Aqua Sports Company
RYA and BCU Courses for Schools - Get Qualified!
     
 
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"to get on the water this summer all you need is a pair of old shoes and a degree of water confidence."

 

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"Aqua Sports is totally committed to youth and to the
future of watersports."

Imagine your students learning a new skill, having fun and achieving National Curriculum targets, and maybe even finding a career at the same time! Sound impossible? Not if you bring them to Aqua Sports. We can teach them how to windsurf, sail or kayak, or even all three sports over time. Who knows, maybe you have an Olympic hopeful just waiting to be discovered!

From two-hour weekly time slots, to week long multi-activity courses, all options can count towards attainment targets in the Outdoor and Adventurous Activities area of Key Stages 2 to 4. We can help teachers achieve their targets, and hopefully teach the teachers a new skill too!

If you have a regular slot each week you want to fill with an outdoor activity, either a PE lesson, or an after school activity option, then a course at Aqua Sports is the answer for you.

Courses at Aqua Sports typically run for two hours per week, with six weeks recommended for course completion. Your students will spend as much time as possible on the water, following a syllabus designed to get the best from them, and hopefully allow them to obtain a watersports qualification. These certificates of competence from recognised National Governing Bodies (NGB), such as the RYA and BCU, can count towards the attainment targets in the Outdoor and Adventurous Activities area of Key Stages 2 to 4.

All our courses are delivered to the exacting standards of the RYA and BCU, and will hopefully result in a qualification for your students. The emphasis is on novices and intermediates, but even if you have a class of gifted watersports students, we can still teach them a thing or two.

With free places for teachers, there has never been a better time to get involved!


Courses with Qualifications Run at Aqua Sports

RYA Dinghy

juniorDinghyStage One - this course teaches juniors to sail with assistance - normally two-up in a single-hander - covering sailing across the wind and upwind sailing.

Stage Two - juniors continue to sail two-up, learning how to sail a triangular course and sail unassisted.

Stage Three - introduction to the 'five essentials' and sailing single handers. Theoretical elements included.

Stage Four - effective use of the 'five essentials', efficient tacking and gybing in stronger winds, crewing and helming.

Advanced Skills - for those that have completed stage four. Includes advanced boat handling skills, use of asymmetric spinnaker and racing. This course provides the skills youngsters need to excel in sailing. (non certificated)


RYA Windsurf

Eliot Level One - this course teaches juniors the basics of windsurfing so that they can confidently sail a basic course and turn round.

Level Two - works on key skills such as stance, tacking and gybing. Upwind sailing ability is developed and some theory introduced.

Level Three - this involves sailing in stronger winds and an introduction to planing skills such as harness and footstraps.

 


BCU Kayak

Taster Paddle Power 1 & 2 - basic introduction to paddling skills through experimentation and games.

Paddle Power 3 & 4 - gentle skills development, again through games and progression learning.