Dunblane News
Dunblane Fencing Club awarded from ClubSport Stirling
December 2015
Well done to Dunblane Fencing who successfully applied for funding from ClubSport Stirling. The money will go towards new junior equipment - specifically EPEE kits. They are growing from strength to strength and wish them the best of luck for the future. Well done to Charity for pulling together the application and the rest of the team at the club for supporting it.
Well done to Dunblane Fencing who successfully applied for funding from ClubSport Stirling. The money will go towards new junior equipment - specifically EPEE kits. They are growing from strength to strength and wish them the best of luck for the future. Well done to Charity for pulling together the application and the rest of the team at the club for supporting it.
Dunblane Sports Club - Squash Open Day
July 2015
Dunblane Sports Club hosted a Squash Open Day on Friday 17th July from 2-4pm to encourgae new players to come along and try out squash. Members of the Dunblane Sports Club coaching team had already introduced squash to participants at the 'Get Active' programme run by Active Stirling during the summer holidays. For those who are interested, the junior coaching starts on Saturday 29th August at 3pm for beginners, 4pm and 5pm. Book your place by emaling Maureen Carroll Dunblane SC squash coach at mailto:moscarroll@yahoo.co.uk
Dunblane Sports Club hosted a Squash Open Day on Friday 17th July from 2-4pm to encourgae new players to come along and try out squash. Members of the Dunblane Sports Club coaching team had already introduced squash to participants at the 'Get Active' programme run by Active Stirling during the summer holidays. For those who are interested, the junior coaching starts on Saturday 29th August at 3pm for beginners, 4pm and 5pm. Book your place by emaling Maureen Carroll Dunblane SC squash coach at mailto:moscarroll@yahoo.co.uk
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Dunblane Bowling Club Fun Day - Saturday 18th July
July 2015
Dunblane Bowling Club are hosting a fun day on 18th July from 11am - 5pm. If you are in the local area or passing by it is a great opportunity to get the family together and give bowls a try! It is also absultely FREE!
Dunblane Bowling Club are hosting a fun day on 18th July from 11am - 5pm. If you are in the local area or passing by it is a great opportunity to get the family together and give bowls a try! It is also absultely FREE!
Local Tennis Clubs Host the P3/4 Schools Tennis Competition
June 2015
Well done to Livilands Tennis Club, Killearn Tennis Club, Dunblane Sports Club, Stirling Tennis Club and Bridge of Allan Sports Club who helped to deliver the second year of the P3/4 Stirling Schools Tennis Competition. From the popularity of last years competition amongst the schools involved, this year the competition was an even bigger hit, with 25 schools taking part from across all of the clusters in the Stirling council area. The school teams who progressed to the finals day were: Port of Menteith; Cambusbarron; Bridge of Allan; Drymen; Dunblane; and Braehead.
A special thank you to Adam Brown (Head Tennis Coach at Bridge of Allan Sports Club) who hosted the Finals Day today at the Peak. The winning school was Dunblane Primary School, with Harry Sturrock, Calum Gemmel, Carys Gibb, Lachlan Hunter, Megan Hogg and Marcus Sinclair. Bridge of Allan Primary School were very close runners up with Toby Geyer, Dylan Clark, Eoin O'Cinneide, Rosie Woodward, Ava-Mae Conroy, and Cara Birrell. Ken Lewandowski, Active Stirling chair of the board, helped to present certificates and medals to the participants.
Well done once again to all of the tennis clubs who helped to deliver the entire schools competition programme. The clubs allowed the schools involved to use their club courts and had organised dedicated coaches and volunteers to deliver the competitions. See below pictures from the entire programme.
Well done to Livilands Tennis Club, Killearn Tennis Club, Dunblane Sports Club, Stirling Tennis Club and Bridge of Allan Sports Club who helped to deliver the second year of the P3/4 Stirling Schools Tennis Competition. From the popularity of last years competition amongst the schools involved, this year the competition was an even bigger hit, with 25 schools taking part from across all of the clusters in the Stirling council area. The school teams who progressed to the finals day were: Port of Menteith; Cambusbarron; Bridge of Allan; Drymen; Dunblane; and Braehead.
A special thank you to Adam Brown (Head Tennis Coach at Bridge of Allan Sports Club) who hosted the Finals Day today at the Peak. The winning school was Dunblane Primary School, with Harry Sturrock, Calum Gemmel, Carys Gibb, Lachlan Hunter, Megan Hogg and Marcus Sinclair. Bridge of Allan Primary School were very close runners up with Toby Geyer, Dylan Clark, Eoin O'Cinneide, Rosie Woodward, Ava-Mae Conroy, and Cara Birrell. Ken Lewandowski, Active Stirling chair of the board, helped to present certificates and medals to the participants.
Well done once again to all of the tennis clubs who helped to deliver the entire schools competition programme. The clubs allowed the schools involved to use their club courts and had organised dedicated coaches and volunteers to deliver the competitions. See below pictures from the entire programme.
Dunblane Cluster Meeting
June 2015
The next Dunblane Cluster meeting will be taking place on Monday 22nd June at Dunblane Sports Club starting at 6.30pm. This meeting is a great opportunity to share good practice and receive updates on access to funding, coach education and plan each clubs school-club links for 2015-16 in order to increase participation numbers!
If you are interested in attending please contact Lindsay Campbell on 0300 0280101 or email: campbelll@activestirling.org.uk
The next Dunblane Cluster meeting will be taking place on Monday 22nd June at Dunblane Sports Club starting at 6.30pm. This meeting is a great opportunity to share good practice and receive updates on access to funding, coach education and plan each clubs school-club links for 2015-16 in order to increase participation numbers!
If you are interested in attending please contact Lindsay Campbell on 0300 0280101 or email: campbelll@activestirling.org.uk
Positive Coaching Scotland Workshop - Dunblane Soccer Club
December 2014
Dunblane Soccer Club coaches recently went through a coaches workshop to continue to support their members further with positive messages to impact players and teams. Scott Kinross, Scottish FA Football Development said “Dunblane Soccer Club were very engaging in helping set up this workshop and the volunteers on the night were very enthusiastic taking on board the key messages that Positive Coaching Scotland provides. The club are currently at “Standard Level” of Quality Mark and the aim is during 2015 to assist them in reaching “Community Level”.
David Dale, Chairman, Dunblane Soccer Club" With 21 coaches attending the PCS workshop, it showed a fantastic commitment to the ethos of positive coaching within our club. Our aim is to create a learning environment where kids want to come and play. Every session should be enjoyable, fun and challenging ensuring they want to come back for the next session. The PCS workshop was great chance for everyone to come together to discuss how to move forward as a club with great facilitation and support from Scott Kinross. The positive messages delivered by Scott were very much aligned with the positive culture we are trying to create"
Dunblane Soccer Club coaches recently went through a coaches workshop to continue to support their members further with positive messages to impact players and teams. Scott Kinross, Scottish FA Football Development said “Dunblane Soccer Club were very engaging in helping set up this workshop and the volunteers on the night were very enthusiastic taking on board the key messages that Positive Coaching Scotland provides. The club are currently at “Standard Level” of Quality Mark and the aim is during 2015 to assist them in reaching “Community Level”.
David Dale, Chairman, Dunblane Soccer Club" With 21 coaches attending the PCS workshop, it showed a fantastic commitment to the ethos of positive coaching within our club. Our aim is to create a learning environment where kids want to come and play. Every session should be enjoyable, fun and challenging ensuring they want to come back for the next session. The PCS workshop was great chance for everyone to come together to discuss how to move forward as a club with great facilitation and support from Scott Kinross. The positive messages delivered by Scott were very much aligned with the positive culture we are trying to create"
Dunblane Fencing Club Summer Camp
Dunblane Fencing Club are offering a fantastic come and try beginners fencing course during the school holidays from Monday 11th to Thursday 14th August. The course will be aimed at children aged between 8-12 and be two hour sessions aimed at providing the children with the basic moves and skills in the sport. The cost is £40 and the sessions are led by former GB international and Commonwealth Gold Medallist Charity McArdle who is also the club coach at Dunblane Fencing Club.
If interested please contact Charity by email: charitymcardle@hotmail.co.uk
If interested please contact Charity by email: charitymcardle@hotmail.co.uk
Active Schools Bowls Legacy Festival 2014
As part of Active Stirling's 2014 Legacy Programme, the Bowls Festival was hosted last night at Dunblane Bowling Club. Bowling clubs across Stirling have hosted after school clubs for different primary school children to attend for the past month. We were delighted to see those clubs bring teams to participate in the bowls festival and working together to put on a great event for children completely new to the sport. They all had fun games against each other and made new friends in the process. The clubs involved yesterday were: Airthrey Spa Bowling Club; Bannockburn Bowling Club; Causewayhead Bowling Club; Dunblane Bowling Club and Strathblane Bowling Club. Well done to all involved in co-ordinating the event and bringing the teams of children along on the day. We hope to see more of bowls in the future and these clubs continuing with their successful after school clubs.
Primary Schools Tennis Competition - Dunblane, Stirling & Wallace Clusters
A massive well done and thank you to Fiona Bennie (Dunblane Sports Club) and Adam Brown (Head Coach at Stirling Lawn Tennis Club and Bridge of Allan Tennis Club) for organising and hosting the cluster tournaments for our (first ever!) Stirling Primary School Tennis Competition.
The Competition has been extremely popular within the primary schools involved, with those in the Dunblane, Stirling and Wallace clusters, and we hope we can continue it every year with more primary schools from other clusters.
Congratulations to the winning school teams: Dunblane Primary School; St Mary's Primary School (Dunblane); Cambusbarron Primary School (A Team); Cambusbarron Primary School (B Team); Cornton Primary School; and Beaconhurst School. These teams are now through to the 'Finals Day' on Tuesday 3rd June, at the Peak.
The Competition has been extremely popular within the primary schools involved, with those in the Dunblane, Stirling and Wallace clusters, and we hope we can continue it every year with more primary schools from other clusters.
Congratulations to the winning school teams: Dunblane Primary School; St Mary's Primary School (Dunblane); Cambusbarron Primary School (A Team); Cambusbarron Primary School (B Team); Cornton Primary School; and Beaconhurst School. These teams are now through to the 'Finals Day' on Tuesday 3rd June, at the Peak.
Fencing Success for Dunblane
The Scottish Secondary Schools Team Fencing Championships took place at Dunblane High School over the weekend of 16/17 March. Over 200 young fencers battled it out in 3 weapon categories- Foil, Sabre and Epee, against schools from Dundee to Dunoon.
Dunblane High School had an extremely successful competition fielding 8 teams across both Under15 and Over15 age groups.
Saturday morning saw the Dunblane Boys over15 Epee team, Liam Edwards, Scott Cocker, William Parkinson and Wallace Jaffray and the Under15 team Leo McArdle, Louis Bryson, and Alex Papadopoulous progress through the group stages to reach the latter stages of the event. After
3 very hard fought bouts, the Over15 team emerged bronze medallists. Our under15 team won gold to become Scottish Schools Team Champions, a remarkable achievement since they only began training with the Epee four weeks previously.
The Sabre competition took place on Saturday afternoon where the boys’ over15 team missed out on a medal place by only 3 points but the captain, Robin Lee, was awarded most technically stylish fencer for Sabre.
Sunday saw success for Dunblane girls competing in the over15 Foil category. The team, Megan Gouw, Wendy Exton, Caitlin Gean and Khemindi Gunasinghe, emerged as silver medallists showing considerable resolve and resilience against much more experienced fencers.
The boys were also competing in under15 and over 15 Foil and, in tough group and knockout stages, consistently drew on reserves of tenacity to grasp success in what was a very closely fought category. One boys’ over15 team, Robin Lee, Connor Jaffrey, Rory McNichol and Wallace Jaffray (R) took silver medal whilst Wallace Jaffrey, Liam Edwards, Scott Cocker and William Parkinson secured 4th place. In the under 15’s, the team of Louis Bryson, Alex Papadopoulous, Leo McArdle and Tom Brown narrowly lost out in the final to gain silver. The other under15 team, Craig Mason, Robbie Ransom and Neil Brown although not getting to the final stages, were the only team to beat the Dunblane silver medal team in the group stages.
The excellent performances across the board would not have been possible without the dedication of head coach Charity McArdle and her team.
"All our young people who took part showed great sportsmanship to other competitors and were an incredible support and encouragement to each other – a credit to their club and Dunblane High School."
Dunblane High School had an extremely successful competition fielding 8 teams across both Under15 and Over15 age groups.
Saturday morning saw the Dunblane Boys over15 Epee team, Liam Edwards, Scott Cocker, William Parkinson and Wallace Jaffray and the Under15 team Leo McArdle, Louis Bryson, and Alex Papadopoulous progress through the group stages to reach the latter stages of the event. After
3 very hard fought bouts, the Over15 team emerged bronze medallists. Our under15 team won gold to become Scottish Schools Team Champions, a remarkable achievement since they only began training with the Epee four weeks previously.
The Sabre competition took place on Saturday afternoon where the boys’ over15 team missed out on a medal place by only 3 points but the captain, Robin Lee, was awarded most technically stylish fencer for Sabre.
Sunday saw success for Dunblane girls competing in the over15 Foil category. The team, Megan Gouw, Wendy Exton, Caitlin Gean and Khemindi Gunasinghe, emerged as silver medallists showing considerable resolve and resilience against much more experienced fencers.
The boys were also competing in under15 and over 15 Foil and, in tough group and knockout stages, consistently drew on reserves of tenacity to grasp success in what was a very closely fought category. One boys’ over15 team, Robin Lee, Connor Jaffrey, Rory McNichol and Wallace Jaffray (R) took silver medal whilst Wallace Jaffrey, Liam Edwards, Scott Cocker and William Parkinson secured 4th place. In the under 15’s, the team of Louis Bryson, Alex Papadopoulous, Leo McArdle and Tom Brown narrowly lost out in the final to gain silver. The other under15 team, Craig Mason, Robbie Ransom and Neil Brown although not getting to the final stages, were the only team to beat the Dunblane silver medal team in the group stages.
The excellent performances across the board would not have been possible without the dedication of head coach Charity McArdle and her team.
"All our young people who took part showed great sportsmanship to other competitors and were an incredible support and encouragement to each other – a credit to their club and Dunblane High School."
