SPECIAL SUMMER 2020 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 129

TURTLES SWIMMING CLUB IS A REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 1055585

Keep Safe Everyone!

15thJune 2019

Learning Through Fun!

With no swimming activity to report, we decided to publish additional Newsletters with plenty of activities to hopefully keep you amused during these difficult times. So keep sending us your letters, photos and stories to the Turtles E-mail address, and

our Newsletter Editor, Dave Lee, will endeavour to publish additional Newsletters to keep us all in touch with one and other. I miss Turtles very much and hope to see everyone

soon. In the meantime, stay safe and look after

yourselves. Alison Grey, Chair.

THANK YOU TESCO!!!!

A big thank you to Tesco Groundwork UK for their generous donation to the Ruislip Turtles.

We are very grateful to receive £1166 from Tesco at this extremely difficult time.

Congratulations to our Chair, Alison Grey, who worked so hard to secure this grant.

Our application was based on the training and development needs of our current and future pool helpers and teachers.

Before the lockdown, we were well advanced in the process of recruiting additional pool personnel for our Saturday sessions and we will hope to pick this back up once we return to the pool.

But good news, just when we all need it!

Unfortunately, we will not be able to hold our usual AGM event due to Covid-19 and social distancing guidance. Instead we are following the Charities Commission guidance and we will instead be holding a virtual Annual General Meeting. The usual reports will be sent out very shortly in a separate Newsletter and if you have any comments or questions, you will have 28 days to communicate with us by email before the official business is concluded by video conference. Similarly, if you would like a copy of the full accounts rather than just the summary, you can request a copy by email. Sad that we cannot enjoy the social get together and our fun awards evening, but hopefully we may be able to reschedule the Annual Club Championships later this year, assuming that the world returns to some semblance of normality!

TURTLES ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2020

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LET US KNOW HOW YOU ALL ARE!

Hello Highgrove Turtles!

How is everyone? These days I have been bouncing on my trampoline. I also did some gardening and saw some worms and snails. From Ayan

Hi Dave

Thank you for your reply. I feel very

happy & very safe.

What types of activities do you do at

home to keep busy? Well done for

going for a walk & keeping fit. I go out

in the garden to get some fresh air.

When it’s safe, I could go for a walk

outside. I could also go for a walk to

the park & to the shops. What shops

do you miss going to? I like going to

supermarkets. I miss going to garden

centres. Did you manage to try your

bikes out this week? I had a zoom call

with my family from Vancouver,

Geneva, Toronto & Calgary last night.

I liked seeing all the family & that

made me feel happy. I like Sky News.

I watch all my programmes, shows &

videos & listen to music on my laptop

to keep occupied. When we get back

to swimming lessons in the future, I’ll

look forward to watching how Cheryl

moves her mouth when she speaks. I

think I like that because my favourite

song is Head, Shoulders, Knees &

Toes & eyes & ears & mouth & nose.

When we work in swimming

together, she’d like to tell me to start

tilting my head back if she is helping.

We’re praying for the virus to go

away.

Our two most qualified teachers have been adding even more swimming qualifications. Jordan has passed: Visually Impaired Swimming CPD, Deaf Friendly CPD, Introduction to Disability Swim-ming CPD. Jordan is also taking: Competitive Diving Fundamentals CPD, Introduction to Para Swimming CPD. Cheryl is taking: Disability Swimming CPD. Integrating Autistic swimming into mainstream swimming CPD.

Congratulations!

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Spot the Dangers! • Circle the dangers that you can see in the picture • Colour-in the picture • Explain the dangers

Why not design your own Turtles Swim Costumes? Don’t forget to share your results with us by posting them in our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/RuislipTurtles/ or via twitter, (@RuislipTurtles), you can also email them to us and we will add them to the group.

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Why not design your own Turtles Swim Costumes?

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Why not design your own Turtles Swim Costumes?

Don’t forget to send them to us!

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SWIMMING BINGO GAME

Just cut out the 4 Bingo Cards and also

the smaller caller’s cards.

The bingo caller selects the smaller

cards, one at a time, and the player tick off their cards to see who gets a ‘full house’ first, to become the winner!

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SWIMMING BINGO GAME (CONTD.)

CAN YOU PUT THE 8 PICTURES BELOW IN THE CORRECT OR.DER?

HIGHGROVE

A

B

C

E F

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D

G H

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THE TURTLES WORDSEARCH

L I F E G U A R D B C S T R H V W T

S P I L N 0 D G N I L L I H S P E A

T U R O P H U L W D P Q U E A X N R

S A D E E P E N D G U R B S L M O M

K E M I D P O L R F T X T Y P C N B

C T T E V R Z E P T R U N K S B C A

U B R I C I T Y D E K F Z E H F D N

D E O D S A N O C R R L T R G J M D

T L P O W B M G E R R O B T T I E S

R L H L I W E S L O K A Y A W P D O

U Y I P M H T W E E Y T G S K H A E

I F E H M U S V U L C G E W E T L L

S L S X I F O B D F G C W I I U S L

L O N B N R T O G F N D G M C N B O

I P G T G S O K N A Q U H T F O H C

P Z O H P V M V T R L E S E J I J K

S W G M O R T S G G L E H A P P S E

T 1 A T O N I S O R L M O C S M E R

H O L I L D N K E T T N W H M A M K

B L A R G I G O R L I H E E W H U E

A F Z N E V S U V U G D R R Q C T Y

R C O M M I T T E E W G T L U S S T

O L E S O R T A I W J L O X I Z O E

T U F U N S E S S I O N T G H P C T

Try and find the following 32 words that are hidden horizontal, vertical. diagonal, upside-

down and back to front:

ARMBANDS BELLYFLOP CHAMPION COMMITTEE COSTUME DEEPEND

DIVING DUCKS FLOAT FUNSESSION GALA GOGGLES

HELPER HIGHGROVE LIFEGUARD LOCKERKEY MEDALS HILLINGDON

RAFFLE RUISLIP SHOWER SPLASH SWIMTEACHER TURTLES

TESCO TROPHIES TRUNKS WAITROSE WATER WEBSITE

SWIMMINGPOOL LONGDISTANCESWIM 18

We went along to the opening of the new

Hillingdon Pool. Not sure who he was who opened

it or what happened to him.!

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NOSTALGIA TIME

A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF OUR OLD NEWSLETTERS

The model of the planned devel-

opment

Turtles President Sylvia Smith OBE trying

to explain something, but the discussion

was truncated when the tea went over

Sylvia’s lap! You could not make it up

could you?

Neil Dew is a National Champion Jeannette Prentice tops the medal table with 15 medals The Turtles win 4 of the 9 galas attended. The collaboration with Hillingdon Swimming Club is launched and goes on to

provide numerous pool helpers and teachers over subsequent years Social outing to Longleat as well as 2 restaurant trips.. Turtles launch their first ever website. Only 4 Committee members from 2010 remain on the Committee today:

Rosemary, Dave, Ann & Linda

Turtles Gala Team win a record 144 medals winning 3 trophies and boasting four National Champions

Uxbridge Gazette carries a story regarding the financial difficulties facing the Turtles.

Ian Andrew tops the medal table with 16 medals. Social outings to Cadbury World, Leeds Castle as well as trips out to

restaurants. Including the Great House at Sonning Harsh Ganesh in gratitude of his swimming progress at Turtles, embarks upon

a series of fundraising activities.

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Sophie Grey tops the Medal Table with a record 26 medals including 2 National Championship Gold Medals and also takes part in the National Disability Short Course Championships in Sheffield.

Gary Lee also a National Champion Turtles re-locate to Hillingdon Pool for a year whilst Highrove is refurbished. Social outings to The Bluebell Railway, Sheffield Park, Warner Brothers Harry Potter

Tour as well as trips to restaurants. Korean Olympic Squad train alongside the Turtles at a Saturday Session at Hillingdon

Pool.

Korean Olympic Swim Squad pose for a

photo with the Turtles

Don and Anne

caught speeding at

Sheffield Park

Magical trip to Leavesden

NASCH

National

Champions

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Deputy Secretary :

(reception desk)

Bijan Ghorbanian

The Turtles Swimming Club is for anyone with a physical, mental health or

learning difficulty. Based at Highgrove Pool in Ruislip, the club is run by a group

of dedicated volunteers and meets every Saturday between 5pm and 6pm

Turtles Website:

http://www. ruislipturtles.org.uk

Turtles email:

turtlesswimming@ yahoo.co.uk

Turtles

Swimming

Club

Established

1964

Club President:

Dave Lee

Chair:

Alison Grey

Secretary:

Andy Wallis

Treasurer:

Rosemary Noyes

Gala Team

Manager:

Dave Lee

THANK YOU TO THE ORGANISATIONS AND

INDIVIDUALS WHO SUPPORT THE TURTLES

Hillingdon

Council

Waitrose

Tesco

Eastcote Methodist Church

ASDA Ruislip

Combined

Charity

IBB

Charitable

Trust

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THE TURTLES WORDSEARCH ANSWERS

CORRECT ORDER OF PICTURES ON PAGE 16 = E, B, D, C, A, H, F, G

STAY SAFE!!!!!!!!