The North East Skills School programme goes from strength to strength
The North East Skills School programme is having great success and the next session will be held on Sunday 26 March at the Silksworth Leisure Centre in Sunderland.
Aims of Skills School
The aims are to:
- Nurture happy, healthy, and skilled triathletes.
- Inspire continued engagement with triathlon.
- Develop creative coaches that specialise in fun and developmentally appropriate triathlon sessions.
- Encourage ‘whole child’ coaching – developing the child and the athlete.
- Produce better performances at all levels of triathlon.
How will Skills School Achieve this?
Skills School will:
- Provide resources that guide and challenge young triathletes to discover a positive learning process.
- Create a dynamic framework of skills that encourages young triathletes towards personal excellence.
- Encourage athletes to reinforce personal behaviours that support a healthy, balanced triathlon lifestyle.
- Support coaches of young triathletes through opportunities to enhance their coaching practice.
- Provide environments that better develop athletes and coaches using the Skills School principles of development.
- Enable coaches to build and engage in relationships and supportive networks that offer peer learning and development opportunities.
- Provide additional experiences and strategies to address gender specific differences in adolescent and coach development.
If you have any questions please contact skillsschoolnortheast@britishtriathlon.org
Please click HERE to enroll and HERE for more information about Skills School.
