Coasteering Team Day Sports Development. June 28, 2007
Posted by Bill in : Coasteering, Outdoor Learning, Sports Development Officers , trackback
Great day today coasteering with staff from the Sports Development Team. With a great deal of help from the MOBEX team (thanks guys). Coasteering is becoming more popular in the Scotland and its great to get it going in East Lothian. East Lothian has such a beautiful coastline for coasteering. The team today did so well at traversing, swimming and jumping. Good to see them getting used to the water and the movement of the sea.Lots of support and encouragement within the team and it was great to meet them all. Look forward to working with them again and doing more partnership work with MOBEX. Look forward to also rolling this activity out to schools. Mobex have already being do so with great success. A great activity in terms of developing self confidence ( Working with the 4 capacities in the Curriculum for Excellence…developing confident individuals, pursuing active and healthy lifestyles,)in water and on rock as well as the usual benefits from learning in the outdoors. There are often opportunities to see marine life so there are many curriculum links to science, geography and biology(Link and apply different kinds of learning in new situations)
There is now a Coasteering Federation and also a combined water and rock body which offers more information on the sport and they also over advise and training and we will be taking advantage of this further to our initial training recently.The HSE have also published a leaflet giving advise on the sport.
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What a fantastic day! I would not have imagined that it would have been as much fun! The guys from MOBEX and Bill from Outdoor Education were really professional and between them had a wealth of experience in Coasteering. Anyone can do it, you can make it as challenging as you like. Everyone in the Sports Development team stretched themselves throughout the day and did things that they had not done before. I would recommend coasteering to anyone. The activity is fun and safe for children and adults.