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After a short break, we are back! Winter training is well underway for the experienced rowers who want to participate, bearing in mind that winter sport still takes priority. There are a lot of behind-the-scenes activities going on to get the new season underway, so thank you to everyone involved. We will be calling for more input soon to get the season off to a great start. Dates for your Diary · Sun 23 Jul – Exp rower trial · 25, 27 Jul – Yr 9 rowing recruitment at school · Sun 30 Jul – LTR student and parent meeting at school · Fri 4 Aug – LTR begins · 20th Aug – Book drop to school container · 16 – 17th Sept – Book Fair · 22-26th Sept - LTR camp · 23rd Sept – 8th Oct – T3 holidays · 25th Oct – OCRC AGM and Yr 13 farewell Trial for experienced rowers · Sun 23rd July, 3pm at WRC Coaches are looking forward to seeing you all at the trial. Jason and the coaches have outlined the trial details and rationale in a previous email, please refer to that. Please also get in contact with Jason or another coach if you have not yet been to a winter training session. It will have to be assumed that you do not wish to row for the upcoming season, if you have not made contact or do not attend the trial. Reminder of OCRC behaviours and values As previously mentioned in earlier emails. The coaches have come up with a list of behaviours that we want to see from all rowers this season. This will help create a safe and enjoyable environment, and a good culture from where you can achieve your rowing goals. · Contribute · Respect other people · Use positive language to each other · Be responsible for yourself · Listen when your coach is speaking · Look after equipment, e.g. boats, bus, accommodation · Training sessions are for training - have a good attitude · Come to training if you say that you will be coming · Be on time and organised · Be proactive when you arrive at training School volunteer process Onslow College has enhanced its volunteer process and requirements. We need a lot of parents for away trips each season and need to start the volunteer process now. In particular, there is only one more opportunity to do the school volunteer induction process in T3, which we need parents to attend – in person or via Teams. If you think you might want to volunteer for a regatta or camp or even overnight on a Rua trip, then please do the following 4 processes: 1. Submit a police check form – take the form and 2 forms of photo id to the school office for verification. 2. Read the OC Volunteer Safety Guidelines 3. Submit the OC Volunteer Agreement – read and complete the last page. Photograph the last page, signed and send it to Kylie. Kylie.summers@onslow.school.nz 4. Participate in the volunteer induction session. There will be one run at the end of T3 (September). Induction is compulsory. Online or in person, with invitations sent one week prior to the event. Tell Kylie that you need to be included in the T3 invitation. Participating online is easy, it is only about 40 mins) Documents are attached to this email. Even if you think you might volunteer next season or for another sport, then do this process. School will be very strict on volunteers this season and we will not be allowed to take non-vetted parents on away trips and we cannot go on away trips without parent help. Thank you! IMPT: Please settle your last season OCRC fees ASAP Thank you to everyone who has paid your rowing fees to date. We still have a bit of a debt owing from last season’s rowing from several people. Can everyone please check your school accounts and settle your rowing fees from last season asap. The majority of families have paid, but to be fair on everyone in our group, everyone needs to pay their share for the trips that your rower has been on and for the OCRC fees. Other parents should not be expected to financially support people who don’t pay. Rowing is expensive enough Greatly appreciated, thank you! LTR LTR is kicking off from Friday 4th August. Unfortunately, we don’t have the opportunity to promote rowing in the Year 9 PE classes this year. But we do have a couple of lunchtime sessions, on 25th and 27th July. So spread the word on rowing and encourage any Year 9 students to come along to give rowing a go. LTR parent and student information meeting · Sun 30th July 4pm, school staffroom Encourage Year 9’s interested in rowing this season to come to the information meeting and direct them to the rowing website for more info: https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/ LTR / Spring Camp · Fri after school 22nd Sept to Tues 26th Sept · Wanganui Top 10 Holiday Camp Further details during LTR Book Fair · Book Fair - Sat 16th – Sun 17th Sept · Contact Jenny Miller to offer help. jen.dunning.78@gmail.com · Book drop to storage area on Table Mountain Sun 20th Aug 2-4pm Just a note on what we are accepting and not accepting: We will NOT be accepting: - CD/DVDs - Records - Magazines/National Geographic - Maps & Dictionaries - Activity books: Crosswords, Sudoku, Sticker books etc - Kids games - Puzzles Cook books must be current and printed within the last 5 years: think Chelsea Winter. Camp and Regatta dates The season schedule with camp and regatta dates is on the website. https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/regattas--camps.html AGM and Yr 13 farewell · AGM – Wed 25th Oct, 7.30pm, school staffroom Save the date for the AGM and the farewell to the Yr 13 rowers as they have finished their school rowing careers. Thank you to Ellen, Ben and Allegra who are stepping up to assist with coaching for the remainder of their Yr 13 year. We will also have a couple of committee members stepping down at the AGM. If you would like to be a part of the committee, then get in contact and we will give you more details. It’s always great to get involved with your children’s sports. Physio Khandallah Physiotherapy Centre provides an on-site clinic at Onslow College. See the flyer attached. Covid Policy 2023 The return to training covid protocol is now updated in line with the latest Ministry of Health advice. It will be up to parents to decide when their rower returns to training after having COVID, in consultation with coaches. Refer to Ministry of Health advice: https://toiteora.govt.nz/public/covid-19/returning-to-exercise-after-covid-19-infection/ Thank you to FIFA volunteers Thank you to the FIFA volunteers who are helping at the stadium at the FIFA games and raising funds for the OCRC season ahead. Ex OCRC coxswain Ex-Onslow coxswain, Ella Greenslade (2014-2018), will cox the women’s 4+ at the Under 23 World Rowing Championships in Bulgaria. The regatta is on 19-23 July. You can read the team announcement here: https://rowingnz.kiwi/Story?Action=View&Story_id=1022 Ella is one of the 3 OCRC members who gained a US University rowing scholarship several years ago and has just graduated. Ella has graduated from Washington State University, Olivia Clark from Yale University and Constance Stirling will be finishing at the University of Miami due to a covid gap. Finally, Welcome back! Nga mihi Stephanie Clark OCRC President www.ocrowingclub.weebly.com
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What a season! After the threat of nearly having a season without regattas, we managed to cram it all in, in the final 3 weeks with a couple more to Maadi. And wasn’t it all well worthwhile! An amazing opportunity to get the whole squad rowing on Lake Ruataniwha, loads of finals, medals and the Maadi gold! Awesome work OCRC. Dates for your Diary · 9th Apr, Boat Maintenance day · May/June – WRC prizegiving · June/July – OC open evening · Aug/Sept – LTR · Aug/Sept/Oct - Bookfair Boat maintenance The boat maintenance schedule was emailed the other day. Please check it to see your scheduled duty. If you can’t make your scheduled shift and can still help out on the day, then feel free to just turn up to a shift that suits you. Many hands make light work – thank you! End of season function We are going to postpone our senior rower farewell, usually held at our end of season function. Now is not the right time for extended bubble gatherings and some rowers are currently with covid or isolating. So we will do our senior rower farewell at the beginning of the new season, at the AGM. Extra OCRC coach fee Our coaches give their time for free for our club. Between training and regattas, this is hundreds of hours every season. We wouldn’t have a club without them. The agreement is, we cover their expenses. Between our lead coaches, and assistant coaches, this totals around $10k per year – split between an annual coaching fee of $100 per rower, and book-fair fundraising. Unfortunately, due to COVID lockdowns, it has not been possible to hold the book-fair this season. We can partly cover the shortfall from the additional $50pp maintenance / equipment fund we earlier billed to your student account that we tagged as a backup fund if there was no book fair, but we will still be short this season. The committee has decided that an extra $50 per rower is required to cover our coaches’ expenses and final end of season club running costs. This has been loaded to each student account for payment. Thank you. OCRC fees Please log into your student account to access the rowing charges. There are many outstanding fees yet to be paid. We recognise there have been issues with the new student management system but it is all up and running now, so all fees are waiting to be paid! Can you please settle all outstanding rowing fees for the 2021-22 season asap. Thank you! Access the student account system through the parent portal > login > click menu ‘Details’ > click option ‘Financial’ SISSC and Maadi wrap-up Well done to our Maadi crews on a very successful Maadi. All rowers made A/B finals with Allegra Lennard taking out the title for the GU16 1x. Well done Allegra. First girls gold Maadi medal for Onslow College. Maadi:
Season Thank-yous A huge thank you to:
OCRC Volunteers At the start of next season, we’ll be calling for season jobs to be filled. Please consider taking on a role when you can. Rowing functions well with many people chipping in! WSSRA Volunteer Wellington Secondary Schools Rowing Association is calling for a volunteer to help on the committee. They help organise and run the Wellington regattas, usually about a couple per season. If you would like to help, then please reply back and we’ll pass on your details. Future camp dates Future camp dates are on the website. https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/ Fundraising Layne Hughes | Licensed Real Estate Consultant layne.hughes@harcourts.co.nz | 021 246 8660 | 04 479 7911 Recently embracing a career pivot, I have come to Harcourts with over 15 years’ of management experience in the private sector, where I have sharpened my people management, marketing, regulatory and legalities experience, ensuring my ability to navigate situations with positivity, care and successful outcomes. I am proud to support our local community. If you are looking at making a real estate move, or know someone who is, I will donate $500 – for every confirmed list and sale to the Onslow Rowing Club. I thank you for your support and if you have any questions please reach out. Finally, have a well-earned rowing break and rowers, enjoy your winter sports. There will probably be some winter training kicking off around July for anyone who is interested in some land based fitness. And then the full season will start soon enough again, so hope to see you all back for more later in the year. Surely it will all be back to normal! Nga mihi Stephanie Clark OCRC President www.ocrowingclub.weebly.com Kia Ora everyone
We are finally heading to our first major regatta and time to put all the good training to use! This is the busy part of the season as we head into the championship regattas, so rowing will take up all your weekends, but it is only for the next 5-odd weeks (a bit longer for those going to Maadi). And you will be super fit for winter sports trials when school goes back. Dates for your Diary · 26th Jan, travel to NICC regatta, Karapiro · 28th – 30th Jan, NICC regatta, Karapiro · 5th – 7th Feb, Ruamahanga training (squad days to be advised) · 12th Feb, McLachlan Shield Regatta, Wellington · 19th – 20th Feb, Ruamahanga training · 26th – 27th Feb, Ruamahanga training · 19th – 20th Feb, Book Fair date, OR · 26th – 27th Feb, Book Fair date · 9th Mar, travel to NISSC · 11th – 13th Mar, NISSC regatta, Karapiro · 26th Mar, travel to Maadi, Twizel · 28th – 3rd Apr, Maadi, Twizel NIRC departure Departing Wed 26th Jan. Be at school at 7am in travel uniform for bus loading. Returning after the last race on Mon 31st Jan. Arrival at school will be sometime either side of midnight. NIRC Vax Pass and ID Remember to bring your Vaccine pass and student ID with you to regatta and carry it with you in your day bag each day at the lake. You will need it to scan in daily and there may be spot checks including requiring proof of ID. Karapiro Rowing recommend bringing a printed copy of your vaccine pass as well as it being on your phone. NIRC accommodation Just a reminder that we are not staying at the Raceway for this trip, we are staying elsewhere, at Campernwray, just outside Leamington. Unfortunately, they do have the same rules as Top 10 did, they are not permitting day visitors to their premises due to Covid rules. Wifi Info from Campernwray: We do have WIFI available on a voucher system. We can provide a stack of vouchers on arrival, and you can pay for what you use. Being in a rural location, we are on the best possible Rural Wireless Broadband. The speed is not fantastic, so does not support multiple users attempting video streaming. The rates are: 256MB for $1.50, 1GB for $5, 2GB for $8, and 4GB for $12 Sleeping gear: We will be staying in 3 or 4 bed cabins with ensuites. You need to bring your own sleeping bag, pillow, towel and a communal hand towel for your cabin group. (Everyone bring one, then you will have enough) Maadi Selection The season calendar and the Maadi selection process is summarised below. It is also found here. https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/regattas--camps.html (scroll to the bottom of the page) The New Zealand Secondary School Champs (Maadi) is being held at Lake Ruataniwha in Twizel. Travel will be between Saturday 26 March and Sunday 3 April. Only a select number of rowers and coxswains will attend where their crews are likely to make an A or B final. The selection process is as follows.
Delay for payments via school accounts The school is currently changing their student management system, therefore you may have encountered problems trying to access it and noted that the NIRC payment has not been loaded yet. Apparently, we will not be able to use it to pay until the end of next week. So please check again later to pay for any outstanding trips and the OCRC subs. Book Fair Please note the dates above. We will run the book fair on one of these dates. They do coincide with Rua training sessions, but we will make it work as much as possible. We may have to rely on the parents more than the rowers, so thank you in advance! The Book Fair team will be in touch soon. Cross over of sport seasons As school starts up again and a new season of summer sport kicks off and winter sports trials begin. Please remember the school policy to complete your commitments to your current season sport especially when heading into National tournaments. If there are other sport trainings that will clash with rowing, then your commitment should be to rowing. If there are other sport trials, then please talk to the selectors and your coach to discuss options. Start up of 1841 raffle This has kicked off again after a long covid break. Please ensure you carry out your allocated raffle duty. An email was sent the other day with a roster. Thank you. Professional photography FYI. We have a professional photographer who will be taking photos of our crews at NIRC, NISSC and Maadi. Rowit.nz Follow Rowit.nz for all the race results http://rowit.nz/nicc2022/results?en=41 Finally, good luck to all the rowers and coxswains racing next weekend. Nga mihi Stephanie Clark OCRC President www.ocrowingclub.weebly.com Kia Ora everyone
KR1 Xmas Regatta is on! (might be some small print as minor detail!). But the official word from Karapiro Rowing is that they are planning to hold the Xmas regatta. (Just keep in the back of your mind, as we have been accustomed to over the last 18 months, all the best laid plans can rapidly change last minute). However, we will plough ahead with all the planning, which leaves us with 3.5 weeks until the first major regatta of the season! Dates for your Diary · 22nd Nov – NCEA Exams start · 14th Dec – NCEA Exams end · Sat/Sun 4th – 5th Dec – Rua training · Sat 11th Dec – Wellington Champs Regatta (probably) · 15th Dec – travel to KR1 Xmas regatta, Karapiro · 19th Dec – end of KR1 Xmas regatta · 18th Dec – OCRC BOOK FAIR · 12th – 17th Jan 2022 – summer camp, Wanganui · 26th – travel to NICC regatta, Karapiro · 28th – 30th Jan NICC regatta, Karapiro · Generally expect every weekend in Feb and Mar to be a local regatta or a Rua trip or additional training in prep for the end of season championship regattas. OCRC Committee Thank you to everyone who attended the recent AGM. Welcome to the new OCRC Committee for the 2021-22 season: · Stephanie Clark President · Greg Holden Treasurer · Katrina Curry Secretary · Marie Butel Member · Claire Venn Member · Louise Lennard Member · Sarah Maxwell Member · Jason Theobald Coach Rep · Rose Holden Rower Rep · Terry McCarthy Life Member · Deidre Burke Life Member There are a number of additional parent roles for the season – thank you to all of these people. See the list here if you need to contact anyone: https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/current-season-roles.html Parent Help for away trips Urgent - we are still looking for one more parent for summer camp (maybe 2). Also need help at NISSC, but we can sort that one closer to the event. Given the potential covid situation, we might need to have a list of back up parents. So if you are actually going to be at any of the Karapiro regattas to watch your child race, then please let us know, so that we can have you as back up if the need arises. Likewise with Wanganui summer camp, if you will be on holiday back in Wgtn or in Wanganui, then let us know if we could contact you at short notice to fill in, if required. Please contact Stephanie: steph.paul@gmail.com Attendance at summer events Can all rowers please let their coach and squad manager know asap (by 27th Nov) if you are not able to attend any of the 3 summer away trips. The budgets and EOTC need to be completed in one week’s time for issue to school, so attendance is vital to get as correct as possible as this sets the budget. Check the regatta and camp schedule: https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/regattas--camps.html or look at the dates at the top of this newsletter. Get your vaccine passport! Thanks to everyone for getting onto the vaccine forms so quickly. Just waiting on a few last replies. A reminder that attendance at training at WRC, attendance at camp, attendance at Karapiro regattas – all require you to be fully vaccinated with 2 shots. Proof of vaccination will be required for Karapiro regattas, so get your vaccine passport ready! This applies to everyone age 12+, rowers, coaches, parent help, spectators, supporters etc. Vaccination forms All parent help / volunteers and coaches should now have sent in the school vaccination form with proof of vaccination: · Vaccination Records - CLICK HERE All OCRC members should now have completed the OCRC vaccination form: · https://forms.gle/WvTWZBNnKD1TZh5Z8 Fees Fees for LTR, LTR camp, WRC, rowsuits and uniforms have been added to your school accounts for payment. Please pay as soon as possible. Thank you. Fees for the summer events will be loaded before school finishes. Please ensure you pay each one well before your rower gets on the bus! Thanks. OCRC Subs OCRC Subs for 2021-22 season have been set at: · $100 coach levy · $150 equipment levy (subject to a successful bookfair, with the option to move $50 of this amount into the coach levy fund if needed) Coach levy covers reimbursement to coaches so that they are not out of pocket for expenses incurred in coaching our students. Equipment levy covers boat and equipment maintenance and every second year our racing boat fleet stays in Cambridge after Maadi Cup for refurbishment to keep the boats in top condition. The funds for this are built up over a 2 year period. The boats were just refurbished last Maadi and therefore some of this years funds will be carried over to next year. OCRC subs will be added to your school account shortly and should be paid prior to school commencing next year. Book Fair The Book Fair has been scheduled for Saturday 18th Dec, with set up on the Friday night 17th and pack down on Sun morning, 19th. Yes, this does now clash with KR1, but we scheduled it, thinking KR1 would be cancelled and have the opportunity of a free central venue. So there will be a few parents away on regatta duty, all the kids will be away but we have a plan. If all families who are here in Wellington can please ensure you save a few hours on this weekend to pitch in with our one fund raising event. More details will come out soon and a roster will be created for an allocated shift over the Saturday. Sponsorship If anyone is interested in sponsorship opportunities with our club, then please contact onslowcollegerowing@gmail.com Onslow College owns our own boat trailer that has 2 sides available for company or promotional signage. The boat trailer is parked prominently on the Wellington waterfront for durations of the season and travels numerous times throughout the North Island between Wellington, Wanganui, Cambridge and also to Twizel in the South Island every other year. The 5 day away regattas in Cambridge generate thousands of attendees from all over the North Island and the trailer has high visibility to these attendees, including just as many adults as students as the regattas are school and club adult events with lots of adult support crews. It is basically a travelling bill board! Sponsorship could help the Onslow College students with equipment and capital purchases for the benefit of existing and future generations of Onslow rowers.Facebook Group Join the Facebook group to keep up with reminders and photos from rowing events. · Onslow College Rowing Finally, all the best to the seniors sitting NCEA exams over the coming weeks and have a good Christmas! Nga mihi Stephanie Clark OCRC President www.ocrowingclub.weebly.com o edit. Kia Ora everyone
We are well into the swing of training for the season ahead after a successful LTR camp. Welcome to all the new Novice rower families. Let’s hope we do get to the regattas! Dates for your Diary · Wed 27th Oct – OCRC AGM · Sat/Sun 6th – 7th Oct – Rua training · Sat 13th Nov – Norton Cup Regatta, Wellington · Sat 27th Nov – Wellington Champs Regatta · 22nd Nov – NCEA Exams start · 14th Dec – NCEA Exams end · 15th Dec – travel to KR1 Xmas regatta, Karapiro · 19th Dec – end of KR1 Xmas regatta · 12th – 17th Jan 2022 – summer camp, Wanganui Onslow College Rowing Squad We have 56 students in the Onslow College Rowing team this season. The students are continuing to be coached by a very skilled and experienced coaching team. Welcome to new Novice Girls: Abby, Cameron, Fern, Georgie, Maia, Olivia, Scarlett, Ursula, Zoe. Coached by Josh Clark Welcome to new Novice Boys: Arran, Blake, Cole, Hamish, Hudson, James, Liam b, Liam d, Liam s, Marcus, Ollie, Ted, Thomas, Toby. Coached by Jason Theobald. And Fintan who joined the Exp Boys squad as coxswain. A huge thank you to our coaches for taking on another rowing season and to our Yr13 students for stepping up to the coaching roles. The coaching team includes: Jason Theobald, Angus Todd, Elliott Rose, Warrick Fowlie, Georgia McConchie-Murrary, Michael Hack, Year 13’s - Josh Clark, Sean Mackiewicz, Daniel Dolan and returning Uni students – Leon Dudley, Lucy Dunshea, Jemma Seymour. AGM The OCRC AGM is this coming Wednesday. Hope to see many of you there. There will be tea and coffee afterwards, so come for a coffee and chat as well.
Parent Help for away trips If you would like to help at any of the away events this season, the please contact Stephanie: We need parent help for the following events:
We will continue planning as though the major regattas will proceed, until told otherwise. Fingers crossed! And we might also get a list of back up parents for each trip in case we need to do a last min swap out if someone needs to go into isolation. Get your vaccine! I’m sure we have all heard about the Government’s new traffic light system coming into play once we hit 90% fully vaxed. So, we encourage everyone to go and get the vaccine asap. Under this new system, outdoor events will require vaccine certificates for attendance for everyone aged 12+. Additional to this, MoH guidelines require all adult volunteers in contact with students to be fully vaccinated. So, if you are thinking about volunteering for away trips, please get the double jab! Ruamahanga training trips Training trips to the Ruamahanga form an essential part of the rowing season and we are kicking off on early Nov. Your coach will provide the training schedule details and your squad manager will provide additional logistics and arrange car-pooling. Please ensure you offer transport for these trips throughout the season to evenly spread the load for your squad. Fees Fees for LTR, LTR camp, WRC, and rowsuits have been added to your school accounts for payment. Uniform costs will also be added shortly. Please pay as soon as possible. Thank you. WRC fees: http://www.wellingtonrowing.org.nz/Register-1 Uniforms Uniforms have been ordered and should be ready for delivery within the next 2-3 weeks. Sponsorship If anyone is interested in sponsorship opportunities with our club, then please contact onslowcollegerowing@gmail.com Onslow College owns our own boat trailer that has 2 sides available for company or promotional signage. The boat trailer is parked prominently on the Wellington waterfront for durations of the season and travels numerous times throughout the North Island between Wellington, Wanganui, Cambridge and also to Twizel in the South Island every other year. The 5 day away regattas in Cambridge generate thousands of attendees from all over the North Island and the trailer has high visibility to these attendees, including just as many adults as students as the regattas are school and club adult events with lots of adult support crews. It is basically a travelling bill board! Sponsorship could help the Onslow College students with equipment and capital purchases for the benefit of existing and future generations of Onslow rowers. Facebook Group Join the Facebook group to keep up with reminders and photos from rowing events.
Season Regattas & Calendar on the Website The regatta schedule and season calendar are on the website - to start planning your family holidays around rowing! https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/regattas--camps.html Finally, Welcome back, all the best to the seniors sitting mock exams this week and please get vaccinated! Nga mihi Stephanie Clark OCRC President www.ocrowingclub.weebly.com Kia Ora everyone
After a short break we are back! Training has already started for the experienced rowers, thanks to coaches for kicking that off. And there are a lot of behind-the-scenes activities going on to get the new season underway, so thank you to everyone involved. We’ll be calling for more input soon to get the season off to a great start. Dates for your Diary · Fri 20th Aug – LTR starts, 5 weeks · Sat/Sun 28th – 29th Aug – book sorting · Sat/Sun 4th – 5th Sept – Book Fair, set up on the 3rd · Sun 26th Sept – Compulsory rower and parent meeting · Fri 1st – Tues 5th – LTR / Spring Camp, Wanganui · Sat 2nd – Sun 17th – T3 School holidays · Wed 27th Oct – OCRC AGM Welcome to our LTR-ers and families Welcome to OCRC to our LTR-ers and families. There is a big intake of potential LTR-ers, so hopefully the weather will play nicely and you get lots of good water time. But no doubt you will get to experience a bit of the typical land-based trainings as well. Welcome aboard! LTR Programme / Spring Training LTR and spring training for existing rowers begins Friday 20th Aug with the following schedule:
Note, there will be a compulsory attendance meeting for all season rowers and a parent held on the last Sunday 26th Sept training day. Time either 2.30pm before training or afterwards - tbc LTR / Spring Camp
Season Squads and Coaches We are aiming to effectively have 4 primary squads this season with coaches as follows:
OCRC Book Fair: 4th – 5th SEPT Our annual book fair fundraiser will be held at school on 4-5 September. This is our main fundraising event for rowing and helps to offset the cost of buses up to regattas and coaches' expenses. You will soon be receiving an email with a two-hour slot for your family and rower to help during the bookfair weekend. Those who are not available on the fair weekend have the option of helping with book sorting the prior weekend instead. Collected books and banana boxes need to be dropped off at the year 13 "study" space (room 57 on Table Mountain) school for sorting 28/29 August (hours to be advised shortly). We will also be asking each family to bake a cake or slice/biscuits etc for sale during the fair. Book Fair contact: Clare Stanley: stanleypatchett@gmail.com WRC Registration All existing rowers & coxswains, please register on WRC. This should be done in order to participate in the Spring training programme. All Ltr-ers, also please register on WRC. http://www.wellingtonrowing.org.nz/Register-1 Professional photography Just a follow up from last season, as you know the professional photography at Maadi was cancelled at the last minute for all schools. We do have a small collection of funds that were allocated for this, so the Committee has decided to carry that fund over for this coming season and we will put it towards this season’s professional photography. Donation Thank-you’s A couple of Thank you’s to mention from people who have kindly donated items for our rowing club:
WRC Prize Giving and Development Selections While we were on our break, we had the WRC Prize Giving and the winter development programmes which have been running. Congratulations to the following people:
Season Regattas & Calendar on the Website The regatta schedule and season calendar are on the website - to start planning your family holidays around rowing! https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/regattas--camps.html Season Fees Season fees are on the website. This is an indication of fees. https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/costs.html Finally, Welcome back! Nga mihi Stephanie Clark OCRC President www.ocrowingclub.weebly.com Kia Ora everyone
Well we made it – got through to Maadi! It was unfortunate that the season finale for the whole group was cut short, but despite the covid setbacks, I hope you feel that the season was fulfilling and goals were accomplished. Dates for your Diary · Tue 13th Apr – End of Season Celebration · Sat 17th Apr – Maintenance Day – All rowers · Sat 17th Apr – T1 School Holidays start · Fri 30th Apr – WRC Prize Giving End of Season Celebration Rowers and parents, come along to our end of season celebration:
Supper will be served! On behalf of OCRC, we wish our senior departing rowers all the best for any future rowing endeavours and other ventures beyond school later this year. Thank you from OCRC for your involvement and leadership you have shown over your years and in particular your senior year. (Daniel, Josh, Mason, Morgan, Ryan, Sean, Tarek, Zach, Rose S) Maintenance Day At the end of each season, all of the Onslow boats and an allocation of the WRC boats need to have an annual maintenance overhaul. All of the season rowers are expected to assist with this whether you are returning to rowing or not, including all of the departing seniors. It’s really just another excuse to hang out with your rowing mates again! More details to come, but please save this date:
WRC Prize Giving WRC Prize Giving:
Maadi Cup wrap-up Well done to our Maadi crews on a successful Maadi. It was a beautiful week weather-wise with lots of finals made:
Professional photography Unfortunately, there was no professional photography at Maadi from our contracted photographer or many other previously ‘official’ photographers due to some issue (not sure what!). However, you can check out this link to some photos that were taken to try and find any Onslow pics. https://www.rowingnz.kiwi/ClickThru?MessageKey=cnIwz0nB7WHZ5qQLmpG6wpHfMi88Sx/Jgt/lLqnshw0=&Email=22299&Link=51943 We will sort out soon, any credit due from the previously charged photography cost. 1841 Raffle Fundraiser Just a heads-up as most of you will know, that we run the 1841 fundraiser throughout the year including the winter off-season. So please be prepared to continue to do your allocated shift, even if you are not yet sure if you will return to rowing. (If you don’t, then it can be a nice end of rowing career ‘give-back’ – thank you!). When the new intake of novices come into the programme later in the year, we will add them into the roster as well. This is generally just a two or three times a year 30 min job and money raised goes towards a regatta bus. Single (1x) We were successful in a grant application a couple of months ago and have begun the process of purchasing our new Onslow single ready for the next season. Thanks to Mel Dingle for persevering with the grants process and securing this for our club. The rowers agreed name for the new boat is the ‘Ruamahanga’. Donation Thank-you’s Thank you to a number of people who have kindly donated items for our rowing club this season:
Season Thank-you’s Just pre-empting our end of season celebration, but to say a huge thank you to:
OCRC fees Just a gentle reminder that if you have any outstanding rowing fees, then please pay as soon as possible so that the end of season accounts can be finalised. If you need to clarify any charges, then contact Treasurer Greg Holden. Finally, have a well-earned rowing break and rowers, enjoy your winter sports. There will probably be some winter training kicking off around June/July for anyone who is interested in some land based fitness. And then the full season will start soon enough again, so hope to see you all back for more later in the year! Nga mihi Stephanie Clark OCRC President www.ocrowingclub.weebly.com OCRC DaySheet – 21/1/21
Kia Ora everyone I hope you have all had a good Xmas and new year – full of training for the rowers as we gear up for the end of season major regattas. Dates for your Diary · Sat-Sun 23-24th Jan – RUA training trip · Wed 27th Jan – depart for NIRC regatta, Karapiro · Fri 5th Feb & 9th Feb – school starts for Yr 9’s and Yr 13 Peer Supporters · Sat-Sun 6th-7th Feb – RUA training trip · Wed 10th Feb – all school starts · Sat 13th Feb – McLachlan Shield regatta, Wellington · Sat-Sun 20-21st Feb – RUA training trip · Sat-Sun 27-28th Feb – RUA training trip · Wed 3rd Mar – depart for NISSC, Karapiro · Sat-Sun 13-14th Mar – RUA training trip for Maadi Crews · Sat 20th Mar – depart for MAADI, Karapiro (Maadi Crews) Save the Rua dates Please note the Rua training dates listed above and try to save these last 3-4 weekends for additional training. It will typically only be one day for most crews with the seniors staying over night to look after the boats. As we head into the end of the season with only 5 weeks to NISSC, making the most of some additional water time will be very beneficial. If you are selected for Maadi, then you are expected to attend the Rua trip 13-14th March. Reminder of the gear list for the Rua
NISSC (info for Novices) The training efforts for the season are ultimately geared towards competing in the North Island Secondary School Champs as the regatta finale for the whole squad. This is a very prestigious regatta where all schools in the North Island compete without the Club adults’ attendance and some of the top school crews will be awarded medals in their events. While only 3 crews can get a medal in an event, every event needs lots of athletes to make it a race. Success comes in many forms and while I’m sure there will be many personal and crew bests being achieved by our Onslow rowers, a successful season is also about having gained skills for teamwork, organisation, time management, friendships, work ethic, fitness etc. This regatta may mark the end of the season for some rowers. Maadi Selection The Maadi Cup Regatta is a New Zealand Championship event. It is the single biggest secondary school sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere and annually attracts well over 2000 athletes and 10,000 spectators on finals days. OCRC recognises that attendance at Maadi Cup is a privilege and therefore there is a selection process to attend this regatta. More information about this will be emailed just after the NIRC regatta. Details on the selection process can be found on the website: https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com/regattas--camps.html NIRC (North Island Rowing Champs) Departs next Wed 27th Jan Regatta Fri – Sun Returns Sun 31st Jan Be at bus loading at 7am, school top quad. Departing 7.30am. Thank you to all coaches and parents on duty who are heading up. Cross over of sport seasons As school starts up again and a new season of summer sport kicks off and winter sports trials begin. Please remember the school policy to complete your commitments to your current season sport especially when heading into National tournaments. If there are other sport trainings that will clash with rowing, then your commitment should be to rowing. If there are other sport trials, then please talk to the selectors and your coach to discuss options. Professional photography Due to the positive response from rowers, we have contracted Light and Motion to take professional photos at the remaining regattas at Karapiro. He will ensure to capture at least one photo of every crew from every event at each regatta. Typically, there he takes far more photos anyway. He does do great photos. (This is not the same photographer as Rowing Celebration, which we used last year). A small charge of $14 will be added to your account. Final fundraiser Due to the reduced funds raised this year because of Covid, the committee was thinking it might be good to do an additional fundraiser for the benefit of rower own funds. If anyone is keen to take this on and organise it, the please let Marie Butel know. This might simply be a car wash and vacuum service one weekend day at school. Keep it simple and quick. Probably done after Maadi. Marie: marie.butel@gmail.com OCRC bank account While most of our rowing costs get charged to school, sometimes we ask for payment into the OCRC BNZ account. This account number got changed 2 years ago, but there is still the occasional payment being put into the old account. Please use the following account number when asked to pay this way. BNZ: 02-050-0232829-00 Thank you to Zoe and Olivia As you know Zoe had to leave us after camp due to extra work commitments. So just saying a big thank you to you Zoe for coming to coach our Onslow Novices this season. You have set them up well and your time and effort has been very much appreciated. And then thank you to Olivia Clark, who has stepped in to take over the Novice Boys coaching – while she is still stuck in NZ doing online study! Also very much appreciated that you can help out in between your own studies. Hoping you get back to Yale in August. (roll on vaccines!) Website Check out the website for the season calendar, regatta results and other info. https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com Rowit - http://rowit.nz/ This is a great site for parents to keep in touch with the live results while the students are away at regattas. View the Day Sheet for race events, times and results. Rowers can also check their race entries here. Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/105369186474338/ New members and those not yet signed up, should ask to be added to the 'Onslow College Rowing' Facebook page. This is a good way of a keeping up with reminder notices for regatta trips and events, as well as photos and other things happening with the club. Finally, all the best for NIRC. Nga mihi Stephanie www.ocrowingclub.weebly.com Kia Ora everyone Only 4.5 weeks until the first major regatta of the season. Hard to believe December is rolling in fast. Interesting note – we currently have 14 of our 46 rowers for the season who are siblings! And then 4 more who are a rower-coach combo. That’s a third of our squad – nothing like keeping it in the family! Dates for your Diary · Mon 16th Nov – Exams start · Sat 21st Nov – Rua trip (as exams permit) · Sat 28th Nov – Wellington Champs regatta · Wed 9th Dec – depart for KR1, Karapiro · Sun 13th Dec – return from KR1 · Wed 9th Dec – last day of school OCRC Committee Thank you to everyone who attended the recent AGM and senior farewell. Welcome to the new OCRC Committee for the 2020-21 season:
Book Fair Fundraiser Thanks again to everyone with helping on the Book Fair, great to see everyone contributing their bit and particular thanks to the Book Fair Committee – Matt & Maria Seymour (huge effort!), Clare Stanley, Teresa Jordan, Tina Manker and me! Fantastic that we raised $5500. This will contribute to our coach expenses this season and now means we can keep our OCRC subs to our usual cost, rather than having to pay more if we had not done a fundraiser this year. 1841 Raffle Fundraiser The coordinator for this regular fundraiser is now Marie Butel. The same roster issued earlier is being followed, but any questions or help with changes, to Marie. Funds raised go towards the NISSC bus cost. Marie Butel - marie.butel@gmail.com OCRC Subs OCRC subs have been set at $200 for the season. This is the same cost as usual – thanks to the book fair fundraising efforts. $100 is a contribution to coach expenses (so that coaches are not generally out of pocket with all the work they put into a season of coaching rowing for our kids). $100 goes towards boat maintenance. There are always general maintenance costs through the season and every second year our racing boat fleet stays in Cambridge after the Maadi Cup for a good refurbishment. This will be happening this year and the funds built up over a 2 year period, pay for this. OCRC subs will be added to your school account shortly and should be paid prior to the school break up. WRC Subs due WRC subs. Everyone should have the WRC fee on your school account. Please pay asap. Total WRC is $700 for a rower, $200 for a cox. Uniforms & Payments due Uniforms. All uniforms have been issued and are due for payment. Fees are on your school account. Please pay asap. There were a couple of key entry issues by school for charging of fees on school accounts, so if you want to recheck your charges, here are the uniform costs of each piece:
Parent requests – there have been a couple of requests for parent hoodies and bucket hats, so if you want one – then you are welcome to order (more PR for OCRC). Initials “SUPPORTER”. Last uniform order is being placed together with the bucket hats early next week. Summer Away Event Payments Still on the topic of fees. We have to submit the budgets to school for all summer events before school closes for the summer. Therefore, you will also see costs for KR1, Summer Camp and NICC on your school account by early Dec. If you can pay for these when they appear on your account, that would be useful, but definitely before the event date. There is a school policy of ‘no pay, no play’. So before you get on the bus, please have the event paid for – thank you! On the plus side, by the time we pay for these 3 summer events, that is basically 80% of the season paid for. Summer Event Availability Please let your coach and Squad Manager know asap if you are not available for any of the summer events:
Subway Orders You have been issued the subway order spreadsheet – you need to submit your order. This is lunch on the way up to Karapiro and is included in the cost of the regatta. There are a lot of students who have not submitted an order which means there will be a lot of vege subs being ordered on your behalf!! Please contact Amy Mackiewicz if you have any questions. She will be supplying the orders to Subway soon. Amy - itsmeamyd@gmail.com Parent Help for Karapiro Regattas This is a first call for parent help for the season camps and regattas. If you think you might like to help on a Karapiro regatta this season, then see the following dates and let me know. Thank you to parents who have already offered for KR1 and summer camp. Great to have that organised early!
Parent Help for Wellington Regattas Louise is still asking for volunteers for the Wellington regattas:
Ruamahanga training trips – save the dates Dates tbc by your squad manager:
Website Check out the website for the season calendar, season fees and other info. https://ocrowingclub.weebly.com Finally, all the best to the seniors sitting NCEA exams shortly. Nga mihi Stephanie www.ocrowingclub.weebly.com |
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