STS COVID-19 Webinar Programme
Update (1 June 2020)

STS COVID-19 Webinar Programme

To help members during this time of lock down, STS has scheduled a series of online webinars on areas of interest expressed by members through our education survey.

This Week’s Session

This week we are holding a Child Wellbeing & Protection in Sport course. This is officially provided in partnership between sportscotland and Children 1st and comes with official certification on completion of the course.

The course is designed for people with leadership, coaching and welfare roles in a club to help them better understand and promote a positive culture, as well as how to prepare for and respond to concerns when it comes to the welfare of junior members.

By the end of the course, attendees will be able to:

Understand what is meant by ‘child wellbeing and protection’
Recognise the value of a child-centred approach to child wellbeing and protection
Identify good practice in relation to child wellbeing and protection and how this impacts the sports environment
Recognise the legislative and policy framework around child wellbeing and protection
Identify and respond to possible child wellbeing or protection concerns
Identify the limits of your safeguarding role and know when to get support
Be introduced to the Spectrum of Practice and use it to consider, evaluate and respond to common coaching scenarios
Receive an introduction to the factors that create a culture of poor practice
Identify barriers to disclosure
Cover the process for responding to concerns
Put the responding to concerns process into practice to deal with serval complex cases

Normally, these courses involve multiple sports but STS will put on this course for shooting clubs only so a more detailed discussion, relevant to shooting clubs, can take place.

This course is now fully booked but if you would like us to organise another one of these courses then please complete our education survey to let us know.

New Additions

STS is still in the process of finalising these workshops for the end of June but we are close to confirming 2 more webinar sessions:

Disability Inclusion Training for Shooting: this course will look at how, with only small adjustments, clubs and coaches can adjust their practices, facilities and policies to make their clubs and sessions more inclusive.
Positively Promoting Your Club: This session will be delivered by the new STS Marketing and Communications Director and will focus on how clubs can improve their communications to members, the press and the wider community to help get your club more engagement and the positive profile it deserves.

Following the successful Scatt session held on Tuesday last week, we will also be looking to add another session on getting the best out of Scatt to provide an opportunity for others to get involved but also get in to a bit more detail around specific disciplines.

About The Sessions

The programme has been designed to include a mix of sessions to appeal to shooters of every different discipline and every standard. Some will focus on specific disciplines and some may be more high performance related but it has been designed to provide something for everyone, responding to the requests received from members.

In general, most sessions will run on a Tuesday evening to allow people at work to still get involved. For the majority, the sessions will run from 6-7pm and will be free for all members to attend. Session may over run slightly but we will endeavour to finish on time.

Initial sessions will be quite broad but where there is clear demand and interest in a topic, we will look to provide more in depth dives on a future date.

The majority of the sessions will be hosted by STS and run in an informal manner with presentations and discussions on topics of interest, with the opportunities for you to ask questions. However some, such as the course on child protection, are officially recognised courses, hosted by external partners and on completion of the course those attending will receive certification to prove they have completed the course.

We have tried to make the programme as varied as possible but are always open to suggestions. If you would like to let us know your suggestions, please complete our education survey.

Sessions In the Programme

To date, the sessions confirmed in the programme so far include:

You can book on to any of these confirmed courses using the links provided.

Future Sessions

The above sessions are confirmed but we are also in conversations with colleagues in the shooting and sporting community about delivering online webinars to you on the follow topics:

disability/inclusion
first aid for shooting
session with British Shooting to speak to members about coach and athlete development
strength & conditioning for shooters in lock down
nutrition for shooters in lock down

If you have any suggestions for courses, you can let us know by completing our short online form.

How Can I Find Out More

STS will list everything in its COVID-19 Webinar Programme on its website under the events section where further details about each course will be provided. A link to all webinars in the programme will also appear on the front page of the STS website. On signing up to each event, members will be receive a confirmation email providing the necessary details for attending the session.

STS Events

How To Book

Booking on to each course is easy. Either use the links provided above or visit the events page on the STS website and go to the event in question. In the page that opens you will be presented with more details about the event, along with the booking form embedded in the page but also provided as a link if the page is not displaying properly for you. On booking on to the event, you will receive an email with the details for attending the session.

Need Help?

If you need help or have any questions about any of the sessions, please contact us at admin@scottishtargetshooting.co.uk.

STS COVID-19 Webinar Programme Update (1 June)