Spring Coaching has been running for over 10 years. At first I worked as a teacher for 4 to 18 years old specialising in Dance and Netball. During this time and once I had left teaching, Icame across a real lack of knowledge and training that many teachers are given in these important national curriculum subjects.
I started Spring Coaching as a part time business to mainly coach teachers, coaches and players to help them improve their netball. To improve their own game, and more importantly, to motivate them and provide them with the confidence to often teach a sport they don’t play themselves. Through this interaction with teachers and coaches, many more courses have been developed to help teachers in the different disciplines.
For Level 1 and 2 Netball Courses, of which Alex is a tutor in the South East Region, sign up to Spring Coaching newsletters so you can hear about up and coming dates for these courses or head to www.englandnetball.co.uk
Netball Spring Coaching courses on offer are:
Thursday 15th March 2012 - Skills and Drills Workshop – Sutton High School, Junior School entrance, Grove Road, Sutton Surrey SM1 2AX between 7.30pm & 9.30pm. POSTPONED TILL SEPTEMBER 2012
Thursday 22nd March 2012 - Just Drills Workshop – Sutton High School, Junior School entrance, Grove Road, Sutton Surrey SM1 2AX between 7.30pm & 9.30pm. POSTPONED TILL SEPTEMBER 2012
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Skills and Drills – a 2 hour workshop concentrating on warm-ups, ball skills, drills and small games. Perfect for players and teachers of all ages.
Shooting Workshop – a 2 hour workshop concentrating on the technique of the shot and how to teach it(without ever having to demonstrate it), warm ups for shooters, getting the ball in to the circle and then getting the ball nearer to the post. Perfect for players and coaches of all levels
Defence Workshop 1 – the newest of the 2 hour workshops and developed with Helen Manufor (ex England GK). Defence 1 concentrates on Quick Feet, Marking the pass/place/ shot, Angles, Communication, Interceptions and Forcing the pass. Perfect for coaches and players of senior level players and above
Just Drills (new course) – feedback from my database of coaches has lead me to create a workshops just focusing on drills for all levels of players. Great for players, coaches and teachers and will definitely provide some great new ideas for everyone to re motivate their players
Bespoke netball courses can also be devised to suit groups needs
If you would like to host a Spring Coaching course then please contact alex@springcoaching.co.uk. If you can provide a venue, you will get 3 free places as long as we can get 10 additional attendees. I would love to hear from you.
You can hear what the teachers had to say about Alex after running all 3 workshops out in Bermuda in August 2009
Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2 Courses
All 3 courses have been developed on request from Primary School teachers who had not received much training in games, dance and gymnastics when at University. They wanted a course that would help them with new ideas to teach KS1 & KS2, how to organise groups of young children, ideas of how to develop their skills and what to expect form them. The dance courses come with a tape which includes all the music for dance routines taught on the course as well as additional tracks and ideas and how to use them. The ideal is to help primary school teachers with confidence and motivation so they get the most out of their time with their pupils in Activity lessons.
Games Workshop – 2 hour workshop for teachers of KS1 and KS2 children in Games. Looking at ways of keeping the whole group active and also ways to increase and better activity skills i.e. coordination, jumping, running