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Beginner Gymnastics Taster Courses

Looking for the perfect way to introduce your child to gymnastics? Our Beginner Taster Course provides a fun, structured environment where young gymnasts can develop key skills while exploring a variety of apparatus, including the vault, balance beam, and bars.

Throughout the course, participants will work towards earning their first Gymnastics Certificate and Badge within the first three weeks—an exciting milestone in their gymnastics journey!

Our April/May Taster Courses have now been released. Click here for more details and to book.

Playgym, Parent & Child Sessions and Parties

Please remember this is a working gym for all levels up to elite gymnastics.

• No outdoor footwear in the gym, participants clothing must be suitable for class and all hair tied back, no jewellery.
• MIND YOUR STEP – As this is a working centre, the gym has uneven floor surfaces with mats, levels and equipment. Please walk carefully around the centre.
• Gymnastics apparatus are for children, if adults use this it is at your own risk COPGC will not be held responsible for adults playing on equipment.
• For Parent & Child sessions & preschool adults must supervise children at the side of all stations.
• There are free lockers that you can use to store valuables in, please bring your own padlock. COPGC will not be liable for any items that go missing.
• If taking in drinks this must only be drinks sold on site – please check with reception if they are allowing hot drinks with lids (risk assessed on numbers in gym that day). No food in the main hall.
• Please use age appropriate toys with your child and supervise throughout the session
• The equipment is checked each day, if you see any equipment that has moved or any faults please report to a volunteer or member of staff immediately.
• Toilets are regularly cleaned, if you have any concerns report to reception.
• Your First Aid point is Reception
• BE KIND, CAREFUL and have FUN!

Preschool

GymTots Adult & Child

Our Pre-school sessions for boys and girls age 2.5 to 4 years are structured, fun and safely run by qualified British Gymnastics Pre-School coaches with a parent/guardian in the gym with their child taking part in the lesson.

Lessons are planned carefully each week to offer variety and give stimulus to the child's physical and social development, whilst teaching a variation of safe progressions and still having fun!

We try to encourage all of our Pre-School children to learn early balance, co-ordination and basic gymnastic skills through a variety of age appropriate and fun activities, focusing on motor skills, spatial awareness, strength and agility. All of this is taught in our purpose built gym using specialist equipment.

All preschool children will work their British Gymnastics Fundamentals badges and also Preschool Agility Balance and Co-ordination awards.

Classes are initially a block. Booking of a 6-week taster course paid upfront on the online shop. At the end of your taster course you can choose to continue in the class on annual 47 week fees fees prorata'd in to 12 months monthly fees of £33 per month.

Once a member of the club you have the flexibility to change classes if you would like to move to a different regular class day/time.

GymTots Plus Independent Child

Children 3 years and over that are confident to be able to go in to the gymnastics hall without their parents.

Children work with a coach in small groups, building up basic fundamental physical and social skills using stimulating apparatus stations. Themed group warm ups & cool downs provide enjoyable movement to music, songs & rhymes with the use of Hand Apparatus Parents/Guardians view the lesson from our upstairs viewing balcony.

British Gymnastics, FUNdamental Movement for Early Years and ABC badges and certificates are attained throughout the year. The British Gymnastics Agility, Balance and Coordination Badges are also part of the curriculum. GymTots Plus Children are also eligible to enter 3 competitions per year, these are optional, two competitions are held at our centre and one is external in Bolton. At the competitions every child wins medals and participation awards and also performs their routines in front of an audience.

Classes are initially a block. Booking of a 6-week taster course paid upfront on the online shop. At the end of your taster course you can choose to continue in the class on annual 47 week fees fees prorata'd in to 12 months monthly fees of £33 per month.

Once a member of the club you have the flexibility to change classes if you would like to move to a different regular class day/time.

Gymnastics Lessons (School Aged)

To attend this class, children need to be school aged (minimum reception year). We have a viewing balcony for parents to watch the gymnastics classes with coffee and cake facilities on site.

From the first day gymnasts walk in to the centre they will be guided through all the gymnastics skills on our olympic six apparatus.

Each term the will work a gymnastics badge and also there will be opportunities to compete in up to 4 gymnastics competitions and displays per year: February/March, June/July, October & December.

Week to week gymnasts also work their way through the gymnastics code of points achieving skills and they can collect the skill achievements awards.

Classes are initially a block booking of a 6-week taster course paid upfront on the online shop. At the end of your taster course you can choose to continue in the class on annual 47 week fees fees prorata'd in to 12 months monthly fees of £33/£39 per month.

Once a member of the club you have the flexibility to change classes if you would like to move to a different regular class day/time.

As children move up an age group they move up classes. Children that are moving up skills and levels for competitions also move up classes to increase their training hours.

Development, Advanced & Elite Competitive Programmes

City of Preston Gymnastics & Performance Centre is a dedicated gymnastics centre, one of the largest facilities in the UK. The centre was built by a dedicated team of coaches lead by Head Coach, Charlotte Coles with a vision to create a centre that can cater for all abilities through to National and International level competitors.

Gymnasts in development classes train from 1 to over 20 hours per week dependent on their skill and competitive level. The coaches are highly skilled and qualified and each gymnast has an excellent support structure around them creating a safe, fun and progressive environment to nurture them to fulfil their full potential.

Not Just Gymnastics

What else does a COPGC Member Experience?

Many gymnasts and their parents have made their best friends here at COPGC, we have even had a COPGC wedding!

Meet gymnasts/parents/vlunteers and coaches with the same values as yourself, gymnasts grow up to have lifelong friends and many families still holiday together years afterwards!

Events

We have family parties, family trips away, theme park trips, sleepovers and social events.

Trips

Every gymnast also has the ability to attend trips and events, each is catered around a gymnast's level and experience.

The club has taken gymnasts of varying levels to the following places :

• UK trips to Lilleshall National Sports Centre, overnight stays and training trips to other gymnastics centres.
• Isle of Man family trip to competitions.
• Spain - Barcelona competition
• Malta - Competition
• Boston - training trip
• Chicago - training trip
• Texas and to train with Olympic Champion Simone Biles and Coaches
• Costa Rica (competition and rainforest experience) Miami & Orlando