Westquarter & Redding Cricket Club Junior Welcome Pack 2016 The friendliest sports club in the Forth Valley
Welcome to the Westies, the junior section of Westquarter & Redding Cricket Club. We look forward to providing an introduction to cricket in a fun and safe way with opportunity to improve your skills and learn to work together in a team. This is through a series of structured coaching sessions that introduce new skills and give you an opportunity to try these skills in fun and engaging practices and games. If this is your child s first season with the club you will have many questions including what exactly is Kwik Cricket? Kwik cricket is a great way to introduce kids to this great game, improve their skills and keep them fit and healthy. Stuart Broad England Fast Bowler What is Kwik Cricket? Kwik Cricket is a simple game for all boys and girls from 5 years of age upwards with the emphasis on participation and enjoyment. There are many variations of the game but in essence the ball is bowled and the batter tries to hit the ball and score runs. The team scoring the most runs wins. There is more to the game than can be explained here but if you ask any of the coaches or players I am sure they will be happy to explain fully!! The Kit Kwik Cricket equipment is made from high quality moulded plastic. It is light enough for small hands yet extremely tough and hard wearing. It has been designed as an alternative to traditional equipment to allow the game to be played safely on any flat surface either indoors or outdoors at any time of the year. We also use Cricket Factory equipment to keep the practices and drills different and fun!
Kwik Cricket Skill Awards The Kwik Cricket Skill Awards Scheme is in 3 parts, Bronze, Silver and Gold. The Awards test children s catching, throwing, bowling and striking skills in a simple and easy to organise way. The summer will consist of 19 coaching sessions with bronze, silver and gold awards on or after the dates shown below. Session Date Warm Up Skill 1 21-Apr Move The Stumps Under arm bowling 2 28-Apr Tennis Ball Tag Front Foot Drive 3 05-May Traffic Lights Fielding 4 12-May Cricket Factory Circuit Over arm bowling 5 19-May Move The Stumps Kwik Cricket Bronze 6 26-May Batting Relay Pull Shot - Tee 7 02-Jun Catching Relay Over arm throwing 8 09-Jun Tennis Ball Tag Over arm bowling 9 16-Jun Cricket Factory Circuit Front Foot Drive 10 23-Jun Traffic Lights High Catches 11 30-Jun Move The Stumps Kwik Cricket Silver 12 07-Jul Tennis Ball Tag Target Bowling 13 14-Jul Batting Relay Pull Shot - Feed 14 21-Jul Cricket Factory Circuit Collect & Throw 15 28-Jul Catching Relay Bound & Bowl 16 04-Aug Tennis Ball Tag Hitting from bounce feed 17 11-Aug Move The Stumps Kwik Cricket Gold 18 18-Aug Batting Relay Running Between Wickets 19 25-Aug Cricket Factory Circuit Wicket Keeping 04-Sep FAMILY DAY Each week the lesson plan will appear under the Westies section of the website. A lot of the practices can be done at home with a tennis ball and bat for extra practice!
Membership All children are welcome to attend their first training session free of charge, after that a membership fee of 15 is due and covers April to August. Any winter training will be charged separately. On payment of fees you will receive a membership card which should be carried when attending the club. In addition to training sessions you can use the ground for cricket practice on any day which is allocated for cricket, see Bailliefields Bookings on the website to view days the ground is used by Falkirk Company of Archers (/www.wrcc.org.uk/index.php/news/bailliefieldsbookings). On top of the 19 weeks of coaching the annual membership fee also includes a club shirt! This new for 2016 shirt is a replica of the adult shirt with the Westies logo replacing the club badge. What are the Benefits For Your Child? Fun weekly training, festivals with other clubs Access to the Forth Valley Development Training during the winter Being part of a great family club that provides positive cricket experiences. Improved Cardio Vascular, motor skills & co-ordination Mixing with other children and having to work as part of a team Understanding that each person has strengths & weaknesses.
Our coaches are qualified & friendly Helen is here too Outdoor training for Westies will take place at Bailliefields, Sunnyside Road, Brightons, Falkirk, FK2 0RN in the spring and summer. The outdoor season begins on Thursday 21 st April 2016. New members can join at any time in the season. The training sessions will always be on: If the ground is too wet and it is not raining, we will use the courtyard If it is raining, we will move to the large room inside the changing rooms Outdoor training for Westies is held each week on Thursdays from 6.30pm to 7:30pm. Players should be aged 7 11 years (P3 to P6) and everyone should bring warm clothing, a waterproof jacket, and a drink of juice or water to training. Children must NOT leave the ground without letting their coach know. The club will provide all cricket equipment. In addition to coaches there to welcome parents and children to the club will be treasurer Helen Sutton. In addition to her financial role Helen provides a welcome to all Westies new and old! Coaches at the Club Umar Aslam UKCC2 Steve Sutton UKCC1 Adham Aslam ICC Intro to Cricket Rory Sheehan ICC Intro to Cricket Per Dullforce ICC Intro to Cricket Hasan Rashid Sports Leader
What Do I Need We are a really welcoming club and pride ourselves in family involvement. Over the years there have been many brother, fathers and sons that have played for the club and it is something we would like to build on, to provide something for all members if the family. This has always been our ethos through the years even though styles may have changed during this time! 1950s 1970s 2010 This club spirit is what has kept the club going during its 108 year history and continues to drive the club forward. Plans are in place to attract funding to upgrade the practice area, replace the artificial pitch next to the square and to add additional drainage to the ground. The club is also working with Cricket Scotland and Sports Marketing Network to make the club an integral part of the community and not just a cricket club, already the club: Fund a coach in local primary schools (Tony Phillips) Provides a home for the Falkirk Company of Archers Have provided a much needed nursery for the area which is already well on the way to reaching capacity and provide jobs to the local area Has given free access to its grounds to local community groups Club Policies Code of conduct and child protection policies, along with the club s constitution can be found at www.wrcc.org.uk/index.php?itemid=1188. Please take time to read these policies as these form the basis of how the club is run. Keeping in touch As a club we try to stay in touch and make sure everyone is as involved as they want to be and kept up to date. This is done through many mediums newsletter, website, Facebook, Twitter and the old fashioned way of chatting! If you have any questions at any point please get in touch via email admin@wrcc.org.uk or by speaking with any of the coaches or Helen at the practices, we like to talk!
Newsletter If you have supplied us with an email address you will be on the newsletter distribution list, if you have not received one please email the address above and let us know. Website A lot of information is available on the club s website (www.wrcc.org.uk). There you will find latest news, archived newsletters, details of all events as well as a host of statistics, pictures, history and club related downloads. HOME Westies All news and changes to the website will be tweeted via the clubs account WestquarterCC. The club has both a Facebook page and group which are used for communication and discussion on all things club related. The page is www.facebook.com/westquartercc/ and the group is Westquarter & Redding Cricket Club.
History The club was formed on Monday 13th April 1908 after a local meeting was held to discuss the formation of a cycling and cricket club. The newly formed club played its first few games on the ground at the famous Blairlodge School (now Polmont YOI). The club then moved to a ground described as "between the dykes' in the area of St Margaret s between the present school and the Meadowbank Health Centre, (now the site of Polmont Library). The club eventually secured tenancy of land at Blairlodge and club members worked together to dig out a square, and to lay the drainage network. In October 1995 the club struck a deal with Wimpy to sell Blairlodge and buy nearby Rough Haugh Farm, becoming the ground now known as Bailliefields. As with Blairlodge, the construction of Bailliefields was a club effort, with much of the work being carried out by the players. From 1995-98 while the groundwork was being carried out at Bailliefields the club played its games at Little Kerse (BP Grangemouth) with the first completed game at Bailliefields taking place on 6th June 1999. 2010 was a good year with the club reaching the finals day of the ActivCity T20, winning their semi-final but losing in the final And going one better by winning the ESCA Presidents Trophy In August 2015 the nursery at the cricket club opened as Glenbervie Kindergarden signed a lease to rent the property from the club. This was the culmination of five years hard work with club members project managing, dealing with the council, planning, building control, builders, Scottish Power, Glenbervie and providing man power to keep costs down by stripping out the old house and demolishing the extension. This effort was recognised by Cricket Scotland when Stephen Sutton, Helen Sutton and George McLauchlan were awarded the Biggest Change Makers in Scottish Cricket at the 2015 awards.
You May Be Asking, How Can I Help? Volunteering The Club is run by many volunteers who provide varying amounts of time to help run the club. We understand the time commitments of parents and would happily appreciate any support available whether it is an hour to help tidy up, help organise an event or more. Ways you can support the club include: Help support coaches at training sessions Driving children to festivals Help organise events If you are interested in supporting the club through any of these methods or indeed any other way you can think of, please contact us via the website or have a chat with Helen, Umar or Steve at any training session. We are always open to new ideas! Facebook and Twitter will be used to advertise any events that we are organising and any help we require. Something easy and free you can do to support the club To help keep the cost of membership down we use easyfundraising.org.uk to provide additional income for the Westies. It is easy for everyone to help raise funds at no additional cost to themselves. Just follow the simple steps from the poster to the left to raise donations while shopping online. If you have any questions on how this works please speak with Steve Sutton or email him on admin@wrcc.org.uk.