Berkshire Sport Courses
Berkshire Sport are not currently running a programme of courses but please see below for details of courses being run by bordering County Sports Partnerships:
Active Surrey - www.activesurrey.com
Bucks Sport - Coach Education Booklet
Oxfordshire Sports Partnership - www.oxfordshiresport.org/inthezone
Sport Hampshire & IOW - www.coachinghampshireiow.co.uk
For Safeguarding and Protecting Children courses, please visit the SportscoachUK website
Courses devliered by County Sports Partnerships include:
First Aid Courses
Safeguarding & Protecting Children Courses
By the end of this workshop coaches should be able to:
- Identify coaching practice and sport situations that might constitute poor practice and/or abuse
- Recognise key principles of code of conduct and their application to good coaching practice
- Recognise truths and myths surrounding child abuse
- Identify ways of dealing with their own feelings about child abuse
- Describe what constitutes abuse and identify the indicators
- Recognise signs and symptoms
- Identify appropriate action if a child discloses he/she has been abused
- Identify appropriate action if concerned about the behaviour of another coach or colleague
- Identify appropriate action if concerned about the behaviour of a parent/carer (ie outside of the sports arena)
- Review practice that reduces the likelihood of wrongful allegations and of abuse occurring
Protect yourself, the young people you are coaching and your employer by understanding and following good coaching practice. Learn about child abuse and how to handle situations if you have concerns.
Club For All
This course is designed to be attended by volunteers in a club. The tutor will use club management and administration examples to help the volunteer/club member understand the benefits of opening up their club to the wider community and being equitable in their membership and club practices. The workshop will assist them in producing a basic action plan for their club, with a view to future sustainability.
This course is a requirement for all clubs who wish to attain Clubmark status.
By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- describe sports equity and its values
- list the benefits of sports equity for their sports club or organisation
- identify equitable and inequitable practice
- identify key equity challenges for their sports club or organisation
- identify the steps they may need to take in their own club or organisation to start a basic action plan for equity
- identify the organisations that can help them and provide further guidance on sports equity.
Coaching Disabled Persons Courses
Develop your own coaching knowledge and skills to coach disabled players through inclusive and separate coaching sessions.
Discover new ways to adapt equipment and identify appropriate safety and medical considerations to meet your players' needs.
This workshop will help you, the coach to:
- explain when integration and segregation might be most appropriate
- identify appropriate safety and medical considerations
- review and extend your knowledge of how to adapt your coaching to the specific needs of disabled performers
- design and monitor a programme for a disabled player taking part in their sport
- direct players to appropriate structures for competition and further coaching.
Equity In Your Coaching
By the end of this workshop coaches should be able to:
- Explain what sports equity means and why it is important
- Identify barriers to participation
- Use appropriate language and terminology
- Identify and challenge inequitable behaviour
- Interpret the legal framework that effects coaching
- Identify how they can become more equitable
- Establish where to go for further information
Everyone should have access to sport, regardless of gender, age, race, ability, faith, or sexual orientation. As a coach, you have an important role to play in ensuring this happens. The workshop will help you to apply and extend your existing skills to meet the needs of present and potential participants.
Valuing Your Sports Volunteers
The newly updated 'Valuing Your Sports Volunteers' workshop will help your club make the most of your key asset – your people.
It still helps you to recruit more volunteers, motivate, retain, reward and manage them even more effectively. But now the workshop includes more detail and guidance on volunteer planning and management. In particular you will look at:
- how many volunteers you actually need
- what you want your volunteers to do
- how you are going to recruit and retain volunteers
By participating in this workshop, you will be able to:
- effectively plan volunteer recruitment, retention, reward and recognition
- identify what your club should do to work with young volunteers, and the type of roles they can undertake
- help build a network of support for volunteers in your club
- gain commitment for ongoing volunteer development
- recognise the importance of volunteers in English Sport