Instructor Training
Instructor Training days 1st & 2nd April 2010 An excellent chance to get back on the water before the season starts in earnest.
1) In the week
leading up to the Briefing there are opportunities for volunteers to help us to
get things ready and do some work around the Centre, as last year, (from Monday
29 March this year) – if you are interested please let Frank (frank@medinavalleycentre.org.uk) know
a.s.a.p. 2)
As you know we hope to be doing more
Canoeing and Kayaking and therefore need instructors appropriately qualified.
If there is sufficient demand an external instructor will come in to coach/assess
BCU 2 star on 3rd April 12:00 - 18:00 and 4th April 13:00 - 18:00. March. We need to know
numbers a.s.a.p. so please get back to Frank by Friday 12th. March.
There will be no charge for this and the centre will provide meals and
accommodation gratis, assuming that you are prepared to use your skills at the
Centre. Progression from a 2* would be to do a Level One Coach Award, which is
the first rung on the BCU Coaching ladder and would enable you to accompany a
Level 2 Coach, as well as teach on your own in sheltered waters – e.g.small
pond, canal, swimming pool. The aim is that there will be enough people with BCU 2*
to run a Level 1 Coach assessment this year.
3) RYA Junior Stage 1
& 2 courses have been advertised for Easter week Monday April 5th – Friday 9th and if you are
available to work on these please Frank know – this will be on a first come, first served basis. Weekend accommodation on April 3-4 will
be available as well as accommodation during the
courses.
PROVISIONAL
PROGRAMME FOR INSTRUCTOR BRIEFING:
Thursday, April
01 H.W. 13.47 4.8m
0730 Morning run and
mud dip
0800
Breakfast
0915 Welcome. RYA
update
1045
Sail/kayak 1300
Lunch
1400
Sail/Kayak/Canoe*
1700
Dinner 1800-2100
Child Protection Course (This is a
Sports Coach U.K. qualification and is subject to
speaker availability and sufficient uptake – let Frank know if
you have done one of these courses in
the last 3 years or are not able to attend, as the external tutor is
expensive). Under 18s need signed parental
permission.
Friday, April 02
H.W, 1429
0800
Breakfast
0915 State of the
MVC Nation
MVC future
direction
2010 Pay
scales
The
Safeguarding scheme and implications for working at
MVC
Sign up
availability for 2010
1100
Sail/Kayak/Canoe*
1300
Lunch
1400
Sail
1700
Close * Canoeing skills will include
paddling open boats single-handedly, assuming that conditions allow this.
Please get back to Frank by March
12th. to confirm your attendance, particularly for the Child
Protection Course. If you want any meals or accommodation at the centre,
then copy Kate in (kate@medinavalleycentre.org.uk)
with arrival and departure times. Kate is House Manager, so do not blame her if
you do not have anywhere to sleep or anything to eat, if you have not asked
her. Similarly, if you have any
special diet requests, then also let her know. If you need to be picked up please try to get to Newport or St. Mary’s Hospital – buses run every 8 minutes
from the Red Jet Terminal at West Cowes. If you know of someone who does not know about these training session then please forward this limk to them or anyone who might be
interested in working at the centre.
If you are not able to come to the
Briefing then please let Frank know your availability for the Summer season by
email.
It has been suggested that Instructors might like an out of season
reunion at the centre – please let Frank know your
thoughts.
Work With Us....- Are you enthusiastic about sailing?!
Keen to develop your skills?!- Want to share your skills with others?!
If the answer is "YES" and you have passed your RYA Seamanship and
Performance modules, in sympathy with our ethos and are prepared to
work hard we would like you to join our team!
For more than 15 years, dinghy sailors who have attained a high
standard of sailing ability have joined our seasonal instruction team
for from three to six summer weeks. They progress from trainees,
returning the next season as assistants, before qualifying as full
instructors.
Amongst other things, you will improve your powerboat skills, learn
about boat maintenance and first aid and learn to work in a team. Also
in return for your efforts we will train you on the job, provide board
and lodging and some pay?
Instructors work hard, they also play hard; many instructors return
year by year drawn back not only by the attraction of sailing but also
to share the friendship, fun and food.
Interested?! Contact us!
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