National Provider Conference 2024

Mountain Training England and Mountain Training Cymru

This is a conference for all currently approved providers and course staff for leadership and skills schemes for Mountain Training England and Mountain Training Cymru held at Plas Y Brenin. 

The theme of the conference is ‘effective training and fair assessment’ and the workshops will focus on benchmarking the standards of training and assessment that we provide for candidates and participants. The conference will provide an update from MountainTraining and the BMC along with a session on engaging with the ever broadening range of people we deliver to.

Please choose 3 workshops - one per session (one on Thursday afternoon and two on Friday morning)

This is a biennial event supported by Sport England. Attendance satisfies the three yearly update requirement to maintain tutor/ course director approval and is accredited 1 cpd point by the associations.

Programme: 

Thursday 25th April:

09:00 - 09:20      Registration

09:20 - 10:00      Introduction and Mountain Training update

10:00 - 10:15      BMC Update

10:15 - 11:15      Engaging with and safeguarding our people

11:15 - 11:30      Coffee/tea break

11:30 - 12:30      Engaging with and safeguarding our people

12:30 - 13:00      Sustainable delivery

13:00 - 14:00      Lunch

14:00 - 16:30      Thursday afternoon workshop 

16:30 - 17:00      Tea and Cake

17:00 - 18:00      Insights from a paddle coach provider

Friday 26th April: 

09:00 - 09:15      Assemble and briefing

09.15 - 10.45      Effective training and fair assessment - session one

10:45 - 11:00      Coffee/tea break

11:00 - 12:30      Effective training and fair assessment - session two

12:45 - 13:00      Plenary session and closing remarks

13:00                  Lunch and depart

Workshop titles (for details please see individual sessions): 

Thursday

Workshops 1 & 2. Mandatory workshop for qualification directors only – choose between climbing or walking:

1. Benchmarking assessment standards for walking qualifications

2. Benchmarking assessment standards for climbing qualifications

Skills tutors may choose one workshop from the four:

3. Teaching movement skills

4. Teaching belay construction

5. Teaching navigation & GPS

6. Teaching incident management

Friday

These sessions are repeated. Please choose two from the list. The first session runs from 9:15 - 10:45, the second session is 11:00 - 12:30. 

7. Effective training and fair assessment: Access

8. Effective training and fair assessment: Environment

9. Effective training and fair assessment: Personal Climbing

10. Effective training and fair assessment: Bouldering

Please do not book onto the same session twice.

To meet your course director / tutor update requirements, please attend all sessions including three workshops. 

This will also gain 1 CPD point for the associations as listed.

Start

25/04/2024 09:00

End

26/04/2024 13:30

Total Days

2

Maximum Bookings

80

Bookings

66

Venue

Plas y Brenin

Town

Betws-y-Coed

County

Conwy

Postcode

LL24 0ET

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.10220

Longitude

-3.91841

Name

Mountain Training England

Phone

01690720272

Website

Email