Abercrombie, visit 2.

Today, we had to adapt our training plans due to weather conditions outside.

We had five minutes as a group to develop a training session for 32 children in a small area ( badminton court.) We immediately set up a plan:

- The Warm Up

- A Fun Game.

- Relays.

Dan, Luke and myself delivered the warm up. Straight away we got control of the children as they knew we was in charge. We spoke them through with what we was going to do and gave them some safety instructions. We set up a grid with cones around the badminton court, which we got the children to run around in. The children just ran side to side to start off with so Dan stopped the group and told them to run in different directions. After a minute, Dan told them to do sidesteps and then a minute later, to skip. A minute later, i stopped the group and gave then another instruction which was... " Now, im going to shout out some numbers! If i shout 2, you get in two's, if i shout 3, you get into three's and so on." I asked them if they understood then i got them to start running around the grid again. Luke shouted the numbers out, they got in the numbers, then i got them running again. We did this four times then i stopped the group, told them well done and then passed them onto the next group.
I am happy with my role in the coaching as i was loud and clear with my instructions and i took control of the class.

The next group played a game called "Mountains and Valleys." I helped this group by spreading out the cones, encouraging them and then counting the cones at the end.
After this game, i grouped all the children up and got them to sit down ready for the relays.

I helped the next group by taking charge of a team of 10 for the relays. This group was slighly unorganised as the children were too excited at the time, so i calmed down my team and explained what they had to do. One girl started crying and didnt want to the race as she said she wasnt very good. I spoke to the girl and told her that she did well but she could sit out if she wanted. The girl joined back in with the race.

This was the end of the session. I spoke to a few of the children by crouching down on my knees so i was at the same height as them. I asked what there names was and if they enjoyed the games.

Overall, the session went well as we took control, the children enjoyed it and we was flexible as we changed our session plan within 5 minutes and delivered it well.