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Come And Join The Fun in 2012

St Brigids GAA Club run the club nursery for children aged between 4 to 7 years of age (Born 2008-2005) every Saturday morning from 9:30 to 11:00. It is in Russell Park, St Brigid?s GAA Club. The nursery welcomes new children every single week, new faces always welcomed and shown respect like life-long members.

Any child who is in junior infants to first class, or any child in pre-school who is 4 years of age is welcome to join in on the fun.
In the nursery the children are in a friendly, safe, and fun environment where they are showered with the skills of Gaelic Football, Hurling, & Camogie. Every Saturday morning there are different skills and exercises for the children to enjoy on the full size all-weather GAA pitch, and ball wall which is located inside the surroundings of the all-weather pitch. The nursery intends to give boys and girls a basic foundation in the core skills of Gaelic football, Hurling & Camogie, where encouragement and support is offered to the kids by the mentors and coaches.

Structure of the Nursery
-    Fun Warm Up Game (chasing based game, working on acceleration, deceleration, lateral movement, linear movement, agility, evasion skills and most of all FUN)
-    Football Stations
o    Drill based stations to work on technique
o    Fun games stations
o    ABC station to work on FUNdamental movements
o    Match stations to work on skills learned in a game environment
-    Hurling Stations
o    Drill based stations to work on technique
o    Fun games stations
o    ABC station to work on FUNdamental movements
o    Match stations to work on skills learned in a game environment

Children will get an equal opportunity to play both sports during course of the session.

Location

St Brigids GAA Club is located in Russell Park off the Navan Road providing its members with Ireland's finest All Weather Pitch. The club welcomes new members from the Castleknock and Blanchardstown area.

Objectives of the Nursery

To encourage boys and girls to participate in playing football and hurling in a structured and fun environment by:

Introducing the child to the skills of hurling and football
Preparing the child to participate at competitive or recreational level as a player
Producing players who have a basic command of all fundamental playing skills.
Developing the balance, co-ordination and footwork of the players

Ethos of the Nursery

The ethos of the Nursery is "skills with fun". In order to ensure that this ethos becomes a reality the following guidelines are applied to the hurling and football sessions:

Parents are always more than welcome to help out at the various exercises and are made feel apart of everything, as St Brigid?s prides itself on being a friendly club and club is family. There is always a need for additional mentors & help, if anybody would like to volunteer, please make yourself known to Paul or John on the Saturday morning, there is always a job to be done regardless of the qualification. The club also runs courses for parents to become more aware of the basic skills of GAA and also on coaching children, crowd management, planning session, etc. The club also produced a DVD specific to the Nursery and the structure of our Nursery, this is available for parents at any time, free of charge and will give you a good idea of how the Nursery runs and how easy it is to coach.

Children and parents meet new people and make friends for life. The nursery helps develop childrens physical development and their social skills.

For information;

- St Brigids Games Promotion Officer Paul O Brien @ 087-9157478 or by E-mail on - paul.obrien.gpo.dublin@gaa.ie
- St Brigids Club Coach John O Loughlin @ 087-7801067.

Give a call first or just arrive down next Saturday. Once your name and number is given to Paul or John, or you are enrolled as a member then you will be on the text list. Support your local Club.

Annual Subscriptions

Subscriptions are paid annually in advance in January for the calendar year. Members subscriptions cover insurance costs. Children are not insured to participate unless their subscriptions are fully paid. The club is managed and operated on a voluntary basis by the members. Monies received are utilised to fund the following:

Lighting costs and general maintenance of the all-weather pitch
Maintenance of grass pitches
Development of new dressing rooms and club facilities
The purchasing of various types of equipment needed to run a GAA club including footballs, sliotars, hurleys, helmets, cones, portable goals, bibs, first aid kits. Equipment is also provided to children for the duration of a training session if required.
Referees fees

As mentioned above part of the funding is used for the development on the club. The final phase of the current development plan in the club will see the upgrading of the existing community facilities to include new changing rooms, offices, meeting rooms, kitchen, new club shop and function rooms which will cater for all community activities. The explosive population growth in Dublin 15 together with the lack of other community, sports and recreational facilities in the Blanchardstown & Castleknock area make this development an immediate priority. As Michael O Muircheartaigh stated "the essence of progress is that it never ceases and in hindsight additional sporting facilities are always seen as an extraordinary beneficial investment in youth".

Benefits of Membership:

The opportunity for your child to train and play Gaelic football & hurling in a very friendly and safe environment.
Get to experience the excitement of playing on a unique state of the art all-weather pitch (only one of its kind in Ireland) and 3 grass pitches.
Access to the club hall, which also includes 2 ball courts to play games such as handball, squash, racquetball and badminton.
Use of the club hall for birthday parties and other special occasions for a small charge
The opportunity to get involved in operation of the club and have a vote at club AGM.
To enlist to purchase tickets for County Games subject to the club draw

Key information for the year (2012)

-    The Nursery runs from 9:30 - 11:00
-    The Nursery will not run on Saturday November 3rd
-    It will run every Saturday apart from that date until the Christmas break on the 8th of December
-    There will be a Christmas party on the 15th of December
-    It will resume on the 19th of January 2013
-    If the conditions outside are unplayable then the nursery transfers to the sports hall in St Brigid?s GAA Club
-    From the nursery an U7 is created every year with the children that are 7 years of age

Summer Camp Sponsors - Blancharsdstown Credit Union

The Easter and summer camps are held in Russell park from 10.00 till 2.30 each day. The summer camps are proudly sponsored Blancharsdstown Credit Union who are great supporter of the community. Each day the children will play a mix of football, hurling and other fun activates both indoor and on the pitches. These camps suit children of all different levels where the main emphasis is on "skills with fun". At the end of each camp children will receive free goodie such a St Brigids branded gear.

Mini-leagues in football will be held over a number of weeknights in a designated week in June. All children from the nursery are invited to play in this tournament where all teams play a "final" on the Saturday. A "hurling day" is held where skills challenges are provided and mini-games played.

Contact Details:

Paul O Brien Club Coach 0879154748
nursery@stbrigidsgaa.com

St Brigids Coaching DVD

St Brigids have released a Nursery speicfic training aid to help with the running of the Nursery every Saturday morning. Club Games Promotion Officer Paul O'Brien and Club Coach John O'Loughlin, recently managed to launch an important resource to help in the FUNdamentals training in the Club Nursery on a Saturday morning. Paul believes the DVD will be vital in trying to improve the coaching in the Nursery, "The DVD includes all of the exercises we run on a Saturday morning, there are 13 Hurling exercises and 17 Football exercises included, the DVD goes through a lot of the key teaching points of the skills of football and hurling, and it also show both myself and John giving feedback to the children and picking them up on errors, which was one of the key points we wanted to get across, the kids we done it with were from the local school and the abilities of the players ranged drastically, which is exactly what it is like at the Nursery."

The layout of the DVD is very interactive and easy to use "Yeah it came out as a very good quality product. It allows you to look at the individual stations (exercises) that we do at the Nursery, with a brief description in text and then a 3 or 4 minute clip of me and John carrying out the exercises. It also shows how the exercises can be progressed, depending on if we are dealing with 4 year old's are 6 year old's."

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