Your pool needs you!

It's that time of year again already. We're holding this year's AGM on Tuesday 27th March at 8pm in the Westwoods Center. Please come and join us to help us plan for the coming year. (Please note, the date has been changed!)

The pool is run by quite a small team who would love to have some more help! We need people to help fundraise, do pool maintenance, supervise swims and help with chemical tests - if you can help with any of this we'd be delighted to see you. The more the merrier. Training is provided if necessary.

Here's looking forward to a nice hot summer!

Pool open for the holidays!

The pool is open to children of playgroup and primary school age (under 12) and their families during the holidays. We are open every day from 2pm to 4pm, weather permitting.

This is what you need to know:

Price
£1:50 per child per session.

Age 8 and over
Can swim unaccompanied, but must provide an emergency contact tel. number. Please let us know about any health conditions, such as asthma.

Under 8s
Must be accompanied by a responsible adult (age 18+)
Although you are not required to be in the water with your child(ren), you should keep a close eye on them and make sure they know and follow the pool rules - in particular no running along the pool side and no diving or jumping into the water (always use the steps to enter and exit the pool).

Supervision ratios for under 8s
Age 4 to 7: One adult to three children.
Age 3 and under: One adult to two children with armbands. One to one without.
Mixed ages: One adult can supervise one child age 3 or younger with armbands plus one or two children age 4 to 7.

Babies/toddlers
Supervision must be in the pool.
Swim nappies must be worn (the gel in standard nappies is not suitable for pools).
We don't recommend swimming with babies less than six months old, the water is heated, but it still isn't really warm enough for such tiny bodies!

Healthy swimming
Chlorine kills most germs within minutes, but you can help us stop germs getting in the pool in the first place by following three simple guidelines:

1. Don't swim when you feel unwell.
2. Use the toilet and wash hands before getting in the pool.
3. Make sure your child has frequent bathroom breaks.

It's a boi-ler (groan)

As no doubt you can tell from the previous post, we reached our fundraising target (and then some!) and so we went ahead with the installation of the new boiler. It was a mad, hectic time. Just three weeks after we began our fundraising campaign, we were booking the work, and getting on with all the other things that need doing to get the pool open at the start of the season - like cleaning out the pool, weeding and generally tidying up and organising rescue training.

So, the old boiler is no more. Here are a few photos so that we may remember it:

And here is the swanky new boiler:

THANK YOU to everyone who helped make this possible, by donating money or time or just helping to spread the word.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Our fundraising campaign for the new boiler has been featured in the local papers, and the articles can be read online. The Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard went with the headline Please help to save town pool, and the Gloucestershire Echo with Fundraisers take plunge for pool. Great articles!

May Marathon Madness

On Friday 20th May 2011, the school will be runnning a marathon, raising money towards a new boiler for the swimming pool! Pairs of classes will be running a marathon distance between them (26.2 miles!) The pairs will be: Classes 1 & 6, 2 & 5 and 3 & 4! They will be running, walking, skipping, hopping, cycling and other crazy way they can think of. Each pair of classes will decide how to work together to cover the distance. It will take place during the whole day and will be run across the fields and both playgrounds. In total, the school will do three marathons!!

Time to dust off your dancing shoes

The Friends are holding a Zumba dance evening with Nigel May of La Tempesta on 17 June. It's a great opportunity to try the latest fitness craze, and promises to be great fun. Suitable for all ages. Everyone welcome!

Call 01451 861338 for tickets.

A huge thank you to Northleach Club

Here's an excerpt from a letter from Alf Worsfold, a director of Northleach Club Ltd., the company that runs the Pavilion.

On behalf of Northleach Club Limited I have great pleasure in advising you that we will make a donation of £1,000 to your fund raising to assist with the purchase of a new boiler. With it go our very best wishes to all the team who are working so hard to preserve a valuable community asset, just as we did some 2 years ago when we first started our efforts to resurrect the sports and social club. (I have been caught twice by your collectors so far - once in the wine bar and then by Marge my neighbour in Crail View - keep up the good work !!)

Woo hoo! What a tremendous boost to our fundraising efforts. Thank you Northleach Club Ltd.