Gymnastics Kids Academies
The Sport Ireland Campus' Gymnastics Kids Academies allow children to experience a high level of sports coaching in elite facilities. This is the perfect starting or development point in gymnastics for kids. It also provides a great basis for flexibility and movement throughout their sporting lives.
Our Gymnastics Academy
The focus of this Academy is to develop a wide range of gymnastic movements through structured classes. The classes incorporate large periods of gymnast skill acquisition. This will occur on various pieces of apparatus. The measurement of the gymnast’s performance during the academy will be monitored through the introduction of Gymnastics Ireland ‘Gym Start’ Awards Programme.
Top Class Coaching
At the Sport Ireland Campus we have a team of fully qualified expert coaches on hand to ensure your child will have a throughly enjoyable time learning and developing new skills
Gymnastics Academy Details
Junior Gymnastics Academies
Classes:
- Gym Tots (2-3 years)
- Junior Gym (4-5 years)
The Junior Gymnastics Academy (Gym Tots/ Junior Gym) will aim to link the development of fundamental movements for child development and fundamental gymnastics. This ‘active start’ gymnastics programme has been developed around the creation of challenges for the gymnast to concur. The gymnasts will progress at their own rate and this programme will allow for individual differences in each participants rate of achievement. The Academy will allow participants to sample a wide range of movements. These are fundamental body movement patterns, fundamental gymnastics movements.
Gymnastics Academies
Classes:
- Gym 1 (6-8 years)
- Gym 2 (9-11 years)
- Gym 3 (8+ years old and assessment entry only - for a Gym 3 assessment please contact DanielWaters@sportirelandcampus.ie)
- Teens (12+ years old)
The focus of this Academy is to develop a wide range of gymnastic movements through structured class. The class will incorporate large periods of gymnast skill acquisition. This will occur on various pieces of apparatus. The measurement of the gymnast’s performance during the academy will be monitored through the introduction of Gymnastics Ireland ‘Gym Start’ Awards Programme.
Trampoline Gymnastics Academies
Participants: (6 - 12 years)
The trampoline academy has developed its own gymnast centred learner based programme entitled ‘Learn to Trampoline’. This provides a well-defined set of goals based around five key skills at every level which allows participant centred progressive development.
