We have organised a Come and Try Hockey Festival for local primary schools in association with B&NES School Sports Partnership. We have approximately 100 children coming, all from years 3 or 4. The aim is to introduce these children to hockey, hoping that some of them will then want to keep playing and join the Keynsham Hockey Club's Academy.

The schools attending are:

• Castle Primary School
• Chandag Primary School
• Chew Stoke Church School
• Saltford CofE Primary School
• Somerdale Educate Together Primary School
• Two Rivers CofE Primary School

This session follows on from several smaller but very successful sessions we have run for local cubs and brownie groups over the past few years. Assuming this event goes well, we will look to organise similar sessions on a regular basis.

Our extremely grateful thanks to the Hockey Youth Trust and Mercian Hockey who have provide £1,000 in funding to purchase 70 hockey sticks and balls which will be used at this and future events.

Parents and children
If your children is unable to attend the taster session, they are welcome to come along to a regular Academy training session for free to give it a go. For more information, please see the Academy pages on this website.

Club members
Thank you to all the adult and academy volunteers who have offered to help us run this. The session will run from 4.00pm to 5.30pm. If you'd like to help, please contact Richard May, our Chair of Academy.