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This Saturday 3rd December

Below are some general details and info for this Saturday:

• Start times:  8:15AM for U6 – U8s (NO SECOND SESSION)

• Set up help: Parents of U8 GIRLS are on set up – please make the effort to arrive at 7:20am to help out. All other parents are requested to help with pack-up from 10am please.
• Your individual registration number: Please make sure your child is wearing it! It makes it very hard for us to be inputting children’s details at the end of a race without their tag. Much more efficient to scan!
• Coffee van: Not this week unfortunately. But you can get your caffeine fix locally from Thomas Street Grocery (116A Thomas St).
• BBQ: Yes! The parents of U6 BOYS are on BBQ cooking duty this weekend.
• Bananas: YES! We have lots of free bananas each week (donated from Coles) – make sure you grab some.
• Merchandise: No sales on the day, but any online orders can be picked-up.
• Wet weather: Check out the wet weather button on our website (in the top left hand corner), which we will update at 7.30am on Saturday mornings if the weather is concerning.
• Program: Here is the program for this week – CLICK HERE
• Donations of old uniforms: If you have any uniforms that your children have outgrown, please drop them in to our merch area. We all love to recycle and reuse! There’s a planet out there to look after.

Next Saturday 10th December session

Saturday 10th December is our last session for the year, and will include a Christmas theme. We are also inviting Brighton Little Aths to join us because they have to leave their track to allow for Dendy Carols Preparations.

Last Saturday 26th November

A FREE Grill’d Voucher for every member!

The newly opened Grill’d Hampton has joined us as one of our Community Partners for the 2022 / 23 Season. How good is that?!

For the month of December, Sandy Little Athletics Club will be one of 3 Community Clubs that will be participating in their well known “Local Matters Community Program”, a program designed to give back to the Community.

We are gifting every Sandy Little Athletics Club member with a Free Voucher for either a Grill’d Hampton Burger or Salad – WHO DOESN’T LOVE FREE STUFF?

In order to increase our chances of winning the Local Matters Program, we ask that you use your voucher in store during the month of December. You will be given tokens in store when you visit Grill’d. Please allocate these to Sandy Little Aths. The more tokens, the higher chance our club has of winning.  If we win, we receive a donation of funds from Grill’d which will help assist our club.

To collect your FREE Voucher please visit the Canteen at the track on either Saturday 3rd or Saturday 10th of December.

Inaugural Sandy Little Aths On-line Auction

• A round of golf for 4 at Royal Melbourne Golf Club
• Australian Open tickets
• x4 Tickets Symphony No.3 – Celebration of Dance Music
• Sporting memorabilia
• Vouchers from local businesses and restaurants
• $400 Levi’s voucher
• BMW branded luggage
• Camping & sporting equipment
• A Fitbit watch
• 3 month Goodlife gym membership

Have fun on Saturday under 6s-8s. And go Sandy in the relays!

Regards,

SLAC Committee
e: sandringham@lavic.com.au
m: 0413 705 357

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This Saturday 26th November

Below are some general details and info for this Saturday:

• Start times:  8.15am for U6 – U9  &  10am for U10-U17

• Set up help: Parents of U6 GIRLS are on set up – please make the effort to arrive at 7:20am to help out. Parents of U10 BOYS are on pack-up duty.
• Coffee van: YES!
• BBQ: Yes! The parents of U9 BOYS are on BBQ cooking duty this weekend.
• Bananas: YES! We have lots of free bananas each week (donated from Coles) – make sure you grab some.
• Merchandise: YES! So come and grab your singlets and hoodies.
• Wet weather: Check out the wet weather button on our website (in the top left hand corner), which we will update at 7.30am on Saturday mornings if the weather is concerning – and again at 9.15am so as to cover the second session.
• Program: Here is the program for this week – CLICK HERE
• Team App: Don’t forget that you can access all our club info, news and documents through the Stack Team App. To download the app simply visit www.teamapp.com/app

Saturday 3rd and 10th December sessions

On 3rd December, the Southern Metro Region relay competition is being held. As a result, we only hold a program for Under 6-8s as the rest of the membership are participating in relays.  This program will be modified for U6 – U8 athletes, as we have most of the Sandringham Little Athletics committee at relays.

Saturday 10th December is our last session for the year, and will include a Christmas theme. We are also inviting Brighton Little Aths to join us because they have to leave their track to allow for the Dendy Park Christmas Carols preparations.

Mentone relays – we smashed it!

Region Track and Field Carnivals (18/19 February) – registrations are open

Registrations are now open for the Region Track and Field Carnivals for this season which will be held on 18 and 19 February 2023.

Athletes are allowed to choose up to 5 of their favourite events and enjoy participating in them alongside other athletes from Centres within their Region. We are in the Southern Metro Region (SMR) and will be competing against other clubs at Duncan Mackinnon Reserve, Murrumbeena.

These events are open to children in the Under 9 to Under 17 age groups and also include events available exclusively for Multi-Class athletes.

Each registered Little Aths member would have received an email providing further details on this event. Have a look on the website for more details & info – click here

Photos – you asked, we deliver!

A number of you have asked for photos of recent events – please follow the links below:

Mentone Relay Day

Coles Community Day

Please also note that we have a number of members who do not consent to photographs/videos being taken of them.

Please respect their personal request for this and be aware such athletes are identified with a red line across their competition patch and a coloured wrist band. Checking with others if they don’t mind a photo being taken is always a good first option.

Catch you on Saturday everyone…

Regards,

SLAC Committee
e: sandringham@lavic.com.au
m: 0413 705 357

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This Saturday 19th November

Below are some general details and info for this Saturday:

• Start times:  8am for U6 – U9  &  10am for U10-U17

• Set up help: Parents of U7 BOYS are on set up – please make the effort to arrive at 7:20am to help out. Parents of U12 GIRLS are on pack-up duty.
• Coffee van: YES!
• The ‘PB Wall’ is back: The PB wall is returning this week. This is a much loved focus at our club where everyone gets a star against their name on the wall, for a PB each week.  If they get more than 1 per session, a number is written down on the star for how many PBs they received.  We will have random spot prizes to say well done on our PB wall.
• Coles BBQ: Yes! The parents of U9 GIRLS & U11 BOYS are on BBQ cooking duty this weekend.
• Bananas: YES! We have lots of free bananas each week (donated from Coles) – make sure you grab some.
• Merchandise: Sandy Merch is making a full comeback on Saturday, so come and grab your singlets and hoodies.
• Wet weather: Check out the wet weather button on our website (in the top left hand corner), which we will update at 7.30am on Saturday mornings if the weather is concerning – and again at 9.15am so as to cover the second session.
• Program: here is the program for this week – CLICK HERE and please note that we will also run 200m & 300m hurdles. These will start at 10am sharp – but only if you let us know that you want to do them ahead of time, so please email us at sandringhampresident@lavic.com.au to confirm

Parent duty allocated roster starts in January

As we mentioned last week, unfortunately we have not been receiving the required number of parents signing-up to run the sessions and signing up for duties.

The volunteer rostering is therefore changing from January.  We will add your name to the weekly list of jobs needed on 4 occasions over the season (less if we know you have already done duty).  We know some of you have already done 4 duties and others are happy to help more often  – thank you, we appreciate the help as the Committee are stretched on all fronts!

We have sourced a Community Shopping Pack which we will give to those members who do their 4 rounds of duty   – if you have 2 kids at sandy, that is 8 duties, and 2 shopping packs.  If you believe you have done your 4 already, please liaise with Nicole directly on sandringhampresident@lavic.com.au.  The Community Shopping Pack consists of several vouchers you can use within the Bayside Area.

Please also remember that our Coaches are there to COACH, not parent or act as crowd control!

State Combined Athletes – well done!

In case you missed it in the socials this week – well done to all of our athletes who competed at the State Combined Championships:

Leni Hartley, Taylah Lamb, Cooper Ille, Callan Duddy, Mackenzie Duddy, Polly Owen, Hope Henry, Charlie Ironmonger, Gemma Easton and Zack Harrison.

Each of these little guns finished in the top 30 of the state for their age group, and Callan, Mackenzie and Gemma finished in the top 3.

AWESOME JOB YOU ALL AROUNDERS!

How To Guides – Discus

This week’s ‘how to’ guides are on the Discus, just follow the links below.

How to Volunteer at Discus  and  How to Perform the Discus

Anyone keen to learn the discus spin on a Wednesday night?  Master class expression of interests can be sent via email to  sandringham@lavic.com.au

Mentone Relays – Sunday 20th November

We have over 80 athletes competing in the relays this Sunday, including some multi-class athletes.

Come down and have a look if you are free – here is a link for more info

Go Sandy!

Catch you Saturday everyone…

Regards,

SLAC Committee
e: sandringham@lavic.com.au
m: 0413 705 357

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What a great training session last night!

The sun was out, each session was FULL (wowsers) and Ben was serving watermelons. (who’s Ben you ask? Ben’s the man with the mike on Saturdays. Loves a good joke).

This week’s email covers the following topics:

1. Saturday 12th November – Coles Community Round
2. Parent duty and supervision – allocated roster is coming
3. State Combined Athletes – good luck!
4. A reminder about relays (Again…) – sign up by Sunday 5pm! (The deadlines have been set by LAVIC).

This Saturday 12th November

Below are some general details and info for this Saturday:

It’s the Coles Community Round this Saturday and we have World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber coming to visit us. Watch how amazing Kelsey is

2022 World Championships – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MzFzKlQdjs

2022 Commonwealth Games – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A04lZzXleI

Our Community Showcase Event supports the Coles Community Round for Little Athletics Australia as well as Robert Connors Dawes Foundation

Below are some further details:

• Start times:  8AM for U6 – U9  &  10AM for U10-U17. Kelsey-Lee Barber will be taking a quick Q&A from our community before commencing warm up training. Please arrive before 8.15am to hear from our World Champion

• What to wear: It’s a dress up round so wear as much red as you can (but bring your number patch!).
  • A group photo will be taken
  • Kelsey-Lee will judge a few of the best dressed in the morning session
  • The RCDF Team will be providing gift packs for the best dressed athletes on the day

• How fast to run: Tell the children to get their skates on in the 400m! Coles will donate $5 for every PB run by a child in the 400m races to the Robert Conners Dawes Foundation
• Set up help: Parents of U7 GIRLS are on set up – please make the effort to arrive at 7:20am to help out. Parents of U12 BOYS are on pack up duty.

• Coffee van: YES!
• We need help: – We need help in these areas on the day. Please email Nicole [insert email] beforehand if you can help or come see a Committee Member on Saturday near the tent:
  RACE STARTERS – People to start races, otherwise we can’t start them
  

  SECOND SESSION – People to enter field event data so they can be uploaded into ResultsHQ more quickly

• Coles BBQ: Coles staff from the Sandringham Store will be operating the BBQ for us on Saturday, so make sure you say thank you and show support by buying a few cooked sausages!
• Bananas: YES! We have lots of free bananas each week (donated from Coles) – make sure you grab some.
• Merchandise: Sandy Merch is having a holiday (we’ll all want one come December 26…) for a few weeks while we wait for stock to arrive.  We know some people have lodged orders and we will process these as soon as the goods arrive. But you can (and should!) order some merchandise for the Connors Run RCD Merchandise – support the fantastic cause!
• Wet weather: Check out the wet weather button on our website (in the top left hand corner), which we will update at 7.30am on Saturday mornings if the weather is concerning – and again at 9.15am so as to cover the second session.
• Program: here is the program for this week – CLICK HERE

Parent duty and supervision – allocated roster is coming

We have been monitoring the sign up sheet over the past few weeks and unfortunately we have not been receiving the required number of parents signing-up to run the sessions.

We will move to an allocated roster in a couple of weeks – please keep your eye out on this to ensure you attend for your allocated session (or sign up now SIGN UP HERE so you get in ahead).

Areas such as Timing Stations, Race Starts, Age Group Roles (measuring, raking etc) are crucial to running our program. If we don’t have people in these roles (and the BBQ), we will not be able to time races, measure distances or provide a sausage at the end of the session. How can we send kids home without a snag on Saturdays?!

Please also remember that our Coaches are there to COACH, not parent or act as crowd control.

State Combined Athletes – good luck!

We have a number of children competing at the State Combined event in Albert Park this Saturday.

Wishing them all the very best performance this weekend: Brae Bernsconi, Leni Hartley, MacKenzie Duddy, Callan Duddy, Hope Henry, Cooper Ille, Isabella Furber, Tom Rhodes, Matthew Millas, Gemma Eaton, Zack Harrison, Charlie Ironmonger, Taylah Lamb and Polly Owen.

A reminder about relays (again…) – please sign up by Sunday 5pm!
(these deadlines have been set by LAVIC)

This is reminder number 2,769,564 about RELAYS…

Please read the info below and if you can commit to the 3 dates (20th November, 3rd December and 4th February 2023) – then please sign up by SUNDAY 5pm. Here is the link again – CLICK HERE

Everyone is welcome to join! Relays are something that you really don’t want to miss out on.

Just so we are SUPER CRYSTAL CLEAR – we don’t just pick the fastest 4 kids from the age group for the relays. We have relay teams A, B and sometimes even a Team C for particular age groups. Because we have some little super stars at the club here (that’s how we grow them!) our B Teams will often progress through regionals and even qualify for the Victorian State competition.

The dates for these Relay meets are:

1. Sunday 20 November– Mentone Relay Day for Under 8-17, Dolomore Reserve, Mentone.
2. Saturday 3 December– SMR Region Carnival for Under 9-17, Duncan Mackinnon Reserve Athletics Track, North Rd, Murrumbeena. (Teams can proceed through to States if they qualify at the Regionals)
3. Saturday 4 February 2023– State Relay Carnival, Lakeside Stadium Albert Park Melbourne. Teams need to qualify via Regionals.

Catch you Saturday everyone!

Regards,

SLAC Committee
e: sandringham@lavic.com.au
m: 0413 705 357

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Halloween week is here! Orange you excited?

We have a great fun session planned for this Friday night at the Club – hope to see many of you there. If you are planning to head away for the weekend – consider heading after the peak traffic and come to Little Athletics first! (Better still, help us out on Sunday at Mentone Bunnings too).

This week’s email covers the following topics:

1. This Sunday (30th October) Bunnings BBQ – Can you give some time to the community?
2. This Friday Night – 28th October
3. Prizes at Halloween Little Aths
4. Relays! It’s where we finally race against other clubs. Go Sandy!
5. Shot put tips

This Friday night (28th October)

Below are some general details and info for this Friday:

One start time: 5:15PM warm-up (5:30pm start) for ALL !

Set-up help: the committee will help set up the event and track. But it would be great if we could have some help packing up at the end of the night around 7pm. More info is below in this email…

BBQ: YES to sausages! Who has a Friday event without a snag? (we’ll also be selling some chocolate balls).

What to bring: water bottle and your costume! Halloween Twilight Night is a dress up affair. Here are some suggestions (but feel free to dust off what you like!)

u6 Disney characters

u7 – u8 Wizards or Witches

u9 – u10 Ghosts, Zombies or Skeletons

u11 – u12 Monster or Vampires

u12+ Devils or Angels

Parent duties: have you signed up for 4 duties during the season? Please do so as we are all volunteers working with our kids to improve their athletic skill development. SIGN UP HERE

Wet weather: we have a wet weather button on our website (in the top left hand corner), which we will update at 4:30pm on Friday if the weather is concerning. We know a lot of you were disappointed about Little Aths not going ahead last weekend. We tried very hard to make it work – but the track was soaking with rain at 8:30am, and then even at 10am it wouldn’t have been a great experience. We’ll stay on this for next time!

Program: here is the program for this week – Twilight Halloween Program

This Sunday (30th Oct) Bunnings BBQ – can you give some time to the community?

As we mentioned last week, the club is holding a fundraiser BBQ at Mentone Bunnings this Sunday 30th October. At this stage the volunteers are almost exclusively committee members – some for more than a 5 hour slot.

We are all volunteers at the club – so please help us out. We know it’s the long weekend and a bit of an ask, but if you are around – can you spare an hour or two? It’s as simple as cooking and serving and/or selling snags. Please give Nick a call or a text if you can help 0414 815 170

Prizes at Halloween Little Aths (this Friday)!!

We’ll have a number of prizes for the night including:

• Best dressed for each gender
• Most enthusiastic (or scariest) relay run
• The President’s Pick

Relays! It’s where we finally race against other clubs. Go Sandy!

LAVIC Relays have been launched this week – it is something you don’t want to miss out on! Check out the attached flyer for all the information – Relay Information Flyer

In summary, it’s Little Ath’s major TEAM event and all are welcome to join in (including parents for the Mentone Relays – we’re in for sure!). We often have teams A, B and sometimes even Team C for particular age groups. It really allows the kids to join forces and come together as a team representing Sandy.

There are two main relay events this year: Mentone Relay Day (20th Nov at Mentone Little Aths) and Regional Relays at (Duncan McKinnon on 3rd December). Teams can proceed through to States if they qualify at the Regionals.

Shot put tips

Here are some tips (including for measuring) shot put.

Shot Put Hints – Hints document and a guide to measurement

Looking forward to seeing some eerie-sistible costumes!

Catch you on Friday…

Regards,

SLAC Committee
e: sandringham@lavic.com.au
m: 0413 705 357

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It’s the third week of Little Athletics this weekend – how EXCITING! We had another FANTASTIC turn out last Saturday and now have over 300 registered members. Please keep supporting and encouraging any trialists that attend (it’s always a bit daunting for the little ones at the start) – and we hope that the majority will sign-up for the full season.

This week’s email covers the following topics:

1. Saturday 22nd October
2. Halloween Little Aths – Friday 28th October
3. Club points and childrens’ results (how to access them – almost real time results for running!)
4. Parent Helpers and Hot Tip Guides
5. Bunnings Mentone BBQ – 30th October – please help support the club

This Saturday…

• Start times:  8:15AM for U6-U9  &  10AM  for U10-U17
• Set up help: Parents of U9 BOYS are on set up – please make the effort to arrive at 7:20am to help out. Parents of Open Boys are on pack up duty. 
• Coffee van: YES!
• BBQ: YES! Parents of U6 Girls & U10 Boys are on BBQ cooking duties – dust off those aprons! 
• Bananas: YES! We have lots of free bananas each week (donated from Coles) – make sure you grab some.
• Where to go:  little athletes should line up behind their age group sign (i.e. U8) and say hello to their Age Group Manager (who can tick them off as being present).  It would be great if the parents could stand a little behind the children to allow them to mingle and gather. It can be a little intimidating for those little athletes to be surrounded by lots of people!
• What to bring: water bottle, hat & sunscreen (if sunny).
• Parent duties: have you signed up for 4 duties during the season? Please do so as we are all volunteers working with our kids to improve their athletic skill development.  SIGN UP HERE
• Car parking: we have car parking at the track as well as in the streets – please be mindful of where you park in the streets so our neighbours can access their driveways.
• Wet weather: We shouldn’t need it this week, but we do have a wet weather button on our website (in the top left hand corner), which we will update at 7.30am on Saturday mornings if the weather is concerning – and again at 9.15am so as to cover the second session. 
• Program: here is the program for this week –  Program 3. We might need to adjust it slightly on the day to accommodate group sizes.  

Halloween night – Friday 28th October (replacing the Saturday 29th October session)

• Given the Melbourne Cup Long weekend (for many), we will not hold a Little Athletics Session next Saturday. Instead – we do a FRIDAY night special! And special it will be – a Halloween special….
• We’ve been doing this for a number of years, including in the pre-pandemic years, and it’s always a lot of fun. Dust off those costumes and get your relay game ON…. Always one of the favourite sessions for kids. 
• It will be a 5:15pm warm-up for all, with an estimated to finish by 7pm.

Parent Helpers and Hot Tip Guides

• Don’t know how to measure discus or lung jump? Thinking you might be more of a hindrance than any help? Think again – we love all helpers and really need everyone to pitch in! The kids also love seeing you help out and take an interest in their sports.
• We have many helpful hints which are all located on Stack Team App under ‘documents’.  For example here is the Long Jump document.
• At the moment we have only 9 parents signed up for Duty on Saturday and we need about 68 spots filled over the 2 sessions.  Please sign up or at least certainly jump in during the day and give the AGMs and coaches a hand.  Raking sandpits is something we can all do relatively well.

SLAC Committee
e: sandringham@lavic.com.au
m: 0413 705 357

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What a FANTASTIC turn out last Saturday for our first session. It was AMAZING to see so many Little Athletes on the day – and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!  There is a bit information that we’re covering in this week’s email, including:

1. Saturday 15th of October
2. A little bit about coaching
3. Stack TeamApp and social media accounts
4. State Combined Events Championships – 12 and 13 Nov
5. FAQs & our Code of Conduct
6. A note from our President

This Saturday…

A little bit about coaching

• Saturdays – You will see that each group has one Age Group Manager and at least one Coach assisting them the whole season. Our Coaches include current Little Athletes (U16 & U17), former Little Athletes and experienced parents.
• Wednesdays – We have FREE coaching for little athletes on Wednesdays at the track, starting from 4:30pm. It’s a great way to get in some practice  and healthy exercise during the week, and to catch up with some some friends from Little Aths.  The sign up is here 

State Combined Events Championships – 12 and 13 November

• The 22/23 Commonwealth Bank State Combined Events Championships will take place at Lakeside Stadium, Albert Park on the 12th and 13th November 2022.  The Combined Events consist of between four and seven separate disciplines (for each child) depending on which age group a child is in. Events consisting of five disciplines will be held on one day. Events consisting of more than five disciplines will be held on two consecutive days.  
• Athletes in the Under 9 through to Under 17 age groups are eligible to participate – anyone is welcome! There are already a number of athletes from our Club who have signed up.  Click here for more information

FAQs & Code of Conduct

Do you have any questions? There must be many!

Check out some of our handy FAQs hosted on this handy document here

As always, it’s really important that Little Athletics takes place in a safe, encouraging and respectful environment. We should all: 

• Encourage children to participate if they are interested. However, if a child is not willing, do not force him or her
• Focus upon the child’s efforts rather than the overall outcome of the event. This assists the children in setting realistic goals related to his/her own ability by reducing the emphasis on winning. This is why we focus on PBs – not placings!
• Teach children that an honest effort is as important as victory, so that the result of each event is accepted without undue disappointment.
• Congratulate all participants upon their performance regardless of the event outcome.  
• Remember that children participate in Little Athletics activities for fun. They are not participating for the entertainment of spectators, nor are they miniature professionals!

Please read through the Club’s code of conduct, which is hosted here

A note from our President

Regards,

SLAC Committee
e: sandringham@lavic.com.au
m: 0413 705 357

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