Gymnastics age 5-6

[Happysealpup]

Hi can anyone help me understand my daughters gymnastics (we are in the UK and she is age 5 reception).

Shes been a few terms in recreational gym and will progress “from award 6 to 1 before moving onto our BSG Award Scheme.”

She got her 6 badge after a couple of sessions and is 7 out of however many skills towards badge 5 but the last couple of terms she hasn’t really progressed getting a similar result at each ‘grading’ and is feeling a bit disheartened.

I have no idea how to support her as I don’t know what the skills are she is working towards for her next badge or how many (more than the 7 that have been signed off) she has to master.

Can anyone who knows more about this than me advise? There’s no advice on gym club website and coaches are not that approachable.

Not sure it’s the right club to be perfectly honest it’s quite competitive and whilst she’s strong and flexible she only started at 5yo and apparently they have already selected kids for competitive gymnastics by this age. That’s fine I don’t know that she would necessarily be suited competitive gym anyway but there is a sense that’s where the focus is and large rec classes are more to being money in to support the club 🫤

anyway any advice welcome!

Maybe I should add a bit of a sense of what she can do - this is what I have observed:
decent front and back support
good backwards bridge
almost handstand
almost cartwheel (legs sometimes bent)
foward roll

there are probably other skills I have forgotten… if anyone knows these please share

Might be this, or something based on it as I think it was discontinued?
https://a.storyblok.com/f/83342/x/33ff489f6a/award-scheme-coach-core-proficiency-syllabus.pdf
When DD did gym they did a badge scheme like this, which then went on to a bronze-silver-gold scheme with lots of different skill badges within each of BSG levels. So basically the recreational gymnasts could do a couple of badges a year for as long as they wanted to go on.

A lot of the skills in it were pretty random and not related to anything they did in non-badge testing weeks. I remember hula-hooping and skipping coming up, and kids who'd done that in the playground were fine but mine were clueless.

Your daughter sounds to be doing the sorts of things most of them were at reception age. But if it is similar to that badge scheme, do they have other types of equipment and work on that too? The way DD did it seemed more fun with little sessions on beam/vault/bars/trampoline/floor/climbing ropes, they only really worked on the badge skills for a couple of weeks twice a year, apart from the ones that were part of their normal warm-up or floor work.