Taking place on Thursday 4th March 2010, the third ASA Swimming Teaching Conference will be held at the Heritage Motor Museum in Warwickshire.

The conference is open to all swimming teachers but is particularly aimed at swimming teachers and co-ordinators working on the delivery and improvement of school swimming.

Marc had his left leg amputated because of cancer when he was just 17-years-old but was still able to fulfill his dream of being the best that he could be and just 18 months after he finished his chemotherapy he was selected to represent Great Britain.

He subsequently competed at European & World Championships and Paralympic Games. In his 17 years of competition he won a staggering 12 Paralympic medals from 5 Games, 4 of those medals being gold. Marc also won a further 21 medals from European and World Championships.

There will also be a range of informative and inspirational workshops including:

Using different teaching styles for school swimming - focuses on the 4 strands of the National Curriculum and how to use different teaching styles that can be adopted to improve school swimming.

Effective school swimming - looking at the programming, delivery and monitoring of swimming programmes within school swimming.

Teaching swimmers with disability/challenging behaviour - explains the conditions, syndromes and disorders and gives strategies for managing the behaviour of a swimming teaching environment. 

Click here for further information, prices and booking details.

 

Spectators at the Nationwide Short Course Disability Swimming Championships last weekend may have spotted a familiar face amongst the volunteers helping at the event.

The Royle Family star Ralf Little joined helpers at the Sheffield event to publicise the importance of volunteering in sport and highlight the vital contribution that volunteers make to swimming events.

Little said “Working with Disability Sport Events on recent fundraising initiatives has made me want to find out more about their work. So what better way than to get my hands dirty and join the hundreds of volunteers who help them annually.

“I love sport, so supporting disabled athletes in their ambition to win gold is great fun as well as rewarding. I want my involvement to mean more than just putting my face and voice to the events.”

Volunteering is open to people of any age and you could find yourself involved in a wide variety of roles ranging from producing results to carrying kit for athletes.

Some volunteering requires many hours a week, some only a few each month. Even if you have a busy lifestyle you should still be able to find something that suits.

Most of all it gives you a fun and exciting opportunity to get involved with sport and play a vital part in the running of clubs and events.

To see a list of clubs currently looking for volunteers or register your interest in volunteering click here.

For further information please email volunteering@swimming.org.

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For more information contact the ASA Marketing Officer Esther Hope on 01509 632247, 07917 876459 or email esther.hope@swimming.org.

The ASA is the English National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Water Polo, Open Water, and Synchronised Swimming. It organises competition throughout England, establishes the Laws of the Sport and operates comprehensive certification and education programmes for Teachers, Coaches and Officials as well as its renowned Learn To Swim Awards scheme. The ASA supports 1,220 affiliated swimming clubs through a National/Regional/County structure. The ASA aims to ensure everybody has an opportunity to learn to swim.

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British Gas is Britain's favourite domestic energy supplier. As well as providing gas and electricity, it also installs and maintains central heating and gas appliances in millions of homes throughout the country. British Gas is very proud to be the principal partner of British Swimming and home countries: The ASA, Scottish Swimming and Swim Wales. British Gas is supporting the team's quest for medals on the world and Olympic stage - and giving as many people as possible the opportunity to learn to swim and use swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle. British Gas wants to ensure local pools remain at the heart of our communities. By using its expertise, it can help them reduce costs by being more energy efficient and safeguard the facilities for this and future generations. For more information visit www.britishgas.co.uk/swimming

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