Teaching Course - Module 2C - Holy Trinity, Darlington, County Durham
About this course:
This course shows new and experienced teachers how to support their students and develop the necessary foundation skills for good ringing and then move forward to ringing changes.
The practical exercises approach learning in small structured steps and are delivered in a way that is entertaining for the new ringer whilst the theory sessions cover foundation skills, teaching theory, running practices, team building and how to motivate and retain your ringers.
You will learn through a mixture of practical and classroom sessions
- Foundation skills
- Call Changes
- Kaleidoscope ringing
- Standing behind
- Plain Hunting
The foundation skill techniques are covered in the practical sessions, and you then move on to concentrate on the development of change ringing skills using exercises and unusual methods to aid learning.
The transition from Plain Hunt to Plain Bob Doubles and Plain Bob Minor is broken down into several simpler, shorter steps, making the jump into change ringing both more gradual and understandable to the new ringer.
The theory sessions turn the spotlight on developing leadership skills.
A sandwich lunch and refreshments will be available.
This course is currently in its early booking window and is protected by a PIN to allow local ringers a priority registration period until the 7th April 2025. After this date, the PIN will be removed and any remaining places will be available for general booking.
Event Details
| Event Start | Sat 07-Jun-2025 09:00 |
| Event End | Sat 07-Jun-2025 17:30 |
| Registration Closes(Cut-off) | Fri 23-May-2025 12:00 |
| Capacity | 10 |
| Registered | 4 |
| Available places | 6 |
| Event Fee | £30 per attendee plus £10 donation per person (payable locally) for sandwich lunch, refreshments, tower donation. |
| Event Prerequisites | You must be a bell-ringing teacher (or would-be teacher) aged 14 or over. You must have sufficiently good bell control to be able to inspire confidence in others. You must have the ability to comfortably ring up and down in peal. You must have rung a quarter peal on an inside bell of Bob Minor standard or above, recorded on Bellboard. We expect that you should easily be able to pass the Learning the Ropes Level 2 handling assessment. For more information, see bellringing.org/about-teaching/bell-handling/#GoodHandlingStyle |
| Location | Holy Trinity, Darlington, Co Durham |
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Team
Christine Richardson
Tutor
Christine learned to ring in 1981 at Christ Church, North Shields and it’s safe to say she was smitten from the first lesson. “How hard can it be?”, quickly became a challenge to get it right. A house move to Sunderland soon meant that she was ringing at 5 practice nights per week, with weddings on Saturdays and service ringing on Sundays. A wide variety of methods (and bells) as well as a keen nucleus of local ringers who took her under their wing, gave her a good grounding in basic methods as well as the chance to progress to more complex methods when appropriate.
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