Mission Statement
Our mission is:
Developing friendly, active and responsible young people
Friendly
Helping young people understand, care about and help others
Helping young people to appreciate their worth and have confidence
Active
Helping young people to look after their health and develop a positive attitude to physical activity
Helping young people lay a foundation for sporting and life skills
Responsible
Helping young people earn to make choices that give joy and happiness in the long term
Helping young people to understand the desirable or undesirable consequences of their actions
Helping young people to love to learn and accept challenges
Our 5 Unifying Principles:
1. Respect: The 4 C’s
1. Children
2. Customers
3. Colleagues
4. Company: Our Company requires your respect, as many people depend on the company for their growth and recreations (children) and their livelihood (the employees). As an employee you are responsible for defending and protecting our Company’s principles, profits, image and security
2. Integrity: trustworthiness and a solid character
3. Teamwork: Teamwork making the dream work. Setting aside ego in favour of working together. Even personal preference must be put aside if it is not in with the mission.
4. Open Communication: Communication is open and honest
1. Communicate positively, saying what you would like to see, rather than what you do not want
2. In a disagreement with another, speak only with the person with whom you disagree and the person who can help you solve the problem
3. First seek to understand and then be understood
5. Growth and Initiative: the ability to keep growing and learning
1. Personal growth and initiative
2. Professional growth and initiative
3. Company growth: company growth will happen as a by product of attending to the first two
Our Teaching Principles:
1. Respect: Respect between teacher and student. Humiliating, embarrassing, demeaning or hurtful behaviour is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.
2. Keep young people safe: Done through vigilance, awareness and safety training
3. Clearly communicate expectations: Tell the children what you expect of them
4. Catch the children doing things right: Focus on things done right rather that things done wrong
5. Discipline with natural consequences: Discipline through educating children of the natural (unpleasant) consequences of poor decisions, not “punishment”
6. Be enthusiastic: It shows you care and inspires others to care
7. Offer daily challenges: Going beyond the perceived limitations is the only way to stretch and grow
8. Offer daily successes: “Sense of accomplishment” is one of the most powerful motivators to “try again when the going gets tough”
9. Constant Activity: Children learn by doing, not by sitting or standing in line
10. Creativity, variety and fun: Children learn best when there is an element of fun built into the training environment
11. Caring and Understanding: effort dedicated towards helping children learn, understand and grow
Our vision is to:
· Be a recognised leader in the provision of our products and services in Tasmania and Nationally
· Develop fresh and innovative approaches of our services, products and programs
· Assist our staff to discover and implement creative and customized programs and services
· Create a vibrant, developing organisation that foster teamwork, quality management and lifelong learning
· Develop a multi-disciplinary team of staff to increase our scope and further develop our mission
· Help our staff identify and meet their learning needs, in an environment of encouragement and incentive
· Meryl Moncur began this Kingborough Sports Centre Gymnastics Club in 1986 on the main stadium at the Kingborough Sports Centre
· Initially the Club consisted of 30 children who were involved in Rhythmic Gymnastics. In 1989 the Club expanded to include Men's and Women's Gymnastics and steadily grew over the years
· In 1993 the Club moved to a permanent set up in Level 1 of the Sports Centre, where the fitness gym in now located
· With gymnastics continuing to grow, the Club moved in 1995 to Level 4 of the Kingborough Sports Centre
· From 1996 to 1998 John Straatsma managed the gymnastics program with just over 200 gymnasts registered
· In 1999 Mark Moncur took over the management
· New programs where introduced for particular age groups and the club numbers increased significantly
· By the end of 2001 the club had over 450 registered gymnasts
· The need for a larger Gymnastics Centre was recognised by the Council with the Club moving into the Indoor Cricket Centre in 2002
· Gary Pitchford was employed as Manager in 2002
· By the end of 2003 the Kingborough Sports Centre Gymnastics had over 800 members registered
· In 2003 Kingborough also won the Tasmanian Gymnastics Club of the year trophy for the 8th time in its' history
· At the end of 2003 a Steering Committee was formed to construct a State Gymnastics Training Centre on land at the Kingborough Sports Complex
· In 2004 the feasibility study into the state gymnastics training centre was completed with an estimation cost of 2.9 million
· During the 2004 federal election the Kingborough Gymnastics Committee received $1million towards the state gymnastics training facility at Kingston
· During the 2006 state election all three major parties promised $1 million towards the state gymnastics training facility at Kingston
