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7th
April- Training
We are approaching
the end of the hockey season and the arrangements for the
final three weeks are as follows:
11 Apr – there will be no training as many
juniors will be involved with the Yazoo mini hockey
championship
18 Apr – final
training session of the season – usual times
25 Apr – SYL
festival matches
Thanks for your commitment and enthusiasm. Enjoy
the summer break.
Elton
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31st
January- SafeGuarding
Juniors
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Safeguarding is a key priority for Ipswich Hockey Club. We have formally agreed a Junior code of conduct (attached) that we need both you and your Junior to read, be familiar with and adhere to. You also need to know that the Club has an adult member who is specifically responsible for children, young people and child protection. Her name is:
Tip Flory
Please contact her if you have any concerns or problems. Her telephone number is:
01473 251143 or
07720890656
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8th
January- Weather cancels
events
Given
the current Arctic conditions and forecast, Pidge and I have
decided to cancel Junior training on Sunday. We will
start on 17 Jan and start our preparation for “assessment
day”. Please spread the word.
Please
note the Suffolk JAC assessment session scheduled for
this Sunday at Harleston Magpies HC are postponed due
to the wintry weather. Assessment sessions for the under 14,
under 15, under 16 and under 17’s have been rearranged
for next Sunday 17th January. ….. However due
to the second pitch at Harleston not being available between
10.00 and 12.00 on the 17th we have decided to
delay the Under 13’s assessments until Sunday 24th
January and we have moved the Under 14 Boys assessment from
11.13 to 10.00 on the 17th. (See below.) All
further dates remain the same at this stage
Please can you notify all young people at your school
and clubs likely to attend.
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JUNIOR
HOCKEY CHRISTMAS SOCIAL
SUNDAY
20TH DECEMBER
FUN
SESSION
FOR ALL AGE GROUPS 10am TO 12 noon FOLLOWED BY CHRISTMAS
NIBBLES IN THE CLUB HOUSE!
PARENTS
WELCOME
ALL
THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US IN THE CLUB HOUSE PLEASE SIGN
UP AT SUNDAY TRAINING
£1.50
PER PERSON
MERRY
CHRISTMAS !
18th
October- Junior times
change
Please note training for the U9 & U11 will be at Tuddenham
Rd 1000-1100 Sunday 18th October
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24th
September- Junior Academy launched
The
Ipswich Hockey Academy has been established as an
Elite Junior Performance session, with the aim to encourage and
develop young players with potential to play at a high level.
The Academy has been set-up and is being run by England
Hockey Centrally Contracted Coach
and Ipswich Women's 1st team
coach James Kingstone.

James
in action
Due to the short lead time to the start of this seasons camps,
selection has been conducted with consultation from relevant
coaches at Ipswich Hockey Club. James will keep in close
contact with all coaches involved with Junior players during
this season and any players showing potential will be invited
to attend the Academy (If there is space).
The long term aim for selection is to have an open
trails session in the summer of 2010
and if there is demand to extend the Academy to a wider number
(at present it is limited to 8 Girls and 8 Boys)
The target players for this Academy are not the Juniors that
are already training with both 1's squad but the players below
that level and show signs of potential to play and train at
the higher level.
As the Academy is a specialised session it will incur an extra
charge to Club membership of around £7 per person per
session. This amount has been subsidised this season by
Ipswich HC, highlighting the clubs continued commitment to developing
our Junior players to their full potential.
Over the past seasons a lot of hard work has gone into our
Junior section and the Club feels this is Academy is another
valuable addition to ensuring that our club continues to
thrive and provide opportunities to our young players to reach
their desired goals.
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2nd
September 2009
This year the
Junior Hockey season starts with the Club Day on 5 Sep and the
first coaching session on 6 Sep. We welcome Juniors between the age of 6-15 of all standards
to take part in a range of activities including training for
beginners, competitive matches and a Hockey Academy for
developing advanced skills
Programme
Sunday coaching – weekly coaching sessions at Henley Road
– all welcome. We
are delighted that Andy Swindin (L3 Coach) will continue as
Head Coach and lead the Sunday sessions.
10-11am
coaching for 6-11 boys and girls
11-12.30pm coaching for 11-15 boys and girls
Suffolk Youth League – U9 mixed, U11 mixed, U13 boys, U13
girls & U16 boys
HA Youth Cup - U15 & U18 boys & girls
Hockey Academy - for age group (13-16) who want to develop
advanced skills - details to follow
Cost
This year the cost
for each Sunday training sessions will be £3 on a pay-and
play basis. Training
sessions are free to Ipswich Sports Club members.
A £1 match fee per
player will be charged for all league and cup matches.
Volunteer Help
The success of
Junior Hockey depends on volunteer helpers (primarily
parents). There
are many jobs that need doing including administration at
Sunday coaching, coaching assistance team management and shirt
washing. So whatever your skill set, please volunteer to
help – the success of the programme depends on you.
Communications
All Junior Hockey
information will be posted on the website below so please
ensure you keep up to date by looking at it regularly.
http://www.ipswichhockeyclub.co.uk/Jnews.html
Look forward to a great season
Elton D’Souza
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3rd
December
3
Ipswich Boys make final England squads
Congratulations
to Jonny Gall -England
U16, Mickey Franklin -England
U18 and Josh Godfrey -England
U18 who have all been selected to represent their
Country. Mickey and Josh step up from the U16 age group while
Jonny is still eligible for another year.

Josh,
Jonny and Mickey
The 2008-09 U16 programme involves
warm weather training in Gibraltar, training sessions and
camps in the UK, the Easter Four Nations tournaments, Test
matches against International opposition and the U16 Home
Nations event.
The U18 programme includes training
sessions and camps in the UK, the Easter Four Nations
tournaments, Test matches against International opposition,
the EuroHockey Youth Nations Championships and the UK School
Games.
Good luck to all the boys.
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25th
November
Sunday coaching
- there will be no coaching on 30
Nov due to HA Cup matches or on
7 Dec due to
home SYL matches. Coaching sessions start again on
11 Jan.
SYL matches
- we are running 9 SYL teams who all
performed fantastically on 16 Nov gaining 10 wins, 3 draws
& 1 loss. It is particularly pleasing to see teams
playing good hockey and putting what they learn at coaching
into practice under pressure of competitive matches. All
results and goal scorers are on the website.
HA Cup
- all our teams stormed into the 3rd round
with some excellent performances. All 3rd round matches
take place on 30 Nov as follows:
- U15 Girls vs
Canterbury - 11.30 @ Tuddenham Road
- U18 Girls vs Dereham
- 13.30 @ Tuddenham Road
- U18 Boys vs Harleston
- 10.00 @ Henley Road
- U15 Boys vs Harleston
- 12.00 @ Henley Road
Please come along and
support our Juniors if you can. You will see some
excellent competitive hockey - particularly valuable for the
younger Juniors.
Hockey courses
- two courses are
scheduled:
1. Young Umpire Hockey Course - (18th
January 2009 at Culford School) and a
2. Country Wide Leadership Course (8th February and 15th
February at Woodbridge School).
Details on the website.
Evening Star
- we have been asked to submit regular
match reports for the Tuesday sports supplement. If any
of you has a journalistic talent (or ambition!) and would like
to assist, please contact a team manager - I'm
sure the Juniors will enjoy seeing their names in print!
This will also be excellent publicity for the Club generally
and the Junior Section in particular.
Ipswich Hockey
Club kit - there will be another
Kukri on-line shop opening - watch the website for details.
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10th
November
Congratulations
to the 4 Ipswich players who made the England Junior squads
and commiseration to the ones who narrowly missed out.
Jonny Gall -England
U16
Tom Dunnett, Michael Franklin,
Josh Godfrey -England
U18
Freddie Whitfield
-England u18 Non-travelling reserve
Following on from the Tier 2 Junior
Regional Performance Centre (JRPC) activity in October and
early November, England’s Under 16 and Under 18
international training squads have been named.
The U16 boys and girls squads will
take part in further assessment camp activity at Bisham Abbey
over the weekend of 21-23 November 2008. The U18 boys
and girls’ assessment camps will be held at HMS Temeraire in
Portsmouth on the same dates.
The squad announcements come after the England Hockey Futures
Cup at Cannock HC, the new format competition replacing the
old boys’ and girls’ U16 and U18 regional tournaments, and
following the completion of a High Performance Assessment Camp
(HiPAC) for U15s and U17s.
England Hockey’s National Age Group coaches and managers
were present at the Futures Cup to watch the players represent
their JRPC clusters as the Pennine Pumas, Mercia Lynx, Saxon
Tigers and Wessex Leopards.
The final National Age Group squads for 2009 will be selected
from the November assessment camps.
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20th
October
11
Ipswich players make new Regional Squads

The 16 squads for next week's EH
Futures Cup at Cannock Hockey Club have now been confirmed.
The event will be held at Cannock Hockey Club from Thursday
30th October until Sunday 2nd November.
The teams, playing under the names of
Pennine Pumas, Mercia Lynx, Saxon Tigers and Wessex Leopards,
have been selected from the 12 Junior Regional
Performance Centres (JRPCs) that will form a key part of England
Hockey's new Single System.
The Pennine Pumas athletes come from
the JRPCs at Newcastle, Leeds and North Manchester.
The Mercia Lynx players all hail from the JRPCs at
Nottingham/Loughborough, North Birmingham and Oxford while the
Saxon Tigers consist of players from Bury St Edmunds, St
Albans and Oxted/Tonbridge JRPCs. The JRPCs at Bristol,
Exeter and Winchester have come together to form the Wessex
Leopards.
The players were all selected for
their respective squads after the 'Tier 1' JRPC activity which
involved the Junior Regional Performance Centres in each area
playing against each other.
Teams will play at Under 16 and Under
18 in both boys and girls competitions at the tournament,
which acts as a selection ground for England's National Age
Group Squads as well as providing good quality competition for
the athletes.
Congratulations to the following
Ipswich players:
Girls
U16 -Michaela Chidgley
Girls
U18-Chloe Hunnable, Alex Paske, Sarah Glanvill
Boys
U16 -Jamie Bowden, Jon Gall
Boys
U18 -Freddie Whitfield, Tom Dunnett (VC), Michael Franklin,
Josh Godfrey, Adam Miller
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16th
September
Half
Term Junior Coaching Course
Monday
27th, Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th October @ Henley
Road.
10am
to 3pm.
Open
to Boys and Girls Ages 7-16 years old.
ONLY
£20 per day or £50 for all 3 days.
Great
Coaching, Great Fun, Great Price.
Download
the Booking form
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11th
September 2008
08-09
Suffolk Junior Info
All the latest news
about County Trials. please download the file Junior
County Trials info (Pdf)
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2nd
September 2008
08-09
Junior Training Sessions
Hope you have all
had a great summer. The hockey season is approaching
fast with the first Junior Hockey session scheduled for 7
Sep. This year we have an ambitious programme that will
cover training for beginners, competitive matches and a new
Hockey Academy for developing advanced skills:
Sunday coaching - 2 age group
sessions (6-11) and (11-15) all welcome
Suffolk Youth League - U9, U11, U13 & U16
HA Youth Cup - U15 & U18
Hockey Academy - for age group (13-16) who want to develop
advanced skills - details to follow
In order to make this programme successful, we will need help
from parent volunteers with administration at Sunday coaching,
coaching assistance and team management. So please
volunteer to help if you are able.
We are delighted that Andy Swindin has agreed to be Head Coach
and will lead the Sunday sessions. The first session
will be on 7 Sep following the same format of previous
years:
10-11am coaching for 6-11 boys and girls
11-12.30pm coaching for 11-15 boys and girls
Look forward to seeing you at Henley Road on 7 Sep.
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7th
August 2008
Ipswich
players in England action
Chloe
Hunnable
returned from Holland with a Silver
medal after the England U16 squad lost to Holland in the Euro
National Final.

Chloe
in action v Holland
Will
Hearne was also in action for the
England U18 Team and has been selected for the England School squad
that will play in the UK School Games which run from 28-31
August in Bath and Bristol.
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