Gwilym's Adventure Blog

It has been a busy 7 days for me in my role as a Royal Lifesaving Society National Trainer Assessor and all things Lifeguard. Saturday and Sunday were spent in Porthcawl running the first 2 days of a split Beach Lifeguard Trainer Assessor course for 7 candidates from Newton Lifesaving Club. Monday to Friday was spent at Quantock Lodge running a full Pool Lifeguard Trainer Assessor course with a Level 3 Award in Education and Training for 3 candidates with 2 Beach Lifeguard Trainer Assessor Candidates joining us at the start of the week. They will finish there course in the New Year when we get in the sea. Training, Assessing, First Aid, Pool, Beaches and Presentation skills all covered and even though it has all been enjoyable, after 7 days I am looking forward to a well earned day off tomorrow. In case you are wondering, they did teach each other to make paper hats and tie shoe laces through either the "4 stage approach" or "whole-part-whole"

This weekend I have been running a Level 3 Award in Education and Training on behalf of Wet and High Adventures Ltd .  All the candidates were Outdoor Instructors with either climbing or navigation as their subjects so we managed to spend a fair amount of time outside the classroom. We enjoyed lessons on orientating maps, using compasses, teaching belaying and many more. 4 students in total who did well and just need to submit their portfolios to be awarded the qualification. Well done all.

On Monday and Tuesday this week I was running a Level 3 Award in Education and Training for a couple of candidates in Wellington. Today, it was another NNAS Tutors course down at Harbour Challenge in Poole. What a nice day for January so I popped down on the bike and was very grateful for the heated seat. Both of these courses are on behalf of Wet and High Adventures Ltd