SAFETY RULES

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Our head coach and owner, Linda Clifford, is always on site in her office with all the windows inside the gym area.  If you have any concerns or questions during class, please drop into her office and she will be happy to help you.

• While spectator space is limited during COVID, at the end of class, coaches will escort athletes to the front walk area, where parents can meet them
• When arriving for class, athletes will line up by the orange cones on the front walk.
• Please do not stop your vehicle at the walkway to drop off or pick up passengers – this backs up traffic onto Birchmount Road and is very dangerous.  It only takes a moment to pull into a parking spot.  
• Please do not leave any valuables visible in your vehicle – put them in your trunk or bring them into the building.

• We ask that all shoes and boots be removed in the main lobby and placed under the white benches in the lobby, or on the blue mats under the hooks in the girls' change room.  
• No running in the lobby, viewing areas, or when leaving the gym to get water or to visit the washrooms.  
• Please keep siblings with you in the viewing areas and do not let them play alone in the lobby.  
• Athletes must wait in the main lobby line up area until the coach calls them in to warm up for their class.  No one is allowed in the gym area without a coach, including the small kinder room to the south of the parent viewing area.

• Hair must be tied back away from the face and no jewelry or earrings other than small studs.
• Gymnasts should   wear ballet slippers or socks that have rubber soles. 
• Outdoor shoes are not permitted, and socks are too slippery when on the equipment.  
• Leggings, shorts, or gymnastics leotards are all appropriate attire.
• Parents involved in our Parent & Tot classes should wear socks. 

• During one hour classes, athletes will not need to bring snacks, but should bring a water bottle in the back pack which must be taken back home at the end of class.
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• Some parents prefer that their child not be photographed.  When you take a photo from the viewing area, other children are very likely to be in the frame.  If you wish to use a photographic device, including cameras, video cameras, camera phones, or PDA please speak with the Head Coach first, and she will get you close to your child so that no one else is in the frame.​  
• Athletes are not permitted to take photos of any kind on the premises or in the change rooms.