Friday 10 January 2014

Colts Winter training and Key dates

Dear All,
We’re delighted to let you know that we have now finalised our plans for this winter colts cricket sessions, and with this week’s AGM agreeing to keep our membership fees the same as last year, we can now send out the arrangements and membership forms and start dreaming about Petersfield matches (so much more fulfilling than staying up and listening to the Ashes!)
Before I provide the details of next terms arrangements a few reminders:
Key Dates for next year: Charity Day - June 29th, colts fun day - Sept 6th and presentation evening - Sept 5th.
If you are looking to buy Petersfield CC clothing for Christmas presents, or just to make sure your child has the club kit for training, the link for the serious cricket website is given below:
http://www.seriouscricket.co.uk/shop/section.php/1287/0
Also the club continues to look for new ways of raising money and you could help every time you shop online (at no cost to you) by clicking first on our cause page on easy fundraising, http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/petersfieldcc/ . This costs you nothing but gives a donation to the club every time you buy something that you would be buying anyway. Full details are available on the cause page, this link is also available from our main site on play cricket (http://petersfield.play-cricket.com/) .

The following summarises the indoor training arrangements that we have organised. We are pleased to confirm that we have again secured the Sports Hall at Bedales and we have also secured a full programme at TPS this year. We will be running indoor coaching sessions in the Spring Term with a full programme planned for all age groups.
Fridays
Bedales Sports Hall – All starting on Friday 10th January and running through to 4th April (excluding 21 February)
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST PARK AT DUNHURST AND WALK UP TO BEDALES (THIS ONLY TAKES A FEW MINUTES) BUT BEDALES DO NOT WANT CARS NEAR THE SPORTS HALL
  • Boys U7s - 6.30pm to 7.30pm (lead coach Dave Squires)
  • Boys U11s - 7.30pm to 8.30pm (lead coaches James Stratford-Tuke & Simon Griffin)
  • Boys U13/U15 8.30pm to 9:30pm (lead coach Don Crawford)
TPS Sports Hall
  • Girls U11s – 6pm-7pm from 7th February through to 11th April with no breaks (lead coach Tash Wadley)
  • Older girls and ladies – 7pm-8:30pm – from 28th February through to 28th March with no breaks (lead coach Chris Russell)
Sundays
Bedales Sports Hall – All starting on Friday 12th January and running through to 30th March (excluding 16th and 23rd February)
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST PARK AT DUNHURST AND WALK UP TO BEDALES (THIS ONLY TAKES A FEW MINUTES) BUT BEDALES DO NOT WANT CARS NEAR THE SPORTS HALL
  • U9s – 3pm to 4pm (lead coach Phil Newman)
  • U17s - 4.00pm to 5.00pm (lead coaches James Stratford-Tuke & Phil Newman)  - this will also include colts who are playing, or may be about to play, adult cricket.
  • Seniors 5.00pm to 7.00pm 
We’re very pleased to be able to announce that we have retained our ClubMark Status and are continuing to invest in increasing the number of qualified coaches. Our lead coaches will be supported by qualified assistants, people who are qualifying as coaches and some of our senior colts. If any parent wishes to undertake a coaching course, to help with the sessions, please do contact me. Hampshire Cricket Board will be running further cricket courses next Autumn. Equally if any of the older colts wish to help, please let me know and we'll see if we can include them in our plans.
Finally, we are pleased to be able to confirm that notwithstanding the fact that the costs of running the cricket club continue to increase, we have been able to keep the membership fees for 2014 the same as 2013 (which was the same as 2012). We have also been able to retain the discount for early payment that we introduced a couple of years ago.
Please remember that we require all membership forms and payments to be made before the coaching can be provided. A copy of the 2014 application form is attached, and like last year, can be returned to either our Treasurer, Nicky May, at 50 Moggs Mead, PETERSFIELD, Hampshire GU31 4NX , or passed to myself. If you would like to make payment directly from your bank account, please contact Nicky on nicky.may@ntlworld.com and she will send you the details.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, and please feel free to pass this on to friends who might be interested in joining or taking up cricket for the first time. In the meantime, we would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and look forward to seeing you next year
Best wishes
Paddy May
Colts Co-ordinator
07717 774946
themays@ntlworld.com   /   petersfieldcccolts@gmail.com

Sunday 5 January 2014

Senior Winter Training starts 12th January 2014

Winter training starts next weekend. 5pm at Bedales sports hall. PLEASE do not park by the sports hall. parking is only allowed there for coaches with equipment. All parking must be in the juniors carpark or the front car park.

For 2014 your captains want to work on improvements to the way we have run winter training with some structured fitness and skills training alongside traditional nets. They'll be explaining more as you arrive but a summary is below - a prompt arrival for 5pm start will really help us deliver this.

  • Structured warmup session from 5pm
  • Drills & skills training - batting, fielding, bowling, wicketkeeping
  • Structured nets for small numbers - focus on 'in game' objectives and plans for batters/bowlers
  • Open Net for anyone who just wants a traditional net session

We aim to keep the open net limited to prevent people having to stand around. I'd encourage you to get involved in the training this is great opportunity to build on last year and develop our in field skills to enable development of all senior cricket sides.

If you are aware of anyone who is interested in playing for PCC or wants to return to the club or cricket in general - please put them in touch with me

my email addresses are above
home 01730 891404
personal mobile 07557 644753
work mobile 07966 267212 (always on)

I'll be collecting fees for the training sessions, attached is the membership form. I'll be collecting a new form from every senior player this year so please complete and return to me on Sundays before the end of winter training.

Membership Form 2014