Welcome to the Henley SLSC Newsletter!

March 2017

Flying the Henley flag and competing strongly and fairly at many events!

Upcoming Dates

• Sat 25th March to Sun 2nd April – Australian National Surf Life Saving Championships, Kirra QLD
• Sat 1st April – Henley SLSC Junior Presentation, Henley SLSC
• Sat 29th April – End of Season Casino Royale night, Henley SLSC (Over 18 only)
• Sat 27th May – ASRL SA Presentation night, Semaphore SLSC
• Sat 3rd June – Henley SLSC Senior Presentation night – Henley SLSC

We can’t believe another season is nearly over! Whilst it has been a very challenging season weather wise, it’s been a successful season for Henley with lots of exciting club and community events and some outstanding achievements in competition across all areas and ages. Everyone deserves a well earned rest over the off season, however there will still be lots going on over the cooler months which we hope you will all get involved with.

Our Junior area is already hosting their end of season presentations and we will formally end the season with our social ‘Casino Royale’ night on 29^th April which we encourage all of our over 18’s to attend.

The BOM would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all our members, trainers, coaches, AGL’s, officials, committee members, sponsors and staff for all your contributions and hard work throughout the season. Its takes a lot of teamwork to keep this club functioning and without the ‘Team Henley’ spirit we simply couldn’t make it all happen. THANK YOU !!!!

Bronze & SRC
Roy is continuing with Bronze and SRC training over the weekends.
Currently with small groups,
Up until four weeks ago, Roy had not stopped since October, at times running two groups simultaneously.
Big effort.

ART
Stefan and Bianca have been running two ART (Advanced Resuscitation Technique) concurrently over the past five weeks.
The final assessment for the two groups will be over the next week for the nine members.
Great effort with these groups.

IRB Crew
The IRB crew course has been run on Saturday mornings – so far all training has been in front of the Henley SLSC.
They will be assessed at Middleton on Saturday 1 April, in the surf.
Chris Fuller is one of the trainers and is doing a great job with his experience in IRB & Jet Boats.

Spinal Management
The spinal management course is only over 8 hours.
This was completed over two weeks and is assessed in-house.
The practical training took some time as the sun was well set before the final (training) patient was removed from the water.
There will be another Spinal course run soon as it would be ideal for have each patrol with a Spinal Manager.

SMAR
Tim Cavanagh and Cooper Forest will be attending the SMAR course (Silver Medallion Aquatic Rescue) this weekend at Port Noarlunga.
It’s a very physical and demanding course. They will be spending hours in the water practising search techniques and rescues.
The course also includes walking through sand hills at night to conduct a grid search.
It’s a very satisfying course to complete as these skills are core to Surf Life Saving.

Training Officer Bronze Medallion
At the last Bronze Medallion course assessed at Henley SLSC there were three members be assessed and passed as Bronze Training Officers.

• Laura Cassidy
• Bianca Parker
• Chris Fuller

This is great achievement by these three members.
They have put their time in to training Bronze/SRC groups over this season and assisted a lot of people to become lifesavers.

Courses to be conducted in the near future:

• Spinal Management
• IRB Crew
• IRB Drivers

Paul Leonard – Chief Instructor

I’ll be running a two day training course at the end of the school holidays, Thursday 27th and Friday 28th April.
If you or anyone you know is interested in doing this course please contact me asap.

I also have two university students who are keen to do their bronze. I am going to meet with them to work out times that suit their study commitments. (Study commitments is a term that has been introduced since I went to Teachers’ college so I’m not really sure what it means!) So if you know of anyone in this age group who is interested in getting their Bronze let me know and I’ll add them into the conversation.

Finally, as I’m retired I can be flexible with my training times, so again if you know anyone who is interested in doing their Bronze but can’t make these times get them to get in touch with me and we can work out training times that are mutually agreeable.

Roy Menner – 0400 066 125