Me and three other students coached a lesson to Chesterfield under 7's. There was 20 kids and we had an hour and half to coach them.
As a few kids turned up early, i got them in a circle and passed the ball round. When everybody turned up, we got them in a grid (size of two badminton courts) with a ball each dribbling around which that they had to include any skills or turns they had learnt in the previous weeks. Then we introduced 'tiggy scarecrow football'. This consisted of two people being on to begin with, they had to tig the other people while dribbling with the ball. If you got tug, you had to freeze into a scarecrow, to get untug another person had to dribble with the ball under your arms. The next few rounds, three, four and five people were on. This progressed and made it more difficult. Plus, it gave everybody a turn to be on.
While this game was on, a few people was late so i had to introduce them, explain what they was doing and then gave them a ball to let them join in. I also noticed a few peoples shoe laces was undone so i asked them if they wanted me to tie them as i realised quite a few of them couldnt do it.
As it was cold in the sports hall and was the last lesson until after christmas, we organised them into four teams and played mini matches.I was a captain for one team so i had to introduce myself to my team, got to know them and related to them. During the matches, i constantly praised and encouraged both teams which increased their confidence and allowed them to have more fun. For one match, my team had too many players so i dropped out and refereed the match. For this, iused my whistle a lot, and shouted to maintain control while still enouraging the kids. Most of the time i follwed play so i could view and help them better but on occasions i stood around one part of the pitch as they kept tripping over the netting which was dangerous so i warned the kids to be careful around that part.
In the matches, there was quite a lot of incidents where kids were getting hurt. When this happened, i immiediately stopped the play and made sure the kids was okay. In one occasion, a kid got hurt and started crying, i ran over to him and made sure he was okay. He was struggling to run so i got him to come and stand i net with me. After one minute, he was fine and carried on with the game.
In my team, i had a defender who could read the game really well, there was one battler who made all the tackles, one that was quite tall and skillful who took players on, then finally a playmaker who was involved most of the match. We wore orange bibs, so i told the team that we was Blackpool... This got them excited and more eager to win.
I really enjoyed the session and i thought i did a really good job as i related to the kids which made them look up to me. I dealt with different circumstances such as people turning up early and late. Plus, tieing shoelaces and dealing with injured/upest kids.
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