CYQ Part 2

This morning I was again at bridgwater college working with the other half of the CYQ Level 2 students. The aim of the session being to look at effective team work and the attributes you need to be part of an effective team.

We played Ultimate Frisbee and Nerf Ball to demonstrate hoe invasion games can be played fairly without the need of an official and then moved onto various problem solving and team development taskes to highlight various skills such as:

Communication
Co-operation
Trust
Support
Planning

A good session where all the students got stuck in and received the review process very well.

Back at Bridgwater College

 

 

Yesterday I was back at Bridgwater College after the half term break working with CYQ students who were on a curriculum crash week.

 

We spent the morning looking at Team development, focusing on communication, Trust, Support, Co-operation and planning. Various problem solving activities and reviewing processes were used to achieve this.

 

After lunch we spent an hour playing ultimate frisbee and using the nerf ball to look at referee free invasion games. This encourages players to play fair and self officiate the games.

 

I finished off the day by delivering session 4 of 6 sportivate funded Archery sessions for college students.

 



Ultimate Frisbee session for 'Sports Leaders- Level 1'

As part of the Sports Leaders Uk, Level 1 qualification students are required to look at 'Fair Play' and the 'role of the official'.

To achieve this I decided to use 'Ultimate Frisbee', a game played with no referee. It is played purely on trust via self officiating.

The session started with a quick warm up and a re-visit of the different  throws and the basic rules. This followed with 10 minutes play where the students were in two teams of 4 and self officiated. The game flowed and there were no disputes.

To understand the 'role of an official' the students then took it in turns to officiate the game for 5 minutes while I stepped in to make the teams even. As the session developed and the students became tired their competitive edge started to appear and the official was questioned, players tried to bend the rules and failed to play 'to the whistle'.

we concluded that certain sports require an official to keep the game flowing but with the right attitude you can compete in a sport without the need of a referee or umpire.

The first 10 minutes played with out an official really highlighted 'Fair Play' and all the students said how much more they enjoyed it than the 40 minutes that followed.

Sports Leaders Course with Level 2 Outdoor Education Students

As part of my work with Bridgwater College I am delivering a Sports Leaders Level 1 course with an outdoor education slant to the Btec Level 2 Outdoor Adventure students. In todays session we started to look at the delivery of Team development and problem solving activities.

The first hour was spent with me delivering a range of energisers, main activites and review activities. In the second hour the students were paired up and given an activity to deliver to their peers, to spice things up the students who were participants were given poor behaviour scenarios to act out. The pair delivering were tasked to deal with the behaviour and tyhen continue delivering their activity. The students did very well and in a few more weeks will be ready to go into a local primary school to deliver these activities to year 5 students as part of their assessment.