A number of workshops take place during the year to provide additional development for all coaches & 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:
https://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.
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 so please support your club by becoming an athletes official (you chose the discipline whether track or field).
The club will support with funding for all 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 can be here
