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Volunteered at Birmingham 2022 Common Welath Games being part of the Common Wealth Collective to set up athletic equipment (blocks, hurdles, lane markers and cables) at Alexandra Stadium.

As an assistant track official duties included are:
Seeding athletes into lanes
Moving athletes blocks
Signalling to the chief starter when athletes are still and ready to race.
Moving starters equipment to each start position in a race.
Knowing England athletic cards for DQ
At open events practice starting athletes races.

Shadowing a PE coach at a local Primary school. Helping with activities such as Athletics, Netball, multi-skills and gymnastics with children between 5-11 years old. Also helping with lunchtime and after school clubs, delivering football, archery and athletics sessions. Started to lead small group sessions in PE and after school.
Classroom-based experience helping KS1 children with reading and phonics. Developed my questioning skills and helped children to understand texts and analyse what they had read.

Starting Brownies when
I was 7 years old and contuining into guides at 11 I enjoyed making friends, going on trips and being a sixer as part of the club. One of the first positions I had of leading a group was through girl guides where I was a Young Leader at 14 years old. I led activities for our Brownie pack, a lovely group of girls who were between 7-10 years old. I ran craft, sports and cooking activities whilst I was there. I was able to lead the agility badge each year. I created games and coached how to play a game of rounders. They had to learn about why and how we do warm ups before taking part in physical activity, learn how to skip with a skipping rope, create an aerobic exercise sequence, complete a training circuit and learn how to throw and catch a ball building up to playing a game e.g. rounders.
This was a great little position when I was 14-16 years old giving me valuable skills of communication, organisation and working in a team. I would encourage secondary school ages to get involved in volunteering through scouts/ guides or any other voluntary positions available.

As I was interested in working within sport as part of the summer I Volunteered at my previous secondary school for a school sports day working with children between 11 and 15 years of age. I set up and packed away sports equipment. Explained to competitors the competition rules of high jump in particular. I kept score of high jump results and learnt how to accurately time 100m races. Gained more of an insight into the organisational skills required to run sporting events and how to give accurate results for each athletic event.

Volunteering at a school sports day for 2 days at Reynolds Primary Academy working with children between 3 and 11 years of age. With KS1 sports day I led the javelin event providing rules and demonstration with nursery, foundation and KS1. I set up and packed away sports equipment whilst also leading year 6 helpers with javelin. I also learnt and explained to competitors the competition rules for 100m, Long Jump and Javelin. Day 2 was helping KS2, I learnt how to accurately measure long jump and javelin, I timed 100m races and gave the children their results which enhanced my communication and teamwork skills. I coached children on how to get a better distance on their Javelin throw. I gained an insight into the organisational skills required to run sporting events by scoring events.

I volunteered in a year 6 PE lesson where I worked with a small group of children to work on athletic activities which included speed bounce, standing long jump and 100m race. I demonstrated this to the children. This was a good experience to gain an insight after finishing secondary school to understand about setting up events and teaching in the sport environment.

Volunteering at Edward Heneage Primary school for a sports day, working with children between 3 and 11 years of age. Set up and packed away sports equipment. Explained to competitors the competition rules. Kept score and timed races. Gained insight into the organisational skills required to run sporting events.
I shadowed 2 sports coaches from Grimsby Town Football Club who worked at Edward Heneage Primary Academy, for 3 days. Helping to officiate and score athletic events for sports day. I also lead the skills of shooting in Netball and dribbling in football in PE sessions to KS1 and KS2, learning how to communicate and lead specific techniques and skills in invasion games.

As a Sports Leader at Franklin College I delivered athletics sessions and sports events to primary school children for 2 years. I learnt how to be a better communicator and learnt rules of sports that I hadn't coached before. This also included sports like Boccia, coaching and understanding how to officiate these events to able bodied and SEN children. I helped to run 'Schools Indoor Athletics Competitions' becoming more confident at measuring events such as long jump, boccia, obstacle race and vertical jump. This went towards completing my L3 Sports Leaders Award.

Junior Athletics Coaching Scholar at Leeds Beckett University in my 1st year of my Sports Coaching degree. Setting up sports equipment and delivering 3, 40-minute events in a 2-hour session at weekends. This includes sprinting, throws and jumps to children between 8-16 years old. Planning inclusive sessions for all abilities and ensuring the safety of athletes.
Attending workshops to gain extra CPD: Safeguarding and UK Coaching courses.
Meeting with the lead coach weekly to have reflective sessions and suggesting ideas such as using England Athletics Coaching Cards which have been implemented into sessions.

As an Athletics Coaching Assistant in my 2nd year of SPEX degree, I helped to set up sports equipment and develop children's athletic ability between 8-16 years old. Planning warm up activities for sessions and lead one event each week in either a run, jump or throw to develop my own planning and coaching for all track and field events. Ensured safety of the children and adapted sessions accordingly to ability.