what to do about gymnastics for just turned 5 yo

[brassband]

Last summer My little girl started a recreational gym class run by the local council.After a couple of sessions the head coach asked me to tell her when she turned 5, which I did.She is now in a different group where she spends about 20 mins warming up and for the remaining hour and a half they literally never get a minutes rest.She spent 45 minutes on teh assymetric bars which I think is very hard for a girl of that age who doesn't have a huge amount of upper body strenth and the remaining 45 minutes doing roungoffs and backflips.Again and again and again with not a moments rest between.It is supposed to be a recreational class
The other group was so much fun and the little girls chatted and hugged each other.Now she is with older girls and gets told off for not concentrating all the time.
I want her to progress but I am really worried she is being pushed too hard and it will put her off gym completely and also that it is too much strain for young joints.

I'd ask to put her back to the original group. You're saying all the things - tell the coach she's too young! Maybe suggest that she moves back up when she's ready (ie when you think she'll cope). FWIW I think that's far too long for gym. 45 mins max (so eg 15 mins warm up, 15 on 2 different pieces of equipment) is surely enough for a 5 year old

It sounds a lot to me. I am no gymnastics expert, but my DD (6) is in the junior squad (trains for 4 1/2 hours a week, increasing soon to 6 1/2 hours) and she is not expected to do that.

In my DDs gym classes, they start off warming up, and then do stretching (warming up and stretching seems to take about 40 mins or more out of the 2 hour session - although I don't know this definitely, as I never bother to stay and watch her!). Then they move onto equipment. However, she never seems to do more than 20 mins or so on any one piece of equipment before moving on to something else. Also, they work in pairs, so when one child is doing something, the other child is waiting, therein giving them little breaks.

As I say though, I am no expert - I can only tell you what my DD does at her gymnastics class. Perhaps you could look at a dedicated gymnastics club and see what they do??