Juvenile
Come And Join The Fun in 2021
Newtown GAA Club run the club nursery for children aged between 4 to 6 years of age every Saturday morning from 11.00 to 12:00 on the club pitch. The 2021 season kicks off on Saturday 1st May next. The Newtown nursery has grown over the last few years and each new year we welcome new face whom we hope will become like life-long members.
In the nursery the children are in a friendly, safe, and fun environment where they are showered with the skills of Gaelic Football, Hurling, & Camogie. Every Saturday morning there are different skills and exercises for the children to enjoy. The nursery intends to give boys and girls a basic foundation in the core skills of Gaelic football, Hurling & Camogie, where encouragement and support is offered to the kids by the mentors and coaches.
Structure of the Nursery
- Fun Warm Up Game (chasing based game, working on acceleration, deceleration, lateral movement, linear movement, agility, evasion skills and most of all FUN)
- Football Stations
- Drill based stations to work on technique
- Fun games stations
- ABC station to work on Fundamental movements
- Match stations to work on skills learned in a game environment
- Hurling Stations
Objectives of the Nursery
To encourage boys and girls to participate in playing football and hurling in a structured and fun environment by:
Ethos of the Nursery
The ethos of the Nursery is "skills with fun". In order to ensure that this ethos becomes a reality the following guidelines are applied to the hurling and football sessions:
We request that parents remain in the grounds for the duration of the training session
Parents are always more than welcome to help out at the various exercises and are made feel apart of everything, as Newtown GAA prides itself on being a friendly club and club is family. There is always a need for additional mentors & help, if anybody would like to volunteer, please make yourself known to Dominic or Ciaran on the Saturday morning, there is always a job to be done regardless of the qualification.
For information contact-
Ciaran Mc Guirl 0863028349. Dominic Leech 0866023330 or by E-mail on pronewtown@gmail.com
Give a call first or just arrive down next Saturday.
Annual Subscriptions
Subscriptions for 2021 are due at registration for the season (€20 per child). Members subscriptions cover insurance costs. Children are not insured to participate unless their subscriptions are fully paid. The club is managed and operated on a voluntary basis by the members. Monies received are utilised to fund the following:
Benefits of Membership:
Key information for the year 2021
- The Nursery runs from Saturday 1stMay 11.00 - 12:00
- It will run every Saturday weather permitting for a period of ~6months
- If the conditions outside are unplayable a text message/email will be sent out to cancel the session
CODES OF BEHAVIOUR
Code of Behaviour Juvenile Players