Local Blokarting Award January 26, 2008
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High winds today at Belhaven bay for a CPD course for 8 East Lothian Staff. The aim is to encourage teachers and youth leaders within East Lothian to discover Blokarting and to work towards leading and teaching groups this fun sport. It has many of the elements of sailing but you can get groups up to speed, using them and achieving results in a short space of time - excellent for building self confidence. As you improve you can start to tune your skills and wind awareness and the group today certainly did that. I hope that most of the course members today will go on to gain the Local Award and get out there using them with pupils and groups. Feedback so far would indicate that is the case. Good Luck with future Karting, thanks for attending, have fun and get out there and use them. Sorry about the wet feet.
BELA Course Starts…. March 20, 2007
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We have just started a new BELA course. We have a full compliment this year and are in fact running two courses side by side. You can view some snaps from there first day at Bonally orienteering and getting to grips with compasses and pacing.We wish them well with the course. It is certainly a useful course for teachers and facilitators in East Lothian who want to get out and lead groups in the surrounding countryside or just get their skills updated as part of CPD.. Many teachers and staff in east Lothian have done this course over the last few years and gone on to further qualifications. I will post some more stuff on their progress over the next couple of months.
