Teaching Course - Module 2F - Abingdon, Oxon
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
Module 2F practical sessions have a greater focus on the foundation skills – how to teach call changes, an exploration of kaleidoscope ringing, and different ways to introduce covering and Plain Hunt.
Theory sessions include the development of coaching skills.
Event Details
| Event Start | Sat 22-Nov-2025 09:30 |
| Event End | Sat 22-Nov-2025 17:00 |
| Registration Closes(Cut-off) | Fri 07-Nov-2025 12:00 |
| Capacity | 12 |
| Registered | 0 |
| Available places | 12 |
| Event Fee | £30 per attendee + £25 local donation for buffet lunch, refreshments and church 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 need to be able to comfortably raise and lower a bell. You can ring at least Plain Hunt. 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 | St Helen's, Abingdon, Oxfordshire |
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Team
Nick Brett
Tutor
Nick started ringing at the age of 8 in a small village in north Bedfordshire. When Nick was 10, a ringing family, Michael and Jill Orme and their son Phillip, moved to the village. Michael decided to fundraise for new ring of six bells, and Nick was invited to learn to ring properly.
After university, his ringing career continued in Kempston, Bedford. He was Ringing Master for a while at Kempston and met his wife Lyndsey in a graveyard at a ringer’s picnic. Two years later he moved to Leighton Buzzard, where Mark Regan was fundraising for a new ring of twelve after a fire in 1985 had destroyed the newly refurbished 10 bells.He lived in Leighton Buzzard for 35 years, He ran Linslade tower for some years and taught several young ringers in Bedfordshire Association’s bands for the National Youth Competition.
Now located in Rugby, all four members of Nick's family are ART teachers.
Nick has also been an ART Assessor, and has now become an ART Tutor.
Steve Vickars
Tutor
Steve’s active ringing career spans some ten years across five decades, with a 40 year break between first learning as a teenager in the ‘70s and return in 2015 when his local band re-formed.
Since then he has dedicated much of his time to learning method ringing, conducting and teaching handling, foundation and basic methods.
He attended ART M1, M2F and M2C courses in 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively, became a full member of ART in 2018 and is Training Officer for the Bicester Branch of the ODG. He is also an ART assessor.
Steve runs two general practices per week, organises and runs monthly focussed skills practices and has led methods courses organised by the Oxford Guild. In 2022, Steve joined Susan Read in forming Oxon Ringing School and is Kirtlington Ringing Centre Lead.
Hosted by
Oxon Ringing School
