Blog Post 1 – Motivating participants to get involved
In our second session, we attempted to combine different gymnastic elements that we had taught. The aim was to come up with a simple routine, involving all of the elements they had previously learned. The teacher also wanted us to use the climbing frame, so we set up three stations. Two stations were for groups…
Blog Post 2 – Delivering without a teacher present
In our fourth week at placement, Mrs. Lowe took a team to a cross country competition, so she wasn’t in school. The children were acting up as they thought they’d get away with more silly behaviour. When this happened, we stopped and had them sit in silence for one minute to demonstrate that they were…
Blog Post 3 – Working with a new class
In our second term at placement, we were put with year 3 after working with year 4 for the first term. We knew we only had a three week block with the class, so we needed to get to know them quite quickly in the first session and work out how to make an impact…
Blog Post 4 – Using space in a game situation
During our second block at placement, we were coaching year 3 benchball for three weeks. The first week was a very simple session involving passing activities and then a game to assess the participants abilities. We realised that the participants were not moving into space after passing the ball so the team was not advancing…
Blog Post 5 – Coaching a new sport
For our final placement block, we were asked to teach year 4 samba dancing. Before the first session, I was worried as I’d never coached dance before. For the first session we planned to put on a video of a dance routine and pause it after every one or two moves for the children to…
Final Blog Post
Summary of reflections This year I have learned a lot about coaching, and I feel my ability to coach has definitely improved through my experiences at placement. The school I have been at on placement (Weetwood Primary School) have been very supportive, especially Mrs. Lowe (the P.E. teacher). When we first started placement, we were…
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