The Essex Association of Change Ringers   President: The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Chelmsford

Would anyone be interested in joining a day course designed to cover teaching foundation skills?

This module, run by the Association of Ringing Teachers (ART) shows you how to help your students develop the necessary foundation skills for good ringing and then move forward to ringing changes. You will learn through a mixture of practical and theoretical sessions about:

• Foundation skills – fine bell control, listening, rhythm and ropesight
• Lots of fun exercises to develop these skills
• Coaching skills and building a successful band
• Introducing Plain Hunt and covering

In some ways this stage is the hardest part of learning to ring; the excitement and rapid progress associated with (semi)-mastering bell control has passed and time on the rope can be limited if the only practice is once a week with a mixed ability band. This is where this module helps. It introduces lots of fun exercises to help your ringer develop the foundation skills for method ringing. There is plenty for your ringer to practise and measure their progress against whilst stimulating (and sometimes testing) the rest of the band. For bands who don’t aspire to method ringing it gives lots of ideas for Service or wedding ringing which sound good whilst keeping the band interested.

The course cost is £30 (plus lunch) and if we have at least six people interested we can ask ART to set up a course in Essex.

If you’d like to attend, or would just like to know more, respond to me on this email. I really loved this course and use lots of the ideas week by week, recommended!

Best wishes

Beth

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Beth Johnson

Education Officer, EACR

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education@eacr.org.uk

(Wednesday 12 June 2024)