Gwilym's Adventure Blog

Today I have been at The Life Centre running an Indoor Climbing Assistant award for 6th form students from Plymouth College Lot of stuff covered today including personal skills, coaching skills and "assisting" skills.

This was my second and last week as Temporary, Acting, Part Time Head of Outdoor Education.  With Storm Brendan giving us some pretty serious weather, I have ended up inside at The Life Centre climbing wall every day this week with different groups of Plymouth College students. Quote of the week from one student to me was "Sir, when are the proper instructors coming back?"

This week has been a blast from the past for me. I am temporary, part time, acting Head of Outdoor Education at Plymouth College for two weeks paternity cover. A couple for indoor climbing sessions including coaching lead climbing, a few classroom lessons and a day at Haldon Hill on mountain bikes interspersed with some paperwork and other essential admin to keep the department running until everyone comes back to work. Today was so wet on the bikes, big effort from the students as we rode through deluge after deluge with mud and water flying everywhere.

This week I am back in at Plymouth College cover some staff absence. I will be a fair bit over the next few months so I had to lean all the IT and other procedures again. The afternoon was spent down at The Life Centre Climbing Wall with a some year 7 to 10 on their afternoon activities.

Today I was down at The Life Centre in Plymouth running a Mountain Training Indoor Climbing Assistant course for Plymouth College Outdoor Education students. Nice to go back to a place that I used to work at and where I originally set up their Outdoor Education course to see that it has expanded both in delivery and the number of students on it. Always good to bump into a few ex colleagues and students and say hello.