
• we may have to impose a limit on the number of juniors we can cater for, at least to start with.  We will decide this after we know how many children wish to attend (see questions in red below for you to answer)
• it will not be possible for juniors to attend training without our prior agreement
• we hope to run 4 groups – subject to availability of coaches and assistants.
• juniors will be allocated a training group and coach before the 1^st session and on arrival they will report direct to that coach
• there will no mixing of the 4 groups
• we will expect juniors to be even better behaved than in normal circumstances (!) and to listen carefully to instructions
• juniors, coaches and parents will need to be socially distanced (ie 2 metres+ apart) both before, during and after the session
• training sessions will be modified to try and ensure that juniors stay 2m + apart
• we will be asking parents to make drop-off and pick-up of children as speedy a process as possible.  Please do not linger for a chat with other parents etc – as this may look to others like a “social gathering”
• parents of all children wishing to attend will have to complete the “pre-activity health questionnaire” for their child before the first session and agree to us passing on contact details to NHS Track and Trace service if requested
• if government guidance changes or if local restrictions are imposed, we may of course have to suspend training sessions again. We will monitor the Covid situation & guidance closely

Because of all these extra complications and the possible need to limit numbers, we need to know as soon as possible whether your child WOULD OR WOULD NOT like to  take part in junior training from Tuesday 8^th September until 20^th October (session time 5.45pm until 6.45m as before).

JUNIOR TRAINING FROM 8^th SEPTEMBER UNTIL 20^th OCTOBER (Venue: Settle College Playing fields)