Time change Tuesday 21 March and pregrading this week!

Hi Parents

Time change

• Tuesday 21 March, 5-6pm, 6-7pm

Tuesday 21 March, the 6-8yo class that is usually 5-6pm will instead be one hour later at 6-7pm, merged with the 9-12yo class.

I am travelling back from a Taekwon-Do friend’s wedding in Gisborne, and unfortunately none of our teaching team are available to teach the 5pm class.

Mr Sapir is teaching the 6-7pm and adult classes for me. He will have help with the combined 6-7pm class from a few red and black belts.

My apologies.

Master Banicevich.

Pregrading week

The week of 20 March is pregrading week – so train hard and prepare!

Read this post carefully for details about pregrading and grading. Class instructors will look particularly at those who meet the requirements for their next national grading. (Taekwon-Do Kubz and new students, pregrading doesn’t affect you. This affects children who have a first red stripe or black stripe, most youth and adult students, and many young coloured belts.)

What you must do now:

• Grading for those with a mini-kids handbook is subject to sighting the completed syllabus book sections for your next grade and below. All children with white belts and yellow stripes, ensure you complete the relevant  pages of your syllabus book!
• Study the theory for your grade and below. It will be tested, either at pre-grading, or at grading.
• Those under 13, please complete a report sheet and bring it with you to class this week. There is a space for the teacher and a space for a parent. Kubz have two permission slips at the back of their manuals.

Then what happens:

After pregrading, we’ll invoice students who are invited to grade this term. Grading details will be on the email that comes with the invoice. Grading invoices will be sent on Sunday 26 March. If you receive an invoice, you are invited to grade this term. Read this post and the invoice email carefully, to understand how gradings will proceed. Grading fees are due before Thursday 30 March.

• Kubz grading, Saturday 1 April, 9:00-11:00am, Churchill Park School, during our Skills Tournament;
• All grades up to yellow belt, Monday 3 April, 6:00-8:00pm, Churchill Park School;
• All grades from yellow belt (those wearing a yellow belt or higher) and adult white belts, Tuesday 4 April, 6:00-8:30pm, Churchill Park School;
• Children’s syllabus gradings and Kubz gradings are $45 each (including the Skills Tournament), and national gradings are $90 each.

If you cannot make the date of your scheduled grading, try to rearrange your calendar, please. Exceptions are difficult to manage.

Ensure you practise your syllabus – all of your syllabus and below – for grading, and ensure you know the theory for your grade and below. Remember that an invitation to grade is not a guarantee to pass – that is up to you, and how well you perform at grading.

And if I’m not grading:

Children under 13 who are not grading this term will receive an invoice for the Skills Tournament on 1 April. This invoice will be for $25.

If you do not receive an invoice, then you are not invited to grade this term. In most cases, this is because you have insufficient sessions since your last grading – keep training. You are improving, and next term it is likely that you’ll be ready! A few students are not invited to grade because they are not trying hard enough in class. Grades are not awarded for turning up. You get better by trying hard, and you must meet the national standard to pass a national grading!

Children’s syllabus grades are designed for children under 13. Children naturally take longer to progress than adults, and children’s grades are awarded to help them recognise their progress.

Grading fees due 30 March:

Please note that grading fees (and all training fees) must be paid by Thursday 30 March, so they can clear before we reconcile bank accounts the Friday evening before grading.

If you have any questions, please ask your class instructor.