Wimbledon Park Half Term Course Starts This Monday

We would just like to remind you all that our Half Term Holiday Course at Wimbledon Park starts this Monday. With temperatures finally on the up, and set to reach a tropical 9C by Wednesday, the conditions will be great for playing football! As ever, the course is available to boys and girls of all abilities between the ages of 4 and 14, and times and prices can be seen below.

February Half Term Holiday Course

Venue:
Wimbledon Park
Revelstoke Road, London, SW18 5NN

Dates:
Monday 13 February – Friday 17 February 2012

Times:
Full Day: 9.30 am – 3.00 pm
Half Day: 9.30 am – 12.00 noon

Prices:
£70 Full Week of Full Days
£50 Full Week of Half Days
£17.50 Individual Full Day
£12.50 Individual Half Day

Booking a full week gives you the equivalent of one day completely free! Alternatively, if you cannot commit in advance, you can turn up and pay on any individual day. To download a booking form, please click HERE.

Saturday Football Club and Future Dons OFF – Saturday 11 February

Both Saturday Football Club at Wimbledon Park and Future Dons at  Kings College London Sports Ground are OFF tomorrow morning. The snow on Thursday night & Friday morning, combined with a predicted overnight temperature of lower than -4C tonight means that the pitches are both currently unplayable and extremely unlikely to be in satisfactory condition tomorrow morning. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

There is set to be a rise in temperature over the weekend, and the half term course will be going ahead as planned. The course starts at 9:30am on Monday morning at Wimbledon Park next week and we hope to see you there!

Safer Internet Day

Often get beaten by your son on football manager? Does your daughter get the football results on her phone before you?

Feel they know more about the internet than you? Think you know how to keep your family safe online?

AFC Wimbledon have teamed up with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre, to teach families how to keep up with their children online and keep them safe.

The internet is central to all of our family’s lives, it is how we stay in touch, play and learn. But don’t forget, it’s a public place. Whilst it brings many benefits and opportunities, it can sometimes present challenges and as a parent feel a bit overwhelming.

Each year, CEOP celebrates an international day of action called Safer Internet Day (SID). It is used to highlight the importance of educating children and young people about their online safety and this year, AFC Wimbledon are supporting SID and encouraging as many parents, coaches and club Welfare Officers to get on board!

It is just as important to be involved in your children’s life online, as it is offline. Just as you would ask about their friends at school or the clubs they go to, we want parents and those responsible for children, to start asking about the people they meet online, the sites they visit and the things they enjoy.

 

To help get you started, the CEOP Centre are releasing the ‘Parents’ and Carers’ Guide to the Internet’ - a short, entertaining TV-style programme looking at what it’s like to bring up children in the online world. The programme will help you to:

• Stay up-to-date with the technology your children are using;
• Understand steps you can take to keep your children safe online; and
• Know what action to take and where to seek further support if things go wrong.

AFC Wimbledon and the CEOP Centre are encouraging parents to view The ‘Parents’ and Carers’ Guide to the Internet’ online, which will be available from Tuesday 7 February.

 

Visit www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents to watch the programme and access information on how to keep your family safe online.

Football Coaching at Wimbledon Park – Saturday Mornings & the February Half Term

We are delighted to say that it has been a very busy start to 2012, with an average of 90 young players at Wimbledon Park on the first four Saturdays of 2012! Thank you to all those who have attended. There are now two Saturdays remaining of Block 3 before the February half term, when we will be running a 5 day course from Monday 13 February to Friday 17 February. All the necessary information on this course can be seen below – it would be great to see you there!

February Half Term Holiday Course

Venue: 
Wimbledon Park
Revelstoke Road, London, SW18 5NN

Dates:
Monday 13 February – Friday 17 February 2012

Times:
Full Day: 9.30 am – 3.00 pm
Half Day: 9.30 am – 12.00 noon

Prices:
£70 Full Week of Full Days
£50 Full Week of Half Days
£17.50 Individual Full Day
£12.50 Individual Half Day

Booking a full week gives you the equivalent of one day completely free! Alternatively, if you cannot commit in advance, you can turn up and pay on any individual day. To download a booking form, please click HERE.

The RESPECT Programme (Years 5 & 6) & What’s Your Goal? (Years 10 & 11)

 

npower Football League  RESPECT Programme for Years 5 & 6

 

The AFC Wimbledon Community Football Scheme, in partnership with The Football League sponsor npower, is delivering its RESPECT programme in January & February 2012. The programme aims to use young people’s love of football to encourage good behaviour. Working together with all 72 clubs, npower and The Football League Trust are keen to help over 86,000 children in Years 5 & 6 learn about the importance of respectful behaviour in sport and their daily lives. 

We would like to invite Year 5 & 6 pupils from local schools to be involved in our engaging programme.  Our coaches, who are appropriately trained, have enhanced CRB checks and are child protection trained, will deliver a session of up to an hour in duration which will help children learn about respect and related important skills such as teamwork and citizenship to understand how these apply to football and other areas of life.

 

Details of the RESPECT programme:

Sessions: 1 hour sessions to your Year 5 & 6 class(es)

Cost: Free

Venue: Classroom

Support: One teacher will be required to be present and willing to participate in the sessions

 

The aims of the RESPECT programme are for children to:

- Identify unacceptable behaviour and its effect on others

- Develop an understanding of respect and how this can be implemented in daily life

- See situations from other people’s perspective

 

The learning outcomes of the RESPECT programme are:

- Children can understand the consequences of their conduct on others and know that certain types of behaviour are wrong

- Children can appreciate that their behaviour can affect not just themselves but others at school, at home and in the community

- Children can understand that certain behaviour can harm and hurt others

The RESPECT programme’s aims and learning outcomes follow the National Curriculum focussing on PSHE and Citizenship

 

We are also giving participating pupils the chance to win a set of four Football League tickets (two adults’ and two children’s tickets) to one of our 2012 Football League home games by entering our free prize draw and telling us how they have shown respectful behaviour in their community.  They simply need to complete our RESPECT Homework Activity and you need to send this back to us by 31 March 2012. 

 

We hope that the above gives you a real flavour of our RESPECT programme in partnership with npower. We think this is an amazing opportunity for schools to be involved in and it’s FREE!

If you know of a school that may be interested in taking part, or if you’d like more information or would like to book a session, please contact the Community Football Scheme office on 020 8974 5712 or by email at communityfootball@afcwimbledon.co.uk .

 

 

npower Football League  ‘What’s Your Goal?’ Work Experience Competition for Years 10 & 11

 

The AFC Wimbledon Community Football Scheme, in partnership with The Football League sponsor npower, will be launching our ‘What’s your Goal?’ competition in January 2012. The aim of the programme is to get students thinking about their personal attributes and qualities, and how these will relate to different careers.  With unemployment figures showing more than one in five young people out of work, we want to get students thinking about the variety of jobs in the football industry and help them to develop their employability skills.

Our coaches will deliver an interactive lesson of up to an hour in duration to pupils in years 10 & 11 in local schools which will help students assess their skills and personal qualities, and give them tips on how to complete a ‘job’ application form.  Participating students will then have the chance to apply for a ‘job’ with us – a 4 day work experience placement during the Easter holidays.  We have a range of exciting jobs for students to apply for including Community Football Scheme Manager & Coach, Centre of Excellence Manager, and Club Secretary.  

 

Details of our What’s Your Goal? Competition Lesson Plan

Sessions: 1 hour sessions to Year 10 or Year 11 (number of classes to be discussed)

When: During January/February

Cost: Free

Venue: Classroom

Support: One teacher will be required to be present and willing to participate

 

The learning outcomes are:

- To understand the range of jobs within the football industry

- To understand and identify the variety of skills, knowledge, experience, personal qualities, training and qualifications relating to jobs and those being offered in the competition

- To assess their own skills and personal qualities and appreciate how these would make them more ‘employable’

- To identify strengths and weaknesses in a job application form, so to improve their own application

The outcomes follow the National Curriculum focussing on PSHE: Economic Wellbeing & Financial Capability and OCR GCSE in Applied Business (Single Award) and OCR GCSE in Applied Business (Double Award). Further to this all our coaches are appropriately trained, have enhanced CRB checks and are child protection trained.

 

We hope the above gives you an insight into the npower What’s Your Goal? Competition.  Please do share this with your school’s Work Experience Co-ordinator.

If you’d like more information or would like to book your place, please contact the Community Football Scheme office on 020 8974 5712, or by email at communityfootball@afcwimbledon.co.uk .