BANCOORA SLSC - 2018/2019 SEASON MEMBER INFORMATION PACK Please take the time to read through this booklet and get an understanding of the season ahead. As additional dates and information becomes available emails will be sent. Memberships are now open for renewal using the Lifesaving Members Portal, see information contained within the booklet for renewal processed. Any questions for upcoming season please email enquiries@bancoora.asn.au 2018 Prices are as follows: MEMBERSHIP Note: $5 from ever persons membership will be attributed towards the redevelopment and improvement of the club facilities. Please go to the following website and follow the instructions to renew membership: https://portal.sls.com.au/ We cannot assist with forgotten passwords, usernames etc. Please click on forgotten password/username as below or contact Surf Life Saving Australia as follows: Telephone Support: 1300 724 006 8:00-5.00pm (AEST) Mon-Fri 9:00-1:00pm (AEST) Sat - Sun Public Holidays: Limited Service
Either click renew individually or renew family group per screenshot above After click renew ensure all information is correct:
Ensure this is 2018/19 so you register for correct season. After all personal details are correctly updated submit the below declaration: After you submit you must now process your payment. 1. Click make a payment (per screen shot below)
2. Ensure Bancoora SLSC appears on the next screen and select pay online 3. Process payment. The screen will show membership prices for the upcoming season. Enter the relevant price based on your category
4. Enter credit card details 5. Confirm payment details 6. A receipt will appear to confirm payment has been processed If you wish to confirm your membership has gone through, go back to the SLS Portal and click on membership and Bancoora SLSC for season 2018 should appear. Also if your payment hasn t processed correctly you can go back to membership in SLS Portal and click make payment
Family Group and Memberships: Please note all members of the family are required to be a member if your child or children are participating in nippers or young guns. When registering on the Surf Life Saving Australia portal you can create a family group so you can link yourself, partner and children under one renew. This needs to be created first, check all details are correct of all members then click renew and this will renew all members in the family. NIPPERS NIPPERS & YOUNG GUNS PROGRAM INFORMATION
Bancoora s mozzie & nipper programs are all about fun and aims to teach the children about beach safety and give them some basic surf lifesaving skills. It is the start of your child s journey to becoming a patrolling member down the track. Dates for nippers are as follows: - Registration and water safety/age managers induction day Sunday 2 nd December. Registration will be between 10.30 12.30 (Please come along on this day ensure your membership has been correctly completed, WWC has been submitted, pick up rash vest if required, nipper cap and ask any questions you may have prior to the first nippers session). There will also be an induction for all volunteer water safety and age managers from 12.30 14.30. - Nipper Session 1 & Come and Try Day - Sunday, 9 December 2018 - Nipper Session 2 - Sunday, 16 December 2018 - Nipper Session 3 Sunday 6 January 2019 - Nipper Session 4 - Sunday 13 January 2019 - Nipper Session 5 - Sunday 20 January 2019 - Nipper Session 6 - Sunday 3 February 2019 - Nipper Session 7 - Sunday 10 February 2019 - Nipper Session 8 - Sunday 17 February 2019 - Nipper Carnival Sunday 24 February 2019 - Inter-club Carnival Sunday 3 March 2019 (TBC) Ensure you arrive at the beach at 10am to sign in and be briefed on the session s activities Nippers will start at 10:30am, and finish at 12:30pm and Mozzies (under 6 & 7) start at 10:30am and finish around 11:30am A BBQ with sausages and drinks is available for nippers, young guns and families to enjoy after each session. To participate in the nippers program all parents or guardians of the child/children must be financial members and if over 18 a working with children s card must be supplied. A child under 18 cannot be a member without a parent or guardian also being a member. The family must be club members and pay the family membership and nipper participation fee. Please fill out the membership details and pay fees on line BEFORE the first nipper session and come to registration day on 2 nd December to ensure you are registered and ready to participate in nippers on 9 th December. All memberships need to be finalised before Friday 14 December. If membership is not paid your child or children will not be able to participate in nippers due to insurance reasons and not being a financial member. (Note: come and try day is a one off day for children who have never participated or been a member at Bancoora SLSC. We will check our records to ensure your child hasn t previously been a member. If you have you will be required to sign up as members in order for your child to participate.
Swimming Competency For each nipper to be able to participate in water-based activities, they must be able to swim. We are not a learn to swim program. The attached form must be completed by a qualified swimming coach/teacher, Level 1 Coach, Level 1 Official, Age Managers Assessor (SRC/Bronze), Training Officer (SRC/Bronze) and returned to the nipper coordinators or membership officers on or prior to the first Nipper Session. Nippers cannot participate in water activities unless this form has been completed and returned to the club. AGE GROUPS and ACTIVITIES: Mozzies - U6/U7 Run for about an hour, with limited water activities and separate to nippers activities. This is an introduction based on fun and games. Nippers - U8, U9, U10, U11, U12, U13/14. The age groups rotate through 6 activities. - Beach Activities - Boards - Swimming - Wade - Flags - Beach Education
PREPARATION: Bring Each Week: Sunscreen Wetsuit and bathers. We recommend a full length wetsuit (even for summer) Towel Nippers cap Nippers rashie Goggles Drink bottle Uniform Nipper caps and rashies are compulsory. Caps are on sale at the club for $20 each. If you have a rashie from last year please use it again or bring it along as a spare if it no longer fits. New rashies are issued to nippers upon paying membership. Note no nipper cap or green rash vest no participation in water activities is allowed for that session of nipper. This is a Lifesaving Victoria requirement and will be policed. Procedure Please arrive before 10am. When you arrive please sign your child into the appropriate age group folder on the beach side of the club rooms. Check the notice board for updated information. Check the roster to see if you are rostered to help anywhere. Add your name to the roster to fill any gaps there may be. Help out with set up activities. Please get your children ready for the water with wetsuit, rashy, cap, goggles and sunscreen and get them to stand near their age group flag by 10:15am Help is required Nippers only runs if we have enough volunteers. The program is run by parents of Nippers. Parents cannot drop and go or lay on the beach doing nothing. As a member of the club you are required to assist and be present during the program in case of emergency. Bancoora SLSC needs ALL members to pitch in and get things done. To ensure this season is as successful as can be, we need your help. It is a great example to your children and they love having their parents involved. Don t leave it to someone else.
We require each family involved in nippers and young guns to volunteer and are putting the call out for the following positions: Board Instructor Swim Instructor Wade Instructor Flags Instructor Education Instructor Beach Activities Instructor Mozzies Coordinator BBQ Coordinator BBQ helpers x 6 (each week) Time keeper Water safety Coordinator Water safety officers with a current surf lifesaving bronze medallion. (Ratio 1:5) Age group managers (1or 2 per age group - 14) Beach set up helpers. If you are willing to take on any of the above positions, email Craig Sherman (bancooranippers@gmail.com) ASAP so you can take on the job most suited to you. A volunteer roster will be on the notice board each week. The nippers program will be of better quality if the coordinators can focus on the children and not chase volunteers each week. If you are a parent wishing to become a qualified lifesaver and assist with water based activities please email Christine at enquiries@bancoora.asn.au before mid October 2018. YOUNG GUNS Bancoora Young Guns is a program aimed for our members who have finished Nippers and aged 13 and above. In order to participate the young gun must have obtained either Surf Rescue Certificate or Bronze Medallion (See Below), Family membership be paid and approved. DATES: The following are the set dates for the upcoming season and run from 10.30 to approx. 12.30: - Session 1 & Come and Try Day - Sunday, 9 December 2018 - Session 2 - Sunday, 16 December 2018 - Session 3 Sunday 6 January 2019 - Session 4 - Sunday 13 January 2019 - Session 5 - Sunday 20 January 2019 - Session 6 - Sunday 3 February 2019 - Session 7 - Sunday 10 February 2019 - Session 8 - Sunday 17 February 2019 - Session 9 Sunday 24 February 2019 - Session 10 Sunday 3 March 2019
In addition to this young guns can participate in the senior club championships usually held late February to early March. Other dates and function will also show up so keep eye and ear open to other exciting events for the season. Arrive at the beach at 10am to sign in and be briefed on the session s activities. Note it is lifesaving requirement to wear a high vis rash vest for all water activities. Failure to bring your rash vest will result in you missing the session. Please remember to pack this. Program will start at 10:30am, and finish at 12:30pm A BBQ with sausages and drinks is available for nippers, young guns and families to enjoy after each session. To participate in the young guns program a family membership must be taken out and all adults and participants must be club members. Payment of membership is due before the first young guns session or prior to the participant undertaking an award upgrade or requalification. If you are over 18years and participating in young guns or are a parent of a young gun participant you must have a current working with children s check completed. Surf Rescue Certificate / Bronze Medallion Award In order to participate in young guns, any member aged 13-14 years is required to have a current surf rescue certificate and members 15 and above must have their bronze medallion. We will be running a course for these awards this season so keep an eye out for this but in the meantime email enquiries@bancoora.asn.au to express an interest. IF you no not have one of these awards or fair to requalify the award you will not be able to participate until the award has been obtained. It is also a requirement that all young guns attend patrols as rostered on. Please refer to the roster when it becomes available and make yourself aware of dates. All past participants who have obtained surf rescue certificate or bronze medallion are required to attend a requalification day to refresh the award. Dates will be released by Lifesaving Victoria soon and will be emailed to members so keep an eye out for these. PATROLS Patrols being Saturday 1 December 2018 and run through to late April 2019. PATROLLING MEMBERS As listed above patrols will commence on 1 December 2018. To ensure you can patrol you need to have paid your membership before either your first patrol for the season or when you under take requal (whichever comes first for you) Bancoora will be hosting a skills maintenance (requal) on Saturday 24 th November. A list of other requal dates will be available soon and issued to all members so please keep an eye out for these. Please note membership must be paid prior to requal. Further details will be released closer to the date. We will also be running some patrol meetings, new award training and refreshers for old awards starting in early Novemebr so watch out of information being emailed or on facebook for this.
Note it is a requirement to attend patrols if you are participating in young guns, so remember to requal and attend patrols if you are a young gun. PERSONAL CONTACT DETAILS Please also ensure your contact details (email and mobile number) are correct in the personal details field as these are our main methods of communication with you. If they change during the season just log back into the Surf Life Saving portal and update these and our systems will automatically be updated. CLUB TSHIRTS This season Bancoora will be providing every patrolling member, regular parent helpers, nippers and young guns with a club t-shirt. The t-shirts will be free to those active members listed above who have their membership paid and approved prior to the end of November 2018. WRIST BANDS Wrist Bands will be issued to all members. These will act as membership cards and identification you are a club member. You are required to wear these whenever you are around the club, participating in nippers, patrolling etc. KEY CONTACT INFORMATION President: Ben Pope benpopey@gmail.com 0424 283 442 Vice President: Nathan Morton n.morton@kardinia.vic.edu.au 0403 141 841 Secretary: Position Vacant Treasurer: Rob McKinley robert3mckinley@gmail.com Club Captains: Rowan Jobling rowanjobling@gmail.com 0448 606 988 Bookings Coordinator: Tol tol47@bigpond.com 0400 800 939 Nipper Co-ordinator: Craig Sherman bancooranippers@gmail.com 0422 978 193 Young Gungs Co-ordinator: Barry Hunt barryhunt@jc.com.au 0408 641 249 Membership: Position Vacant CLUB COMMUNICATION Stay informed with what s going on at the club through our website or like our Facebook page: http://bancoora.asn.au/ http://www.facebook.com/bancoorasurflifesavingclub