Gwilym's Adventure Blog

This week I have been working in Swanage running a RLSS Beach Lifeguard Trainer Assessor course for a small group of 4 candidates.  

This weekend I have been in Porthcawl with members of Newton Lifeguard Club finishing off their Beach Lifeguard Trainer Assessor's  course that we started in November 2019.  We had completed a couple of weekends before Covid hit and this was the first time that we could all get back together to finish the course

3 new Beach Lifeguard Trainer Assessors were produced this weekend at Brean Sands. It was a little chilly in the sea but all 3 did well and are looking forward to running their own courses in the near future. I have two of these courses on the go at the moment with the second one due next weekend.

This weekend I have been back in Porthcawl running the second part of a split RLSS Beach Lifeguard Trainer Assessor course for 6 candidates. We were warm inside and at the pool but getting psyched for a bracing dip during part 3 which will be in March

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"

Any visitors today would have probably thought they were entering a morgue. After last weeks RLSS Trainer Assessor course, it was a day of post course admin and stripping resus manikins for sterilising and replacing lungs and faces ready for our next Lifeguard course in February.

This week I have mainly been running a RLSS Pool Lifeguard Trainer Assessor course with Crys at Quantock Lodge . With 6 candidates keen to improve their training and assessing skills we have happily sent them off this afternoon into the real world to prepare to run their first Pool Lifeguard Course. I say mainly, as on Thursday I had to go to Bristol and complete an induction so I can run the new Indoor Climbing Assistant Award coming in January 2019.