Ballarat Junior Chess Club
Chess Coaching Term 1, 2024
To all Ballarat Junior Chess Club members, parents and chess players
The chess coaching sessions for Term 2 of 2024 will resume on Thursday 18th April. As usual all sessions will be held in the Humffray Room on level 4 of the Ballarat Mechanics Institute at 117 Sturt Street Ballarat, commencing at 5.30pm.
All students who participated in Term 1 of 2024 are now invited to register and pay the coaching fees for Term 2 using the TryBooking link at https://www.trybooking.com/CQUOJ . This is the only way to register and pay since PayPal, EFT or cash are no longer available. The TryBooking system enables us to collect relevant information and streamlines the administration process.
Students who participated in a previous Term and who wish to resume chess coaching are welcome to do so subject to places being available. Any new student should contact Kevin Perrin to confirm that a place is available before they register and pay. If a place is not available, then you will be placed on the waiting list and advised as soon as a place becomes available.
If your child attended the chess coaching classes in Term 1 of 2024 and does not wish to continue then please advise us by return email or text message, so that their place can be allocated to a new student.
As noted above the coaching sessions will begin at 5.30pm with the first 15 minutes being devoted to registration and playing casual games within allocated coaching groups. The coaching groups will be determined by our head coach Scott Stewart after final numbers are known and will reflect progress made from last term. At 5.45pm sharp, the formal coaching session will commence and continue for 30 minutes after which allocated league games will be arranged. At that time, expected to be 6.15pm, any child not involved in the formal coaching sessions is invited to attend the league games session on a no charge basis. This will cater for anyone who can’t obtain a place in the coaching sessions, those who just want to play games of chess and others who wish to see how our BJCC sessions operate.
The formal chess coaching and games session will conclude at between 6.45pm and 7.00pm and parents should arrange to pick up their child at that time, unless they are intending to stay and join in the adult chess club sessions which begin at 7.00pm. Any student who joins for any Term of the 2024 coaching sessions will be regarded as being a junior member of the senior Ballarat Chess Club. This provides all the benefits which that membership offers including the right to play in any event on each Thursday night at the senior club at no cost. Meetings for the senior club start at 7.00pm and many students from the BJCC stay on to test their skills against the older players.
The program for the year is detailed on the attached BJCC 2024 Coaching Flyer. Further information can be found on the Ballarat Chess Club website here. If your child is not part of the existing program and wishes to apply, then complete the linked BJCC 2024 Coaching Application Form and return it to us. If places are available, they are then welcome to apply using the above link to TryBooking to complete final registration and payment.
If Thursday night coaching sessions don’t suit, then online or face to face sessions at another time might be possible by contacting any of the coaches as detailed on the flyer.
Please call Kevin on 0418 533 517 or Scott on 0410 052 134 if you would like to discuss any matter further.
Kind Regards
Kevin Perrin Scott Stewart
Co-ordinator Head Coach
Who: Anyone under the age of 18
Where: BMI
When:
Term Dates:
Term 1 - 1st Febuary 2024 – 28th March 2024Term 2 - 18th April 2024 – 13th June 2024
Term 3 - 18th July 2024 – 12th Sept 2024
Term 4 - 10th October 2024 – 5th Dec 2024
Cost:
$120 per term ($20 per night for part term)
Family discounts available as follows: $120 for 1 student, $180 for 2 students and $240 for 3 students Students who enrol for a full term are entitled to free membership of the adult chess club which meets from 7.00 pm at this venue on Thursdays.
Who will be coaching me?
Scott Stewart, Rob Bailey, James Watson, Patrick Cook, Jasan Barnett, Om O’Carroll, Nigel Block, Paul Dao, Justin Goodison & Kanishk Mahasuar. All experienced coaches with current Working with Children Certificates
Scott Stewart is a 3-time Club Champion and has extensive coaching experience.
Robert Bailey has been working for Chess Ideas for over 17 years and is a fully qualified primary and secondary teacher with an English/Humanities base.
Enrolment
Please fill in your details on the enrolment page, and follow the prompts to make payment.
For further enquiries about the course, or for payment enquiries, contact BCC Treasurer, Kevin Perrin (0418 533 517 treasurer@ballaratchess.com).
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