June News Letter

June has started well at Family Martial Arts. 

We have made the monthly Belt or Tag promotions to the Little Ninja’s and our family class members at both schools.  Well done everyone.

We continue our curriculum rotation with this month being Excellence Month and the Life skills Focused on are MOTIVATION  and  ROLE MODEL.

The patterns and syllabus work for this rotation are continuing to be taught throughout all the classes. The Junior belt pattern is Dan-Gun and for the Senior belts, revision of Dan Gun with Hwa-Rang being the senior rotation pattern. With the up coming Red/Black Belt assessments and gradings coming up, there will be more practice on all the other patterns as well.

Don’t forget to learn your pattern and belt meanings along with technique and stance details.

The next COLOUR belt Gradings will be on-

Wednesday 5^th July at the Gravesend School.

Wednesday 5^th July and Thursday 6^th July at the  Maidstone School.

Make sure your name is on the sign up sheets and payment is made and marked off by a member of staff prior to the Grading taking place please.

The Grading and Assessment for Red belts and above will be held at the Gravesend School on Saturday 15^th July 2017starting at 1.30pm.   Make sure your name is on the sign up sheets and payment is made and marked off by a member of staff prior to the Grading taking place please. All those wishing to grade to Black Belt or above, make sure you make this known, have permission and return an application form.

The LN/Junior’s Student of the month was a roll over at both schools this time so those with nominations, keep going and those that have not so far this month, keep trying and see if you can catch those that have up.

Happy birthday wishes this month go to Milly, Kahlan, Max and teddy all from our Gravesend School Juniors and from our Maidstone School Juniors this month we have George, Sam, Milly,Ryan,Zara, Jarema, Emilis, Jack and Crstian. And Birthday wishes extended to any members in our adult classes and family members. Hope you all enjoy your celebrations.

Welcome to all new students during May and remember that you all can sponsor a friend or family member to a Free trial class and earn a reward upon their membership.

We have two school summer fetes in Gravesend which we are demonstrating at this month if anybody can help out with one at Holy Trinity School Saturday 10^th June and the other at  Shorne Primary School Saturday 24^th June.

Demonstration Team members needed for these so if you are interested please speak to Nicky or Mr Tandoh.  If you would like us to demonstrate our skills or run a taster session at your School Fete or event, please let a member of staff now and we will see if we can attend.

Don’t forget that at the Maidstone school. there are Pressure point lessons every Tuesday at 8 pm and Modern Arnis lessons everyThursday at 8pm and Saturdays at 12 noon.

Saturday fitness and Sparing sessions will be held at both schools alternating between the two that are available to all adults that are eligible to spar and juniors that attend senior belt lessons.

All these lessons run as a pay per lesson format but must be registered for in advance as numbers will dictate whether they will run. Please check with the instructors if, when and where they are.

The Gravesend school has some space within its timetable so please let us know if there’s any type of lesson you would be interested in. Keep an eye on the notice boards for any other lessons or extra training sessions with the instructors at both schools.

Private lessons can be booked for all aspects of training either as a group or 1-2-1

Have a great Month

The Team at 

Family Martial Arts