Coaching & Officials Course

To help improve the standard of hockey, safeguarding, and consistency of officials for the 2019/20 season onward, the Executive Committee are implementing three important initiatives.

1) BRHA Coaching Foundation

Date & Location: 

Saturday, 7th September

1pm - 5pm

Crowne Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre, Basingstoke, RG21 3PR

https://www.cpbasingstoke.co.uk/

Light refreshments will be provided, optional lunch menu is available at the lounge/bar.

Description:

To help to improve the overall Club experience and game days, we're hosting our first annual coaching course which is a scaled-down version of EIHA's Level 1 course. This is hosted by Pete Winn, a senior and very experienced coach of the IIHF and EIHA organisations, so you can expect professional and thorough content.

Content:

Bench Management

Game Management

Training Management & Planning

You will receive a hand-out of training drills and useful information to help improve the planning of your training sessions.

Who needs to attend?

This course is compulsory for all team managers and coaches in all age groups (including seniors) with junior players on their roster (17 years of age and younger), unless you are able to present a valid EIHA Level 1 (or above) coaching licence. Certificates by themselves won't be accepted due to expiration. Those without juniors on their roster are strongly encouraged to attend.

Cost:

£30 per person which includes a DBS Enhanced check if needed.

£20 per person to attend the course only but excludes DBS Enhanced.

For existing EIHA qualified coaches without DBS Enhanced, we can arrange this on your behalf at a cost of £10 per check.

Register here: https://forms.gle/nhzJpNjC8oyrZea88

2) Match Day Officials Workshop

On the morning of 7th September and preceding the BRHA Coaching Foundation course, we are holding our first annual officials workshop. This will be held at the same venue (Crowne Plaza, Basingstoke) and will cover important topics such as handling difficult situations on the rink, making confident and timely penalty calls, general officiator tips and behaviours, how to properly drop the puck for a face-off, etc.

Register here: https://forms.gle/nhzJpNjC8oyrZea88

The aim is to improve the consistency of and set a new standard for match day officials in the BRHA.

After sitting the 2-hour course, you will receive a certificate of attendance. We may need to send a copy of the certificates to our insurer upon request.

Please make an effort to attend. We're encouraging managers to bring their older junior players and any seniors players that haven't reffed a game before so they learn the basics and then be paired with an experienced ref on game days to help with those difficult situations. We want more U16 players to help officiate games of younger age groups. Ref fees plus fuel will be paid as normal.

3) Safeguarding

This is a huge talking point for next season and one we are taking extremely seriously. Teams with minors on their team MUST hold a valid DBS Enhanced check for the 2019/20 season. Those that already hold this will need to ensure we have their reference number by recording it in the applicable box on their BRHA registration form (www.brha.co/register) as we need to check the status before the season commences. If you don't hold a valid DBS Enhanced check then we can arrange this on your behalf.

DBS Cost:

£10 per check (this just covers our costs)

This is included in the fee for those attending the BRHA Coaching Foundation course on 7th September.

Changing rooms will be allocated on game days when seniors and juniors are both playing. It goes without saying that safeguarding is a top priority for us so please help us by respecting the signs on the doors of each changing room as well as general safeguarding practices by having registered officials to politely ask those that are not to leave the changing rooms.

Please let me know if you have questions; otherwise, I thank you all in advance for taking the above seriously. If you are unable to attend either course then please email secretary@brha.co so we can reach an agreement. 

Thanks,

Dave McGill

General Secretary