The Bronze session is our entry level figure skating session. For participation in this program, skaters must have successfully completed in full, all Stage 6 CanSkate Levels of the Skate Canada CanSkate Program. At this level, skaters are required to obtain and work with a private coach. Please refer to the “Coaches” section on our website to obtain SCBC contracted coaches bios and contact information if you have not secured the services of a private coach at this time.

This is a minimum two (2) days a week skating program. Skaters are free to select any two days from the available sessions that work best for their schedule. If a day is full, the skater will be required to select another day to fulfill their 2 day session requirement.

Included in the Bronze session are 2 group lessons, to be led by an SCBC coaching member. These 15 minute session will occur during the first 15 minutes and the last 15 minutes of the session. These group lessons are available to all skaters on the session, and are already included in your registration fee; however, participation on a daily basis may be affected periodically by the “private lesson” schedule set out by your skaters coach.

Skaters looking for significant additional ice time beyond their two day bronze registration commitment are welcome to register in any of the remaining bronze session days to a maximum of 5 Bronze sessions per week.

Bronze session skaters are encouraged to Guest Skate on any other Bronze sessions, where the session attendance capacity has not been met. Please refer to the Guest skating policy for additional details and the procedures regarding Guest Skating.

Bronze Session skating days – Monday / Tuesday / Thursday / Saturday

Skaters will begin to have independent personal development time on this session.

All registered skaters must be working with an SCBC contracted private coach.

Gold session skaters must have passed FULL Star 5 FreeSkate (equivalent to Junior Bronze Program and Elements), OR Full Senior Bronze Dances, OR Senior Bronze Skills.

This is a minimum two (2) days a week skating program, however skaters are free to select any number of sessions above this minimum requirement that they wish to skate. Skaters are free to select the sessions that work best for their schedule. If a day is full, the skater will be required to select another day to fulfill their 2 day session requirement.

The Gold session does not include group lessons for skaters.

Gold session skaters are encouraged to Guest Skate on any Gold session where the session attendance capacity has not been met. Please refer to the Guest skating policy for additional details and the procedures regarding Guest Skating.

Gold Session skating days – Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday

Gold/Platinum shared session skating days – Saturday

On Saturday there is a Gold/Platinum shared session. This session is open for registration by any skaters who qualifies for the Gold or Platinum session and desires to skate on the weekend for additional skill development time.

Skaters will have significant independent personal development time on this session.

All registered skaters must be working with an SCBC contracted private coach.

The Pre-Competitive program is available to skaters who will be competing at the STAR 3-5 level. Younger skaters are invited to join this session to enhance their training in anticipation of competing in the near future. Skaters on this session must demonstrate dedication and a continual commitment to their training. Their main focus should be on developing and expanding their FreeSkate abilities.

The Pre-Competitive skater should be moving towards becoming a Competitive figure skater in their respective STARSkate level category.

Skaters on this session will participate in 3 specific training days, which include on-ice, off-ice training, and group stroking lessons, these group session costs are already included in your session membership fee. Each session day will include a 15 minute group lesson. This lesson will be led by an SCBC coaching member, and take place during the last 15 minutes of the session. These group lessons are available to all skaters on the session; however, participation on a daily basis may be affected periodically by the “private lesson” schedule set out by your skaters coach.

Pre-Competitive skaters must gain pre-approval for any other session they wish to Guest Skate on, from the Skater Assessment Committee, prior to their first Guest Skating session. This is required in order to ensure the safety of all skaters and to ensure that the Guest skating individuals skate on a program/ session on par with their ability. Guest Skating is only permitted where the attendance capacity of the session has not been met.

All Pre-Competitive skaters must have a SCBC contracted coach for private lessons. In some cases, it may in the best interest of the skater to have multiple coaches (coaching team) to cover all technical aspects of the skater’s development.

GUEST SKATING is NOT permitted on this session, without the pre-approval of the SCBC Board, on the recommendation of the Skater Assessment Committee.

It is the expectation that all Pre-Competitive skaters will be competing in Skate Ontario sanctioned events throughout the year.

Ticket Ice is to be used to complement a skating program/session, Ticket Ice is available to all SCBC club skaters with a membership of 2 days or more. Dance Academy skaters have access to Ticket ice sessions as their Saturday session duration is 2 hours in length and spans what would be considered a 2 day session. To use Ticket Ice, a skater must be working with their coach on that session.

Tickets must be purchased in advance and presented before the skater participates on Ticket Ice. Tickets must be purchased in advance of attending your ice session. All skaters MUST register for the session before going to the ice. Failure to register and provide the required ticket, may result in the skater losing ticket ice privileges.

Tickets can be purchased at any time during regular office hours from the club administrator, or through any SCBC Board member.

Skaters must be working with their coach to attend a scheduled Ticket Ice session. Skaters are not permitted on the ice without the presence of an SCBC contracted coach. If the skater has been working with their coach and the coach leaves the ice, skaters may remain as long as there is another SCBC coach on the ice.

Any skater found to be using a Ticket Ice session without a coach on the ice, will immediately be suspended from all Ticket Ice privileges, for the remainder of the 2017/2018 F/W/S programming.

Please refer to the formal SCBC Ticket Ice policy for additional information.

Guest skating is only available to SCBC skaters registered in a session. Guest Skating will be permitted on select sessions/programs. An SCBC skater will only be allowed to Guest Skate on a program/session if the following 4 requirements are met:

• The session/program allows Guest skating;
• The session is not at or over capacity on the day the skater wishes to guest skate; the skater may not enter the ice surface until 10 mins has passed to ensure the session is not at capacity, the skater will wait at the entrance to the ice surface with the session rep who will inform the skater when it is alright to go to the ice.
• The skater must have a Guest Skating ticket that is surrendered to the session rep and they are to sign in on the official attendance register as a guest skater, before they enter the ice surface.
• The SCBC skater is Guest skating on another day of the same session that they are registered in e.g. skater registered in Gold Monday but would like to guest skate Gold Wednesday). A skater may also guest skate on another session which is 1 level above or below their registered program/session (e.g. A Silver session skater can only guest skate on Gold or Bronze level session, where the session attendance permits), only after the skater has received approval from the Skater Assessment Committee. The Skater Assessment Committee will communicate their recommendation to the SCBC Board. Once the skater has the approval of the SAC, the skater is permitted to Guest Skate provided the other requirements are followed.

As safety is paramount for our skaters, if the SCBC Board (with feedback from coaches) is advised that the Guest skater does not have the ability to safely traverse the ice and interact safely with fellow skaters during the session, the skater will be restricted from Guest skating on that session.

Any skater found not to be following the Guest skating expectations will immediately have their Guest skating privileges suspended.

In the past to accommodate dance partnering, skaters were permitted to skate the first or last 15 minutes of any session to take their dance lesson. Skaters are no longer permitted to engage in this activity. Skaters who are seeking additional ice can participate in Guest Skating privileges or utilize the posted Ticket Ice times.