Coach Development - to find more information on development and training.
A number of workshops take place during the year (mainly winter months) to provide additional development for all club & assistant coaches. A number of the courses are free and some charge a nominal fee. We encourage all our coaches to attend these.
England Athletics Information relevant to Coach Development
A number of coaching courses run through out the year which are run by England Athletics or London Athletics. Please see England Athletic or London Athletics website for more information:
http://www.englandathletics.org/courses-and-bookings
Different types of coaching courses that England Athletics offer:
Length: Three days with one additional day formal assessment / Minimum age: 18 years
The cornerstone of the proposed Coach Education programme is the Coach award. Offered across various areas of the sport, the qualification takes 3 days to complete and requires a 1 day formal assessment. Prospective coaches begin in one of three streams. Children's Coach courses will support prospective coaches to meet the needs of athletes under 14 years old, predominantly with a multi event focus and will address the issues of child development in a rigorous way. The Athletics Coach award is targeted at coaches looking to work with athletes in the key disciplines of track and field, cross country and road running and will require all coaches to reach a required standard of competency across a variety of events covering running, hurdling, jumping and throwing. The Off-track Endurance Coach award is for those who wish to work primarily with adult endurance athletes with a specific competition or performance target in mind.
Length: One Day / Minimum age: 16 years
This qualification is for those who wish to move towards being a coach and begin to gather experience in the detail of making coaching decisions. The qualification begins the preparation to take a coaching role working under the supervision of a Coach (an existing UKA Level 2 coach or higher) or working from a UKA task card or session a plan written by the supervising Coach. The basics of movement (biomechanics) will be taught and an introduction to some of the detail of Athletics events will be taught. This course can be taken without having to take a Leader award, although this progression is encouraged.
We desperately need parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, uncles and aunties to become officials for our club, no experience is required training will be provided. For athletics events to take part we always need to provide a minimum number of officials from our club. There are a number of different roles and we require lots of volunteers to ensure that the event goes smoothly & safely.
Please support your club by becoming an athletes official (you chose the discipline whether track or field). The club desperately needs to increase our numbers of officials as on some occasions this season we only had one qualified official in attendance and at one match we had none. The more officials we have means we can also share the load for our existing volunteers officials. A number of our coaches are also officials so please consider taking a course so they can watch the athletes.
The club should attend League fixtures with at least one track official and a team of field officials (min 3). If the club does not provide officials at a competition we will not be able to compete so it is vital we build our numbers of officials at the club. It is a worthwhile and interesting role and also gains points for the club.
The club will support with funding for official's courses. Please contact Mandy Walters, sadacchair@gmail.com, before booking onto a course, so that she can inform you of the next step in approving the funds and also what the club requires back in return for supporting you with funding. Of course if you want to fund this yourself then please do go ahead and submit an application. Further information and an application form can be downloaded here. We would suggest booking early to avoid disappointment.
