I hope this email finds you well.
I am delighted to announce that we are today launching our Junior Summer Holiday Camp Programme through July and August. The current measures and likely further relaxation of these measures has given us the opportunity to do so. We are still very aware that these camps won't run completely as 'normal' and we will have a few additional safety measures in place in order to adhere to the latest guidelines. A few examples -
-Hand sanitation/cleaning of hands before and after camp each day
-Clear sign in and out points, clear instructions before the day emailed to parents of all the measures in place
-All participants to book online in advance only so ratio's and spaces/bubbles are managed and planned ahead
-Ensuring those who have coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms do not attend. This also applies if a member of their family have symptoms or if they have been advised by NHS Test & Trace as 'a close contact' to isolate at home
-Encouraging coaches and children attending to clean their hands more often than usual, including before and after activities and before and after using toilet/washroom facilities
-Cleaning frequently touched surfaces more often than usual
-Increased frequency of cleaning of toilets and washrooms
-Allocated drop off and collection times and the process for doing so (will be emailed prior to the camp starting)
-All Day camps only to mitigate social contacts throughout the day
-Children attending the setting are in small, consistent groups of no more than 15 children and one or two staff members/coaches
-A daily risk assessment is completed
The full list can be seen on our Holiday Camp page. Of course the landscape is ever changing and we will endeavour to make our camps as safe as possible for the children and for our coaches. If we feel for any reason that we cannot adhere to the latest guidelines or that safety is compromised in any way due to situations out of our control then our camps will not run, if this occurs every booking will have a choice of a full refund or a credit for a future camp.
However we are very optimistic that everything will be able to take place as we have planned. We are currently running private and ad hoc small group sessions and have been doing so for a number of weeks now successfully.
Players will be placed in groups/bubbles of similar ages and standards throughout, we are catering for ages 5 up to 15.
If you already had a booking from Easter Camp and would like to transfer this over to the Summer Camp please get in touch asap and we are happy to do a like for like swap for any prior bookings.
Members and Non-Members welcome for all Camps and total beginners are always catered for (plus rackets can be borrowed FOC, if players have their own racket please bring it as all rackets borrowed need to be cleaned daily). Please see the link for full information and booking-
https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/AndoverCoaching/Coaching/Camps
We hope that the situation will continue to improve and that in due course we will also be able to relaunch our coaching programme for juniors and adults, we are aiming at potentially an August restart and will email separately regarding this.
We are expecting demand to be high so please book in early. We will only accept bookings made in advance online.Initially we are only accepting 15 players per day, this may be increased if restrictions allow.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to email
Josh
Andover Lawn Tennis Club Coaching
