In all I believe that all of my posts have been thoroughly looked into the research on how to rectify my problems that I faced in the sessions i had at Richmond House Primary school. I believe that I have learnt a lot from my time at placement and also learnt from the mistakes that... Continue Reading →

When I started out at the placement at Richmond House School, Our first ever session was the day we first arrived. I got thrown straight into the deep end by doing a session we hadn't planned for prior, I went straight out to the field with all of our equipment and waited for the participants... Continue Reading →

Often in game situations when the participants are on fixtures, they struggle to find ways to get through to score against the opposing team. I thought to implement the GROW Framework to try and resolve the problem, I started by identifying what the goal of the activity and that was how to find the best... Continue Reading →

Being at the Richmond House School for a couple of months has made me realise that maybe the school curriculum and values and ethos are slightly different to the proposed theory in terms of Long-Term Athlete Development Model (Balyi & Hamilton, 2004). It suggests that the participants that I am currently coaching are exiting the... Continue Reading →

When I first turned up at the placement, I identified after an observation of the session that there were two individuals that may have had learning difficulties. So, I took it upon myself and went to their teacher to enquire more, the feedback from their teacher was that the two participants both had autism and... Continue Reading →

In the school placement that attend at Richmond House Primary, there are huge ability differences across the group that we had been given to teach on a Friday afternoons. The problem that we faced as a coaching group was to be able to creates a session that suits all of the participants in terms of... Continue Reading →