What happens at the door, and what to put in the bag

This page is the practical half of a place at KRSS ACADEMY LTD: which door, which ten minutes, who may collect, and what happens when a session cannot run. The band your child is in and the shape of the hour are on age groups and how a session is built.

Drop-off

The pedestrian door opens ten minutes before the session starts. It is the narrow door set back to the right of the roller door, with the unit number on it; a coach stands on it for the whole ten minutes.

At the door the coach does three things, in this order: marks the child on the register, takes the collection note — the name of the adult who will collect, said out loud and written down — and asks whether anything has changed since last week that the floor needs to know. That last question is why drop-off is a conversation at a door rather than a child let out of a car.

A child who arrives after the warm-up has started still comes in. Walk to the pedestrian door, knock, and wait: the coach will finish the count they are in the middle of and then open it. Please do not send a child in alone across the parking strip.

Collection

The queue: Forms at the pedestrian door at the end of the cool-down, not in the hall. The bays nearest the door are kept clear so the queue is not standing between cars.
Name by name: Each child is handed over against the collection note taken at drop-off. If the named adult has changed during the session, the change needs to come from the person who dropped off, in a message to coaching@krssacademy.site or by phone to the office, before the cool-down ends.
Somebody not on the note: Is not handed the child. The coach will wait with the child inside the hall and contact the adult on the note. This is awkward perhaps twice a season and is not negotiated at the door.
Late collection: The child waits inside the hall with two coaches, with the door closed, never outside on the estate road. The floor is not left with one adult and one child.
Walking home: Possible for the senior band only, written on the collection note once by the parent, naming the route taken out of the estate.

What to put in the bag

Indoor trainers with a clean sole, and the pair walked in. Outdoor soles slide on sealed concrete and mark it.
A named water bottle, filled. Two of them from June: the hall is unheated and the roof lights make the far bays hot by mid-evening.
A spare top from October onwards. The same hall is cold in February and a damp shirt is the reason a child stops enjoying the cool-down.
No jewellery on the floor. Anything that cannot come out stays taped, and tape is on the floor-side shelf of the office.
Any medication the child carries, handed over named at drop-off and handed back at collection.

Shin pads are not part of the kit here. Nothing is branded and there is no kit to buy: a plain top and shorts the child can run in is the whole requirement.

When a session cannot run

Sessions are called off for three reasons and no others: the floor is unusable, the estate is unreachable, or the ratios cannot be met because a coach is unwell. The decision is made as early as it can be and is sent in writing to the address on the registration, never left for parents to work out at the door.

A called-off session is reinstated rather than written off: the session is added to the end of the band's run, and the written notice says which date it has moved to. If the make-up date does not work for your child, say so in reply and the place is held for the following block instead.

If the estate is reachable but the weather is bad, the session runs — the hall is indoors. The only weather that closes this floor is weather that makes Govan Road itself unsafe to stand on, which is a decision about the road rather than about the hour.