My BANES X-Country Job

Before

• Turn up on time.
• Set up my section of the course
• Get appropriette clothing e.g Hi-Vis jackets 
• Check that it matches with other sections around mine.

During

• Ensure nobody cuts corners, if they do, report it to race leader.
• Encourage racers as they go around
• Check for any safety hazards that may have arised on my section of the course, try to solve them as soon as possible

After

• Clean up my section ensuring all kit has been gathered.

BANES X-Country - 'To Do' List

Here is a list of jobs that are required to be done during the cross country.

Before

• Turn up on time.
• Ensure your section of the course is clearly laid out clearly and accurately.
• Ensure every person is at their designated section of the course, if they are not, send them there!
• Prepare all tickets to give to the finishing athletes.
• Prepare I.C.T equipment to log results.
• Get somebody to run the track to see if any new health and safety issue have arrised. Deal with any new issues on the day.
• Ensure two different 'funnel finishes' have been set up and labelled, one for each gender.
• Bring a high-vis top and hand them to marshalls at important points on the course to sensure athletes don't get lost.
• Make sure the racers have appropriette footwear and kit.
• Risk Assesment
• Bring First Aid kit.
• Ensure that all schools have a timetable and know when they are racing.

During

• Ensure that all schools are aware of upcoming races.
• Encourage racers as they run the course.
• Make sure nobody cuts corners, if they do, take note of specific items of clothing so that you can disqualify them at the end.
• Hand out the position tickets as they finish.
• Have people starting age specific races at the right times as other races occur around them.
• Watch out for injuries that may occur, if they do, contact the race director.

After

• Make sure all race tickets have been logged by the teachers and handed in to the position loggers in the clubhouse.
• Tidy up course once all races have finished.
• Write a summary of the event and publish it on the blogs for the next lesson.

Coaching Review Of Nathan Baker

On Monday 19th September 2011 whilst at St Michael's School I was watching Nathan Baker coach a series of small sessions to try and promote the olympic value of equality. Throughout the session I was looking for a variety of skills that would aid him in leading a good coaching session, these were the following,

• Delivery of instructions.
• Quality Of Demonstration
• Relevance to chosen olympic value, in this case Equality. 
• Enthusiasm throughout.
• Correct techniques shown.

Delivery of instructions - To begin with instructions were made a little unclear, however, by the third group Nathan had manged to evaluate on the spot which instructions were being understood and which were not. This meant that by the end of  the sessions he was getting the children to do exactly what was required very quickly.

Quality Of Demonstration - The demonstration was very good for the ofset, Nathan did extremely well with the facilities available and managed to show the group what was required in the session quickly.

Relevance to chosen olympic value, in this case Equality - Nathan began each session by talking to the group about equality, firstly, checking to see if they knew what it meant.

Personal Coaching Review

Today I will be analysing the coaching skills of Nathan Baker as he leads short football sessions as part of the olympic value sports festivals we have been arranging amongst local primary schools.

The main points I will be looking for are:-

• Delivery of instructions.
• Quality Of Demonstration
• Relevance to chosen olympic value, in this case Equality. 
• Enthusiasm throughout.
• Correct techniques shown.

First Olympic Value Festival - Evaluation

For the first Olympic Value Festival sadly we were informed on the day of the event at around 11.45am. On this day I only had one lesson at school at 8:45-9:45am and then I went home so by the time the message had been passed around I was at home, therefore I was unaware of the festivals existance. In future we could improve the festivals by getting the message out a few days in advance.

To ensure that my session would be of a high standard I would have a definitive plan to setup as quickly and accurately as possible to avoid wasted time during the festival. I will also alter the tones and language I use to the appropriette level for the age group I am teaching.

From previous experience I have found that the timing of each session can be where things begin to go wrong, to stop this happening I will use stopwatches to time each sessionm accurately, in this case of these sessions it was 6 minute rotations. This allowed every pupil to have a chance to use every station. When rotating to the next station we will be able to have one person stay at the station we are operating and have one person guide the previous group to the next station they will be on. We are able to do this due to having at least two people at each station.

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