EDC (East Durham College) Sport and Outdoor Education courses video

For more information about the Sports and Outdoor Education courses available at East Durham College head to the website:
http://www.eastdurham.ac.uk/1419/view...

A written transcript of the film is below:

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CRAIG: Craig Shields, I'm the Curriculum Leader for Sport. I teach on a range of courses, mostly level 3 from Sports Science to A Level to Foundation Degree.
SEAN: My name's Sean Nicholson and I'm a lecturer on the Sports Courses.
CRAIG: They've all got specialised timetables in the sports department that cater for the academic and practical side. So for example on a morning they have academic studies between 9 and 11, they'll have a break, have another academic class till 12 and then they'll train of an afternoon.
SEAN: What we've got here is a really excellent range of facilities. We have a big double sports hall which we use for various teaching sessions and obviously the basketball, football 5 a side. All you can basically think off within that. We've got I think its at least four full size outdoor pitches which are really well maintained and really well looked after.
JAMAL: My name's Jamal George and I'm on a BND Exercise and Fitness.
In our lessons we do stuff like Psychology, stuff about Nutrition and how athletes perform.
When I finish this course I want to go to University and hopefully study something in sports, maybe Sports Psychology.
CRAIG: Day to day they always do a mixture of both their academic studies and the practical sport that they choose, whether it be football, boxing, or rugby, any of our academies here.
LEWIS: My name is Lewis Hatcher, and the course I'm on is BND Sport Coaching and Fitness. Things we do are coaching, learning different skills, techniques and the various different sports.
CRAIG: We're very lucky to have some fantastic lecturers so the level of teaching is very high. Last year our observation team, everyone was at good or better for our teaching observation, with some outstanding teaching there as well.
LAUREN: My name is Lauren Watts and I'm doing BTEC Sport Science. On the Sports Science course we do practical, it's mostly work-based, but we do assignments and topics which we do in the course; Sports Psychology, skill acquisition, anatomy, practical team sports.
SEAN: Once they've finished the course, if you're talking the level 3 students and the Sports Science and BTEC Nationals and things like that they can then go on to do the Foundation Degree we run here as well which is also two years and they can then progress to some other University to top up there to get a full degree. They can also if they want to leave at the end of level 3, they can just go on and do degrees somewhere else as well. Obviously there's other ways into employment so they can work in leisure centres and become coaches because obviously we run that type of programme. And other avenues of like Management within sport as well they can get into.
CRAIG: Enrolling on a course at the college you've also got the added advantage of having full use of our brand new gym facility. We've got a fitness suite consisting of both weights, machines and also a cardio-vascular suite. All the equipment is brand new and state of the art.
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WAYNE: My name is Wayne Cottrell and I'm in charge of Outdoor Education. They take part in activities such as rock climbing, kayaking, mountain biking, they'll also be doing fitness as it's part of the Sports Course, sports injuries, also we take them on camps as well.
The opportunities are quite varied; they can either go into the forces, because a lot of the Outdoor Education courses are linked with public services, but also they qualify to go and work out in the industry in outdoor centres or for sports programmes or even private companies such as Key Adventure or something. I'm a qualified Kayak instructor, Mountain Leader, rock climbing instructor. Also we do other things such as beach lifeguarding, we do a lot of water activities. We do some other enrichment programmes like scuba diving, orienteering.
The facilities here are excellent. We've got a top of the range gym, top of the range sports facilitites, we've also got a site at Houghall College, and that provides us with a base for orienteering. Plus it's got a full forest to do any camping skills that we need to do and a Mountain Bike track.
At the moment the split of females to male is about 60 - 40. We have a good selection of females of various ages all who really enjoy outdoor education. But they've also got links to cadets, and they all want to go into forces or actually get involved with industry.
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