Well, that’s Term 1 done, now on to term 2.
Don’t forget you get an extra hour in bed this weekend, so we look forward to seeing you up and raring to go on Sunday the 30th
We have a seven-week term, due to Christmas falling on a Sunday we are finishing a little bit earlier than normal on the 11th of December, giving you plenty of time to do the Christmas shopping. We are again running our Christmas social after club on the 11th a little different than previous years as we will be inside at the Dorset Arms. More details are on our FB page LINK
To remind you of our session layout:
9-10: Mini Fencers group course with Della
9-9.30: 1-2-1 lessons with Lewis and or sparring*
9.30-10: Adults beginners courses, and if not 1-2-1 lessons with Lewis and or sparring*
10-11: Non-electric/Steam group lesson with Della and Gordon
10-11: Teens electric group lesson with Lewis
10-11: Sparring
11-12: Sparring and 1-2-1 lessons with Lewis
1-2-1s and sparring is limited to just one court in the 9-10 session and will be offered on a first-come basis
Grading
Congrats to all who did their gradings at the end of the term, we will be handing out the certificates and badges early in Term 2.
Fees
Costs for this term are £35/£42. Please make payment for the term asap, this can be done online here http://www.lewesfencingclub.org.uk/purchase/. PAYG is still available to people with their own kit who do not want any tuition and will just be sparring, the cost for this is £8/£10 per week.
BFA Membership
We will be checking BFA memberships again this term so please make sure yours is up to date if you are unsure please log on to Sport 80 to confirm (https://auth.sport80.com/ & choose British Fencing), just to remind you the Club has to be a BFA member and part of that requires all our members are also part of the BFA (If you need to change your membership you can find out more from here https://www.britishfencing.com/members/membership-info/membership-types/)
Competitions
Thank you to everyone who turned out for the Sussex County competition earlier in the month, Lewes made up over 30% of the fencers and we did well, Della came away with Gold as did Will (strictly speaking not Lewes but we will take it 🙂 ) and Fin coming in 3rd. But to be honest we all placed well. Here are the upcoming competitions.
Sussex Open: 26/27 November (Foils and Sabre Saturday Epee Sunday)
British Youth Championships: 28/29 January
Junior Epee: Before May 2023
SE Region Epee: July ish 2023
Its not just local that you can fence, the BFA has a list of Events around the UK here https://www.britishfencing.com/find-fencing-events/
As we know more we will update you during club time or on Facebook (see below to follow us)
COVID
The BFA has been extremely quiet on the COVID front recently, so we will continue where we left off and acknowledging your opponent at the end of the match is enough, no handshaking is required and of course if you have symptoms and think you may have COVID please do not come to the club.
Welfare
If you feel something is not safe please tell one of the committee members who will look to rectify it. You can talk to us during the session, or after the session via email, enquiries@lewesfencingclub.org.uk If the issue is specifically welfare, ie child-related or you do not feel comfortable emailing the main email please use welfare@lewesfencingclub.org.uk this will go directly to our Welfare Officer (Claire Cox).
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lewesfencingclub
Twitter: @lewesfencing
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If you have any questions, please do just email the club.
Claire, Della, Gordon, Lewis, and Simon.